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27 May 2022, 11:55 am
" The email noted that the state legislature is meeting in special session this month, adding an urgent request: "Please sign this petition today – it is pre-populated with information that asks your specific legislators to support meaningful property insurance reform. [read post]
10 Nov 2007, 1:35 am
Why not change the rules governing snitch testimony to prevent wrongful convictions on the front end instead of making it easier to use unreliable testimony, as the Tennessee judge did.Given all the recent Texas innocence cases, this is a subject I'd hope the Texas Legislature would take up in 2009, along with other needed innocence reforms. [read post]
25 Feb 2009, 8:04 am
If a new state probe of her conduct fails to prompt her removal, the Legislature should impeach her.More than a year after her cavalier actions shocked the country, Keller has finally been called to account for her actions. [read post]
30 Oct 2013, 3:39 pm
Oct. 30, 2013) — from Texas’ highest criminal court — and the provisions truck down is Tex. [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 4:40 pm
” The bill was rushed through the New York legislature in the aftermath of last year’s tragic mass shooting at a Buffalo, NY supermarket. [read post]
14 Jun 2013, 1:34 pm
Check out our new map for updates on recent activity in state legislatures to reduce prison populations, with contextual information about each state. [read post]
12 May 2017, 1:30 pm
From Louisiana and Texas to Pennsylvania and California, the movement to end mass incarceration is thriving in the states and in cities. [read post]
1 Aug 2020, 2:15 pm
(See Florida, Georgia, and Ohio, among others states.) [read post]
26 Jul 2021, 11:23 am
In Texas, 95 percent of arrest warrants issued in 2016 were for unpaid fines and fees, and more than 640,000 people were jailed as a result. [read post]
31 Oct 2021, 9:00 am
In 2009, the state of Texas posthumously cleared him of any wrongdoing and expunged his record. [read post]
31 Oct 2021, 9:00 am
In 2009, the state of Texas posthumously cleared him of any wrongdoing and expunged his record. [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 1:21 pm
Texas Medical Board, a Fifth Circuit case involving the antitrust state-action immunity doctrine. [read post]
9 Dec 2020, 9:01 pm
And relatedly, the NFIB dissent bemoaned, the court itself could be viewed as complicit in warping the legislature’s product, functionally “assum[ing] the legislative function” by rewriting the statute and creating “its own new statutory scheme” which “can be a more extreme exercise of the judicial power than striking the whole statute. [read post]
11 Apr 2010, 12:39 pm
In 2005, the Texas Legislature directed the Council on Sex Offender Treatment to study dynamic risk assessment, which would include assessing the offender based on multiple factors. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 9:05 am
I still haven't understood why the legislature enacts a law like the one listed below, then skirts the issue: § 724.013. [read post]
1 Apr 2007, 4:50 am
It creates mandatory minimums of 15 years for said offense at a time when Texas prisons are overcrowded and the Legislature is seeking ways to reduce incarceration for nonviolent offenders.Meth manufacturing in Texas has declined since the state restricted pseudoephedrine sales - now most meth sold in this state comes up I-35 from so-called "superlabs" in Mexico. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 12:01 am
The Texas state constitution has a few interesting provisions. [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 8:36 am
Other states, like Texas, have persuaded their state courts to allow them to enforce in-person voting with only limited exceptions. [read post]
23 May 2019, 12:00 pm
These “admitting privileges” laws are only one kind of restriction working its way through the state legislatures and courts. [read post]
31 Aug 2018, 4:41 pm
State legislatures have enacted Right to Farm laws to protect producers who follow state regulations from nuisance lawsuits. [read post]
