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3 Jul 2014, 5:40 am
Between 2011 and 2013, state legislatures passed 205 abortion restrictions, exceeding the 189 enacted during the entire prior decade. [read post]
2 Jul 2014, 6:56 am
In the last legislative session, the Texas Legislature gave the Texas Railroad Commission money to upgrade its website. [read post]
30 Jun 2014, 7:50 am
In the last few years, we’ve seen an unprecedented number of privacy battles being waged in state legislatures. [read post]
28 Jun 2014, 7:07 am
Excerpts from an article in the excellent Texas Tribune: The fight over the future of the state’s institutions for the disabled picked back up this week as lawmakers considered a proposal to shutter six of Texas’ 13 state-supported living centers. [read post]
27 Jun 2014, 9:43 am
Congress made the public policy decisions to lower barriers of entry for generic drugs, as has the [relevant] state legislature in enacting laws to require certain prescriptions be filled with available generics. [read post]
27 Jun 2014, 9:21 am
This one reform would be the equivalent of increasing patrol staffing by ten percent.Begin to use discretion given police by the Legislature in 2007 to write citations instead of making arrests for driving with a suspended license and possession of marijuana.Follow Texas' other large cities by issuing paraphernalia citations for crack pipes instead of sending them to the crime lab to scrape traces off for state-jail felony possession prosecution. [read post]
26 Jun 2014, 2:01 pm
The Texas legislature puts family violence defendants in the same boat with sex offenders. [read post]
20 Jun 2014, 5:00 am
Providing unlawful assistance to a voter is a state jail felony under the Texas Election Code. [read post]
19 Jun 2014, 2:48 pm
Deregistration Laws and Their Limitations In 2005, the Texas Legislature amended the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure to allow for some people to be removed from the Texas Sex Offenders Database. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 9:17 am
Here in Dallas, there has been a public awareness campaign to educate people about the expanded definition of sex crimes by the State of Texas. [read post]
17 Jun 2014, 6:12 am
State Farm. [read post]
16 Jun 2014, 10:55 am
Many state legislatures have abrogated them, and some state supreme courts have done the same. [read post]
13 Jun 2014, 10:02 am
David Dewhurst in the senate, and prospects for electronic privacy gains in the 84th Texas Legislature next spring.The main difference between 2013 and 2015 is that, when Texas' bills protecting location data and cloud-based content were filed and heard in committee in early 2013, Edward Snowden hadn't changed the world yet. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 8:18 am
That subsection should be deleted during the 84th Texas Legislature or at least the percentage raised. [read post]
11 Jun 2014, 4:00 am
Writing for a unanimous panel, Judge Smith held that KBR’s alleged negligence was not a political question, and that the only potential political question would be if a court had to calculate proportional damages and/or assess contributory negligence—which would only be an issue if the district court found, on remand, that Texas or Tennessee law, rather than Pennsylvania law, governed the dispute. [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 4:06 am
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]
7 Jun 2014, 3:15 pm
Whatever laws pass must win approval from both chambers of the Texas Legislature and a new sitting governor. [read post]
6 Jun 2014, 11:21 am
A similar rule used to be the case in Texas. [read post]
SYNTHETIC DRUG BUSTS: FEDERAL ARRESTS FOR FAKE POT AND DESIGNER DRUGS THAT ARE LEGAL UNDER STATE LAW
31 May 2014, 1:34 pm
They have never been more popular than they are today here in Texas as clever chemists manage to keep ahead of legislators in Austin, tweaking their recipes to keep their product outside the state’s legal definitions of illegal substances. [read post]
31 May 2014, 7:43 am
He has testified before Congress as well as State Legislatures. [read post]
