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21 Aug 2008, 2:37 am
A jury in Waco, Texas recently sentenced a defendant to 20 years for intoxication manslaughter, the maximum sentence. [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 5:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
State crime lab services should be on a fee recovery basis and legislature mandating such is supported. [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 4:06 am by David DePaolo
Branstad has refused thus far to relent to Democratic demands to appoint a special counsel to investigate the use of confidentiality agreements in settlement of employment discrimination law suits.But so far Branstad has used over $500,000 in Iowa taxpayer money to defend against Godfrey's lawsuit.My guess is the Iowa Supreme Court's ruling will encourage a more prompt settlement now that there is the potential for personal liability.But the reality is that this Iowa situation is just… [read post]
21 Feb 2023, 5:06 pm by Jonathan Zasloff
Huntington Beach: No Middle-Class PleaseAfter patiently requesting, begging, insisting, pleading, and incentivizing local governments to plan for more affordable housing, the California Department of Housing and Community Development, armed with new powers from the state legislature, has had enough. [read post]
2 Dec 2007, 6:53 am
There was legislation passed in the Texas legislature unanimously to put a halt on it. [read post]
20 May 2011, 9:59 am by Louis Leichter
As this is a creation of Congress, it is subject to federal law and does not recognize confidentiality protections created at the state level. [read post]
27 Apr 2016, 8:14 am
Nationalizing the state imposts was the key economic necessity for the Constitution as a whole. [read post]
13 May 2014, 6:47 pm
The third definition is the Texas codification of the traditional common law concept of "felony murder. [read post]
15 Nov 2012, 8:07 pm
While other states lead the way in reforming their cananbis laws and allowing legal suppliers for medical and recreational markets, Texas stubbornly clings to our pathetic history of prohibitionary policing. [read post]
20 Jun 2019, 5:24 am by Joe Patrice
[Courthouse News Service] * Right-wing groups have drafted copycat bills for state legislatures to pass for years and now pro-choice groups are following the same blueprint. [read post]
24 Oct 2016, 4:19 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The revelation that a quarter of Texas police shootings went unreported to the Attorney General, as required by state law, drives home the message in this LA Times headline: "There's no point in collecting information on police shootings and force if cops report inaccurate information. [read post]
6 Mar 2014, 7:30 am by Robert Hambrick
The prosecutors at the State Attorney's Office should immediately shut down this investigation and let these duffers play. [read post]
31 Aug 2023, 6:05 am by Above the Law
[CNN] * Texas GOP's "Death Star" legislation, designed to give the state legislature the power to strike down local laws and ordinances destroyed like all Death Stars because of tiny, yet fatal, flaw. [read post]
22 Apr 2016, 6:30 am by Dan Ernst
Johnson, University of Texas School of Law, has posted “Impost Begat Convention”: New York's Ratification of the Constitution:The meaning of the Constitution is said to be set by the ratification debates. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 11:57 am by Mario Madrid
In Texas, last year the State Legislature enacted legislation codified in Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38.20 to require all Texas law enforcement agencies to adopt written eyewitness-identification policies based on the best practices proven effective by scientific research on eyewitness memory. [read post]
2 Oct 2012, 2:35 am
"[2] The Court also noted that when reviewing impairments to contracts to which a state is a party, courts should not give complete deference to the legislature's assessment of reasonableness and necessity, as the state's self-interest is at stake. [read post]
27 Jun 2016, 12:07 pm by Lyle Denniston
At one time before H.B. 2 was passed, Texas had some forty clinics providing abortions throughout the state. [read post]