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2 Sep 2014, 1:41 pm by Vance Wittie
 The Telephone Consumer Protection Act with its $500 per violation penalty for sending unsolicited fax advertisements is perhaps the best well known of these statutes but numerous others appear in the United States Code and among the state statutes. [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 5:13 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"Grits finds that attitude and practice as remarkable as it is frustrating: I can't think of another agency that ignores the Legislature and courts with such impunity and gets away with it as often as does the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
15 May 2012, 12:06 pm by Suzanne Ito
Given these obvious harms, why are jails in Texas and so many other states putting kids in solitary? [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 7:20 am by Joanna Kamvouris
Asa Hutchinson will call the Legislature back into a special session beginning December 7 to take up a tax cut plan. [read post]
29 Jul 2012, 9:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas law enforcement agencies must have eyewitness ID policies in place by September 1 of this year which may, but are not required to, follow a "model policy" developed by the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas at Sam Houston State University. [read post]
20 Apr 2015, 10:01 pm by Dan Flynn
Texas will likely find out today if the third time is the charm for Republican state Rep. [read post]
12 Aug 2021, 10:35 am by Tom Smith
In a New York Times op-ed, co-authors David French, Kmele Foster, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and Jason Stanley present themselves as a “cross-partisan group of thinkers” sending a warning signal about the threat of authoritarianism in states such as Texas, Florida, Idaho, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and New Hampshire. [read post]
17 Mar 2014, 7:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Consider Changes to Juvenile Justice Laws," USA Today, March 1, 2014 Juvenile Age of Jurisdiction and Transfer to Adult Court Laws (map), National Conference of State Legislatures, Jan. 10, 2014 Mandatory Sentencing 17 year-olds in Adult Court - Is There a Better Alternative for Wisconsin's Youth and Taxpayers? [read post]
Arizona, Florida, Georgia and Texas are among the 14 states that have passed restrictive voting laws. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 8:27 am by Renee Kolar
Regarding the burden of proof, however, the Texas supreme court disagreed with the court of appeals stating that as previous decisions have made clear, parties asserting defenses to arbitration clauses have the burden to prove the defenses. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 10:12 am by B.W. Barnett
State, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals was presented the following issues: Can a defendant be convicted and punished for both Manufacture and the subsequent Possession with Intent to Deliver of the same quantity of controlled substances? [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 5:01 am by James Edward Maule
Not too long ago, in Pennsylvania State Gasoline Tax Increase: The Last Hurrah? [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 8:04 am by Teri Rodriguez
Watson is a former president of the Texas Young Lawyers Association, presided as chair of the State Bar Committee on Legal Services to the Poor in Civil Matters, and served on the State Bar of Texas Executive Committee. [read post]
10 Jun 2009, 8:18 am
Renny Cushing, the executive director of Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights and a member of the New Hampshire state legislature has an OpEd in today's Concord Monitor, "175 years ago, a plea to end the death penalty. [read post]