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27 Mar 2008, 7:55 am
It's just a shame that the state lets itself get forced into these situations through crisis rather than planning for them responsibly when the Legislature is in town.UPDATE: See fuller coverage from Mike Ward at the Statesman. [read post]
25 Mar 2008, 2:42 pm
Given the Court’s holding that the Avena judgment is not binding as a matter of domestic law, there is no statutory basis for the Texas courts to reopen Medellin’s case, and the Texas legislature will not re-convene until January 2009. [read post]
25 Mar 2008, 2:09 pm
If so, then one would expect him to recognize that Texas courts are equally bound to follow the dictates of the Texas legislature, which has adopted legislation that prohibits Texas courts from considering procedurally defaulted claims in state habeas corpus proceedings. [read post]
25 Mar 2008, 7:00 am
House Bill 3 as passed by the Texas Legislature in 2006 expanded the reach of the revised franchise tax so that it now applies to virtually all types of entities with limited liability, most of which weren’t previously taxable. [read post]
22 Mar 2008, 12:00 pm
(Updated 3/21/08) It’s also understood that the Comptroller’s office will amend the agency’s rules to reflect this policy change and may request clarifying legislation in the next session of the Texas Legislature. [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 11:50 pm
In 2007, the Texas legislature passed the Schoolchildrens' Religious Liberties Act (SRLA), also known as the Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act. [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 10:17 am
That's a bit odd, since all but marijuana charges (and perhaps some prescription drug violations) in Texas are felony raps. [read post]
20 Mar 2008, 7:57 am
Many states are doing just that. [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 11:43 pm
State courts and state legislatures, especially in the North, were also particularly important in this lengthy process of changing constitutional culture leading up to Brown. [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 2:51 pm
It looks like some of the new treatment options and incarceration alternatives funded by the Texas Legislature last year are starting to come online. [read post]
19 Mar 2008, 10:51 am
(Texas Commerce Bank v. [read post]
16 Mar 2008, 5:28 pm
These fiduciaries will also need to monitor other states to see whether the Indiana law represents a trend that other state legislatures will follow. [read post]
16 Mar 2008, 8:36 am
And perhaps something needs to be done, as suggested in earlier comments to one of my postings, about the undue influence that Iowa and New Hampshire have over the process, but the answer is surely not to deprive small states--or "safe Republican states" like Texas--of a role in selecting the nominees of their parties. [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 5:54 pm
A former teacher, she graduated from the University of Texas and East Texas State University. [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 9:07 am
Some of that change may reflect the judicial philosophy of the courts; much of it reflects the actions of the Texas Legislature. [read post]
12 Mar 2008, 12:10 am
Yesterday's El Paso (TX) Times reports that Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott has asked the state's attorney general for an interpretation of a new law that provides for elective high school courses on the Bible's impact on history and literature. [read post]
10 Mar 2008, 5:18 am
There are two primary causes for Texas prison overcrowding, and the Legislature's reforms last year only really addressed one of them: Too many probation and parole revocations, and too-long sentences for non-violent crimes, especially drug offenses.For an example of the latter, look no further than a recent edition of the Tyler Morning Telegraph, where we read the story of a man who received a 60 year sentence for possession of 1.46 grams of meth and 2.93 grams of marijuana… [read post]
6 Mar 2008, 5:45 am
The Pew Center on States had nice things to say about Texas' prison and probation reforms from 2007, citing them as the main reason for the state's high score on it's state report card:As last year's budget deliberations began, Texas was looking at a 17,000-bed shortage of prison space over the next five years. [read post]
5 Mar 2008, 11:24 am
Texas, ruling that the appropriate framing of the question was whether the conduct at issue came within the liberty protected by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. [read post]
5 Mar 2008, 3:14 am
John Whitmire, legislation to reduce the number of probation revocations filling up Texas prisons. [read post]
