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21 Jul 2023, 4:00 am
The legislature is in special session following a U.S. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 5:13 am
Nevada, Texas, Wyoming, South Dakota and Texas are some of the more popular states where wealthy families are chartering private trust companies because they promote such trusts by enacting favorable tax laws. [read post]
27 Apr 2009, 5:36 am
"In terms of drug possession and abuse, as I wrote previously elsewhere about John Kaplan's book:"John Kaplan's Marijuana -- The New Prohibition John's book on the drug laws resulted from his membership on a professorial advisory committee to the California state legislature. [read post]
3 Aug 2008, 11:03 am
Texas, we urgecongressional action to ensure that the United States lives up to its binding internationallegal obligations under the Vienna Convention on Consular Affairs and the UnitedNations Charter. [read post]
11 Aug 2009, 6:41 am
Among the key findings of the Hearst investigation: • 20 states have no medical error reporting at all, five states have voluntary reporting systems and five are developing reporting systems; • Of the 20 states that require medical error reporting, hospitals report only a tiny percentage of their mistakes, standards vary wildly and enforcement is often nonexistent; … [read post]
21 Apr 2023, 10:05 am
However, the legislature overrode the veto. [read post]
21 Aug 2009, 1:45 pm
By what authority can the federal government take control of this specific aspect of state court systems, legislatures, juries and law practice? [read post]
28 Dec 2009, 2:39 am
Manchin that the state establish an intermediate appellate court and provide litigants with a right to an appeal; the Maryland Court of Appeals decision limiting non-economic damages in all civil claims, preventing plaintiffs' lawyers from circumventing the law by characterizing personal-injury lawsuits as consumer protection actions; Arizona's enactment of medical liability reform; Oklahoma's passage of a comprehensive tort reform package;… [read post]
6 Jul 2014, 10:39 am
The Louisiana Supreme Court held that only specific forum selection clauses declared unenforceable and against public policy by the Louisiana Legislature are invalid and unenforceable. [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 1:09 pm
However, the Texas legislature finally realized that persons who received deferred adjudication and completed probation successfully needed relief from the stigma attached to having pled guilty to a criminal offense. [read post]
17 Aug 2015, 12:59 pm
In 2013 the Texas Legislature passed a law that creates a private cause of action against the drone owner or user for using a drone to capture an image of the property owner (or tenant) or their property and allows the property owner to recover $5,000 for all of the images captured during each trespass, as well as court costs and attorney’s fees. [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 8:56 am
The Texas legislature is also considering an anti-troll law that would make bad faith ADA demands a violation of the law. [read post]
17 Nov 2020, 9:01 pm
It is the state legislatures or Congress that make the law, they liked to say, not a small number of unelected judges. [read post]
23 Mar 2009, 8:17 am
Increasingly, the death penalty is becoming a regional phenomenon, with executions largely confined to Texas and the Deep South. [read post]
29 Jun 2012, 7:01 am
Texas and Utah are the only states that even allow speed limits of 80-mph. [read post]
18 Dec 2009, 8:10 am
A decade ago Texas was imposing 34 death sentences a year. [read post]
16 Mar 2008, 8:36 am
And perhaps something needs to be done, as suggested in earlier comments to one of my postings, about the undue influence that Iowa and New Hampshire have over the process, but the answer is surely not to deprive small states--or "safe Republican states" like Texas--of a role in selecting the nominees of their parties. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 9:48 am
But even in Texas, where 18 of the 37 executions occurred last year, the number of death sentences has declined by half over the last decade.In New Mexico, the state high court ruled last year that death penalties couldn't be pursued unless the Legislature budgeted adequate funding for legal representation of condemned inmates who could not afford their own lawyers. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 8:07 am
Legislatures in other states, including New Mexico, Montana and Nebraska, came close to abolishing it this year. [read post]
16 Oct 2015, 11:34 am
The deliberate withholding of evidence also led to the Morton Act, which the Texas State Legislature passed in 2013 and which became law on January 1, 2014. [read post]
