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29 Jun 2016, 6:00 am by Jillian Beck
Ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, members of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association in all 254 counties of the state will read the nation’s defining document on July 1, an annual tradition started six years ago by Houston criminal defense lawyer Robert Fickman, a past president of the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association. [read post]
20 Jun 2016, 12:09 pm by Jillian Beck
Robert Fickman was recognized for his role in establishing the association’s annual readings of the Declaration of Independence for the Fourth of July. [read post]
13 Jun 2016, 8:39 pm by Howard Friedman
Christian Green, Jean Bethke Elshtain, (Christianity and Family Law, Chapter 24, Forthcoming).Debbie Kaminer, Religious Accommodation in the Workplace: Why Federal Courts Fail to Provide Meaningful Protection of Religious Employees, (Texas Review of Law & Politics, Vol. 20, No. 107, 2015).Robert W. [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 6:15 am by Marty Lederman
On April 28, 1967, Ali reported to the Selective Service induction center in Houston, where he was living at the time, but he refused to submit to induction. [read post]
26 May 2016, 12:25 pm by Victoria Kwan
The following week, Thomas was in Houston to deliver remarks at the judicial conference for the U.S. [read post]
24 May 2016, 7:22 am
" Bobby Cervantes of The Houston Chronicle reports that "Texas voter ID law back in court; Full appeals court will hear case today. [read post]
16 May 2016, 2:58 pm by Jillian Beck
Several criminal defense attorneys, an investigator, and a local student were honored at the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association’s 46th annual awards banquet in Houston last week. [read post]
13 May 2016, 7:55 am
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2015)In 2012, the American Law Institute (in which I am a member), agreed to launch a revision of its famous and quite influential Model Penal Code to focus specifically on rising issues of "sexual assault and related offenses. [read post]
9 May 2016, 1:56 pm by David Schraub
Then we experience a significant conservative retrenchment during the Burger/Rehnquist/Roberts years, and the tenor of the scholarship changes -- it turns out that courts are poor vehicles for progressive social change. [read post]
6 May 2016, 1:29 pm by John Floyd
  Houston Has a Problem   A June 28, 2015 piece in the Houston Chronicle pointed out that three-quarters of the 6,600 detainees in the Harris County Jail were pretrial detainees who each cost taxpayers $45 for every day they spent awaiting resolution of their cases. [read post]
6 May 2016, 8:36 am by Jillian Beck
Texas Tech University School of Law’s moot court program received the top national ranking from the University of Houston Law Center’s Blakely Advocacy Institute. [read post]
6 May 2016, 6:00 am by Jillian Beck
The Harris County judiciary and Houston Bar Association presented their Bench Bar Pro Bono Awards at a ceremony May 2. [read post]
2 May 2016, 6:57 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Robert Duncan attempted to manage the situation for years and, when he left, the Lege lost important institutional memory on the topic.Regardless, long waiting lists for forensic commitments to state mental hospitals have been a problem for years, as highlighted in this 2012 story from Eric Dexheimer at the Austin Statesman. [read post]
22 Apr 2016, 7:57 am by Amy Howe
Coverage related to the death of Justice Antonin Scalia and the nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to succeed him comes from Kevin Diaz of Houston Chronicle, who reports that Texas Governor Greg Abbott sided “with Senate Republicans who have refused to hold hearings on Merrick Garland” and “also took a shot at Chief Justice John Roberts, who was appointed to the court by former President George W. [read post]
18 Apr 2016, 2:50 am by Amy Howe
” At Library of Law and Liberty, Mark Pulliam reviews (and criticizes) a recent book by Stephen Gottlieb on the Roberts Court, with a shorter review post at Bench Memos. [read post]