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27 May 2022, 11:55 am by Neil H. Buchanan
Supreme Court, long before even John Roberts became Chief Justice, had over time blessed the entire unholy scheme.The academic work that has pushed back against "tort reform," from both economists and legal scholars, notes that the "explosion" in civil litigation that started this ball rolling in the 1970's was a statistical illusion driven by the asbestos crisis. [read post]
26 May 2022, 4:16 am by Emma Snell
  Police in Lysychansk are burying the bodies of civilians in mass graves, Luhansk regional governor Serhiy Gaidai has said. [read post]
13 May 2022, 11:33 am by Howard Bashman
Greg Abbott did not have the authority to order such investigations, acknowledging they could cause ‘irreparable harm. [read post]
15 Apr 2022, 10:42 am by Alicia Maule
Hundreds of Texas anti-domestic violence groups, Baptist, Evangelical and Catholic leaders, Latino organizations, exonerees of wrongful convictions, and Melissa’s children are urging the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Abbott to grant Melissa clemency. [read post]
15 Apr 2022, 4:09 am by Emma Snell
  RUSSIA, UKRAINE – REFUGEES AND EVACUATIONS The governor of Ukraine’s Luhansk region in the east of the country has urged residents in the area to evacuate. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 5:07 am by Emma Snell
  At least seven people were killed in shelling over the past day in eastern Kharkiv, according to the region’s governor, Oleh Synegubov. [read post]
11 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Governor Greg Abbott’s recent directive ordering the child welfare agency to investigate all gender-affirming care for trans children as child abuse is a particularly cruel example of this.A trial court in Texas has issued a temporary restraining order that prevents Abbott and his lackeys from acting on the order (Doe v. [read post]
31 Mar 2022, 12:49 pm by jlucivero
Greg Abbott and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles asking to grant Ms. [read post]
17 Mar 2022, 9:03 pm by Laura Welborn
IN THE NEWS A Texas judge continued to block Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s order that empowered the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate parents who allow gender-affirming care for their transgender children for child abuse. [read post]
13 Mar 2022, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
In August 2021, it sided with Republican Governor Greg Abbott and struck down locally imposed mask mandates.Recent scholarship examining the reputation and prestige of state supreme courts ranks the Texas Supreme Court near the bottom on several measures. [read post]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Texas and Lambda Legal filed the lawsuit Tuesday after Texas Governor Greg Abbott directed state health agencies to investigate the medical treatment of transgender youth as “child abuse. [read post]
3 Mar 2022, 9:03 pm by Sam Wong
” A court blocked Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s order directing the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate whether parents commit child abuse by allowing their transgender children to receive gender affirming care. [read post]
20 Jan 2022, 12:36 pm by Eugene Volokh
"} Responding, Eckhardt quipped that "Texas Governor Greg Abbott 'hates trees because one fell on him.'" This utterance alluded to Governor Abbott's partial, yet permanent, paralysis caused when a falling tree struck him. [read post]
31 Dec 2021, 5:00 am by Josh Blackman
Quoted in How the Biden Justice Department is Untangling the Legal Fights it Inherited From Trump, National Law Journal (Feb. 26, 2021) (Also available here). [read post]
26 Dec 2021, 1:23 am by Joe Mullin
Next came Texas, where Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill to stop social media companies that he said “silence conservative viewpoints and ideas. [read post]
It was signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott in May, and it took effect on September 1. [read post]
16 Dec 2021, 2:44 pm by Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
SB8, signed by Texas Governor Greg Abbott in May, bans abortion when an ultrasound can detect a “heartbeat,” which is often before a woman even knows she is pregnant. [read post]
25 Nov 2021, 9:03 pm by Omar Khodor
An appeals court upheld a county judge’s local mask mandate in Dallas, Texas despite Governor Greg Abbott’s insistence that he has authority to ban mask requirements statewide. [read post]
21 Nov 2021, 12:42 pm by John Floyd
Greg Abbott’s administration failed as well:   In a September 23, 2021 article in the Texas Observer titled “How Public Corruption Investigations Can Fail,” Lise Olsen pointed out that the Texas Rangers conducted 560 investigations of state and local officials between 2015 and 2020. [read post]