Search for: "TEXAS STATE LEGISLATURE"
Results 4761 - 4780
of 7,444
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
23 Jan 2012, 2:48 pm
If they can’t agree, the order said, they are then to tell the court which specific districts under the state legislature’s plans can be used without objection. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 6:45 am
In that case, the Court returned the judge-drawn interim legislative district maps to the district court, with instructions to redraw the maps with greater deference to the redistricting plan already created by the Texas legislature and currently awaiting preclearance from the district court in Washington, D.C. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 6:45 am
In that case, the Court returned the judge-drawn interim legislative district maps to the district court, with instructions to redraw the maps with greater deference to the redistricting plan already created by the Texas legislature and currently awaiting preclearance from the district court in Washington, D.C. [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 10:12 pm
Rose Law Texas. [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 11:01 am
Suppose for simplicity that Texas has ten districts and that the eastern half of the state is homogeneous, whereas the suspected hanky-panky has all occurred in the western half of the state. [read post]
22 Jan 2012, 9:15 am
Colorado, California, Texas and Montana are the others. (2) Of those, Montana is the only state that allows for double proxy marriages, which are ceremonies where neither the bride nor groom can be present. [read post]
21 Jan 2012, 9:38 am
" Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that "Supreme Court tells Texas judges to do a better job on election maps; Saying federal judges in Texas exceeded their authority in rejecting election districts drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature, the Supreme Court instructed the judges to find remedies closer to the state's maps. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 4:23 pm
Will the maps be better than the Texas legislature’s maps? [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 2:03 pm
Well, it's the same thing in the state legislature, Republican majorities in both houses, obviously Gov. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 9:32 am
One of the reasons the lower court in the Texas case had erred, the opinion said, was in altering a state legislature’s map “to achieve de minimis population variations” without a legal reason to do so. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 9:16 am
SCOTUSBlog: “Two hours after issuing its ruling on Texas’ redistricting dispute, the Supreme Court put on hold a lower court’s decision striking down the West Virginia legislature’s new plan for electing that state’s three members of the House of Representatives. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 8:22 am
The emergency appeal [JURIST report] challenged an interim map drawn up by the US District Court for the Western District of Texas while a separate map drawn up by the state legislature is currently being challenged in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official websites] for compliance with the Voting Rights Act (VRA) [Cornell LII backgrounder]. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 8:12 am
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote separately to state that he would accept the Texas legislature's maps even though they have not been precleared, because he views the preclearance process as unconstitutional. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 7:50 am
The Texas court adopted the interim map while the state and civil-rights groups continued their legal battle over new congressional maps adopted by the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 7:03 am
Two hours after issuing its ruling on Texas’s redistricting dispute, the Supreme Court put on hold a lower court’s decision striking down the West Virginia legislature’s new plan for electing that state’s three members of the House of Representatives. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 7:02 am
The Associated Press reports that a North Texas water district plans to file a cert. petition in a federal lawsuit that seeks access to water supplies in southeastern Oklahoma. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 6:20 am
" The state was able to close the units because of declining prisoner populations: “No inmates will be released early as a result of this decision, and there will remain adequate bed space to accommodate projected prison admissions, which have steadily decreased since FY 2007-08,” the corrections department said in a statement.Regular readers know Grits believes Texas could have realized similar savings in the 82nd Texas legislature last year… [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 7:56 am
LB: You’re also involved in the Texas redistricting litigation. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 5:50 pm
Also, in Texas, the state supreme court made it easier to enforce non-competes by opening the door for other consideration (apart from access to trade secrets) to serve as consideration for a non-compete. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 3:46 pm
The state of Texas estimated that it would cost some $39 million for it to comply with the mandates of the Act. [read post]
