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30 Jun 2015, 2:43 pm
A Fellow in the American College of Employee Benefit Counsel, past Chair and current Welfare Benefit Committee Co-Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) RPTE Section Employee Benefits Group, Vice Chair of the ABA Tort & Insurance Practice Section Employee Benefits Committee, former Chair of the ABA Health Law Section Managed Care & Insurance Interest Group, an ABA Joint Committee on Employee Benefits Council Representative and Board Certified in Labor &… [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 10:53 am
With the Obama Administration construing the United States Supreme Court’s King v. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 9:48 am
That case may be on hold until the Court decides what to do about a similar case from Texas. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 4:23 am
While attention nationally has been focused on creative solutions to pretrial detention at Rikers Island, a number of advocates I know have already been abuzz about this Texas news reported in the Houston Chronicle (June 28): "Earlier this month, Nathan Hecht, the Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, announced the creation of a committee to study the issue for the Texas Judicial Council, the policy-making body for the state judiciary. [read post]
30 Jun 2015, 4:00 am
In Arizona Legislature v. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 9:01 pm
Wade, anti-abortion state legislatures have enacted hundreds of laws that, while not completely forbidding abortion, make it difficult for women to obtain abortions. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 9:00 pm
VI: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States There is no debate that Marbury v. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 8:24 am
Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the Legislature thereof. [read post]
29 Jun 2015, 7:28 am
As the Supreme Court itself noted, there was a marked trend in state legislatures “toward liberalization of abortion statutes. [read post]
28 Jun 2015, 8:27 am
Regarding the burden of proof, however, the Texas supreme court disagreed with the court of appeals stating that as previous decisions have made clear, parties asserting defenses to arbitration clauses have the burden to prove the defenses. [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 2:50 pm
Would that be reviewable by a court, given that it involves a question of the validity to state law? [read post]
27 Jun 2015, 8:39 am
Texas, 539 U. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 5:16 pm
” In response, the state legislature invented the civil union as a marriage alternative—same benefits, different name. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 1:35 pm
Interestingly, some of the Texas commentary immediately following Lochner was quite favorable, including in the Dallas Morning News, which wrote “The right of contract is one of the most sacred rights of the freeman, and any interference with such privilege by Legislatures or courts is essentially dangerous and vicious. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 1:35 pm
The State of Texas challenged the rule as requiring public employers to grant benefits in opposition to Texas law refusing to acknowledge these marriages. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 1:29 pm
Texas and United States v. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 12:53 pm
The Texas Supreme Court’s economic liberty decision reminds me of an interesting question: Do the arguments in favor of deferring to legislatures when it comes to broad federal constitutional “liberty” claims — whether economic liberty or personal liberty — fully apply to state constitutional liberty claims? [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 12:41 pm
Hair braiding, however, has since been deregulated by the Legislature. [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 12:25 pm
As the Windsor decision did not address whether the United States Constitution also guaranteed same sex couples a right to marry under state law, disparities in the treatment of same sex marriages between the states and rapid changes in the state statutory and judicial rules governing these determinations created significant challenges to employer efforts to determine if and when a same sex couple could marry in a particular state and the right and… [read post]
26 Jun 2015, 12:00 pm
Constitution permit a dual voter rolls system in which some voters who are qualified to vote for federal office holders are not also qualified to vote for those “in the most numerous branch of the state legislature. [read post]
