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27 Dec 2011, 7:09 am by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
An excerpt: The purpose of the adoption is to implement portions of Senate Bill (SB) 1, 82nd Legislature, First Called Session, 2011. [read post]
27 Dec 2011, 6:21 am
Texas that public morality could not save Texas’ sodomy law.In so doing, the Court overruled a 1986 precedent with roots in the Hart-Devlin debate. [read post]
26 Dec 2011, 8:20 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Maryland mandating the state disclose such evidence).Which is the right conclusion to draw? [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 12:21 pm by Rachel Myers, ACLU
Adrian Estrada, an ACLU client whose death sentence was thrown out last year after the highest criminal court in Texas ruled it was based on the false testimony of a state expert, was resentenced this year to life in prison. [read post]
21 Dec 2011, 12:27 pm by Lyle Denniston
  There are five briefs in all — one for the state of Texas, and four from groups opposing the state legislature’s maps. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 8:45 am by Ken Shigley
In November, the Council released its findings and recommendations, with the underlying goal of protecting and improving public safety, in a report to the legislature and other state leadership. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 8:21 am by Steve Hall
The fact is, that Texas juries are using it just as polls indicated they would when the Legislature was again debating the bill, authored by state Sen. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 8:09 am by Steve Hall
  The State Bar of Texas is already looking into the mattter. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 6:58 am by Brian Evans
And the year in the Buckeye State concluded with Justice Pfeifer testifying to the legislature that Ohio has a “death lottery” not a death penalty, adding “Ohio is no longer well served by our death-penalty statute. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 10:14 am by Alan Ackerman
Reason Blog Two months before the appeals court's ruling, the state legislature approved the Citizens Participation Act, which provides additional protection for defendants facing meritless, speech-chilling lawsuits. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 6:35 am by Joshua Matz
On the redistricting front, Lyle recently posted on a federal district court’s decision to reschedule the Texas primaries for April 3, 2012, “a move that will give the Supreme Court some added time to settle whether the District Court can craft new election districts — and, if so, how to do it — for seats in the state legislature and in Texas’s delegation in the U.S. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 4:00 am by Alan E. Sherman
” That earlier post described how a state district court had decided that Texas use tax doesn’t apply to wrapping and packaging materials purchased out-of-state and used by a Texas seller in shipping jewelry to out-of-state customers. [read post]
18 Dec 2011, 6:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Keep them in prison and their end-of-life care is paid for out of state general revenue funds, except the Legislature didn't allocate enough.Without knowing the details, it seems that young Mr. [read post]
18 Dec 2011, 5:44 am by Walter Olson
The case helped prompt the Texas legislature to enact stronger protections for defendants against so-called SLAPP suits, a development long overdue in some other states as well. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 9:02 pm by Lyle Denniston
   The state has contended that the San Antonio court had no authority to draw up its own plans without trying to salvage as much as it could of the plans drawn by the Texas legislature. [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 9:26 am by Steve Hall
The state of Texas executed 13 people in 2011. [read post]