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18 Jan 2013, 2:06 pm
Unfortunately it appears that, instead of (or perhaps in addition to, given the recent election results) the Ten Commandments, there’s another commandment that the Alabama Supreme Court is following: Thou Shalt (if you’re an Alabamian) Recover From An Out-Of-State Drug Company.While the Alabama Supreme Court certainly has the power to abandon the notion of manufacturer liability for defects in its products (unlike a federal court sitting in diversity), having the… [read post]
18 Jan 2013, 7:04 am
In the present legislature a bill has been filed that would repeal the Texas DREAM Act. [read post]
18 Jan 2013, 6:44 am
” For example, in Alabama, based on recommendations from the state’s sentencing commission, the Legislature authorized increases in the number of community corrections programs by nearly 80 percent from fiscal years 2003 to 2008. [read post]
17 Jan 2013, 4:05 am
Yesterday the Texas Freedom Network released a study titled Reading, Writing & Religion II: Texas Public School Bible Courses in 2011-12. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 12:20 pm
The Austin Statesman's Mike Ward points to a major development on the criminal justice reform front: The entry of the Texas Association of Business, a powerful lobby representing some of the state's largest employers, will be backing a reform agenda on criminal justice this session. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 10:42 am
State legislatures have passed gun legislation. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 7:36 am
In 2009, the Texas Legislature passed a law which prohibits the use of any type of wireless device in a school zone. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 6:09 am
Looking at the new Texas House rules, I noticed a couple of changes that may interest Grits readers: The size of the Corrections Committee will be reduced from nine to seven members, and the Government Efficiency and Reform Committee has been given control of "open government matters, including open records and open meetings," which in the past had fallen under the purview of State Affairs.The $64 question remains, "Who will chair criminal-justice related committees in the House?" [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 5:40 am
Recent legislation in other southern states offer possibilities for sentencing reform that perhaps could be replicated by the 83rd Texas Legislature if they can muster the will to reduce corrections spending. [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 4:54 am
Texas is a big state. [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 11:16 am
Let's take a first-cut look at implications for the criminal justice system in the Texas House and Senate draft budgets released yesterday amidst promises of tax cuts from state officials. [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 7:00 am
Texas In Lawrence, the U.S. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 12:19 pm
State of Texas. [read post]
14 Jan 2013, 4:37 am
Last week the Texas Legislature opened its 83rd regular session. [read post]
12 Jan 2013, 9:05 am
The court further explained that We must assume that the legislature intended for these [administrative] types of remedies to be applied, rather than to take the drastic step of invalidating the contract as a whole. [read post]
11 Jan 2013, 7:41 pm
Texas could have experts like this, but they'd be arrested. [read post]
11 Jan 2013, 7:20 am
The Committee was created by the Texas Legislature in 1989 to provide coordination among nine state agencies that deal with groundwater: the Texas Water Development Board, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas Railroad Commission, the Department of State Health Services, the Texas Department of Agriculture, the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board, the Texas Alliance of… [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 6:50 pm
I do not believe the Legislature intended section 37.09 to be used in that fashion, and until the Court of Criminal Appeals speaks to the matter, I will continue to view such prosecutions in a circumspect manner." [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 12:26 pm
State Representative Van Taylor, R-Plano, and Senator Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, have introduced a bill to allow for forced pooling in Texas. [read post]
10 Jan 2013, 9:08 am
To AG Greg Abbott's credit, Texas was not one of the 15 of those states that signed onto an amici brief urging SCOTUS to allow what their own state law forbade. [read post]
