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14 Dec 2009, 12:31 pm
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]
14 Dec 2009, 9:36 am
Her report in today's Dallas Morning News is titled, "State Commission on Judicial Conduct has the job of judging Texas' judges. [read post]
12 Dec 2009, 12:42 am
During the 81st Texas Legislature a little-noticed amendment to SB 1940 may have launched the most comprehensive, aggressive brand of "problem solving court" I've yet seen in the Lone Star State: "Veterans courts. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 3:44 am
We urge Nueces County officials and the state of Texas to make reduction of jail populations a priority, both to save on jail costs and to help inmates turn their lives around. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 10:33 am
Enter the Texas Rangers, the Texas Legislature, and the Lt. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 9:34 am
Hopefully, the Louisiana Legislature and Governor will see fit one day to place Louisiana accident victims on the same level of financial protection as the accident victims in our neighboring states. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 3:53 am
Indeed, Harris County accounts for such a large proportion of less-than-a-gram cases in Texas, this decision could even help out the state in the medium-term with managing state-jail population growth. [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 12:27 pm
The goal of the legislature, the FSC and the governor should be the same: ensure justice in the Texas criminal justice system. [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 8:13 am
Somewhat similar to the Professional Recovery Network of the Texas State Board of Pharmacy and Texas Dental Board, the Texas Physician Health Program is designed to become the first stop for impaired and ill physicians. [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 2:30 am
After every biennial legislative session, the Board of Pardons and Parole must identify all new felonies created by the Texas Legislature and assign each offense a "severity" level for purposes of inmate classification and to guide future release decisions. [read post]
5 Dec 2009, 1:40 am
TDCJ this week issued its latest report to the Governor (pdf) analyzing the results from expanded prison diversion funding at Texas probation departments, giving us a sense of the initial results from Texas' landmark investments in community corrections in the 79th and 80th Legislatures. [read post]
4 Dec 2009, 4:24 am
Races for the Texas State legislature will also likely be a hotbed of activity as the state will be electing the legislators who preside over Congressional redistricting after the 2010 census - a process that was particularly controversial in Texas after the last census. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 12:02 pm
The Hearst investigation report stated its key findings as follows: 20 states have no medical error reporting at all, five states have voluntary reporting systems and five are developing reporting systems; Of the 20 states that require medical error reporting, hospitals report only a tiny percentage of their mistakes, standards vary wildly and enforcement is often nonexistent; In terms of public disclosure, 45 states… [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 5:00 am
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2 Dec 2009, 10:29 am
He's doing all this, he assured the Texas Legislature that set up the Commission, to ensure the integrity of the investigation so that everyone can be comfortable that the Commission's conclusions, like all conclusions based on secret evidence and secret deliberations and fed to the world through a single voice are unbiased and accurate. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 2:04 am
” A Texas jury awarded the former employee $1.9 million in compensatory and punitive damages. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 7:24 pm
As for the Senate practice to 1794, we might say that it was unconstitutional (in the same way that other practices of the era, such as the Sedition Act, are now thought to violate the First Amendment), or we might say that the pre-17th Amendment Senate was less about doing the business of the People than about doing the business of the States, and thus state legislatures could depend on reports of their Senators. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 8:33 am
Texas is one of only five states with a law of parties statute. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 7:52 am
The Legislature created the commission in 2005 to investigate complaints that state agencies were negligent or committed misconduct in handling forensic evidence, such as DNA analysis or toxicology, in criminal cases. [read post]
28 Nov 2009, 8:15 am
Even state Rep. [read post]
