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7 Apr 2014, 12:16 pm
The Austin Statesman's Chuck Lindell reported today:The State Fire Marshal’s Office may continue reviewing old arson cases for bad science, Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a formal opinion released Monday.Nothing in state law limits the office from testing old convictions to determine if the arson cases were based on science or scientific techniques now known to be flawed, false or misleading, the opinion said.The opinion was in response to a West Texas prosecutor… [read post]
16 Jan 2013, 4:54 am
The argument in favor of arming investigators is, as TMB Executive Director Mari Robinson said in her request to Attorney General Greg Abbott, because "investigators are sent into areas where guns are kept. [read post]
24 Mar 2020, 6:34 pm
These were the thoughts that intruded as I read reports of the way that "Gov Greg Abbott has announced a move to ban most abortions in the state during the coronavirus outbreak, declaring they don't qualify as essential surgeries. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 4:35 pm
Here are press releases from the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, both praising Ho for his past achievements, and wishing him well in his latest endeavor. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 4:35 pm
Here are press releases from the Texas Attorney General, Greg Abbott, and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, both praising Ho for his past achievements, and wishing him well in his latest endeavor. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 5:52 pm
Texas Redistricting reports. [read post]
3 Sep 2012, 8:28 pm
Texas Lawbook: “The Texas Attorney General claims in court that the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 is outdated, unnecessary and an unconstitutional encroachment on the sovereignty of the state, but his legal efforts may have just assured the law’s survival. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 2:36 pm
The Attorney General (Greg Abbott at the time) did not timely intervene in the trial court, and the State therefore did not have standing to appeal as a party post-judgment. [read post]
19 Jul 2021, 5:00 am
Here are our leading legal headlines for the week of July 12, 2021 from Wise Law on Twitter:Criminal defence lawyers sound alarm over Ford government's new justice of the peace appointeesTennessee's Transgender Bathroom Sign LawManitoba chief justice says he was followed by private investigator to catch him breaking COVID-19France hits Google with a $600 million fineLawyer files misconduct complaint after private investigator hired to follow Manitoba chief justiceGovernor… [read post]
22 Aug 2022, 6:44 pm
Greg Abbott (R) began offering the free rides in April to highlight what he had called lax border enforcement policies by the Biden administration. [read post]
26 Mar 2016, 2:18 pm
Greg Abbott, he is incapable of "connecting the dots" between his political vision and the stumbling blocks presented by our decidedly status-quo protecting 1787 Constitution. [read post]
22 Aug 2014, 12:59 pm
While the media relentlessly focuses on Greg Abbott v. [read post]
1 Mar 2024, 4:05 am
In 2022, PFLAG successfully obtained temporary injunctive relief shielding its member families from the Texas Department of Family Protective Services’ (“DFPS”) operationalization of Governor Greg Abbott’s directive to investigate families of transgender youth who receive gender-affirming medical care for the treatment of gender dysphoria—a directive based on the Attorney General’s non-binding opinion claiming that necessary, evidence-based… [read post]
7 Nov 2019, 11:09 am
Greg Abbott and the Board of Pardons and Paroles. [read post]
25 Jan 2023, 5:10 am
Greg Abbott, who hasn’t ruled out a presidential run, said it’s so early in the election cycle that “no one’s paying attention. [read post]
27 Sep 2018, 2:01 pm
Greg Abbott rescinded new fees authorized by the Legislature last year after they cut the agency's crime lab budget, nobody has ever come up with the extra money, leaving Texas DPS crime labs poised to run out of operating funds before the end of the fiscal year. [read post]
22 Sep 2021, 8:22 am
Earlier this month, Governor Greg Abbot signed a new cash bail into law. [read post]
23 Jun 2015, 2:36 pm
The Attorney General (Greg Abbott at the time) did not timely intervene in the trial court, and the State therefore did not have standing to appeal as a party post-judgment. [read post]
27 Feb 2022, 11:44 am
While the Legislature has not elsewhere defined the phrase “genital mutilation”, nor specifically for males of any age, the Legislature’s criminalization of a particular type of genital mutilation supports an argument that analogous procedures that include genital mutilation—potentially including gender reassignment surgeries—could constitute “abuse” under the Family Code’s broad and nonexhaustive examples of child abuse or neglect.On Feb. 22, Texas… [read post]
7 Aug 2023, 11:35 am
On a similar vein, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed HB 2127 (the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act) into law in June 2023, barring municipalities from passing regulations that surpass the protections afforded by state law in a number of areas, including labor. [read post]
