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23 Jun 2008, 10:04 am
Congress or voluntary compliance by the State of Texas". [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 1:19 pm
The handout says: The Perry Business Tax, which passed with the help of the Texas House and Senate Republican leadership, is a state income tax which violates the Texas Constitution. [read post]
19 Jun 2008, 10:02 am
Levin praised incentive funding to local probation departments passed by the Legislature in 2007 aimed at providing more funds to departments that help probationers succeed. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 3:58 pm
"State Rep. [read post]
14 Jun 2008, 2:22 pm
It deals only with the attorney-client privilege, as the title of the rule states. [read post]
12 Jun 2008, 9:18 am
Governor, Legislature Ordered to Raise Pay of State's Judges
New York Law Journal
Finding that New York's Legislature and governor had "unconstitutionally abused their power" by neglecting to raise judicial pay, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Edward H. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 10:01 pm
Texas law allows suspects to not give a sample of their breath, blood, or urine. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 1:00 pm
That’s because, in a May 21, 2008, letter ruling indexed as document no. 200805098L in the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts’ STAR research database, a representative of the agency’s Tax Policy Division – Sales Tax Section stated that sunscreen sold over-the-counter is subject to sales tax even if labeled with a “drug facts” panel.By way of background, the Legislature exempted over-the-counter drugs and… [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 8:02 am
Texas' three-year recidivism rate is half that of Britain's, and our community supervision system is many times larger, with much longer probation and parole terms.Still it's fascinating and instructive to see that the "conservative" solutions proposed in Great Britain are essentially similar in theme and often substance to new laws passed at the Texas Legislature during a period of GOP control. [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 5:50 pm
The results of these studies can be used by legislatures to criticize or praise their judiciaries; ask for reform or use the ratings to decide on the appropriate compensation for state court judges. [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 4:21 pm
"With a history of dubious justice in Texas, the decision by a state appeals court to create an integrity unit is welcome. [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 12:14 pm
The governmental interest in prohibiting immoral conduct was the only state interest that Texas offered to justify the statute. [read post]
9 Jun 2008, 4:10 pm
Commission officials this year asked the state Legislature to pass the education requirement, but the proposal failed. [read post]
8 Jun 2008, 6:52 pm
Texas: "Every citizen shall have the right to keep and bear arms in the lawful defence of himself or the State; but the Legislature shall have power, by law, to regulate the wearing of arms, with a view to prevent crime. [read post]
5 Jun 2008, 9:54 pm
At least that's what the rule is now in the State of Michigan. [read post]
5 Jun 2008, 3:26 pm
Of the 42 executions in the United States last year, Texas accounted for 26. [read post]
5 Jun 2008, 2:33 pm
Texas and a decision of its own highest criminal court, now dating back two decades, that the state's sodomy law cannot be used to prosecute private consensual heterosexual sodomy). [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 3:08 pm
Texas to avoid cutting back their sodomy and solicitation laws any more than absolutely necessary. [read post]
4 Jun 2008, 11:30 am
Five years ago the Legislature changed state jail felony sentences so that that drug defendants convicted of possessing less than a gram of a controlled substance (besides pot) would receive probation and treatment instead of prison term. [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 12:24 pm
On behalf of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA), Judge Barbara Hervey today announced the creation of a "Criminal Justice Integrity Unit," which appears to be another blue-ribbon panel of bigwigs charged with making recommendations - one hopes with an eye toward proposing changes during the 81st Texas Legislature next year. [read post]
