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25 Jan 2015, 10:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
John Whitmire, a Houston Democrat and the senate's longest serving member, the seven-member panel will be joined by four freshmen senators - three Rs (Konni Burton, Brandon Creighton and Charles Perry) and a D (the winner of the runoff to replace Leticia Van de Putte).Rookie Sen. [read post]
20 Dec 2014, 8:53 am by Thaddeus Mason Pope, J.D., Ph.D.
Ho, JD, MPP - Rutgers School of Law – Newark:  “The Exception that Undermines the Rule: An Examination of the Nameless Threat of Underinclusion in Health Law" ·         David Kwok, JD, MPP, PhD - University of Houston Law Center:  “Fair Competition and False Claims in Off-Label Marketing” ·         Katherine T. [read post]
29 Aug 2014, 12:00 am
I think of her dissent in the Skilling decision, where she alone found irregularities in jury selection during the trial of an Enron executive in Houston, Texas. [read post]
20 Apr 2014, 9:12 am
Dylan at Madison Square Garden and the Houston Astrodome; the Garden concert also included Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez and Roberta Flack. [read post]
24 Dec 2013, 6:53 am by Mark S. Humphreys
An opinion from the Houston Court of Appeals [14th Dist.] helps in this advice. [read post]
22 Dec 2013, 9:10 am by Mark S. Humphreys
The Houston Court of Appeals [14th Dist.] issued an opinion in 2009, that dealt with this issue. [read post]
11 Oct 2013, 9:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Joan Huffman passed Senate Bill 12, which will allow prosecutors to introduce evidence against child-sex assault defendants of prior offenses, including accusations by other children. [read post]
9 Jun 2013, 5:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Houston attorney Mark Bennett has adumbrated why that sentencing structure fails to comply with the core tenets of the SCOTUS ruling that spurred the change to the law in the first place. [read post]
23 May 2013, 8:23 am by Jerri Lynn Ward, J.D.
 Joan Huffman, R-Houston, would codify the state’s rules for implementing a payment hold and allow some Medicaid providers to appeal to district court a decision by an administrative judge. [read post]
27 Apr 2013, 10:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Joan Huffman, expanding wiretapping authority and on Monday its House companion HB 530, by Rep. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 8:37 am by Gritsforbreakfast
See also excellent Houston Chronicle coverage of last session's version.)In the past, I've compared the philosophy behind this bill to the Vichy policeman in the movie Casa Blanca who declared, "Round up the usual suspects!" [read post]
6 Apr 2013, 7:07 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
  That could lead to some fireworks on the Senate floor between the bill’s authors and Senator Joan Huffman (R-Houston), a former prosecutor and judge who is seeking to add her own language protecting that information from distribution to third parties or the public. [read post]
16 Mar 2013, 7:34 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Joan Huffman; its companion, HB 530 by Fletcher, has been referred to the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 1:02 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Joan Huffman this week filed SB 1185 which, according to a Houston radio station:creates a pilot program to reduce recidivism of individuals with serious mental illness in the Harris County Jail, which she says is regarded as the state’s largest mental health facility. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 4:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Joan Huffman which Grits criticized last session, this time styled SB 12, is back again for a repeat: The bill would upend rules 404 and 405 of the Texas Rules of Evidence in trials of alleged child molesters, allowing evidence of past crimes in lieu of provable facts in the current case. [read post]
20 Jan 2013, 12:10 am by Attorney Jack B. Carroll
Retiring State District Judge Joan Campbell gets a hug and a kiss from Julio Ibarra during her farewell party Thursday at Houston’s Back Street Cafe. [read post]