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1 Apr 2011, 6:15 am by Viking
The lawmaker from the Alaska legislature’s Anchorage district has introduced a bill to  allow military members in his state under 21 to legally drink and smoke there. [read post]
27 May 2009, 3:29 pm
  This past March, the Utah Legislature passed lighter penalties for sexting, reducing it from a felony to a misdemeanor. [read post]
14 Jan 2021, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
From the States and Municipalities California – Downtown Developer Will Pay $1.2 Million in L.A. [read post]
20 Oct 2021, 12:13 pm by Paul Rosenzweig
Typically, the state delegates the authority to regulate the admission of attorneys to practice in that state to a bar organization or other state-based institution. [read post]
13 Aug 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Activists are exasperated that members of Congress and President Biden have not been able to push through federal legislation that would supersede the voting laws moving through state Legislatures across the country. [read post]
24 Dec 2009, 2:29 am
And some NBA states besides Washington have no income tax at all -- Texas, Florida, and Tennessee. [read post]
15 May 2015, 4:52 am by Jim Sedor
He aggressively seeks legal work from cities and towns that rely on the Legislature for funding, and he rarely discloses clients to the state Ethics Commission, which is required if a lawmaker sees potential for conflicts-of-interest in his votes. [read post]
20 Feb 2013, 9:00 am by Guest Blogger
  Jim and Linda achieve this in part by rescuing liberalism from the overdrawn depictions some of its critics deploy, and in part by rethinking some of the questions courts and legislatures increasingly confront in our now explicitly multiculturalist society.What I’ll focus on in this comment is not my many areas of agreement with Ordered Liberty’s critiques of other theories, but on a key element in its positive theory – the degree to which a liberal state… [read post]
22 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Sarah Huckabee Sanders summoned Arkansas lawmakers to Little Rock for a special legislative session to cut taxes and ban the state from mandating Covid-19 vaccinations, she added one more request: overhaul the state’s Freedom of Information Act. [read post]
26 Feb 2010, 10:28 pm by Ilya Somin
Perhaps Congress or the Hawaii state legislature would be justified in enacting some such measure for the benefit of native Hawaiians. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 12:56 pm by Robin Wilson
As I said here in 2011, “an unintended consequence of [the Supreme Court’s earlier decisions] may be to strangle the delicate process unfolding in state legislatures across the country by changing the political calculus for granting robust accommodations. [read post]
11 Aug 2020, 10:02 am by Alan Z. Rozenshtein
The NRA may well survive, either by winning in court, by reforming or relocating to a more friendly state (President Trump suggested, in his own norm-breaking way, that the NRA move to Texas). [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 5:52 am by Guest Blogger
Texas, 539 U.S. 558, 583 (2003) (“[T]he State maintains that the law discriminates only against homosexual conduct. [read post]
30 Aug 2013, 6:24 am by Jim Sedor
Legislatures granted them access decades ago on the premise that they serve governments and the public. [read post]
15 Jan 2015, 1:16 pm by Robin Frazer Clark
Another good example of this phenomenon happened in December 2014 in a trial in San Antonio, Texas. [read post]
15 Jul 2009, 2:40 pm
The New York State Legislature has also periodically blocked bills that would create a special court of claims for municipal cases--though the state hypocritically enjoys the low-cost benefits of a claims court for lawsuits filed against it. [read post]
20 Jul 2015, 9:09 pm by Lyle Denniston
The Fifth Circuit, dividing two to one, once again upheld the University of Texas’s plan. [read post]