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22 Aug 2011, 7:49 am by Steve Hall
The Texas Legislature created the office two years ago after repeated instances of shoddy legal work by appeals attorneys representing capital murder convicts. [read post]
8 Sep 2007, 6:57 am
" He pointed to recent multimillion-dollar campaigns largely funded by interest groups for state Supreme Court seats in Ohio, Wisconsin and Washington state, and partisan battles over top judicial posts in Texas, where all judges are elected by political party.More, from a story in the Inland Press Enterprise:George announced creation of the commission Tuesday. [read post]
10 Nov 2021, 6:35 pm
By fully privatizing the enforcement of the State’s prohibition abortions beyond six weeks, the Texas legislature deliberately sought to prevent federal challenges to its unconstitutional law. [read post]
10 Nov 2021, 6:35 pm by llaird
By fully privatizing the enforcement of the State’s prohibition abortions beyond six weeks, the Texas legislature deliberately sought to prevent federal challenges to its unconstitutional law. [read post]
7 May 2012, 5:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
She convinced a majority of CCA judges to side with her against Charlie Baird, but the following year the Legislature created the state's DNA testing statute in rebuke (Ch. 64 of the Code of Criminal Procedure). [read post]
1 Mar 2019, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Nebraska’s legislature is unique among all state legislatures in the nation because it has a single-house system. [read post]
22 Feb 2009, 11:36 pm
State law also prohibits Keller, who won't be up for reelection until 2012, from raising any political money before June 2011. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 5:24 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
  Conservatives campaigned on these fundamentals during the 2010 election, and voters rewarded them with control of at least one chamber in 19 state legislatures and a 63-seat gain in the U.S. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 12:04 pm by Rick Hasen
This dramatic increase required the Texas legislature to create new voting districts for the four seats added to the State’s  congressional delegation, U.S. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 1:55 pm
  He described the rush to judgment from a false confession as a snowball. 10 states currently mandate electronic recording of custodial interrogation because of state court ruling or legislation. [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 9:20 pm by Lyle Denniston
The case involves a young white woman from Sugar Land, Texas, who failed to gain admission to the state’s flagship university and claimed that her race was the reason. [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 2:30 am
His death should be a wake-up call for the state, and certainly for the 80th Legislature. [read post]
8 May 2020, 9:24 am by Jesse M. Coleman and Brian Wadsworth
In doing so, the First District joined the growing number of Texas Appellate Courts that have held that the TCPA, in its Pre-September 2019 amended state, does not protect private communications that are centered on competition or preparing to compete against the plaintiff. [read post]
18 Dec 2011, 6:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Keep them in prison and their end-of-life care is paid for out of state general revenue funds, except the Legislature didn't allocate enough.Without knowing the details, it seems that young Mr. [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 3:45 am
Because day care workers are given such an important duty of care, state legislatures are enacting stricter screening procedures and background checks before prospective day care employees. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 3:04 pm
The Texas Legislature, however, went on to establish certain evidentiary standards for rebutting this presumption. [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 11:29 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" Though the article specifically focuses on New York State, their arguments for external oversight of prisons resonates across US jurisdictions:The State Legislature should follow the A.B.A. [read post]
11 Jun 2012, 4:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas has spent some $600 million on "border security" since 2007 on the ostensible grounds that the state must do the job if the feds won't. [read post]