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13 Sep 2017, 3:46 am
A deeply-divided Supreme Court on Tuesday night stepped back into the long-running legal battle over whether the Texas legislature has unconstitutionally discriminated against minority voters in drawing new congressional and state legislative election districts. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 6:54 pm
The lower courts’ original orders, issued last month, had given the Texas governor three days to decide whether to call a special session of the legislature, and it directed the state to be ready to redraw the maps by early September. [read post]
11 Sep 2017, 12:31 pm
Beyer, Estate Planning Highlights of the 2017 Texas Legislature, EST. [read post]
10 Sep 2017, 9:01 pm
Shortly after the Quicken decision, the Texas legislature enacted a law specifically providing that “the ‘practice of law’ does not include the design, creation, publication, distribution, display, or sale [of] computer software, or similar products if the products clearly and conspicuously state that the products are not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 5:05 am
TexasCourt: Texas Can Enforce New Voter ID Law in NovemberGoverning – Allie Morris | Published: 9/6/2017 A federal appeals court panel ruled Texas can use its revised voter ID measure for the upcoming November elections, the latest in a series of winding legal battles on whether the state has intentionally discriminated against black and Latino voters through its original law passed in 2011 In August, U.S. [read post]
7 Sep 2017, 1:31 pm
But, take note of AB 1565, which is currently pending before the California legislature and which would accelerate the minimum salary threshold for exempt employees in California. [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 7:35 am
Lobbying Delaware: “Politics of Persuasion: Dozens of lobbyists now work the legislature for more than 200 groups” by Matt Bittle for Delaware State News Texas: “Fred Lewis Appointment Stirs Controversy” by Jo Clifton for Austin Monitor Campaign Finance “Democrats Say ‘Citizens United’ Should Die. [read post]
6 Sep 2017, 7:13 am
In Texas, the state increased release rates for violent offenders at the same time the Legislature was focused on reforms aimed at nonviolent crimes. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 2:40 pm
Texas officials went to the Supreme Court on August 25, asking Justice Samuel Alito (who handles emergency appeals from the geographic area that includes Texas) to block the lower court’s decision, which had instructed the state to either call a special session of the legislature to draw new maps or return to court today with experts and new maps to propose. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 1:34 pm
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31 Aug 2017, 7:24 pm
Justice Samuel Alito acted quickly this afternoon to grant a request by Texas officials to block a lower court’s order that had invalidated the state’s maps for the Texas House of Representatives, the lower house of the Texas legislature. [read post]
31 Aug 2017, 9:42 am
As we reported here in May, the Texas Legislature recently passed legislation (House Bill 1774, a copy of which can be found here) which amends Chapter 542 of the Texas Insurance Code—Texas’s general prompt pay statute for insurance claims. [read post]
31 Aug 2017, 7:03 am
Many Texas municipalities decided not to wait on our excruciatingly slow Texas legislature. [read post]
31 Aug 2017, 3:41 am
“The court cannot and does not second guess the Legislature. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 4:30 am
And that's before any national infrastructure plan adds additional large jobs to the plate of the Texas construction industry.Fact: The feds have promised ramped up immigration enforcement and the Texas Legislature passed SB 4 (aka, the "show me your papers law") mandating greater law enforcement cooperation with immigration authorities and authorizing more aggressive police tactics toward illegal immigrants. [read post]
29 Aug 2017, 9:01 pm
And evidencing an awareness of this financial reality, the Texas legislature specifically prohibited insurance providers from extending a discount on their regular policies to people who purchase abortion insurance, even if the latter saves the company money.The law therefore mandates that insurance companies do something that is against their financial best interests in order for the state to pursue some agenda. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 2:05 pm
The district court’s decision, issued earlier this month, invalidated two districts in the congressional redistricting map, which the Texas legislature had enacted in 2013. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 12:59 pm
Unfortunately, our conservative legislature cowers to the interests of big business rather than protecting the average citizen of the State of Texas. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 7:38 am
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the Fastcase team is working with the State Bar of Texas to make resources available to Texas lawyers. [read post]
27 Aug 2017, 2:53 am
His father had served in the Texas state legislature and Johnson became a congressional aid in 1931. [read post]
