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6 Jun 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
  Soon Marguerite was writing official resolutions and delivering the governor’s messages to the state legislature, but when she told Neff her dream of becoming a lawyer, he tried to dissuade her. [read post]
4 Sep 2023, 2:46 pm by bndmorris
Summary of Changes to Estate Planning Law Made by the 2023 Texas Legislature (August 9, 2023). [read post]
12 Apr 2011, 10:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
We now release more people from Texas prisons and state jails every year than were incarcerated en toto in 1990 when Governor Ann Richards was elected.Such numbers reduce anxiety at the rather modest suggestions now being discussed by the Legislature. [read post]
2 Jul 2010, 10:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A few tidbits on parole stood out from my notes from Wednesday's meeting of the Texas House Corrections Committee on prisoner reentry ...Parole board chair Rissie Owens thanked the committee for additional treatment beds and told them they were responsible for an uptick in parole rates, which is up to 31% this year, she said, and which would be (just barely) the highest rate in recent memory if it's sustained for the rest of the year. [read post]
18 Oct 2020, 5:58 pm by Matt Cooper
Wisconsin State Legislature, the Democratic National Committee and two other sets of plaintiffs filed emergency motions in the U.S. [read post]
23 Apr 2019, 1:31 pm by Kevin Kaufman
Texas has since reduced its Margin Tax rates, and the state legislature expressed its intent to repeal the tax. [read post]
10 Feb 2012, 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds
The Wall Street Journal reports that the state legislature passed a bill on Wednesday that will make state laws more favorable to fracking, culminating a debate that has been raging ever since massive quantities of shale gas were discovered in the state in 2008. [read post]
17 Dec 2007, 12:51 pm
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine today signed the bill passed by the N.J. legislature last week abolishing the state's death penalty. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 5:57 am by Chris Castle
Instead, CEA continues to call on all state legislatures to oppose these overly broad bills and to demonstrate support for consumers, competition and innovation – all of which stand in jeopardy…. [read post]
29 Apr 2013, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
  A court in Texas, for example, refused to grant a decree of divorce to a gay male couple who married while living in Massachusetts (where same-sex marriage has been legal since 2004) and then moved to Texas. [read post]
12 Nov 2020, 5:20 am by Marty Lederman
United States, 529 U.S. 848, 857 (2000) (internal citation omitted); see also NFIB, 567 U.S. at 562 (Opinion of Roberts, C.J.). [read post]
24 Aug 2018, 12:05 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
That relieves some pressure on the Texas Legislature to pass bail reform, but does so just at the moment state leaders appeared to be reaching consensus on what bipartisan reforms might look like. [read post]
13 Feb 2009, 2:32 pm
To imprison someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years costs about $750,000.If the Texas system sounds expensive, it's actually tightfisted compared with that of other states. [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal Biden Claims 9 Super Tuesday Victories, Including Texas AP News – Steve Peoples and Will Weissert | Published: 3/4/2020 A resurgent Joe Biden scored victories from Texas to Massachusetts on Super Tuesday, revitalizing a presidential bid that was teetering on the edge of disaster just days earlier. [read post]
3 Mar 2015, 10:26 am by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
,  Funding Woes Imperil Future of State Run Exchanges;  State Insurance Exchanges Face Challenges In Offering Standardized Choices Alongside Innovative Value-Based Insurance. [read post]
5 Oct 2015, 1:54 pm by Edward A. Fallone
Instead, Justice Marshall argued that the Court’s focus should have been on the fact that the Texas legislature’s financing plan for public schools did not even satisfy the state’s objectives, and that the state had failed to identify any rational reason for financing the school system in this way. [read post]