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18 Jul 2013, 12:43 am by Mike Gertler
While the State of Louisiana began regulating this dangerous practice in 2008, the legislature recently has decided that the existing law did not go far enough to protect innocent drivers. [read post]
17 Jul 2013, 9:30 pm by Christina Reichert
The abortion bill the Texas Senate passed last week, despite state senator Wendy Davis’s filibuster efforts, has garnered extensive attention in the media. [read post]
17 Jul 2013, 9:34 am
On Monday, North Carolina’s Republican governor announced an agreement with that state’s legislature on sweeping tax reforms that will position the Tar Heel State to grab even more jobs and families from the Garden State. [read post]
16 Jul 2013, 8:55 am by Abbott & Kindermann
The state and the Park District jointly prepared the Eastshore State Park General Plan. [read post]
12 Jul 2013, 9:30 am by Karen Tani
Here's an excerpt, from reviewer Marjorie Heins (New York University):When the Florida legislature created a committee in 1956 to investigate organizations that advocated violations of state law, the clearly understood purpose was to brand the NAACP, the state’s leading proponent of ending segregation, as communist-run and un-American. [read post]
12 Jul 2013, 8:06 am by Robert C. Weill
  See Senate Bill 1792 (legislative history for the law can be found here). [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 10:30 am by Jacek Stramski
By Dwight Slater In a thirty-four page opinion released today, the Florida Supreme Court rejected every argument advanced by the Legislature in its effort to stop a lawsuit brought by the League of Women Voters, et al., challenging its 2012 Senate Redistricting Plan. [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 4:51 am by David DePaolo
A lot of people with a lot of money live in California and that simple fact makes the state nearly irresistible to many businesses. [read post]
10 Jul 2013, 1:39 pm by WIMS
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy & Natural Resources (ENR) Committee, voiced her continued support for the state of Alaska's plan to fully assess the potential oil and natural gas resources in ANWR coastal plain. [read post]
10 Jul 2013, 12:21 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
He was a devoutly religious man who, while in the North Carolina legislature in the 1940s, single-handedly defeated a proposed law that would have banned teaching evolution in the state's public schools. [read post]
10 Jul 2013, 10:34 am by Hanibal Goitom
In 1848, both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies created their own libraries. [read post]
10 Jul 2013, 10:03 am by Abbott & Kindermann
 On the one hand, 12 Members of Congress from Central and Southern California and Senator Diane Feinstein (all Democrats) signed a letter to the Secretary of the Interior and Governor Brown in May 2013 expressing their “continued support for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) process” and how “half measures” are unacceptable. [read post]
9 Jul 2013, 6:55 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Following on the heels of the historic (and heroic) 13-hour filibuster by state Senator Wendy Davis, the outcry of support was amazing. [read post]
9 Jul 2013, 5:06 am
The two laws that swiftly moved through the Florida legislature banned all internet cafes in Florida, although the Senate took a more job-friendly approach and looked to regulate the internet cafes and force them to pay a fee to operate. [read post]
8 Jul 2013, 7:09 am by The Charge
  Beginning with the Reconstructionist Amendments, the trend continued with the 17th Amendment decommissioning state powers by granting direct election of United States Senators. [read post]
7 Jul 2013, 10:18 am by Mark S. Humphreys
Texas insurance lawyers who keep up with the new laws being proposed and passed by the State Legislature need to know some of this information. [read post]