Search for: "TEXAS STATE LEGISLATURE" Results 4521 - 4540 of 7,444
Sort by Relevance | Sort by Date
RSS Subscribe: 20 results | 100 results
28 Jun 2012, 4:58 am by Russ Bensing
In 1999, 98 people were executed in the United States. [read post]
28 Jun 2012, 3:30 am by Chip Merlin
The department will refer unlicensed persons performing the acts of a public insurance adjuster to the Texas Attorney General, pursue all remedies available under the Insurance Code, and highlight these practices to the Legislature so that it may consider further steps to regulate these persons and activities. [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 1:15 pm by CJLF Staff
The decision came in a lawsuit filed by 10 condemned inmates against the Arkansas Department of Correction that challenged a 2009 law in which the Legislature gave the state's Department of Correction discretion in determining how to carry out lethal injections. [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 9:43 am by Steve Hall
Alito fumed, the court’s 5-4 majority assumed that it knew better than the 28 state legislatures that have authorized mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole for killers younger than 18. [read post]
27 Jun 2012, 5:39 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I'd never expect the Legislature to address the problem of their own accord, but if the courts decide the state must provide relief, poll numbers won't matter much. [read post]
26 Jun 2012, 5:58 pm
" Texas has been one of the states most aggressively limiting the access by ordinary citizens to the civil justice system in the name of tort reform. [read post]
25 Jun 2012, 2:10 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
So my question becomes what are our options until the Legislature meets in January? [read post]
25 Jun 2012, 11:22 am by Joe Consumer
Writes the Austin American-Statesman: The 5-4 decision favored Texas Mutual Insurance Co. of Austin, the state's largest workers' compensation insurance carrier. [read post]
25 Jun 2012, 11:22 am by Joe Consumer
Writes the Austin American-Statesman: The 5-4 decision favored Texas Mutual Insurance Co. of Austin, the state's largest workers' compensation insurance carrier. [read post]
25 Jun 2012, 10:39 am by Geoffrey Rapp
Hoy, Constitutional law—separation of powers: the North Dakota Supreme Court balances the constitutional authority of the State Board of Higher Education, the State Legislature, and the judiciary, 86 NORTH DAKOTA LAW REVIEW 905 (2010)J. [read post]
24 Jun 2012, 4:46 pm by Betsy McKenzie
Magazine, “[L]ast year, 34 state legislatures, mostly GOP-led, introduced strict ID laws, and seven states–Alabama, Kansas, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin–enacted them. [read post]
20 Jun 2012, 8:16 pm by Charles Sartain
Senate Bill 1 of the 82nd Legislature in 2011 authorized Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Suaan Combsto coordinate the development of voluntary endangered species conservation plans while balancing economic needs of the state. [read post]
20 Jun 2012, 8:33 am by Irene
In a press release announcing the opinion, Suthers blasts Metro State for proceeding on its own to create a new tuition category despite the legislature’s repeated rejection of specific authorizing legislation. [read post]
20 Jun 2012, 7:25 am by Richard Santalesa
Last year, to name a few, California, Illinois  and Texas amended their respective breach notification statutes (with Texas purporting to extend its notification law to all individuals, not merely Texas residents). [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 8:24 am by Steve Hall
North Carolina’s Legislature is moving shamefully to gut the state’s 2009 Racial Justice Act. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 8:21 am by Rekha Arulanantham
 In February, the Florida legislature voted down a scheme to privatize dozens of state prisons. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 11:56 am by Don Cruse
Currently, state law requires potential judicial candidates who would run as Republicans or Democrats to obtain 50 signatures from each of Texas’s fourteen appellate districts. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 11:23 am by Rekha Arulanantham
 Currently, fourteen states—including California, New York, and Texas—have laws or policies on the books providing in-state tuition rates to students who graduate from a high school in the state and meet other requirements, regardless of immigration status. [read post]