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27 Oct 2012, 6:39 am by Gritsforbreakfast
He joined the board of my employers at the Innocence Project of Texas and for a while was among the most outspoken of Texas' DNA exonerees. [read post]
30 Sep 2012, 8:34 pm by The Charge
  Where the legislature had been seeking to avoid fracture and war by balancing states with slavery against states without, the Court took it away. [read post]
30 Aug 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
In Some States, Having a Guardian Means Not Having a Vote DNyuz – Rachel Nostrant (New York Times) | Published: 8/29/2024 Seven states have laws that say anyone under a guardianship agreement cannot cast a ballot. [read post]
3 Feb 2012, 4:06 pm by Robert Milligan
Questions for the Future With New Jersey joining the other 46 states who have passed some form of trade secret protection legislation, just three states, Texas, New York and Massachusetts, have yet to adopt a variation of the UTSA. [read post]
15 Apr 2024, 6:00 am by Evangelina Cantu
However, the Alabama state legislature acted quickly after the decision to shield IVF providers and patients from liability. [read post]
13 Sep 2019, 6:17 am
The contested patents involve a compound patent owned by Gilead and a second medical use patent owned by the government of the United States. [read post]
3 May 2024, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Similar bills sailed through state Legislatures in recent years. [read post]
27 Oct 2021, 12:01 pm by Ernesto Falcon
Their lobbyists were given front-row status in guiding policy decisions in Congress, state legislatures, and the Federal Communications Commission. [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]
19 Jan 2023, 1:36 am by Jim Sedor
Texas still celebrates Confederate Heroes Day on Lee’s actual birthday, January 19, and its state employees can take a paid holiday on both days. [read post]
24 Sep 2011, 5:08 pm by lawmrh
One ‘war story’ was about a newly appointed Illinois judge “freshly plucked from the state legislature where he publicly opposed the policy you’re advocating. [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
More Vexing External Challenges to the University: The Legislature and the Alumni From my perspective, the biggest challenges to the UC over the last few decades arise not from within, but from the lessened support it has externally—in the legislature and, importantly for the future, among many alumni. [read post]
15 Feb 2023, 10:25 am by Eric Goldman
As discussed, the First Amendment protects individuals’ right to engage in hate speech, and the state cannot try to inhibit that right, no matter how unseemly or offensive that speech may be to the general public or the state…. [read post]
28 Jun 2016, 8:46 am by Erika Bachiochi
Wade, the record at trial was flimsy on the nature and effects of abortion because the primary issue before the court was not the substantive question of the Texas statute’s constitutionality but whether doctors who were charged under state abortion law could take their cases to federal court. [read post]
17 Oct 2022, 5:00 am by Nicolas P. Terry
However, there may have been other political forces at work as liability shields were speedily passed by state legislatures. [read post]
21 Apr 2021, 7:46 am by Kurt Lash
Although a number of reconstructed southern legislatures quickly ratified the amendment, northern opposition emerged in the form of Democrat-controlled state legislatures and, most startlingly, from women's rights advocates like Susan B. [read post]
16 Nov 2020, 6:06 pm by Edward Foley
” Third, this straightforward lack of federal-court jurisdiction in a vote-counting case is why Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election had no recourse to federal courts as an option for the possibility of overturning allegations of fraud in favor of the Kennedy-Johnson ticket in both Illinois and Texas. [read post]
15 Feb 2018, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
It will take effect if the Legislature does not take any action by the end of the session. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 2:19 pm by John Richards
While he may be able to help set up a pilot program, to prove to policymakers that such a system can work, it will ultimately be up to state legislatures to create such a system, and, just as importantly, to fund it. [read post]