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9 Jan 2012, 11:33 am
The court agreed last month to hear an emergency appeal [JURIST report] challenging 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... [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 5:24 am
That may be enough for him to decide to agree with the state’s position that the lesser harm is to use Texas’ maps for one election cycle pending the outcome of the San Antonio and DC lawsuits. [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 3:25 am
Hopkins of The John Marshall Law School, Gerald Torres of the University of Texas, and Patricia J. [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 12:00 am
” Following the 2010 census, the Texas legislature redrew the state’s electoral districts, adding four new Congressional districts reflecting the state's growth. [read post]
8 Jan 2012, 8:12 pm
As Senator Santorum recently reiterated, he thinks Griswold was wrongly decided but he also believes that state legislatures should not ban contraception. [read post]
8 Jan 2012, 7:37 pm
" And Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that "Supreme Court to enter tangled Texas redistricting case; The Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments over whether federal judges overstepped their authority when they revised state and congressional districts drawn by the Texas Legislature. [read post]
7 Jan 2012, 6:21 am
Local law enforcement agencies in Harris County don't use discretion granted them by the Legislature to issue summons instead of arresting for certain low-level misdemeanors. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 9:02 pm
The dispute revolves around new districts that the state legislature fashioned earlier this year — in May for the two houses of the state legislature, and in June for the U.S. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 6:46 pm
The Texas Legislature passed a bill affecting equine dentistry. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 1:37 pm
On Monday January 9, 2012 the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in three election law cases from Texas which involve plans for voting districts drawn up by the Texas legislature and a three judge Federal court in Texas. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 8:33 am
The Court’s appellate jurisdiction over a direct appeal flows ultimately from the Texas Constitution, which sets the outer boundaries for the Legislature and Court to work within: Sec. 3-b. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 6:50 am
If the Legislature redraws the lines in 2013, the new pre-clearance process will be a comparison against the benchmark San Antonio maps. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 7:30 am
Thus, Texas choose the route it deemed more favorable to obtaining approval of its plan, not the route guaranteed to provide a more expeditious resolution and to keep the line-drawing power in the legislature’s hands. [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 7:22 am
There's an interesting if macabre story from the NY Times today with the same title as this post on a mostly hidden aspect of the system: the solemn, longstanding administration of a pauper's field for Texas inmates in Hunstsville dating from the earliest days of statehood in the 1840s (the Texas Republic had before then repeatedly rejected a central prison, which was pushed through in the first Texas state Legislature). [read post]
5 Jan 2012, 7:04 am
Nebraska’s legislature will likely consider a bill in the 2012 session to authorize a study of the effects of the law in the state. [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 9:27 am
The Texas legislature adopts new maps during 2013, for which it must obtain preclearance. [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 8:45 am
House of Representatives, requiring the state needed to re-draw its election maps for both Congress and the state legislature. [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 6:51 am
It was four years before the state legislature awarded this amount. [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 2:41 am
“So if the Legislature has passed a law that tends to favor individuals over corporations, or vice versa, then the court interprets the law to give effect to the Legislature’s intent as expressed in the words of the statute. [read post]
4 Jan 2012, 1:59 am
“So if the Legislature has passed a law that tends to favor individuals over corporations, or vice versa, then the court interprets the law to give effect to the Legislature’s intent as expressed in the words of the statute. [read post]
