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3 Oct 2007, 6:21 am
I was actually always quite proud of this work and disappointed the public-safety solutions I proposed never gained traction in the homeland security or state health department.Those interested in the topic should take a look at the linked historical documents, both written when I was in charge of homeland security issues for the ACLU of Texas. [read post]
14 Oct 2010, 9:08 am by Steve Hall
Skinner should not be able to sue Switzer to get the DNA, he said, because the DA is simply carrying out the law passed by the Texas Legislature.In the courtroom, Justice Antonin Scalia questioned whether the high court ought to intervene in the Texas courts’ interpretation of state DNA testing laws. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 9:00 am by Steve Hall
The review included visits to Texas, Indiana and Missouri. [read post]
29 Jun 2020, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
In 2014, after Texas’s admitting-privileges law had taken effect and forced half of the state’s clinics to shut down, the Louisiana legislature held hearings on a similar bill. [read post]
12 Nov 2007, 5:30 am
That's why those cities have civil service commissions, and it's unfortunate and misguided - an homage to police union power at the Texas Legislature - that state law gives officers who've engaged in serious misconduct so many extra appeals.Second, the arbitrator's reinstatement of Officer Lincoln implies that - as a matter of policy if not in the opinion of the Arlington police chief - that steroid abuse is not a firing offense at that agency. [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 4:55 am by Edith Roberts
Yesterday, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Samuel Alito, along with several jurists from the United Kingdom visiting the United States as part of a legal exchange program, participated in a reenactment of a 1794 Supreme Court case, Georgia v. [read post]
30 Oct 2009, 11:04 pm
This year, in the Tim Cole Act, the Texas Legislature passed a law boosting payments to the wrongly convicted from $50,000 to $80,000 for every year behind bars. [read post]
24 Jun 2013, 9:15 am by Mark Litwak
 In some states the legislature has enacted statutes that specifically address the scope and duration of the right. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 10:43 am by Daniel J. Hemel
” Allowing ex-rebels to dominate the state legislature would seem to be at odds with that object. [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 9:53 am by David Kopel
" That is, "chap. 68" was the 68th law enacted by the state legislature that year. [read post]
19 Jun 2021, 4:11 pm by Patricia Salkin
It would be far better for the legislature to revise and clarify planning and zoning enabling legislation. [read post]
8 Jun 2009, 9:12 am
In short, the problem is still up to the Texas Legislature to fix. [read post]
23 Apr 2009, 1:32 pm
Texas has 373 people on death row. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 8:37 pm by Jim Sedor
They include companies that have business before the state Legislature: retailers, banks, telecommunications firms, insurers, utilities, and a wide range of health-care providers. [read post]
17 Jan 2024, 1:44 pm by Eugene Volokh
(I acknowledge that this requirement isn't just for books sold to the State of Texas, but also for books sold to political subdivisions; but from a federal constitution perspective, that's all "the state," since the state Legislature has power over the state's subdivisions.) [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 8:04 am by Steve Hall
Whatever the circumstances, we're grateful the question of ending the state's death penalty will get consideration in the Legislature. [read post]
6 May 2012, 7:50 am by Gritsforbreakfast
What can the Texas Legislature do to reduce prosecutorial misconduct? [read post]