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31 Mar 2011, 10:04 am
Joan Huffman, R-Houston, would bring Texas closer in line with other states, most of which have age 12 as the age-based trigger for capital murder charges. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 5:44 pm
" The Houston Chronicle has a news update headlined "High court OKs DNA challenge for Texan. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 9:16 am
Finn.Finn, John E.Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2006.KF4750 .F56 2006 DVDCivil RightsKF372 .J36 2010Root and branch : Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the struggle to end segregation / Rawn James, Jr.James, Rawn.New York, N.Y. : Bloomsbury Press, 2010.Civil RightsKF4155 .S77 2010Mendez v. [read post]
16 Nov 2010, 6:27 am
And both Adam Liptak of the New York Times and Joan Biskupic of USA Today focus on the Court’s newest Justice, Elena Kagan. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 7:03 am
Phelps, scheduled for oral argument in October, and recaps Joan Biskupic’s recent preview of the case. [read post]
28 Jul 2010, 8:26 am
"In two very different venues in Houston last week, progress was made in addressing an endemic stain on Texas justice: the wrongful conviction of innocent people.In an emotional courtroom scene, a teary-eyed state District Judge Joan Campbell announced she would recommend the release of 39-year-old Allen Wayne Porter, who has served 19 years of a life sentence in state prison for participation in a 1990 robbery-rape in southwest Houston. [read post]
24 Jul 2010, 11:41 am
Allan Turner at the Houston Chronicle described the emotional scene in court:Dabbing at her teary eyes, state District Judge Joan Campbell said Thursday she will recommend that authorities free a Houston man who has served 19 years — almost half his life - in prison for a sexual assault he did not commit.As members of his family jumped from their seats in tearful ecstasy at the judge's decision, the prisoner, Allen Wayne Porter, 39, first shed tears, then smiled… [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 6:30 am
" Joan Biskupic of USA Today reports that "Justices limit scope of anti-fraud law, 9-0; Ruling scraps parts of convictions for some famous former executives. [read post]
25 May 2010, 8:11 am
"High court DNA decision gives Texas killer hope," by Allan Turner in the Houston Chronicle.The high court stayed Skinner's March 24 execution just one hour before he was to be put to death. [read post]
5 Apr 2010, 6:49 am
Dan Freedman of the Houston Chronicle connected the constitutional litigation over the healthcare legislation to United States v. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 7:02 am
The Los Angeles Times, CNN, Houston Chronicle, AP (via NPR), and Lyle at this blog offer background on the case. [read post]
2 Mar 2010, 6:45 am
Mary Flood of the Houston Chronicle also has coverage of the proceedings. [read post]
14 Feb 2010, 2:04 pm
"Scalia has fused the cerebral and the atavistic strains of conservatism in a manner that leaves one wondering if they were ever distinct at all," writes Michael O'Donnell in The Nation, reviewing a new book and a not-so-new one: American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia by Joan Biskupic, and The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for [read post]
21 Dec 2009, 3:06 am
Moderator: Joan M. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 4:44 am
" The Houston Chronicle reports that "'Vague' law used to convict Skilling troubles high court. [read post]
18 Nov 2009, 3:38 pm
. --- Houston Business Journal, November 12, 2009 The Houston Airport System and the Federal Aviation Administration began construction on a new Terminal Radar Approach Control facility at GeorgeBushIntercontinentalAirport in Houston, Texas. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 10:09 am
Where: Joan B. [read post]
20 Oct 2009, 5:46 am
Also at Volokh, after reading Joan Biskupic's USA Today piece on Justice Stevens, Orin Kerr at the Volokh Conspiracy attempts to reconcile the justice's description of himself as a judicial conservative with his role as a leader of the Court’s liberal wing. [read post]
24 Aug 2009, 12:00 am
When Joan was still pregnant.Mr. [read post]
19 Aug 2009, 2:40 am
In the words of the old Joan Baez song entitled Winds of the Old Days, "the 60s are over now, set him free. [read post]
