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13 Oct 2011, 7:16 am by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
Effective September 1, 2011, House Bill 680 moderately reforms the disciplinary process of the Texas Medical Board (“TMB”). [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 12:08 pm by Dennis Crouch
Those states aren't a unified bunch, though, as state legislatures made modifications to the UTSA and state courts adopted various interpretations of even the same provisions. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 12:01 pm by jferris
With enough people supporting the bill in New Jersey, the program may start to be utilized in other states, even Texas. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 4:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Reported James Pinkerton at the Houston Chronicle (Oct. 11):The state jail commission cited Harris County for having 355 prisoners more than authorized in 19 cells in the basements of two criminal justice buildings on Monday, the latest setback in a chronically overcrowded jail system that costs taxpayers $18 million a year in overtime alone.The citations were issued by the Texas Commission on Jail Standards, after inspectors made a surprise inspection at 5 a.m. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 3:51 am by Bob Kraft
They should study why some states have uninsured rates that are nearly half of Texas’. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 2:22 pm by Colin O'Keefe
- Dallas, Texas lawyer coach Cordell Parvin on the Cordell Parvin Blog Bill Targets NLRB Decision in Specialty Healthcare, Proposed Rule Changing Representation Election Procedures - Washington, DC attorney Ilyse Schuman of Littler on the firm's blog, Washington, DC Employment Law Update HIPAA Audits to Begin Early 2012 - White Plains lawyer Joseph Lazzarotti of Jackson Lewis on the firm's Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report … [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 2:21 pm by George Ticoras
Photo of the Texas State Capitol by LoneStarMike on Wikipedia. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 1:33 pm by Eunice Rho, ACLU
In Texas, where Governor Rick Perry used a highly unusual procedural maneuver to accelerate passage of a bill requiring a government-issued photo ID to vote, the state Attorney General found no cases of voter impersonation fraud. [read post]
11 Oct 2011, 2:58 am by Bob Kraft
They should study why some states have uninsured rates that are nearly half of Texas’. [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 11:09 am by Gritsforbreakfast
In the wake of Michael Morton's recent DNA exoneration in Williamson County - in which prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence for more than two decades before DNA proved another man committed the murder for which he was convicted - prominent state leaders are now asking what exactly could be done at the Texas Legislature to reduce prosecutorial misconduct. [read post]
9 Oct 2011, 3:20 pm by Walter Reaves
As you would imagine, the legislature is not going to tell the State to close their file and destroy all the records The order granting expunction must authorize the State to retain their records and files. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 7:31 pm by Mark Bennett
When the Texas Legislature manages to get it right, it’s the exception rather than the rule. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 2:53 pm by Lovechilde
Which it may well be in Texas, a state where bragging about bigness is common. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 12:56 pm by Jeff Gamso
In May, the Texas legislature overwhelmingly passed a bill guaranteeing the right to post-conviction DNA testing, and in June Gov. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 11:19 am by WOLFGANG DEMINO
In the Texas Tort Claims Act, the legislature has noted that governmental functions “are those functions that are enjoined on a municipality by law and are given it by the state as part of the state’s sovereignty, to be exercised by the municipality in the interest of the general public. [read post]
6 Oct 2011, 9:49 am by Steve Hall
  Death sentences are dropping and one by one state legislatures are replacing capital punishment. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 1:44 pm by Jeff Gamso
That audience looks a lot like the electorate in Republican primaries of deep-red, high-execution-volume states like Texas and Alabama. [read post]
5 Oct 2011, 9:00 am by Sara Lipich
Most recently, if SB 173, which passed the Legislature, gets the Governor’s okay, California will be the third state (joining Connecticut and Texas) to pass a law regarding dense breast tissue. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 9:44 am by Gritsforbreakfast
That's because of a provision in the Texas Constitution, Article III, Section 55, which states that, "The Legislature shall have no power to release or extinguish, or to authorize the releasing or extinguishing, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability or obligation of any incorporation or individual to this State, or to any county, or other municipal corporation therein." [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 9:44 am by Gritsforbreakfast
That's because of a provision in the Texas Constitution, Article III, Section 55, which states that, "The Legislature shall have no power to release or extinguish, or to authorize the releasing or extinguishing, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability or obligation of any incorporation or individual to this State, or to any county, or other municipal corporation therein. [read post]