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17 Sep 2021, 9:26 am by John McFarland
After the Texas freeze last February that resulted in loss of electric service to millions of Texans, the Texas Legislature passed laws requiring the Texas Railroad Commission and the Public Utility Commission of Texas to address the issues raised by the systems’ failures. [read post]
17 Sep 2021, 8:22 am by Tom Smith
And all without any action by Congress or state legislatures. [read post]
17 Sep 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
She said she was unaware of any other airline flying to the state capital during that period. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 2:33 pm by Paulo McKeeby and Michael Lombardino
The Texas Legislature has been quite busy over the most recent regular and two specially-called legislative sessions. [read post]
15 Sep 2021, 8:08 am by Howard Wasserman
The legislature in these cases authorized state citizens or taxpayers to check government officials by suing a government board or official to ensure compliance with a statutory enactment cabining the government's authority. [read post]
14 Sep 2021, 10:30 am by Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
Elder wants California to follow the path of Texas and Florida by implementing bans on mask and vaccine mandates. [read post]
14 Sep 2021, 9:24 am by Howard Wasserman
A plaintiff—who likely wants to be in state court—can bar diversity removal by including one single Texas defendant. [read post]
14 Sep 2021, 7:37 am by Steve Lubet
What outstanding seventeen-year-old would turn down a guaranteed $1 million to play at, say, Georgia or Texas, in favor of an otherwise desirable spot at Kansas State or Purdue? [read post]
13 Sep 2021, 6:59 am by Howard Wasserman
A lawsuit by providers and advocates in state court named Texas Right to Life on a similar theory. [read post]
13 Sep 2021, 3:30 am by Eric B. Meyer
(Meanwhile, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis told reporters that he would involve the state legislature to combat any federal mandatory vaccine rule that may impact local employers). [read post]
12 Sep 2021, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
If the Court overrules Roe and other abortion precedents, states like Mississippi and Texas wouldn’t need to rely on the zombie laws that Treanor and Sperling critiqued. [read post]
Daughtrey wrote that “State legislatures recently have passed more anti-abortion regulations than perhaps at any other time in this country’s history…However, this development is not a signal to the courts to change course. [read post]
9 Sep 2021, 6:34 am by Michael C. Dorf
So the mere potential for crippling liability is enough to exert the kind of chill that rightly concerned the Court in Young.)In my essay here on Tuesday, I explained that restrictive Supreme Court justiciability doctrines play a key role in permitting even the possibility that the Texas legislature can get away with banning abortion via the back door even while abortion officially remains a constitutional right. [read post]
7 Sep 2021, 6:31 am by Howard Wasserman
Many people are deriding (or celebrating) the exceptional—and exceptionally deceptive—device of the Texas legislature to so-called “deputize” private individuals as government enforcement agents to carry out a state anti-abortion law that, at present, violates the U.S. [read post]
7 Sep 2021, 5:36 am by Andrew Koppelman
  When legislatures try to violate constitutional rights, courts routinely issue injunctions forbidding officials from enforcing those laws. [read post]
7 Sep 2021, 4:16 am by SHG
The Texas legislature and five Supreme Court justices have joined forces to eviscerate women’s abortion rights — the legislature by creating and the justices by leaving in place a system of private bounties designed to intimidate all who would help women exercise the right to choose. [read post]
6 Sep 2021, 3:49 pm by Robert Epstein
  The appeals court noted the omission was “significant” because the Legislature addressed similar resources. [read post]
6 Sep 2021, 12:41 pm by Josh Blackman
He describes the familiar cycle in which conservative legislatures are stymied at every turn by pre-enforcement challenges. [read post]