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28 Sep 2015, 9:05 pm
Tags: autos, Bay Area, environment, Houston, land use and zoning, NYCEnvironment roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
14 Nov 2016, 3:07 am
Feinstein-Collins bill (“Personal Care Products Safety Act”) to regulate soap, lotions, and cosmetics is best left to swirl down drain [Eric Boehm/Reason, earlier, Handcrafted Soap and Cosmetics Guild and ICMAD (mid-sized and smaller companies), Modern Soapmaking, my appearance on KPCC “AirTalk”] Standing in the need of standing: federal judge denies motion to dismiss suit over global warming against federal government and business groups on behalf of 21 young persons and… [read post]
8 Aug 2016, 9:05 pm
An extraordinary tale of fraud and justice: Second Circuit puts definitive kibosh on tainted $9 billion Chevron/Ecuador judgment [decision, Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal, our coverage over many years] “Attorney Who Took Chevron to Court for $18 Billion Suspended by Amazon Defense Front” [Roger Parloff, Fortune] New Zealand accords legal personality to river and former national park through treaty settlements with Maori groups [New York Times] “The looting of Volkswagen: The… [read post]
16 Aug 2015, 12:48 pm
Sylvester Turner has proposed increasing manpower at the Houston PD by about 10 percent. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 3:09 am
An opinion piece in the Houston Chronicle last week makes a nice summary of the situation. [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 8:50 am
"A brother's last wish: 10 years after his execution, Claude Jones' ashes are laid to rest amid new questions about his guilt," is the title of Cindy Horswell's report in today's Houston Chronicle. [read post]
26 Apr 2015, 7:30 am
His report did not include information from medical examiners, who use drug screens to identify many more overdoses, according to a joint investigation by the Houston Chronicle and the Austin American-Statesman.Only 622 deaths reported across Texas in 2013 were specifically blamed on opioids - mostly painkillers, based on death certificate data cited by Lakey's department.But 798 prescription-drug related deaths were recorded by local medical examiners that year in just 17 of… [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 5:54 am
Related posts: Houston Lawyer Charged with Barratry for Having Homeless Man Hand Out Business Cards As reported in the Houston Chronicle, Houston criminal defense... [read post]
24 Oct 2016, 3:09 am
Chilling effects ahead should they pass [Tracie Sharp and Darcy Olsen, WSJ] Blogger critical of Houston cancer researcher put through FBI investigation (and cleared) following dubious complaint [Ken White, Popehat] And they’re right. [read post]
24 Aug 2016, 9:05 pm
Free speech hero Flemming Rose’s acceptance speech on winning the 2016 Cato Institute Friedman Prize; “A Timeline of Attacks on Free Speech” is one of many features of new book Defending Free Speech, edited by Steve Simpson and highly recommended by figures including Harvey Silverglate, Flemming Rose, and Tara Smith [Ayn Rand Institute] “Never Mind Peter Thiel; Gawker Killed Itself” [Simon Dumenco, Ad Age] That “prospect of financial ruin based on amorphous… [read post]
10 Nov 2006, 10:18 am
"It's astonishingly unusual," said David Dow, professor at the University of Houston Law Center. [read post]
6 Jan 2007, 8:49 am
That's the title of Chronicle coverage of yesterday's court session in the sentencing phase of Tyrone Williams' federal death penalty trial. [read post]
7 Jan 2019, 3:18 pm
Police told The Houston Chronicle, gunfire erupted “at a complex on Westward and Elm around midnight. [read post]
17 Jan 2008, 8:28 am
Mike Tolson has, "Texas death row inmate's sentence is reduced to life," in the Houston Chronicle.The court adopted a trial court's findings and agreed that Daniel Plata, 32, is mentally retarded and not eligible for execution. [read post]
22 Oct 2007, 7:59 am
Her OpEd, "A shame, and a surprise, what Keller did," appeared in the Sunday Houston Chronicle.When I first heard the story about the execution of Michael Richard after the presiding judge on the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused to keep the clerk's office open an extra 20 minutes, when his lawyers incurred a late-afternoon computer crash causing the delay, I thought it was a joke. [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 3:15 am
Meanwhile, this Harvey Rice/Chronicle article reports that questions are being raised about the rampant develoment: The first map detailing geological hazards on Galveston Island shows a potential clash between development and the environment. [read post]
18 Dec 2007, 4:10 am
Clay Robinson, Houston Chronicle 12/10/2007 Read Article: Houston Chronicle [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 6:41 am
I don't have time to analyze each of them, but several different items related to indigent defense and public defender offices caught my attention recently:Justice Lite: Harris County should beef up its pilot public defender program, Houston Chronicle, editorial, June 20Congress must rewrite the law governing lawyers for poor death row inmates, Washington Post, June 21 Harris County's request for public defender grant in trouble, Houston Chronicle, June… [read post]
12 Jan 2014, 7:27 am
Department of Justice's review panel on prison rape because one of the four buildings of the Harris County Jail was found in a DOJ-commissioned study to have one of the worst rates of sexual assault in the nation," reported the Houston Chronicle ("Garcia defends record on sex abuse in county jail," Jan. 9). [read post]
30 Jun 2018, 9:13 am
So, taking my cue from the folks at the Capital Gazette who put out their paper the day after five colleagues were murdered, Grits will focus on my own job and give y'all the usual weekend roundup of criminal-justice topics, even if a big part of me would prefer to rant about those national stories.Harris County bail ruling releasedYesterday, federal District Judge Lee Rosenthal released her revised ruling in the Harris County bail case, the Houston Chronicle reported. [read post]
