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5 Jun 2009, 1:43 pm
Most of Texas’s legal aid groups still have some budget shortfall that they hope to make up through other sources. [read post]
4 Jun 2009, 2:58 pm
Although the 81st Texas Legislature adjourned Monday night, some speculate that the Governor will call a special session to address legislation to keep five state agencies from shutting down: the Texas Department of Transportation, the Texas Department of Insurance, the Texas Racing Commission, the Texas State Affordable Housing Corp., and the Office of Public Insurance Counsel. [read post]
4 Jun 2009, 12:50 pm
But those figures are by no means signs of a sensible State and local tax policy.Alaska has about the same population as Forth Worth, Texas (around 700,000) and its average income is about the same as the average income for all of the United States (around $44,000 per year). [read post]
3 Jun 2009, 11:23 am
Here is a link to the Texas Legislature page on HB 2003 including its final text. [read post]
3 Jun 2009, 1:02 am
Appeals Court Backs Judicial Pay Raise
New York Law Journal
The New York Legislature's decade-long failure to give the state's 1,300 judges a raise violated the separation of powers doctrine by subordinating the judges to the "whims and caprices" of politicians who continually linked their pay to unrelated issues, a Manhattan-based appeals court ruled unanimously Tuesday. [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 11:09 pm
The Texas Legislature didn't accomplish much in 2009, but one of its few tangible achievements was to pass the "sunset" bill for the Texas Youth Commission and the Juvenile Probation Commission. [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 10:11 pm
Lon Burnam decided not to bring his resolution to impeach Presiding Judge Sharon Keller of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to the House floor before the Legislature reached Sine Die on Monday. [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 2:02 pm
She's also made it a practice to be an advocate for those in Texas jails, prisons, or on parole -- people who don't have much of a voice in the Capitol.I hope her voice will be heard in the 82nd Texas Legislature when it convenes in January 2011. [read post]
1 Jun 2009, 8:34 am
After all the fawning over Timothy Cole's family and public declarations throughout the 81st Texas Legislature that the state would act to prevent false convictions, all the major innocence-related policy reforms proposed this year died in the session's waning hours with the exception of one bill requiring corroboration for jailhouse informants.Two other pieces of legislation for a brief moment had passed both chambers on Friday as amendments to HB 498, but… [read post]
31 May 2009, 5:59 pm
Their decision to file the lawsuit in federal court has very troubling and potentially disastrous implications for the attainment of GLBT rights.Gay rights groups have generally condemned the litigators' decision to file a federal lawsuit, arguing that working with state legislatures and in state courts is the most promising path. [read post]
30 May 2009, 10:25 am
The legislature of the State of Texas was faced with a similar situation several years ago, when the Bar was trying to shut down a legal software publisher on the theory that the purchase of a legal software program from Staples was the practice of law, and responded by passing a statute in response to consumer demand that exempted legal software programs as falling within the definition of the practice of law. [read post]
30 May 2009, 12:10 am
Rodney Ellis and Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins held a press conference yesterday at the state capitol calling for immediate action by the Legislature, before it shuts down on Monday, to pass legislation requiring law enforcement agencies to have written procedures on presenting photo lineups.Sen. [read post]
29 May 2009, 8:57 am
When the law of arbitration in Texas was relatively unsettled, it was common for state district judges to deny motions to compel. [read post]
29 May 2009, 12:48 am
That probably means we won't see Texas' program expanded any time soon. [read post]
28 May 2009, 12:00 am
That bill has already been approved by both chambers and sent to the Governor.So all in all, the 81st Legislature leaves a lot of work undone if they hope to reduce the number of innocent people convicted and sent to prison in this state. [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]
27 May 2009, 10:45 am
See here. ] Today, two bills related to ADR were passed by the 81st Texas Legislature: H.B. 1083. [read post]
27 May 2009, 9:32 am
Attorney Leura Canary, he still didn’t have much of a chance to get away from the other mass of Republicans foaming at the mouth for the opportunity to take over the Alabama State Legislature. [read post]
26 May 2009, 10:52 pm
In a state as large as Texas, if the Legislature is only going to meet biennially, I'd like to think legislators understand they have a responsibility to accomplish something when they're in town. [read post]
26 May 2009, 11:02 am
Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856).Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.U.S. [read post]
