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4 May 2012, 8:10 am
Last Thursday, our local Austin Bar appellate section and the State Bar appellate section co-hosted the 2012 edition of “An Evening with the Texas Supreme Court,” which featured a panel discussion with seven members of the Court. [read post]
3 Jan 2012, 12:56 pm
Grits is shocked, shocked I tell you that the state bar announced it has dismissed the ethics complaint filed against Williamson County DA John Bradley stemming from alleged prosecutorial misconduct in Michael Morton's false conviction, a development the Austin Statesman reported today. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 8:12 am
Though from a public-policy perspective I could care less by what method executions are carried out, one has to be impressed with the investigation that allowed death penalty opponents to make this argument, as Jordan Smith reported in the Austin Chronicle:According to lawyers for condemned inmate Cleve Foster, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice has been illegally purchasing lethal injection drugs. [read post]
30 Jun 2008, 3:16 pm
The issue, edited by Jennifer Culbert and Austin Sarat deals with a number of death penalty topics. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 4:02 am
The State Auditor's Office will be releasing an analysis today, reports the Austin Statesman ("UTMB prisoner health costs, raises scrutinized," Feb. 3), critical of UTMB's provision of healthcare at state prison facilities, accusing the agency of overcharging and giving large, unwarranted raises to dozens of employees. [read post]
16 Nov 2022, 5:01 am
Austin, Uncertainty about her employment … led her to be a late entrant. [read post]
8 May 2012, 6:35 am
A recent article in the Austin Daily Herald wants to make sure readers, whether teens or other drivers, are safe and sober during prom season. [read post]
19 May 2008, 3:17 am
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I intend to use a recent Austin construction accident as a case study to highlight some of the issues in worksite injury cases. [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 2:59 am
This editorial in the Austin American Statesman is by the consumer group Texas Watch. [read post]
5 Jan 2007, 6:30 am
My old Austin friend Mark Warren wrote this book review in Esquire: The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 by Dinesh D'souza Death to America A Review by Mark Warren Dear Dinesh, Just read your new book, The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11. [read post]
11 Dec 2008, 9:23 am
The Austin Chronicle says criticisms of the state's Substance Abuse Felony Punishment (SAFP) program are falling on deaf legislative ears, airing complaints that female SAFP inmates are routinely called misogynist names and allegedly subject to tortuous treatment methods, citing a Nov. 13 Senate hearing that took limited testimony on the topic.Earlier this year, following the initial reports of inmate charges, Whitmire's committee announced that this interim hearing would focus on… [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 5:37 am
Reported Mike Ward at the Austin Statesman ("Staffing shortages idle more beds," Aug. 2):Four additional dorms housing 320 convicts are being mothballed at a large maximum-security South Texas prison because of a continuing shortage of staff at the lockup, officials confirmed this afternoon.The move marks the largest such temporary closure of portions of a state prison in well over a decade, even during previous staffing stages that forced dorms at several prisons to be… [read post]
24 Jun 2016, 9:05 am
University of Texas at Austin, holding that the race-conscious admissions policy in use when Abigail Fisher applied (unsuccessfully) to the university does not violate the Constitution, for this blog. [read post]
29 Oct 2015, 8:16 am
November 16 at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin. [read post]
14 Mar 2008, 7:00 am
A review of the Texas Attorney General’s January 2008 Comptroller of Public Accounts Case List and Summary of Issues reveals a number of cases pending at the Travis County District Court in Austin (the court that hears cases involving statewide taxes such as the franchise, sales and use taxes) that are currently listed as inactive. [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 2:59 am
In the official documents piling up over the nationwide outbreak of Salmonella, Austin J. [read post]
8 Jul 2012, 5:18 am
Eric Dexheimer at the Austin Statesman brings an update on the case of Brad Reinke, a man deemed incompetent to stand trial for attempted murder of his father 20 years ago ("Mentally ill defendant up for release despite fears he could return to violence," July 7). [read post]
14 Aug 2007, 7:39 am
I'm back in Austin following the ABA Annual Meeting. [read post]
20 Dec 2009, 7:06 am
David Dewhurst says Texas state agencies must reduce their budgets by 2.5% in each of the next four years to account for declining tax revenues, Jason Embry at the Austin Statesman reports ("Legislative leaders eye spending cuts to deal with looming budget hole," Dec. 20), providing an excellent short summary of the underlying source of the state's budget woes:As compared with a year earlier, sales tax collections were down 14.4 percent in November, and those kinds of returns… [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 3:07 am
This editorial in the Austin American Statesman is by the consumer group Texas Watch. [read post]
