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8 Nov 2012, 2:30 pm
Here's this week's round up of forensic news: Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick will seek $30 million from the state legislature in order to cover costs incurred when a Hinton State Crime Lab chemist allegedly ignored protocols and faked drug test results. [read post]
28 Nov 2012, 11:29 am
Perry, the Supreme Court largely rejected a challenge brought by Texas voters that the redistricting scheme dreamed up by the Republican legislature was wholly unconstitutional, in part because the justices believed that there was no workable test for judging partisan excess. read more [read post]
14 Jan 2022, 12:12 pm
Other states such as Washington, Texas, New York, California, and Arkansas have passed similar laws. [read post]
26 Jun 2013, 8:07 am
” Not so, said the Texas Supreme Court. [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 6:40 pm
New Jersey and New Hampshire are the latest states to pass comprehensive privacy legislation, joining California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee, Montana, Oregon, Texas, Florida, and Delaware. [read post]
13 Dec 2022, 4:30 am
Although these laws differed considerably, their hallmark was their empowerment of uninjured individuals to bypass state authorities and directly use the machinery of the courts to remedy something the legislature considered a harm to the public at large. [read post]
27 Aug 2014, 6:46 am
Texas: “Area lawmakers appointed to joint ethics panel” by Enrique Rangel in the Amarillo Globe-News. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 2:24 pm
Rick Perry recently used an executive order that bypassed the Legislature to make Texas the first state to mandate that schoolgirls get vaccinated against HPV. [read post]
29 Aug 2012, 8:44 am
In part, these rules are a response to the Legislature's transfer to the RRC from the Texas Water Board of responsibility for determining the minimum depth of surface casing required to protect potable aquifers. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 7:10 am
The site, launched in a public beta on January 18th, 2011, currently contains information for six U.S. state legislatures: California, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Texas, and Wisconsin. [read post]
2 Aug 2010, 6:36 am
At the end of FY 2009 there were 155,076 inmates in Texas prisons, state jails and SAFP facilities, according to the TDCJ annual statistical report (pdf). [read post]
31 Jul 2014, 11:01 am
If the Texas and California Legislatures pass warrant requirements, it would be hard for SCOTUS to deny there's a significant national trend. [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 2:43 am
I wish Texas politicians were this wise. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 12:01 pm
Consider this: death penalty prosecutions in the nation's execution capital, Harris County, Texas, have been in steep decline; every major newspaper in Texas has called for a moratorium on the death penalty or opposes it entirely; and in 2005 the state legislature passed a law allowing life imprisonment without parole, which has given judges and jurors a new way to be "tough on crime" without killing people. [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 10:00 am
So the Legislature’s instructions are fairly clear–all of the SOB fee is meant to go to two programs OTHER than public schools. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 6:19 am
In 1995, the Texas Legislature codified the holding in Watson. [read post]
16 Mar 2015, 12:32 pm
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. [read post]
3 Apr 2023, 9:05 pm
In September 2021, the Texas legislature directed its state agencies to divest from investment companies that allegedly promote ESG causes and “boycott” energy stocks. [read post]
31 Mar 2007, 8:17 am
Technorati Tags: arbitration, ADR, Texas Supreme Court, law [read post]
28 Dec 2010, 8:37 am
Around the state, reporters and local officials are waking up to a sleeper issue that this blog has been sounding the alarm about for years: The danger posed to county budgets, especially local jails, by cuts in the number of state mental hospital beds and mental health care generally - an issue likely to reach a critical stage if state hospitals are cut further next spring by the 82nd Texas Legislature. [read post]
