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3 Nov 2019, 6:51 am by Gregory Forman
The rational was best expressed in the Texas Waltenburg case: [R]eading the UCCJEA to authorize jurisdiction over a custody matter concerning an unborn child would defeat the clear purpose underlying the legislature’s enactment of the UCCJEA — to prioritize home-state jurisdiction. [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 2:12 pm
Maryland is "certainly not Florida, Virginia or Texas. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 12:29 pm by Michael Ginsborg
Chet Culver praised the state legislature for not adopting a proposed amendment intended to reverse the ruling (HJR 2001). [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 8:49 pm by cdw
  In both Kansas (SB 375)and  South Dakota (HB 1245) legislation is winding its way through the legislature to repeal the death penalty in those states. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 6:30 am by Jim Sedor
The Legislature gave a $42,410 contract to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) to perform a performance audit of the LRC, the bureaucracy that runs the legislative branch of state government. [read post]
31 Jul 2015, 5:30 am by Guest Blogger
  Because of this underlying “plan,” Roberts said, “It is implausible that Congress meant the Act to operate” with no tax credits available in states that opted to let the federal government operate their exchanges. [read post]
25 Apr 2014, 9:00 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"Of a half-dozen recommendations by the Timothy Cole Advisory Panel on Wrongful Convictions, the last one the Texas Legislature has not yet acted on is a requirement to record custodial police interrogations in serious cases. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 6:39 am
We do not find evidence in claim outcomes of the medical malpractice insurance crisis that produced headlines over the last several years and led to legal reform in Texas and other states. [read post]
6 Aug 2021, 4:06 am by Scott Bomboy
San Antonio, Texas, excluded students from public and private schools who were not vaccinated for smallpox. [read post]
6 Nov 2014, 5:00 am
  The West Virginia legislature squelched that initiative by passing W. [read post]
4 Feb 2016, 5:24 am by David Kopel
“I deny that a state can, by a majority of the legislature, require me to send my child to the public schools. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 1:29 pm by Ilya Somin
Breaking up big states such as California and Texas could help facilitate beneficial competition and open up new opportunities for people to "vote with their feet. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 5:40 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Texas Legislature approved up to $1 million in funding last session for two pilot sites. [read post]
19 Apr 2021, 4:56 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
(As a point of comparison, when Texas faced budget shortfalls in 2017, the Legislature cut the Department of Public Safety budget by 4%.)The reason for delaying cadet classes in Austin wasn't to "defund" the department, despite calls in the street to do so. [read post]
20 Aug 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Others, like Texas, will have to draw their maps in a special legislative session. [read post]
24 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Legislatures in Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, and Oklahoma are debating bills this session that would hike the filing fees, raise the number of signatures required to get on the ballot, restrict who can collect signatures, mandate broader geographic distribution of signatures, and raise the vote threshold to pass an amendment from a majority to a supermajority. [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Senate, but in many states have yet to shatter the highest glass ceiling: governorships. [read post]
17 Jul 2007, 6:44 pm
The judge analyzed the various state statutes at issue, reaching different results depending on the state. [read post]
4 Mar 2021, 9:03 pm by Megan Russo
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order lifting COVID-19 restrictions, including a statewide mask mandate and all business capacity limitations. [read post]