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8 Oct 2014, 8:03 am
See a nifty two-pager (pdf) published last year summarizing budgets and revenue streams, which includes this description of new statewide intelligence capacity being developed under the pretext of "border security": The current state border initiative, Operation Border Star, was first funded with $110.3 million in General Revenue Fund-related and State Highway Funds by the Eightieth Legislature, Regular Session, 2007. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 12:56 pm
As I said here in 2011, “an unintended consequence of [the Supreme Court’s earlier decisions] may be to strangle the delicate process unfolding in state legislatures across the country by changing the political calculus for granting robust accommodations. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 10:02 am
The state legislature is solidly GOP-controlled, as are statewide offices. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 5:59 am
Senator, he quite properly looks toward the whole country, and he represents Texas, one of the states where the same-sex marriage ban survives. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 4:26 am
Timeliness is a legal issue, not a medical issue, so it does not belong in IMR.The board also ruled that timeliness is basically the only legal issue that could be raised within the statutory scheme of the treatment review process, stating that missing records, expertise of the reviewing physician and compliance with the Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule are medical issues:"The legislature has made it abundantly clear that medical decisions are to be made by medical… [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 2:33 pm
The law, which requires the showing of a photo ID in order to vote in elections, attempts to prevent voter fraud, while Judge Lawrence Meyers [official profile] argues [Texas Tribune report] that the state's Constitution only gives the Texas legislature the power to... [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 5:52 am
Texas, 539 U.S. 558, 583 (2003) (“[T]he State maintains that the law discriminates only against homosexual conduct. [read post]
5 Oct 2014, 4:57 pm
It’s now up to the Texas Supreme Court to decide whether to give its own guidance to the Texas Legislature about funding local school districts or to leave in place the district court’s judgment striking the system down. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 1:04 pm
" This piece was originally published on Cosmopolitan.com After the Texas legislature passed H.B. 2, a set of anti-abortion regulations so restrictive they were destined to close nearly every clinic in the state, lawyers like Brigitte Amiri, an attorney from the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project, entered the arena. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 10:03 am
Not long ago, Texas had more than forty clinics operating throughout the state. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 7:59 am
DeLay had been found guilty of channeling $190,000 in corporate political donations to Republicans running for the Texas Legislature in 2002 as part of a push to redraw congressional district lines in the state. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 7:15 am
The highest-profile case on yesterday’s order list may be Arizona State Legislature v. [read post]
2 Oct 2014, 10:04 am
If the Court does reach the core issues in the case of Arizona State Legislature v. [read post]
2 Oct 2014, 7:15 am
The Texas Long-Term Care Partnership was created by the Texas Legislature to give Texans like you the information and tools you need to plan for long-term care. [read post]
2 Oct 2014, 6:57 am
The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States ended up in Texas. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 4:24 pm
The two men also attended a press conference today at the capitol with state Sen. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 11:05 am
Big ships turn slowly so it's significant to find a bipartisan consensus among DA candidates in the state's most populous county that jailing pot smokers is a waste of time and resources. [read post]
30 Sep 2014, 9:35 am
IMDb Texas Court of Appeals Rejects Privacy Claims Based on Facebook Firing – Roberts v. [read post]
30 Sep 2014, 6:41 am
In 2014, the Indiana legislature passed HB1009, which requires a law enforcement officer to obtain a warrant to use a UAV for police purposes. [read post]
30 Sep 2014, 6:37 am
The article provides a good discussion of the issues, but regrettably fails in its survey of states to comprehend the two-tier structure of police personnel files in Texas, mistakenly claiming they're always subject to state open records law, which is false. [read post]
