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5 Jul 2012, 8:35 pm by Ben Cheng
ThalerDocket: 11-1391Issue(s): Whether Texas’s use of the In re Briseno factors -- under which Texas assesses mental retardation using seven factors invented by the state court that rely heavily on the facts of the crime, have no basis in scientific literature, and conflict with the nationally-accepted clinical definition of mental retardation relied on in Atkins v. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 12:50 pm
Texas has 44 DNA exonerations, more than any other state, with the majority coming from Dallas County. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 9:01 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"We're at the point where all these grants of power to prosecutors have started to create, basically, false positive errors in the system where we're falsely accusing people," he says. [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 1:07 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
In Texas, Deputy Keith Pikett claimed his dogs could distinguish smells in "scent lineups" up to 17 years after the sample was gathered, so if you take that preposterous claim at face value (as many Texas prosecutors have) heaven knows how long the lingering odor of marijuana might trigger a "hit"? [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 9:21 am by Bernie Burk
  Some of these “JD Advantaged” jobs probably meet the criterion we’re formulating here; some probably don’t. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 5:35 pm by Mark Tushnet
University of Texas and other cases to come -- would readily develop. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 12:00 pm by Charles Johnson
Texas is also a zero-tolerance state for underage drinking; any detectable amount of alcohol in drivers under 21 is a crime. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 11:09 am
Florida has a 10-day rule, which says that if one obtains a lawyer within 10 days, the lawyer can try to re-obtain your license before it is officially suspended. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 9:27 am by Sergio Leal
Negotiating an insurance settlement is the Public Adjuster’s domain, and they are licensed by the State of Texas to do just that. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 8:23 am by Matthew Sanderson
For instance, the threshold for a state jail felony in Texas is only $1500! [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 8:23 am by Matthew Sanderson
For instance, the threshold for a state jail felony in Texas is only $1500! [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 4:13 am by David J. DePaolo
Texas has been generating a lot of workers' compensation bad faith law lately.A couple of weeks ago the state's Supreme Court essentially put the lid on bad faith arising out of workers' compensation claims with its Ruttiger opinion.Now the same court ruled that there is no attorney-client privilege applicable to communications between an insurer's lawyer and the employer.In Re XL Specialty Insurance Co., 10-0969, 06/29/2012 involved Jerome Wagner who… [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 3:28 am by Bob Kraft
I wish the State Bar of Texas would get serious about the "ambulance chasers" who give the legal profession a bad reputation. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 2:48 am by Bob Kraft
I wish the State Bar of Texas would get serious about the “ambulance chasers” who give the legal profession a bad reputation. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 11:28 am by Teri Rodriguez
Opinions and statements expressed in these profiles are those of their subjects - not the State Bar of Texas. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 6:10 am by Gritsforbreakfast
" We're all safer nowIn East Texas, a man was given a 12 year sentence for possession of just more than 4 oz of codeine cough syrup.Prosecuting spillover violenceRegular Grits readers know most "spillover violence" along the Texas-Mexico border runs north to south, with Texas prison gangs operating as soldiers on behalf of Mexican drug cartels. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 5:00 am by Alan E. Sherman
  For now, other web hosting companies and their tax advisers, as well as any other type of business that licenses software and re-licenses it as part of a taxable service in Texas, should watch for future developments in the Rackspace US Inc. lawsuit. [read post]