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31 Dec 2009, 6:16 am
During 2009, some significant steps were taken in ten (10) of the above listed states to end capital punishment: notably, in Connecticut, the state legislature actually passed a law that would have ended the death penalty but the state governor vetoed the bill. [read post]
30 Dec 2009, 9:00 pm
Born in 1920 to a former slave, at the age of thirteen Percy Sutton was handing out NAACP leaflets in an all-white neighborhood, apparently in his home state of Texas. [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]
26 Dec 2009, 2:38 pm
Over thirty state legislatures were forced to enact new death penalty statutes –which then had to undergo judicial scrutiny (e.g., Gregg v. [read post]
26 Dec 2009, 11:38 am
Over thirty state legislatures were forced to enact new death penalty statutes -which then had to undergo judicial scrutiny (e.g., Gregg v. [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]
22 Dec 2009, 1:07 pm
The Texas Legislature made many revisions to the Texas Family Code during the 81st Legislative Session. [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 7:31 am
Colorado's program has a $50,000 a year budget - cut from $100,000 this year by state lawmakers - which can be used to buy witnesses bus tickets or help them move to a new apartment.But in the four years before [two local witnesses] were killed, the state spent an average of $29,895 a year protecting witnesses statewide, less than the amount Denver spends to plant flowers.Most states including Texas and apparently Pennsylvania don't have comprehensive… [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 5:26 am
That’s also how that canceled check ended as a primary exhibit in the case of State of Texas v. [read post]
21 Dec 2009, 9:38 am
State Rep. [read post]
20 Dec 2009, 6:31 pm
In the interim, the state Legislature passed a law removing liability for seaside municipalities if they posted warning flags about dangerous swimming conditions or if someone drowned because of natural causes. [read post]
19 Dec 2009, 7:49 am
But that's how most larger Texas police departments are run.As Austin has found out, there's not enough money in the taxpayers' coffers to buy your way out of all the bad provisions in state civil service law that prevent police chiefs from effectively disciplining their officers or managing their department. [read post]
18 Dec 2009, 8:10 am
A decade ago Texas was imposing 34 death sentences a year. [read post]
18 Dec 2009, 5:03 am
Even in Ohio, the state legislature approved a measure in 2007 ameliorates Vanliner by now requiring in camera review by a court before privileged communications needed be disclosed. [read post]
16 Dec 2009, 1:12 pm
We can adapt to modern communications and technology without a reversion to shutting out the public and thwarting the will of the People of Texas, clearly expressed through the legislature. [read post]
16 Dec 2009, 8:36 am
Funding for the court system, provided mostly by the state Legislature, has been low in recent years, meaning layoffs and cuts throughout the system as a whole. [read post]
16 Dec 2009, 3:06 am
Membe stated the alleged act of the ... [read post]
15 Dec 2009, 7:18 pm
First, a story: the Texas Legislature amended section 38.12 of the Texas Penal Code, entitled, "Barratry and Solicitation of Professional Employment," in September. [read post]
15 Dec 2009, 5:29 pm
"Requests that the Texas attorney general withhold information requested by the public increased 88 percent in five years, according to a Caller-Times analysis of state records. [read post]
14 Dec 2009, 1:11 pm
John Whitmire shot down Perkins' nomination for the parole board on the Senate floor this spring, which was one of the Governor's more embarrassing moments of the 81st Texas Legislature, I suppose it wouldn't surprise me that much if Rick Perry returned the favor by depositing Ms. [read post]
