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27 Oct 2014, 1:27 pm
The Texas Education Code — the body of law that regulates the activity of all educational institutions in the state — empowers school districts to file a criminal complaint against a child as young as 10 who has missed three days of school. [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 9:23 am
In 2003, in an astonishing series of victories, the TLR helped persuade the Texas Legislature to pass a bill capping non-economic damages for malpractice victims at $250,000, and $100,000 at certain public hospitals. [read post]
22 Oct 2014, 1:46 pm
We dismiss any other pending motions as moot. --------- STATUTORY BASIS FOR INTERLOCUTORY APPEAL FROM ORDER DENYING ARBITRATION In 2009, the Texas Legislature amended the Texas Arbitration Act to permit interlocutory appeals of orders denying motions to compel arbitration pursuant to the FAA. [read post]
22 Oct 2014, 5:22 am
"She also recommended that, "the Legislature should examine the issue of absolute immunity for prosecutors. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 1:52 pm
The State Bar of Texas received the Harold F. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 12:14 pm
Reasons why an alternative custody arrangement might be best The standard possession order (let’s abbreviate it as SPO) and the extended SPO contained in the Texas Family Code is a default option created by the Texas legislature to govern custody rights when the parents cannot or will not agree to their own arrangement. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 10:44 am
He moved to Texas in 1855 to take part in an endeavor to found a utopian self-sustaining community near a town in Texas called Utopia. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 7:01 am
FTC and concludes that the case “indicates what happens when courts—both federal and state—are too deferential to legislatures—both federal and state—regarding economic regulations. [read post]
19 Oct 2014, 7:44 am
A new study from the RAND Institute finds no evidence of any such savings when emergency medicine doctors obtained virtual lawsuit immunity from the legislatures of three states: Georgia, Texas and South Carolina. [read post]
17 Oct 2014, 6:16 am
” Missouri law states that a gift can be reported to a group – such as a committee, legislative chamber, or the entire Legislature – if all of the members of that group are “invited in writing. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 3:18 pm
” In addition, it asserted, the Texas legislature approved the requirement “as a means to deter and detect fraud and improve public confidence in the election process. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 10:54 am
State Legislatures “Two lawmakers involved in shoot-out with robbers near Capitol” by Amy Worden and Allison Steele in The Inquirer. [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 11:49 pm
That autonomy, of course, was not absolute—the legislature could project power into law by enacting statutes. [read post]
15 Oct 2014, 2:46 pm
This is interesting since the Texas Legislature has been concerned that the 2007 law hasn’t been used much at all since its passage, and there were discussions in the spring among state lawmakers to remove low-level marijuana possession punishments from the Texas Penal Code since Texas law enforcement wasn’t doing much to take up Austin’s “catch and release” invitation. [read post]
14 Oct 2014, 5:30 am
The DWC also hosts the Texas Workers Compensation Educational Conference to educate workers comp system participants on the laws passed by the Texas Legislature and rules adopted by the agency. [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 10:23 am
It's a nifty problem, I think, and it forces one to confront an uncomfortable question: Can we assume the good faith of any legislature? [read post]
13 Oct 2014, 7:30 am
Dougherty Chair for Faculty Excellence at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. [read post]
11 Oct 2014, 6:00 am
The underlying subtext is that Republican controlled state legislatures are putting the voter ID laws in place because it will disproportionately affect likely Democratic voters. [read post]
9 Oct 2014, 7:18 am
"ISIS still not infiltrating the Texas borderPoliticians are going to keep repeating this garbage so it's worth highlighting the factual counter whenever it's offered: The "claim that Islamic State fighters were apprehended in Texas" was “categorically false” according to the Department of Homeland Security and “not supported by any credible intelligence. [read post]
8 Oct 2014, 9:42 am
He pointed to the example of Minnesota's governor calling an "Un-Session" to repeal outdated, duplicative and unnecessary laws and suggested the Legislature should create some sort of interim commission similar to that suggested in unsuccessful legislation by state Rep. [read post]
