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29 Mar 2012, 5:05 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A law recently passed by the Texas legislature authorized counties to establish a Veterans Courts. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 5:59 pm by Rebecca Tushnet
  In the 1970s, the FTC tried to become the second most powerful legislature in DC; proposed one rule a month. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 8:30 am by Steve Hall
Texas used sodium thiopental until about a year ago when, after its sole overseas supplier announced it was stopping production, prison officials switched to another drug: pentobarbital. [read post]
28 Mar 2012, 7:59 am by Gritsforbreakfast
So in each state, either the legislature does the regulating, it hands off regulation authority to some executive-branch entity, or else the courts must do it themselves on an ad hoc basis. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 8:59 pm by David Kopel
The law of Texas very strongly adopts these views as is shown by many cases, of which it is enough to cite two. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 12:42 pm by Jenna Greene
” If the problem is with inconsistent state laws, he said “the way to address it is to work with the state legislatures. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 9:25 am by Gritsforbreakfast
” The short answer is that if you were able to organize hundreds of thousands of people you could change the laws at the Legislature and wouldn't need to crash the system! [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 6:51 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But Texas and other high-incarceration states face similar dynamics. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 10:59 am by Mark S. Humphreys
She argued that the court should look beyond the plain meaning of the statutory text to conclude that the state legislature did not intend for Section 9.301 to apply under the circumstances. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 9:32 am by Andrew Weber
Virginia couldn’t be farther away from Hawaii, or more different than Texas or Minnesota or New York, but understanding what each state has brought to our national legislature can only strengthen our union. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 4:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Bradley's future isn't nearly as important as whether the state learns from mistakes like this or allows prosecutors to throw up a smokescreens to prevent legislative intervention. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 1:55 pm by Alex Hunt
The Texas Legislature passed a number of measures in 2007 after a sex abuse scandal rocked the Texas Youth Commission. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 12:04 pm by Kent Scheidegger
  A concurring opinion agrees that this is correct given Texas CCA's past interpretation of the statute but asks the Legislature to amend it. [read post]
21 Mar 2012, 10:02 am by Edward
Media Matters for America reports: Dozens of voter ID laws have been introduced in state legislatures over the past two years, including particularly strict measures passed in seven states in 2011 -- Alabama, Kansas, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee... [read post]
20 Mar 2012, 6:46 am by Michelle O'Neil
Then, in 1995, Texas became the last state to pass a statutory scheme for court-ordered alimony – now called “maintenance” in Texas. [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 7:30 am by Irene
In New York state proposals to make government financial aid available for illegal aliens are currently pending in the legislature. [read post]