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12 Sep 2012, 10:04 am by Michael Lowe
Texas Prosecutors Organization (TDCAA) Issues Its Own Findings Now, the organization that represents prosecutors and district attorneys in the State of Texas has responded to all this concern. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 11:30 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
Stamer also has worked extensively domestically and internationally on public policy and regulatory advocacy on health and other employee benefits, human resources, insurance, tax, compliance and other matters and representing clients in dealings with the US Congress, Departments of Labor, Treasury, Health & Human Services, Federal Trade Commission, HUD and Justice, as well as a state legislatures attorneys general, insurance, labor, worker’s compensation, and other… [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 10:41 am by Roger Clegg
  The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment would logically have been much more willing to trust the national legislature to use racial classifications than, say, the state of Texas, and in any event could hardly have felt constrained by a law that didn’t exist at the time. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 5:59 am by texastriallawyers
With great regularity the issue of intoxicated driving wends its way through the Texas (and other) legislature where our lawmakers add fines, lengthen sentences and otherwise attempt to rein in drunk driving through excessive and punitive means. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 4:00 am by David J. DePaolo
An interesting thing happened on the way to the drug store the other day - it turns out that, according to one research group, workers' compensation claimants are least likely to engage in the consumption of illicit drugs compared to other medical sample groups while recovering from an injury.And this is in contrast to concerns in the industry, as reflected in those expressed at the Insurance Council of Texas workers’ compensation conference last week, where panel members opined that it… [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 4:00 am by David J. DePaolo
An interesting thing happened on the way to the drug store the other day - it turns out that, according to one research group, workers' compensation claimants are least likely to engage in the consumption of illicit drugs compared to other medical sample groups while recovering from an injury.And this is in contrast to concerns in the industry, as reflected in those expressed at the Insurance Council of Texas workers’ compensation conference last week, where panel members opined… [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 3:28 am by Russ Bensing
Efforts by Republican-controlled state legislatures to pass voter ID laws have raised cries that the ulterior motive is to suppress the votes of minorities, a contention that was hardly dispelled by the recent boast of the Pennsylvania Senate majority leader’s that the state’s new law made it more likely that Mitt Romney could carry the state in November. [read post]
9 Sep 2012, 10:54 pm by tclancy
Accordingly, the Texas legislature enacted laws providing criminal penalties for such an act. [read post]
8 Sep 2012, 7:06 am by Mark S. Humphreys
The Court said the legislature's action indicates the public policy of the state, and declined to hold to the contrary in this analogous situation. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 11:39 am by Michael Rosman
  That plan, adopted by the Texas legislature in the wake of the Fifth Circuit’s ruling in Hopwood v. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 2:35 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
"We have more than 200 state agencies, and not one of them has ever come even close to doing something this stupid. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 10:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The recommendations will go to the Legislature, which convenes in regular session in January. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 9:22 am by texastriallawyers
  The Texas legislature passed a bill that would have made texting while driving illegal for all Texans. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 11:51 am by Rekha Arulanantham
•    Texas: Since 2003, the Texas Legislature has passed a number of bills to prevent further growth of its prison population by increasing the use of probation for nonviolent offenses, and by providing increased funding for nonviolent offenders to attend residential and nonresidential treatment programs. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 4:50 am by David J. DePaolo
It is the hope of legislators that "clean up" legislation will follow next session as deficiencies in SB 863 become known.To the extent that UCs can be predicted, though, is to look at other states where similar provisions may already be law and examining the experience of those states. [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 3:42 pm by Lisa Steffek, PhD
New Juvenile Justice Program Shows Early Promise, Austin American Statesman, Texas In law-and-order Texas, where there has been a reluctance to lock youths in prison except for the most serious crimes, the state’s juvenile justice system has changed drastically in five years. [read post]