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5 Apr 2024, 6:00 am by Jim Sedor
Ron DeSantis, who muscled the map through Florida’s GOP-controlled Legislature. [read post]
17 May 2008, 7:59 am
Texas, Justice Antonin Scalia suggested, contrary to the disclaimers in Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion for the Court, that the underlining doctrinal logic of the majority's ruling would undermine the right of states to deny the right to marry to same-sex couples. [read post]
14 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Republicans have only a single-vote edge in the Arizona House and Senate, so legislation there has been tougher to pass than in other states. [read post]
5 Feb 2013, 7:06 am by Anonymous
 Implement a type of loser pays systems so that if a prosecutor is unable to get a guilty verdict at trial, the state would be obligated to pay some or all of the legal fees of the defendant.But as this post from Grits for Breakfast dealing with Texas criminal justice system points out, the fix probably won't come from the courts, but has to come from the legislature. [read post]
18 Jun 2024, 10:07 am by Joe Mullin
  Other States Will Follow  In the past year, several other state legislatures have passed similar unwise and unconstitutional “online ID check” laws. [read post]
20 Nov 2013, 4:30 am
  Plus, we applaud a state legislature that officially endorsed the possessive form “Arkansas’s. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 10:11 am by David Kravets
The Texas state and federal courts — hearing Skinner’s habeas corpus pleas — refused to allow post-conviction testing of biological evidence, including blood, hair, fingernail clippings and vaginal swabs. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 11:32 pm
" Dieter added, "It does give other legislatures the chance to say, 'Is this working in our state? [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 6:30 am by Michael B. Stack
    Use of Drug Formularies in Workers’ Compensation   Washington, Texas, Ohio and Oklahoma are the only states that currently employ a drug formulary in their workers’ compensation system. [read post]
8 Jul 2017, 8:25 am
When presented with a challenge to the constitutionality of a statute, we presume that the statute is valid and that the Legislature has not acted arbitrarily or unreasonably. [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 7:29 pm by cdw
Legislatures in Texas and Florida are both weighing substantial and notable changes to eyewitness identification procedures. [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 12:58 pm
Courts in Minnesota, Nebraska and Texas have disallowed juror questioning in criminal cases. [read post]
24 Mar 2009, 9:40 am by Brian Evans
  In the U.S. the vast majority of executions take place in the South, with most of those occurring in Texas. [read post]
19 Apr 2007, 9:54 am
The National Conference of State Legislatures has prepared a page about the effects of the Act on states. [read post]
2 Nov 2021, 7:50 am by Farrah Nagrampa
Mary’s Law Review on Minority Issues Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender, and Class University of Miami Race and Social Justice Law Review Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice   If you are interested in going beyond Google to follow the state legislative actions regarding the teaching of CRT and any related content in K-12… [read post]
22 Nov 2011, 9:00 am by admin
 During the Republican Presidential debate in late September, the ultra-conservative Texas Governor vehemently supported a 2001 Texas law he passed that allows illegal immigrants in-state college tuition after they have been in the state for over three years. [read post]
11 Jul 2021, 9:03 pm by Eric Cervone
Justice Thomas’s concurrence appears to favor a position similar to the proposed Texas law. [read post]