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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]
28 Sep 2013, 2:16 pm
My expectation is that they will turn to the legislature to bar diminished value claims but that has not happened yet. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 2:10 pm
On the one hand, several states' legislatures are, it appears, expanding (slightly) the reach of their death-penalty laws (Texas and Tennessee, for example, are considering proposals to "include certain child molesters who did not murder their victims"). [read post]
2 Nov 2008, 7:46 am
Tyler's police department and the Sheriff have refused to let officers use new authority given by the Legislature to give summons instead of arresting petty misdemeanants. [read post]
7 Nov 2010, 4:36 pm
That means psychiatrically stabilizing the individuals and then getting them to a point where they can assist in their own legal defense.Restoration is currently done locally at MHMR’s Sunrise Canyon and also in Vernon at North Texas State Hospital. [read post]
28 Jun 2017, 7:58 am
Moore will require Texas to revisit a substantial number of cases decided under that approach, but the decision will have much less purchase outside of Texas where states have shown less overt hostility to the court’s categorical protection. [read post]
11 Dec 2015, 4:28 pm
In 1997, the Texas legislature enacted the Top Ten Percent Law which is designed to increase diversity without taking race into account. [read post]
27 May 2022, 4:00 am
Yahoo News – Nathaniel Herz (Anchorage Daily News) | Published: 5/20/2022 A last-minute deal in the state Legislature to restore donation limits to Alaska’s political campaigns collapsed during the legislative session allowing wealthy donors to spend unlimited sums on state elections this year as good government advocates contemplate a citizens initiative to reimpose the caps. [read post]
23 Feb 2010, 7:31 am
Toia (need-based public assistance protected in the state constitution ruled a legally enforceable duty of the state’s), Texas’s Edgewood Indep. [read post]
22 Jul 2023, 6:14 am
Given the large number of states where the lobbyists for ticket resale platforms are pushing similar legislation, these are important topics! [read post]
30 Jun 2007, 12:21 pm
The Legislature has given me a huge unfunded mandate. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 7:16 am
" Members of the state's forensic oversight panel are asking the Texas attorney general's office to clarify whether the panel has the authority to investigate negligence or misconduct by certain Texas forensic scientists and criminal investigators.Among the questions the Texas Forensic Science Commission has posed is whether its scrutiny is limited only to labs accredited by the state Department of Public Safety, and whether the commission… [read post]
29 Aug 2019, 12:29 pm
” Ten years later (2011), the 82nd Texas Legislature established the Texas Indigent Defense Commission (TIDC) whose purpose is to provide financial and technical support to the state’s 254 county indigent defense systems to ensure that they meet the requirements of the Constitution and state law. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 9:02 am
California’s legislature moves on bills related to same-day access to court documents, Judicial Council control of trial court budgets/appropriations, judicial selection, and diversity on the bench Massachusetts’ House and Senate cannot agree on a version of judicial governance reform E-courts: Connecticut’s House moves on standards for electronic documents while Nevada’s Assembly OK’s electronic seals New Hampshire’s Senate… [read post]
1 Mar 2022, 9:35 am
Supreme Court would not undo the undoing), but that is not the same thing as ignoring the states. [read post]
22 Apr 2014, 6:57 am
(For details of the case, see this 2012 appellate ruling on a different issue.)TX House committees to consider mental illness, substance abuseTerri Langford at the Texas Tribune has a preview of a hearing today at the Texas Legislature addressing issues related to inmates with mental illness and substance abuse problems. [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 12:40 pm
After the Texas Legislature ended corporal punishment for white people in 1848, only black folks would have been beaten there. [read post]
6 Jun 2019, 11:04 am
Five road fatalities in Fort Worth and Dallas in four days It is shocking that over 3,500 people die on Texas roads each year — many of them here in North Texas. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 1:28 pm
By Natalie Barletta The Texas Supreme Court in, In re Gulf Exploration, LLC, No. 07-0055 (Tex. [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 1:41 pm
Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and 24 other senators contend that the drafters of the Second Amendment weighed the competing interests associated with owning and carrying firearms and came down on the side of robust gun right. [read post]
