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30 Apr 2009, 10:45 am
It's been a busy and productive week in state legislatures for marijuana reform. [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 8:25 am
"As bad a job as Sharon Keller is doing as presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the Texas Legislature should not impeach and convict her to remove her from office. [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 2:20 am
And some unknown number of people formerly charged with misdemeanors for stealing small animals will now be going to Texas state jails. [read post]
28 Apr 2009, 8:21 am
The last time a judge was impeached by the Legislature was state district Judge Oscar Carrillo in 1975. [read post]
27 Apr 2009, 11:57 pm
That's the last time the state of Texas impeached a sitting judge, and according to Burnam, Rep. [read post]
27 Apr 2009, 5:36 am
"In terms of drug possession and abuse, as I wrote previously elsewhere about John Kaplan's book:"John Kaplan's Marijuana -- The New Prohibition John's book on the drug laws resulted from his membership on a professorial advisory committee to the California state legislature. [read post]
26 Apr 2009, 10:43 pm
I didn't think we'd see this during the 81st Texas Legislature, but the impeachment resolution for Presiding Judge Sharon Keller of the Court of Criminal Appeals will be heard this afternoon in the Texas House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Commitee. [read post]
25 Apr 2009, 10:36 am
At a moment in history where more than 10% of adult Texans have outstanding arrest warrants, the ever growing array of increasingly unmanageable fines for low level offenses and fees for probationers is a mundane "sleeper" issue, one that may have profound implications in particular for how well the probation-centered de-incarceration reforms approved by the Texas Legislature in 2007 work in the long term.This subject of onerous fees too seldom rises to a high enough… [read post]
25 Apr 2009, 3:21 am
Because it is a local jurisdiction in Texas, it is covered by Section 5. [read post]
24 Apr 2009, 10:06 am
That’s why we encourage the Texas Legislature to allow concealed carry on the state’s college campuses. [read post]
24 Apr 2009, 3:47 am
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23 Apr 2009, 1:32 pm
Texas has 373 people on death row. [read post]
23 Apr 2009, 5:56 am
In some states (Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma and Texas), insurance premiums were almost double compared with states that have no damage caps. [read post]
23 Apr 2009, 5:05 am
In Texas voters were convinced to amend the state constution to impose a $250,000 cap on pain and suffering damage award. [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 3:05 pm
Although rules differ from state to state, in Texas, a stadium owner has only a limited duty to provide adequately screened seats for all those who wish to sit behind a screen. [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 12:46 pm
If we don't stand up and do the right thing when somebody's hiding the ball, then you know that's the invitation for some legislature to come in. [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 5:56 am
I've already lamented the bipartisan effort to scale back the too-small number of "prison industries" programs employing Texas convicts while they're incarcerated, so rather than separately analyze SB 1169 by state Sen. [read post]
21 Apr 2009, 1:12 am
A more likely explanation is that state-level office is not far enough away from the local and county levels to allow state legislatures to act independently. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 1:28 pm
By Natalie Barletta The Texas Supreme Court in, In re Gulf Exploration, LLC, No. 07-0055 (Tex. [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 1:28 pm
By Natalie Barletta The Texas Supreme Court in, In re Gulf Exploration, LLC, No. 07-0055 (Tex. [read post]
