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26 Dec 2013, 10:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
At least 14 inmates have allegedly died in recent years from heat-related causes. [read post]
23 Dec 2013, 1:44 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
IANAL, but it's possible Sebesta could still face disciplinary action from the state bar if the complaint were re-filed.Louisiana prison heat litigation could presage Texas rulingThe Texas Civil Rights Project, which is litigating over excessive heat in Texas prisons on behalf of inmates and correctional officers, has won similar federal litigation in Louisiana, where a judge ruled prisons must keep the "heat index" below 88 degrees Fahrenheit on… [read post]
23 Dec 2013, 8:16 am by Beth Graham
  After the Harris County trial court denied the plaintiffs’ motion, they filed an interlocutory appeal with Texas’ First District. [read post]
8 Dec 2013, 11:03 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Texas courts, prosecutors, defense counsel and crime labs already are struggling with these questions, and it appears the Texas Legislature may need to take up the issue when they re-convene in 2015. [read post]
22 Nov 2013, 4:06 pm by WOLFGANG DEMINO
Example: Texas AG's action against Joseph Onwuteaka and his debt collection firm over mandatory venue violations: State of Texas v. [read post]
22 Nov 2013, 9:00 am by William A. Schreiner, Jr.
  In two whistleblower suits involving government entities: 1) a state employee wasn’t a protected whistleblower when she was fired after it was determined her job wasn’t in line with the federal funding that paid for it, the First Circuit Court of Appeals holds; but 2) Georgia’s whistleblower statute expressly waives the defense of sovereign immunity – so Fulton County, Georgia can’t use that defense against two whistleblowers, says the… [read post]
14 Nov 2013, 1:04 pm by Roshonda Scipio
(RES) KF9084.Z9 .N65 2013 Anatomy for Lawyers The spine for lawyers / by Samuel D. [read post]
3 Nov 2013, 8:05 pm by Ken White
Court of Appeals in the case of O’Brien v. [read post]
31 Oct 2013, 11:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
My takeaway from this exchange is that District Attorneys around the state now should be obligated to go back and re-examine their old cases to identify all defendants who've been convicted of this non-crime and notify them. [read post]
24 Oct 2013, 8:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Yesterday morning, Grits attended oral arguments at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals regarding the pivotal habeas corpus writ for Leroy Coty, one of thousands of defendants, including several hundred out of Harris County, whose cases were tainted by having drug evidence evaluated by fired and disgraced DPS-Houston crime lab analyst Jonathan Salvador. [read post]
14 Oct 2013, 3:35 pm by Law Lady
Appeals -- Appeal is premature where related indemnity claim is pending in trial courtPROFORMANCE PLASTERING OF PENSACOLA, INC., Appellant, v. [read post]
11 Oct 2013, 10:33 am
At the time DOQ voted to disaffiliate, the Standing Committee of DOQ was the highest ecclesiastical authority of the Diocese.In order to keep these findings from binding it (i.e., becoming res judicata, as attorneys put it) in any other case involving a withdrawing diocese, ECUSA is forced to appeal the judgment -- even if that were not its policy anyway. [read post]
8 Oct 2013, 5:34 am by David Markus
Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal alleging misconduct by a federal prosecutor who made racially offensive remarks during a drug trial in Texas. [read post]
7 Oct 2013, 8:07 pm by Larry Catá Backer
For that purpose we considered the way in which the Courts have read into the U.S: Constitution a structural role for the emerging administrative state that arose in its modern forms from the late 19th and 20th centuries. [read post]