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9 Sep 2021, 6:34 am by Michael C. Dorf
So the mere potential for crippling liability is enough to exert the kind of chill that rightly concerned the Court in Young.)In my essay here on Tuesday, I explained that restrictive Supreme Court justiciability doctrines play a key role in permitting even the possibility that the Texas legislature can get away with banning abortion via the back door even while abortion officially remains a constitutional right. [read post]
25 Jun 2009, 1:30 pm
In another DNA revolution development, the Texas legislature   recently passed a bill which allows un-prosecuted rape suspects DNA links to their criminal history. [read post]
28 Dec 2019, 10:14 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Grits took time this morning to read through the Texas Commission on Jail Standards' self evaluation created as part of the "Sunset" process, through which the Texas Legislature evaluates agencies' functions every few years. [read post]
29 Apr 2015, 6:22 am by Joy Waltemath
Not only did she fail to prove her retaliation claim, the state high court found that she never pleaded one under the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (TCHRA). [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 4:03 pm
  As more and more states take advantage of their new power, those of us who want to find out what happens to consumers under different payday lending regimes can compare consumers in Oregon to those in Texas to those in Massachusetts to those in Delaware. [read post]
23 Oct 2017, 7:20 am by John McFarland
Also in 2015, the Texas Legislature funded an earthquake study with a $4.4 million appropriation, to install monitoring equipment and model reservoir behavior. [read post]
8 Jan 2017, 8:35 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The House Corrections Committee interim report to the 84th Texas Legislature began with a discussion of excessive fees in the criminal justice system which merits readers' attention. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 11:43 am by Rachel Ambler
The Legislature determined to clarify and codify the discovery of net worth. [read post]
20 Sep 2021, 9:05 pm by Doug Spencer
District 20) in May 2021—would allow the state legislature, by simple majority vote, to revoke the Secretary of State’s certification of a presidential election and to choose the state’s presidential electors unilaterally, regardless of the preferences of Arizona’s voters. [read post]
31 May 2013, 1:47 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Texaslegislature passed SB 1003, which would require the state to closely examine its use of solitary confinement. [read post]
11 Jan 2018, 7:05 am by Aurora Barnes
Perez 17-586 Issues: (1) Whether the district court issued an appealable interlocutory injunction when it invalidated Texas’ duly enacted redistricting plan and ordered the parties to appear at a remedial hearing to redraw state congressional districts unless the governor called a special legislative session to redraw the congressional map within three days; (2) whether the Texas legislature acted with an unlawful purpose when it enacted a redistricting… [read post]
15 Jun 2009, 11:10 am
After the Legislature approved new authority in 2007 to give citations instead of arresting for petty misdemeanors - a move aimed at giving counties new tools to react to rising costs of jail overcrowding - only a handful of agencies initially embraced the idea. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 7:57 am by Steve Hall
Supreme Court began refining those jury instructions but before the Texas Legislature could rewrite laws to bring instructions into high court compliance. [read post]
13 Mar 2019, 10:45 am
With 737 death row prisoners, the state has by far the nation’s largest death row, dwarfing the next largest states, Florida with 353 and Texas with 232. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 7:36 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Meaningful solutions - whether reforming the system or ending it - can really only happen while the Legislature is in session. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 9:24 am by Heather L. Weaver
A 2023 Texas law allowing public schools to hire chaplains, or accept them as volunteers, to provide student support services has inspired more states to consider copycat legislation. [read post]
If South Carolina, Utah, Florida, and Oklahoma are all marriage states, then surely Texas and South Dakota can handle it, too. [read post]