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27 Dec 2011, 7:09 am
An excerpt: The purpose of the adoption is to implement portions of Senate Bill (SB) 1, 82nd Legislature, First Called Session, 2011. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 4:56 am
Callender, president of the medical branch, let the staff know that the transition has begun to transfer the health services to the corrections department.The basic problem is money.The University of Texas System has made it clear its not going to continue to subsidize care for prisoners from university funds.The Texas Department of Criminal Justice didn’t get the money from the legislature to pay the full cost of the care.This is not the kind of problem two… [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm
Given the claims before the Court and the reasoning and language of the opinion, there can be no doubt (Texas be damned) that this entitles same-sex couples not only to marry, but also to access the same benefits available to other married couples. [read post]
31 May 2017, 5:06 pm
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), 29 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico currently allow for the medical use of marijuana and have comprehensive programs providing protection from criminal penalties and, in some states, from employment discrimination. [read post]
23 Jun 2021, 1:51 pm
Texas Governor Uses Bail Reform as Dog Whistle In his February 2021 State of the State address, the Governor, speaking primarily to his white conservative political base, declared the Texas bail system flawed and promised to fix it with the Damon Allen Act. [read post]
23 Jan 2024, 9:05 pm
With bipartisan sponsors, Senate Bill (SB) 24-0434 is off and running in the Colorado Legislature. [read post]
6 Feb 2016, 1:32 pm
As of 2014, Texas had more prisoners in solitary confinement than the entire prison populations in 12 states. [read post]
20 Feb 2013, 9:32 am
Only New York, Texas, North Carolina, and Massachusetts have not yet adopted the UTSA. [read post]
7 Jan 2024, 11:51 am
The result has been local/county jails filling up with low-level immigration holds and now, new charges being cooked up each session by nativists in the Texas Legislature. [read post]
2 Dec 2012, 9:37 am
" The article mentioned a couple of Texas laws regulating snitching championed by state Sen. [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 10:03 pm
Texas —The Lone Star state also currently limits raw milk sales to those made on-the-farm. [read post]
26 Nov 2019, 8:53 am
In 2018, an appellate court in Texas ruled that the state’s four-year-old revenge porn law violated the First Amendment; to remedy that issue the legislature revised the law to include an “intent to harm” provision. [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 9:15 am
The story opens: When New York became the sixth and by far the largest state to legalize same-sex marriage, following a grueling overtime session in the state Legislature on Friday, it immediately transformed the national debate over the issue, legal experts said. [read post]
16 Sep 2015, 1:59 pm
In an article presented to the State Bar’s 40th Annual Advanced Criminal Law Course in Houston on July 21-24, 2014, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Barbara P. [read post]
30 Mar 2017, 10:31 am
It requires tracking and disclosure of confidential informant arrangements, recording of custodial interrogations, and requires law enforcement agencies to adopt the model eyewitness ID policy created by Sam Houston State's Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas (LEMIT) instead of each coming up with their own. [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 6:47 am
This time next year, perhaps we'll look back and think of yesterday's meeting as a tipping point for establishment opinion and a precursor to successfully addressing some of these topics in the 81st Texas Legislature. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 8:27 am
So, what’s a Legislature to do? [read post]
25 Nov 2019, 6:50 am
Five states—Alabama, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, and Texas—could be good bets. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 7:04 am
A story in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram published on Thanksgiving Day by Martha Deller lamented a systemic underfunding of indigent defense across the state in the face of growing demand. [read post]
3 May 2009, 7:34 pm
On the heels of my latest Sharon Keller post, comes this gem from this month’s Texas Bar Journal under disciplinary actions: the State Commission on Judicial Conduct issued a public warning to Judge Gustavo Garza, justice of the peace, in Los Fresnos, Tx. [read post]
