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28 Jun 2018, 8:14 pm by Bonnie Osborn
Source https://www.dallasnews.com/news/texas-legislature/2018/06/13/guns-knives-legal-texas-carrying-around-plastickeychain-could-land-jail The post Texas’s Brass Knuckles Ban Prohibits Popular “Cat” Keychains appeared first on . [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 1:42 pm by Amy Howe
Backed not only by the state of Texas but also by a group of former federal prosecutors, Sause asked the Supreme Court to overturn the 10th Circuit’s decision without briefing or oral argument. [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 8:20 am by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
The Texas Compassionate Use Act (Senate Bill 339) was enacted by the Texas Legislature in 2015 (84th Legislative Session). [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 3:10 am by Lyle Denniston
  Justice Kennedy helped make a 5-to-3 majority in 2016 that struck down such restrictions enacted in Texas. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 9:30 pm by Leigh Anne Schriever
In multiple states—including Oregon, Ohio, and Washington—Uber showed up with the legislation it wanted, and the legislature enacted it, the report states. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 2:33 pm by Amy Howe
In enacting the law, the Texas legislature had pointed to the need to protect women’s health, but the majority declined to take that justification at face value. [read post]
26 Jun 2018, 10:43 am by Ezra Rosser
Abstract below: Across the country, from New Jersey to Texas to California, bail reform is being debated, implemented, and litigated at the state and local levels. [read post]
26 Jun 2018, 9:14 am by Alicia Maule
Today, the United States Supreme Court declined to directly review the denial of DNA testing by the Texas courts. [read post]
26 Jun 2018, 8:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Such explicit, bipartisan support could be a game changer.Marijuana policyHere's an irony: At the Texas Legislature, the only person ever to propose marijuana legalization was Republican state Rep. [read post]
26 Jun 2018, 5:45 am by Ryan Segall
The Texas Supreme Court just told the grandparents, “You may not win, but you can sure try. [read post]
26 Jun 2018, 4:15 am by Edith Roberts
Perez, the court, by a vote of 5-4, largely upheld Texas’ federal congressional and state legislative maps against a racial-gerrymandering challenge. [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 8:16 pm by Howard Bashman
” Kevin Diaz of The Houston Chronicle reports that “Supreme Court gives Texas partial victory in racial gerrymandering case, state must redraw one district. [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 12:23 pm by Mark Walsh
Except with respect to one Texas House district, Alito says the district court erred in enjoining the use of the districting maps adopted by the state legislature in 2013. [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 10:49 am by Amy Howe
Perez, which date back to 2011, when Texas’ Republican-controlled legislature began to redistrict after the 2010 census. [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 9:17 am by Erin McCarthy Holliday
The court had previously blocked [JURIST report] two lower court rulings that mandated the redrawing of Texas’ congressional and state legislative districts. [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 8:26 am by NCC Staff
Perez, Justice Samuel Alito said for a 5-4 majority that the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas “erred in requiring the State to show that the 2013 Legislature purged the ‘taint’ that the court attributed to the defunct and never-used plans enacted by a prior legislature in 2011. [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 7:22 am
It means that, after years of litigation and undeniable proof of intentional discrimination, minority voters in Texas—despite constituting a majority of the population within the State—will continue to be underrepresented in the political process. [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 4:26 am by Amy Howe
It began as a challenge to maps drawn by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature in 2011. [read post]
22 Jun 2018, 8:51 am by MOTP
We affirm the judgment of the court of appeals.2 1  526 S.W.3d 411, 423 (Tex. 2017) (“Neither our precedent nor the Legislature has blessed tortious interference with an inheritance as a cause of action in Texas. [read post]
21 Jun 2018, 10:10 am by Amy Howe
It began as a challenge to maps drawn by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature in 2011. [read post]