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3 Apr 2011, 11:34 am
" Texas Property Coce, Section 55.002. [read post]
3 Apr 2011, 4:57 am
" Reporter Greg Bluestein writes that:Fall election gains put Republicans in control of 25 state legislatures and 29 governor's offices, and many have pledged not to raise taxes even as they face budget shortfalls. [read post]
2 Apr 2011, 9:46 am
Rather, it is a minimum standard established by the Florida Legislature to create some level of safety for those who travel on the streets and highways of the state, but it is not the only standard that can be considered by judges and juries to determine reasonable conduct under every circumstance. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 7:44 am
If the North Carolina project works out as well as we think, we would hire lobbyists to start pressuring other state legislatures to enact either a 49% non-attorney ownership rule, or even better, just do away with the majority ownership requirements altogether. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 6:15 am
The lawmaker from the Alaska legislature’s Anchorage district has introduced a bill to allow military members in his state under 21 to legally drink and smoke there. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 10:04 am
Joan Huffman, R-Houston, would bring Texas closer in line with other states, most of which have age 12 as the age-based trigger for capital murder charges. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 8:17 am
Paul Kennedy, in this post today, writes about a recent Texas trial and the jury’s failure to unanimously agree on a verdict. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 2:51 pm
The ACLU affiliates in New Mexico and Texas are also engaged in legislative battles to reduce the use of solitary confinement in their states. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 9:31 am
A Texas lawmaker wants to suspend executions in the nation's most active death penalty state and create a commission to study whether the process needs to be fixed.A state House committee heard testimony Tuesday on a bill by Rep. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 7:34 am
Beyond those points, restricted by state and federal court rulings, the Legislature has only ever authorized driver license and insurance checkpoints. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 7:31 am
“The State of Texas’s under-the-table method for dealing with a drug shortage is unacceptable and adds to the ongoing pattern of debacles the state has experienced since its first-ever lethal injection execution in 1982. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 7:21 am
Among states that still give illegal aliens heavily discounted in-state tuition at public institutions of higher learning are Texas, Utah, Washington, New York and California. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 6:00 am
You may also monitor this and other bills as they move through the Texas Legislature here. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 4:22 am
" See related Grits posts:Draft budgets reduce prison healthcare reimbursements to match Medicaid ratesTexas' 'Secret Death Penalty': Inadequate prison healthcareAudit: UTMB overcharged state while claiming massive deficitWhither Texas prison healthcare with 24% budget cuts? [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 7:29 pm
Legislatures in Texas and Florida are both weighing substantial and notable changes to eyewitness identification procedures. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 7:00 am
One member of the panel argued that the Texas State Constitution provides the right of all citizens due process of the courts for remedy. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 6:34 am
I doubt that the Texas Legislature has the backbone to check the TSA like this (especially when the TSA bribes them with its “state legislators fly free [of groping]” plan); I don’t know about New Hampshire. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 5:39 am
Here is a letter to the editor from Travis Duffley: I am appalled by the Texas Legislature's lack of concern for our elderly citizens who live in Texas nursing homes. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 5:32 am
Do-Over: Federal prosecutors in New York want to retry Joseph Bruno, one of the most powerful republicans in the state legislature, after the government conceded a Supreme Court ruling invalidated his conviction on two counts of honest services fraud, The New York Law Journal reports. 'False Review' Suit: A paralegal who allegedly posted false review of her former firm is now a defendant in a defamation suit, The Texas Lawyer reports. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 5:01 am
Similarly, I have shared a my reactions to the failure of the state legislature to enact, and the refusal of the current governor to consider, such a tax or user fee. [read post]
