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21 Jan 2014, 6:41 am by Mark S. Humphreys
Texas insurance attorneys already know that bad faith claims in Texas only apply to 1st party claims, not 3rd party claims. [read post]
23 Nov 2007, 10:12 pm
He supports reducing probation lengths for most criminal offenses to five years, and expects legislation to that effect to be introduced at the Texas Legislature in 2009:House Corrections Committee Chairman Jerry Madden, R-Plano, sponsored a bill to shorten the maximum probation for third-degree and state jail felony theft and narcotics offenses from 10 to five years. [read post]
21 Jan 2011, 7:41 am
As tempting as this idea may be on paper, one wonders whether it's the least bit legit:"Idaho's Republican-dominated Legislature now plans to use an obscure 18th century doctrine to declare President Barack Obama's signature bill null and void.Lawmakers in six other states -- Maine, Montana, Oregon, Nebraska, Texas and Wyoming -- are also mulling "nullification" bills"The basic premise of "nullification" is that the… [read post]
1 Oct 2010, 8:20 am by Don Cruse
In the first bill, the Legislature amended the U.C.C. to permit assignment of lottery winnings. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 7:00 am
One member of the panel argued that the Texas State Constitution provides the right of all citizens due process of the courts for remedy. [read post]
1 Oct 2010, 4:45 am by David A. Wolf
Recently, state legislatures have enacted laws that would increase the licensing and screening requirements for day care facilities and its workers. [read post]
28 Feb 2013, 1:52 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
” Politicians in South Dakota, Texas, and Alabama also advanced bills this week to restrict a woman’s decision making ability. [read post]
25 Apr 2009, 10:36 am
At a moment in history where more than 10% of adult Texans have outstanding arrest warrants, the ever growing array of increasingly unmanageable fines for low level offenses and fees for probationers is a mundane "sleeper" issue, one that may have profound implications in particular for how well the probation-centered de-incarceration reforms approved by the Texas Legislature in 2007 work in the long term.This subject of onerous fees too seldom rises to a high enough… [read post]
15 Aug 2008, 3:24 pm
The Texas Legislature approved phone service for prisons last year, with proponents calling the easily granted and retracted privilege "a marvelous tool for discipline. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 8:29 am
” In Texas, there are two major categories of property in the State of Texas: community property and separate property. [read post]
7 Dec 2013, 4:31 pm by Blue Blog
  Thus, many states legislatures have put limits onto the use of forum selection clauses in construction contracts. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 4:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
7 Dec 2007, 7:29 am
In the intervening years, the Texas Legislature expanded the types of crimes than can result in death, including the murder of a child under the age of 6. [read post]
5 Jan 2010, 2:38 pm
For example, caps have been upheld in Alaska, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia, but overturned in Georgia, Illinois, and Indiana. [read post]
5 Jul 2017, 8:43 am by Dan Carvajal
Table 1 provides a full state-by-state listing of state and local sales tax rates. [read post]
21 Dec 2014, 8:27 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Only a tiny fraction of those died from lethal injection.Now that the year is winding down, it can be said that the state of Texas will have executed ten people in 2014, which is the lowest number since 1996, according to the Dallas Observer's Unfair Park blog. [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 6:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I hope you share my concerns about the state of forensic science in Texas and will support my campaign for the Court of Criminal Appeals. [read post]
1 Mar 2021, 5:53 am by Leiza Dolghih
In the last seven years, the state legislatures around the country have been tinkering with their non-compete statutes in an attempt to afford more protections to employees. [read post]
1 Mar 2021, 5:53 am by Leiza Dolghih
In the last seven years, the state legislatures around the country have been tinkering with their non-compete statutes in an attempt to afford more protections to employees. [read post]