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4 Jul 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
University of Texas in 2016, Kennedy surprised many by writing a majority opinion permitting the University of Texas to use race in undergraduate admissions to assemble a diverse student body. [read post]
10 May 2013, 1:22 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
You can review recent activity in state legislatures to reduce prison populations, with contextual information about each state, on our new map. [read post]
22 May 2013, 3:00 am by Colin Lachance
State Department asked that he remove them from his site. [read post]
3 Dec 2008, 4:46 pm
But the Tanner case might turn out to be very meaningful for Texas insurers if it prompts action by the Legislature or the Texas Department of Insurance to make sure those hypothetical questions at oral argument don’t become a reality here.1 This footnote is veering toward economics more than law, so stop reading if you don’t want my non-expert opinion. [read post]
15 May 2011, 12:22 pm by Mark S. Humphreys
The issue in the case was whether the state legislature allowed a third party claimant to directly sue the other guy's insurance company for violation of what is now Section 541.060 of the Texas Insurance Code. [read post]
25 Aug 2012, 7:26 am by Mark S. Humphreys
The court stated that the law as written by the State Legislature makes clear who is to receive the proceeds of the insurance policies at issue. [read post]
15 Nov 2010, 11:38 am by Robert A. Kraft
Politicians like to say that Austin is different from other state capitals, that members put aside party differences "for the good of Texas. [read post]
17 May 2021, 5:13 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Grits has been thinking about "defund the police" legislation (HB 1900) at the Texas Legislature, which seeks to punish Austin's budget decisions from last year shifting money from police to EMS and making the crime lab and 911 call center independent. [read post]
8 Feb 2019, 11:40 am by Michael Lowe
State Statute and Texas Court Precedent: Affidavits and Probable Cause The Texas Legislature has passed laws protecting against violations of the power to search. [read post]
18 Nov 2014, 5:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
That's a fine idea that IMO needn't be limited to the state's biggest cities. [read post]
15 Oct 2013, 10:35 pm
In Texas, for instance, in 2011, the State legislature passed HB 2038 relating to the treatment, prevention, and oversight of concussions affecting public school students participating in interscholastic athletics. [read post]
3 May 2014, 4:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
More states have approved legislation requiring law enforcement to obtain warrants to track cell-phone location data, measure that passed the Texas House last year but didn't make it all the way through the process. [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 1:23 pm by Michael C. Dorf
Harper--presenting the Court with a chance to weigh in on the horrific independent state legislature theory--is terrifying. [read post]
6 Sep 2010, 10:40 am by Jeff Blackburn
When he says that a county-based system is broke it is.This Legislature and BeyondYou can bet that this session of the legislature will not be increasing funding for indigent defense while taking an eighteen billion dollar haircut. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 6:34 am by Mark Bennett
I doubt that the Texas Legislature has the backbone to check the TSA like this (especially when the TSA bribes them with its “state legislators fly free [of groping]” plan); I don’t know about New Hampshire. [read post]
31 May 2024, 3:17 pm by John Floyd
  The Texas Legislature enacted Art. 38.37, Section 2(b) full well knowing that it would make securing child sexual assault convictions easier, regardless of its prejudicial impact on the right to a fair trial. [read post]
24 Jul 2023, 2:17 pm by Michael Lowe
  Initially passed by the Texas Legislature in 1965, the statute was amended in 1973 and this amendment remains the law of the land today. [read post]
9 May 2011, 12:36 pm by Brandon W. Barnett
Chapter 64 is simply a procedural vehicle for obtaining certain evidence “which might then be used in a state or federal habeas proceeding. [read post]