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12 Aug 2008, 12:00 pm
Businesses throughout the state, and their owners, should take advantage of this opportunity to “run the numbers” to see the extent to which they’ve benefited (or not) from the school property tax rate reductions made as part of the Legislature’s reform efforts. [read post]
11 Aug 2008, 7:07 am
But if Texas is going to operate them that way, school districts should pay the full freight, not just dump their costs and problem kids on the juvenile justice system. [read post]
9 Aug 2008, 5:16 pm
"Texas has both a moral and legal obligation to remake a system that is crippling, then writing off, the state's most vulnerable children," the New York Times editorialized yesterday in reaction to the recent Ombudsman's report (pdf) on carceral education at the Texas Youth Commission, analyzed earlier by Grits here. [read post]
8 Aug 2008, 9:10 pm
Mary Alice Robbins writes, "Spot Checks of DNA Labs on the Table at TCJIU Meeting," for Texas Lawyer.With the state Legislature's next regular session beginning in less than five months, lawmakers on the recently formed Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit have urged other TCJIU members to reach consensus on reforms and start the ball rolling on bills. [read post]
8 Aug 2008, 9:05 pm
Pragmatically, if Texas judges spent all their time setting aside every dimwitted, backwards or just plain goofy law the Texas Legislature has ever passed, they'd never get any work done. [read post]
8 Aug 2008, 3:39 pm
"International law cannot bind a state against its will, simply because we don't have a world government, a world legislature, or a world judicial system," said Jann Kleffner, international law professor at the University of Amsterdam. [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 7:08 pm
"The Texas Youth Commission is continuing a pattern of, what appears to us, a willful disregard for the spending parameters set by the Legislature," Sen. [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 4:28 pm
"And:In June, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Attorney General Michael Mukasey asked Texas Gov. [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 4:02 pm
"And:In June, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Attorney General Michael Mukasey asked Texas Gov. [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 6:47 am
This time next year, perhaps we'll look back and think of yesterday's meeting as a tipping point for establishment opinion and a precursor to successfully addressing some of these topics in the 81st Texas Legislature. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 3:04 pm
The Texas Legislature, however, went on to establish certain evidentiary standards for rebutting this presumption. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 12:37 pm
Since Texas (and many other states) have pushed back the start date for school, there is now more time to get emotionally and otherwise prepared for school. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 11:53 am
Texas….Neither the President nor the Governor of the State of Texas has represented to us that there is any likelihood of congressional or state legislative action. [read post]
6 Aug 2008, 3:46 am
TEXAS Per Curiam congressional or state legislative action. [read post]
5 Aug 2008, 3:31 pm
The Supreme Court majority said that the chance that Congress or the Texas legislature would act to provide a remedy for the treaty violation in Medellin’s case was “too remote” to justify delaying the execution. [read post]
5 Aug 2008, 9:37 am
Rick Perry, the Texas courts and the state attorney general say the execution should be carried out. [read post]
3 Aug 2008, 11:03 am
Texas, we urgecongressional action to ensure that the United States lives up to its binding internationallegal obligations under the Vienna Convention on Consular Affairs and the UnitedNations Charter. [read post]
3 Aug 2008, 6:50 am
The Texas legislature does not meet again until January.Medellin is one of roughly 50 Mexicans on death rows around the nation who were denied prompt access to their country's consular officials after being arrested in the United States. [read post]
3 Aug 2008, 1:23 am
In Lawrence, the Supreme Court said that this "vital liberty interest" could not be abridged based solely on moral disapproval of homosexuality by the Texas legislature, the only justification argued by the state in defense of the statute. [read post]
1 Aug 2008, 3:27 pm
” The papers do not specify any specific time period to allow Congress slatuand the Texas legislature to take action, but they do note that Congress it not expected to act during this year on a proposed measure to enforce Vienna Convention rights, and the state legislature in Texas does not meet again until January. [read post]
