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20 Aug 2012, 1:50 pm
So, for advocates of change, making allies in the state legislatures to move these practices into law means everything. [read post]
18 Aug 2012, 7:09 am
Yet every time one of these proposals comes to the Texas Legislature, the lobbyists claim this will be good for all Texas citizens. [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 2:11 pm
Earlier this year, the Tennessee state legislature passed what critics are calling the new monkey bill. [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 10:48 am
The Constitution’s core doctrine of enumerated powers was eviscerated in 1937; the Bill of Rights and judicial review were bifurcated in 1938, with economic and property rights the main victims; and the nondelegation doctrine was jettisoned in 1943, giving us the modern executive state. [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 9:52 am
Indeed, American law generally doesn’t call for civil juries in injunction cases, restitution cases, family law cases (except in Texas), admiralty cases, and more. [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 8:26 am
The legislature has tried to pass laws that reform the state's sex offender laws, but they either never made it out of committee or were vetoed by the governor. [read post]
16 Aug 2012, 5:57 am
Interestingly, the case cites to a 1992 article written by Larry Mitchell in the Texas Law Review on fiduciary duty law principles. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 10:00 pm
While some state legislatures have resisted mandating such devices for first convictions, $20.8 million in highway safety funds as an incentive may spark the law changes federal officials and advocacy groups are hoping for. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 8:10 pm
The game is the same one we see here in Texas, where the Republican-dominated legislature passed a new, urgent voter ID law under which state-issued student IDs do not count, but concealed handgun permits do count. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 11:11 am
Vetoes Last year the Texas Legislature passed important legislation making texting while driving illegal for all drivers missing Texas. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 9:20 am
Since Texas instituted the death penalty in 1923, 23 inmates from Jefferson County have been sentenced to die. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 2:21 pm
While three states may not seem like cause for alarm, let’s put those states in perspective: 1 out of every 10 of the millions of students enrolled in a degree-granting program of higher education nationally attends school in South Carolina, Tennessee or Texas. [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 6:41 am
The United States Code contains dozens of criminal conspiracy statutes. [read post]
12 Aug 2012, 10:30 pm
Texas involved same-sex marriage and the Court in Lawrence specifically noted that the case did not involve a claim to state recognition of any relationship. [read post]
12 Aug 2012, 4:15 pm
" A three strikes law, which is currently used in 26 other states including Texas, California and Arizona, makes criminals who have been convicted three times of specific violent crimes ineligible for parole, forcing them to serve a full sentence. [read post]
12 Aug 2012, 4:15 pm
" A three strikes law, which is currently used in 26 other states including Texas, California and Arizona, makes criminals who have been convicted three times of specific violent crimes ineligible for parole, forcing them to serve a full sentence. [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 3:17 am
See a new report (pdf) with the same title as this post from the National Conference of State Legislatures. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 10:52 am
In this respect, Texas common law has largely tracked English common law. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 5:11 am
(To their credit, that's why most of the anti-immigrant bills at the Texas Lege ultimately floundered - the state GOP has now begun to walk back their most extremist positions.) [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 10:00 am
So the Legislature’s instructions are fairly clear–all of the SOB fee is meant to go to two programs OTHER than public schools. [read post]
