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28 Oct 2013, 7:06 am by Joe May
From the State Legislatures Hawaii: “Hawaii lawmakers to hold special session to consider gay marriage” by Malia Mattoch and Suzanne Roig in Reuters. [read post]
28 Oct 2013, 7:06 am by Joe May
From the State Legislatures Hawaii: “Hawaii lawmakers to hold special session to consider gay marriage” by Malia Mattoch and Suzanne Roig in Reuters. [read post]
27 Oct 2013, 10:15 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I've wondered if it might be possible to similarly attack the third-party doctrine at the legislature on a statutory basis. [read post]
27 Oct 2013, 6:17 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Indigent Defense Commission (TIDC) had issued guidelines regarding new county reporting requirements (pdf) for appointed counsel for indigent defendants in criminal cases under HB 1318, which was passed earlier this year by the Texas Legislature. [read post]
26 Oct 2013, 7:09 pm
The student will consider as well the techniques embedded in the notion of "the judicial" through which courts ground law in the state even as they seek to preserve law's autonomy from the state. [read post]
25 Oct 2013, 2:58 pm by Scott Deatherage
The city was able to get the Texas legislature to appropriate several million dollars, and the lawsuit was never filed--all those developers, building owners, contractors, and subcontractors lucked out. [read post]
25 Oct 2013, 7:59 am by Cleve Clinton
For a list of which states have “Stand Your Ground Laws” (like Texas) and which have “Castle Doctrine” laws, click HERE. [read post]
24 Oct 2013, 9:01 pm by Paula Mitchell
Capital punishment in the United States is often considered in terms of its constitutional vulnerability. [read post]
23 Oct 2013, 5:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 In addition to the San Antonio Four case, this week a District Judge in Montgomery County recommended relief for Neal Robbins based on the new statute in the case whose misbegotten outcome ultimately spurred the Texas Legislature to take action. [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 10:24 am by Gritsforbreakfast
 Grits can only knowledgeably speak to Texas' circumstances, but Doug's wrong about the Lone Star State. [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 7:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The federal government tends to pay more for incarceration of its inmates that state or local governments.The only reason the Crystal City jail wasn't dinged harder was that the federal inmates never materialized. [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]
15 Oct 2013, 6:49 pm by Amy Howe
In late June, the Court ordered a lower court to take a tougher look at the University of Texas’s consideration of race as a factor in its admissions process, but it allowed the program to survive, at least for now. [read post]
15 Oct 2013, 2:47 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Legislature created the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions named after her son and has implemented five of the six major recommendations made by that group. [read post]
14 Oct 2013, 12:18 pm by Hanni Fakhoury
Then state legislatures started getting in on the act too, with Texas becoming the first state to change its statute to require state and local police obtain a search warrant to access the contents of communications. [read post]
14 Oct 2013, 8:44 am
Fundraising rarely ceases, except just after an election.The Railroad Commission has been up for review by the Texas Sunset Commission in the last two sessions of the Texas Legislature, and both times the legislature failed to enact any of the recommendations of the Sunset Commission --- save one. [read post]
11 Oct 2013, 9:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Legislature, for its part, keeps amending the law to make it easier to secure convictions in such cases without corroboration:Earlier this year, Republican state Sen. [read post]
11 Oct 2013, 6:21 am by Joe May
“We will likely file an injunction to basically put everything on hold until the Legislature can convene in January,” said Stephanie Grisham, a spokesperson for the state attorney general’s office. [read post]