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4 Jul 2017, 7:49 am by Benson Varghese
This is a major problem that the ATF and so the Legislature has imposed harsh penalties for straw purchases. [read post]
3 Jul 2017, 6:55 am by John McFarland
The Legislature’s budget bill includes an appropriation of $38.2 million from the state’s rainy day fund for plugging of orphaned oil and gas wells. [read post]
2 Jul 2017, 8:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Then the 5th Circuit said that when the state succeeds in coercing defendants in that fashion, they can avoid liability entirely for framing an innocent defendant.What a terrible run for victims of police misconduct in Texas these last few months. [read post]
30 Jun 2017, 8:37 am by Staff Writer
  Private prison CEOs became apoplectic as federal sentencing reform legislation was being crafted and state legislature began to legalize marijuana for both medical and recreational purposes. [read post]
30 Jun 2017, 3:05 am by NCC Staff
The states of Oregon and Texas fought the Voting Rights Act provision and a divided Supreme Court, in Oregon v. [read post]
28 Jun 2017, 7:58 am by Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker
Moore will require Texas to revisit a substantial number of cases decided under that approach, but the decision will have much less purchase outside of Texas where states have shown less overt hostility to the court’s categorical protection. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 4:24 pm by Eva Ruth
From Congress to state legislatures to local city and county governments, the mission was clear and deliberate.The problem is that despite all the appeal, logic, and common sense, punishment doesn’t work. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 11:32 am by Steven Boutwell
The court rejected Forest’s policy considerations stating that it was “an argument for the Legislature. [read post]
27 Jun 2017, 7:09 am by Gritsforbreakfast
There's no right to counsel for any state habeas proceedings - including the junk science writ created in recent years by the Texas Legislature - meaning lawyers can be ineffective in that work without it weighing into the outcome. [read post]
26 Jun 2017, 11:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The rollout in Texas came with terrible legislation by Democratic state Sen. [read post]
26 Jun 2017, 10:30 am
I’m suing the state of Texas because of a new law, Senate Bill 4, that would give a green light to police officers to investigate a person’s immigration status during routine events like traffic stops. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 12:57 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  Obviously, plans and their sponsors, insurers and fiduciaries can expect to pay additional plan expenses necessary to pay wrongfully denied benefits and other expenditures these plan or its fiduciaries expend to investigate, defend and resolve claims or compliance audits, investigations, litigation or actions brought by the Departments, state insurance regulators with respect to state governments or insurers, or private litigation by participants or beneficiaries. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 12:45 pm by Sasha Volokh
The Texas Supreme Court has enunciated a whole doctrine, in the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation case, limiting delegations to private parties more than delegations to public agencies. [read post]
22 Jun 2017, 9:20 am by NCC Staff
Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca, 15, died in 2010 as he stood on Mexican soil by a border officer who fired his gun while on United States soil in Texas. [read post]
21 Jun 2017, 1:06 pm by Michael Lowe
The regular session of the 85th Texas Legislature ended on Memorial Day. [read post]