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10 Dec 2013, 8:07 am
Texas has the largest state prison population in the country - larger even than California, though we have less than two-thirds of their population. [read post]
9 Dec 2013, 12:02 pm
It’s been a remarkable year of policymaking at the state level, with legislatures so far passing 107 new animal protection measures. [read post]
8 Dec 2013, 11:03 am
Texas courts, prosecutors, defense counsel and crime labs already are struggling with these questions, and it appears the Texas Legislature may need to take up the issue when they re-convene in 2015. [read post]
8 Dec 2013, 10:33 am
John Carona pressed Texas Insurance Commissioner Julia Rathgeber to explore ways to "achieve lower rates in this state." [read post]
7 Dec 2013, 6:43 pm
Building on the so-called Merry Christmas Law passed by the Texas legislature earlier this year (see prior posting), the project is billed as "a state-wide effort to educate and protect the acknowledgement of Christmas in public schools and ensure the religious liberty of children, parents, teachers, and school administrators." [read post]
7 Dec 2013, 4:31 pm
Furthermore, the Texas legislature had enacted a statute which states that construction contracts for improvements to real property located in Texas are “voidable by the party obligated by the contract to perform the construction” if the contract requires litigation in another state. [read post]
7 Dec 2013, 4:31 pm
Thus, many states legislatures have put limits onto the use of forum selection clauses in construction contracts. [read post]
6 Dec 2013, 3:02 pm
Texas exported its opt-out philosophy to Oklahoma, whose legislature decided that it didn't want Texas' economy outpacing Oklahoma's economy. [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 9:01 pm
By adding the name of a candidate to the ballot, and by designating this person as the “State Legislature Candidate,” the state legislature is clearly endorsing one person on the ballot. [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 6:55 am
Police roadblocks will surely be proposed again in the 84th Texas Legislature and, if they fail, again in the 85th. [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 6:25 am
Grits would like to see Texas rationalize this mess by 2020 as well, but as long as the topic is considered through the lens of state-level partisanship instead of county-level pragmatism, changing it in the near future would be an uphill climb. [read post]
1 Dec 2013, 3:21 pm
The Court of Appeals specifically stated that “there is no indication in Section 15.50 that the legislature intended to invest courts or arbitrators with the authority to reform noncompete covenants to create buy out provisions. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 1:14 pm
You can actually get things done'"- it's true that, to my knowledge, Texas has passed more innocence-related legislation than any other state. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 11:49 am
Supreme Court upheld the clear and convincing standard of proof required by the Texas statute in civil confinement proceedings for the mentally ill, finding that, unlike in a criminal commitment proceeding, the state's power in a civil commitment proceeding is not exercised in a punitive sense. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 6:22 am
Government agencies are accountable to legislatures or other elected entities who can and do intervene - as happened at the Texas Youth Commission, for example - when serious problems arise. [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 8:03 am
Specifically, the Texas Legislature clarified a Court’s ability to enforce by contempt a person’s violation of payment of Chapter 8 spousal maintenance. [read post]
21 Nov 2013, 10:53 am
When the 84th Texas Legislature convenes in 2015, Grits hopes they will consider and pass restrictions on the use of license plate readers by law enforcement and the private sector. [read post]
20 Nov 2013, 4:30 am
Plus, we applaud a state legislature that officially endorsed the possessive form “Arkansas’s. [read post]
19 Nov 2013, 5:39 am
Oglebay, "The Supreme Court, Stare Decisis and Law of the Case," Texas Law Review 21:514 (1943). [read post]
18 Nov 2013, 3:07 pm
But Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code § 51.014(a)(6) provides various exceptions, including when the lawsuit “is based in whole or in part upon a claim against or defense by a member of the electronic or print media, acting in such capacity, or a person whose communication appears in or is published by the electronic or print media, arising under the free speech or free press clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution [or the similar… [read post]
