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18 Nov 2013, 4:00 am
District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to revoke TransCanada’s permit to construct the southern half of the Keystone XL project. [read post]
16 Nov 2013, 9:12 am
The writs are also among the first filed invoking the new “junk science” bill supported by the Innocence Project of Texas and passed in the 2013 Texas Legislature. [read post]
16 Nov 2013, 4:11 am
Today's post was shared by Mother Jones and comes from www.motherjones.com Former New Jersey governor Tom Kean is apparently pretty annoyed with Chris Christie, partly for personal reasons and partly because Christie failed to help any other Republicans get elected to the state legislature. [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 8:40 am
But Grits remains impressed that, even during wartime, Texas' Supreme Court continued to exercise habeas corpus and its authority was so revered that a Confederate general felt obligated to "bow his head" in deference.Today, truncated and emasculated over time by both the legislature and jurists too deferential to state power, habeas corpus in Texas has devolved, until recently becoming nearly as anachronistic as the pardon power. [read post]
14 Nov 2013, 2:21 pm
Here are a few odds and ends that caught my attention today and may interest Grits readers:Troopers association sues to keep up telemarketing schemeThe Texas State Troopers Association is the latest law-enforcement related entity to get in trouble for fundraising campaigns that spend more money on telemarketers than actually go to the organization. [read post]
14 Nov 2013, 11:13 am
The Obama administration, urging the Supreme Court to bypass a sweeping new gun rights plea by the National Rifle Association, told the Court Wednesday that Congress and state legislatures would not violate the Second Amendment if they denied access to firearms for youths under the age of twenty-one. [read post]
14 Nov 2013, 1:59 am
Because of this perceived unfairness, most state legislatures passed statutes that eliminated contributory negligence as a defense. [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 7:00 am
Certainly before the twentieth century, and arguably up to the present day, the bulk of American governance has been at the state level, and yet for the entirety of the 1800s and most of the 1900s, there are no records at all of the floor debates in nearly all the state legislatures, nor are the records much more substantial when it comes to other legislative proceedings, such as committee deliberations and reports. [read post]
11 Nov 2013, 9:09 pm
Summary of Argument Out of respect for religious freedom, legislatures have long provided religious groups with exemptions from generally applicable laws. [read post]
10 Nov 2013, 9:48 am
It reads:We have been asked by State Rep. [read post]
7 Nov 2013, 9:16 am
But the opinion shows why the Texas Legislature needs to step in to protect Texans' privacy, since neither federal nor state courts so far seem willing to do so.Regular readers know state Rep. [read post]
7 Nov 2013, 7:36 am
Therefore, the Texas legislature has carved out why you could ask for a fault divorce and what exactly those faults entail. [read post]
7 Nov 2013, 4:52 am
That's what the Texas legislature was really doing when it prescribed the PBO program. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 9:08 am
The Texas legislature, as it no doubt ordinarily would have the power to do (see id. at *10 (recognizing “the [state] government’s broad discretion to regulate medical practice”)), undertook to regulate physician off-label use – uniquely in the abortion context. [read post]
1 Nov 2013, 12:08 pm
” This happened in Texas, when LexisNexis took over the docketing system in Bexar County. [read post]
1 Nov 2013, 8:44 am
The defendant is seeking relief based on Texas' new law, authored this year by state Sen. [read post]
31 Oct 2013, 8:15 am
Montano,the Supreme Court of Texas clarified an issue that is of importance across this State to clients and attorneys -- the proof required to support an award of attorney’s fees. [read post]
30 Oct 2013, 3:39 pm
Oct. 30, 2013) — from Texas’ highest criminal court — and the provisions truck down is Tex. [read post]
30 Oct 2013, 11:02 am
He could have added the example of the Texas Legislature becoming the first state to require a warrant for law enforcement to access cloud-based emails. [read post]
29 Oct 2013, 4:34 am
For about one-third of Texas' population - the rural areas like Burleson County - that state funding is critical." [read post]
