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11 Aug 2010, 1:17 am by Lawrence Solum
’” On the other hand, judges must not “frustrate the expressed will of Congress or that of the state legislatures. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 10:34 am by Joe Consumer
"The pressure that the industry can bring to bear in state legislatures is unbelievable," said J. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 10:34 am by Joe Consumer
"The pressure that the industry can bring to bear in state legislatures is unbelievable," said J. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 8:22 am by Jeff Gamso
  See, over the years, the legislature has expanded the definition of Aggravated Murder. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 4:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
State analysts project it to stay essentially flat at nearly 155,000 adults through 2015. [read post]
8 Aug 2010, 7:28 am by Mark S. Humphreys
" The Oregon legislature last year gave state regulators the explicit authority to consider a company's surplus when it reviews rates - a tool Miller said her agency had sought since 2007. [read post]
8 Aug 2010, 6:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
“About a year ago they started squeezing down on the number of beds, but the state Legislature controls that. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 12:47 pm by Dan Markel
  Moderator: Professor Arnold Loewy, Texas Tech University School of Law   Speakers: Professor Morgan Cloud, Emory University School of Law; Professor Thomas Clancy, The University of Mississippi School of Law; Professor Wayne Logan, Florida State University College of Law; Professor Janet Hoeffel, Tulane University Law SchoolExecutive Compensation in Recessionary Times This panel will step back and begin to assess the flurry of activity from the last few years… [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 10:03 am by Peter Smythe
The court disagreed and held that the Legislature intended that both caps apply. [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 6:13 am by Gritsforbreakfast
I was particularly interested in Sheriff Garcia's brief mention that he's considering allowing his deputies to issue a summons/citation for low-level Class B misdemeanors, as authorized by the Legislature in 2007 to help reduce overcrowding. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 11:08 pm by Fiona de Londras
On the basis of this, the Court had found that Proposition 22—an ordinary statute of the Californian legislature restricting marriage to opposite-sex couples—violated the state constitutional protection of the fundamental right to marry. [read post]
4 Aug 2010, 1:24 pm by Jeff Gamso
  And it's a struggle.Those represented by public defender agencies are at the mercy of the agencies' budgets - which are commonly determined in large part by state legislatures that are not particularly enthusiastic about providing money to help those the government wants to incarcerate or kill. [read post]
Hard economic times have persuaded some state legislatures to reexamine their addiction to incarceration, ushering in practical alternatives that promote public safety. [read post]
2 Aug 2010, 6:36 am by Gritsforbreakfast
At the end of FY 2009 there were 155,076 inmates in Texas prisons, state jails and SAFP facilities, according to the TDCJ annual statistical report (pdf). [read post]
1 Aug 2010, 8:03 pm by Keith Rizzardi
 And in Texas, a bellweather lawsuit brought by The Aransas Project, over whether regional water management resulted in a taking of whooping cranes, will head to trial in 2011. [read post]
1 Aug 2010, 4:07 pm
For many years, the Legislature has sought to enact ‘one-size-fits-all’ laws against sex offenders. [read post]
1 Aug 2010, 11:38 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The number of juveniles sent to youth prisons from Texas' largest counties dramatically declined after 2007 - when the Legislature implemented reforms at the Texas Youth Commission in the wake of a sex abuse scandal - demonstrating the remarkable extent to which state and local decisionmaking drives incarceration policy as much or more than crime rates. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 9:07 am by Steve Hall
" And:If Porter elects to pursue reparations from the state, he could be eligible for payments through the Tim Cole Act passed by the Legislature in 2007. [read post]