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11 Nov 2010, 10:40 am
The Iowa Legislature passed a law this spring that requires all employers to give veterans a legal day off on Veterans Day. [read post]
20 Oct 2023, 1:31 pm
” The state legislature, Prelogar stressed, “is free to express its opinions about the Second Amendment, and it is also free to prohibit state and local officials from assisting in the enforcement of federal law. [read post]
31 Oct 2021, 2:35 pm
The entity that makes the laws is the state legislature, and this provision opens the door to injunctions that do whatever is necessary to render any such unconstitutional enactments null and void. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 9:44 am
"Even in Texas, cases are taking 10 years," said Mr. [read post]
25 Dec 2017, 5:37 pm
I caught up with this remarkable woman on her way out the door to talk a little about her career as well as her final story, an expose about sex abuse and assault allegations at the Texas Juvenile Justice Department State School in Gainesville. [read post]
23 Apr 2008, 9:09 am
Thanks to the United States Supreme Court's recent ruling upholding the use of lethal injections, Texas will soon restart its death machine where 370 human beings await execution. [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 3:36 pm
Governor Dewhurst, Speaker Craddick, members of the Texas Legislature and those expressing environmental concerns. [read post]
19 Dec 2014, 3:54 pm
” Petitioners, while conceding that not “anyone with a computer, a website or a blog” should be afforded interlocutory protection, say the Legislature’s expansive definition of “medium” in the journalist-privilege statute should control how Texas courts interpret “media” in the interlocutory-appeal statute. [read post]
13 Nov 2016, 11:31 am
Texas is the only state that provides criminal penalties for violations of a civil commitment order. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 11:05 pm
Punishment would require county dollars (in county jail) rather than state dollars (in state jail).Perhaps so, but those crimes have mandatory probation on the first offense, anyway, so the impact on jails wouldn't be as substantial as Bradley makes out, certainly not "the biggest unfunded mandate ever perpetrated by the Texas Legislature," as JB hyperbolizes. [read post]
20 Feb 2011, 8:43 am
(Note: Texas does not have an intermediate level of care.) [read post]
21 Jan 2019, 12:40 pm
After Texas became one of ten states that now provides for licensed concealed carry at state college campuses, three Texas professors sued. [read post]
30 Sep 2014, 6:37 am
The article provides a good discussion of the issues, but regrettably fails in its survey of states to comprehend the two-tier structure of police personnel files in Texas, mistakenly claiming they're always subject to state open records law, which is false. [read post]
18 Sep 2008, 4:53 am
Some of the large states that tax downloads are Texas, New Jersey, and Washington, as well as the District of Columbia. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 5:48 am
Perry, to allow a display of the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Texas State Legislature. [read post]
23 Jul 2017, 5:11 pm
Moving on, on a related matter, Just Liberty is about to file a petition with the Texas Department of Public Safety requesting that they initiate rule-making to limit arrests by Texas State Troopers for non-jailable offense. [read post]
23 May 2008, 2:36 pm
Michael Blair's case has been one of Texas' most controversial death sentences since he was convicted. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 8:17 am
Paul Kennedy, in this post today, writes about a recent Texas trial and the jury’s failure to unanimously agree on a verdict. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 4:58 am
The case in Georgia of former high school football star Genarlow Wilson, who is serving a mandatory 10-year sentence after receiving consensual oral sex from a 15-year-old girl when he was 17, has attracted national attention, sparked bitter debate in the Legislature and will be decided later this year by the state Supreme Court. [read post]
16 Nov 2018, 2:40 pm
He also urged them to run for some of those same offices, including for state legislator, judge, or commissioner. [read post]
