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8 Mar 2012, 4:50 am by Alison Rowe
  Until the Supreme Court takes up this issue or the Legislature clarifies it, this issue continues to be somewhat unsettled in Texas. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 9:57 pm by Rick Hasen
Districts for Congress and the Texas House adhere closely to a compromise plan negotiated by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and the Texas Latino Redistricting Task Force, one of the state’s myriad opponents. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 7:16 am by Gritsforbreakfast
DPS shut down its program, they told EFF, because, "drones did not offer Texas significant advantages over the agency’s existing airplanes and helicopters. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 11:00 am
Legislatures across the country-including our neighbors in Ohio, New Jersey and Connecticut, as well as Texas and North Carolina, for example - have taken affirmative steps to prevent wrongful convictions. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 4:34 am by Victoria VanBuren
This article is derivative of longer piece prepared for the State Bar of Texas ADR Section Newsletter. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 2:47 am by SHG
My first thought was to seek a seat on the Texas legislature. [read post]
4 Mar 2012, 4:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
LEMIT did what the Legislature told them to do: Write a "detailed written policy" with specific "procedures" for a number of different aspects of eyewitness identifications based on scientific research and established best practices. [read post]
4 Mar 2012, 4:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas judicial administrators estimate that 1 in every 3 dollars raised through such state fees is spent on projects outside the court system — a practice critics say amounts to an undeclared tax on the state's poor that might violate the law. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 9:10 am by Don Cruse
While neighboring states impose fewer restrictions on the level of public use required for such takings, meaning companies may seize land to build pipelines for their exclusive use, the Texas Legislature enacted a regime more protective of landowners. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 8:52 am by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
The following information was obtained from the March 2 issue of the Texas Register: Public Notices HHSC intends to submit an amendment to the Texas State Plan for Medical Assistance, which would modify the fee schedules as a result of Medicaid fee adjustments for Clinical Laboratory Services and Physicians and Other Practitioners. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 4:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
And during the 2011 session, the Texas Legislature amended the post-conviction DNA testing statute to eliminate most grounds for prosecutors to object to testing. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 11:22 pm by Ilya Somin
To my mind, it is irrelevant whether a racially motivated admissions plan was adopted by the state legislature, university administrators, or some combination of the two. [read post]
1 Mar 2012, 1:52 pm by Steve Hall
The Legislature should require prosecutors to disclose promises of leniency prior to trial and prohibit granting favors after trial. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 8:41 am by Luke A. Williams
Section 3.03(b)(2)(B) of the Texas Penal Code authorizes consecutive sentences when the State convicts a defendant of multiple sex crimes arising from the same criminal episode. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 3:04 am by Robert Kraft
In Texas especially, the Legislature is finding more and more ways to cut benefits to seniors and the poor in order to save money. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 6:49 pm by Majed Nachawati
  Texans interested in actually having their rights protected should contact their state and federal legislators and ask that they pass rights that protect citizens, not Big Corporations. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 1:40 pm by David Gans
The policy emerged after many years of effort by the Texas legislature and the University to increase classroom diversity, break down stereotypes, and increase pathways to leadership for all persons at the state’s flagship public university. [read post]
28 Feb 2012, 11:57 am by Mario Madrid
In Texas, last year the State Legislature enacted legislation codified in Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38.20 to require all Texas law enforcement agencies to adopt written eyewitness-identification policies based on the best practices proven effective by scientific research on eyewitness memory. [read post]