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5 Oct 2020, 9:15 am by Matt Cooper
Texas In Texas Alliance for Retired Americans v. [read post]
3 Oct 2020, 1:38 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Right now, only police can do so, and that law is a barrier to removing law enforcement from the equation in non-criminal mental health calls.Mental health cases are a growing part of HPD's case load, as they are all over the state. [read post]
Under the Constitution, each state appoints presidential electors “in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct,” giving state legislatures broad authority to define through state law how that state’s electors should be allocated. [read post]
29 Sep 2020, 9:30 am by Gritsforbreakfast
It's being fixed now and by 2021 - twenty years after Texas' racial profiling law first passed! [read post]
” HB 25 passed along party lines in 2017 by the Republican-majority Texas Legislature, who argued that eliminating straight ticket voting would result in a more educated and engaged electorate. [read post]
28 Sep 2020, 10:10 am by SCOTUStalk
This guy had been convicted of mail fraud and at the time of the country’s founding, legislatures looked at whether or not someone was likely to be dangerous before they took away his gun rights. [read post]
25 Sep 2020, 12:40 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
After the Texas Legislature ended corporal punishment for white people in 1848, only black folks would have been beaten there. [read post]
22 Sep 2020, 4:17 pm by Eugene Volokh
The Supreme Court of Texas upheld a jury award in Fisher's favor, stating that recovery was permitted for "humiliation and indignity" even though no actual contact occurred so long as there was contact with clothing or an object closely identified with the body. [read post]
21 Sep 2020, 2:00 pm by Amy Howe
In 2001, Miller Cassidy merged with Baker Botts, a larger, Texas-based firm, and Barrett spent another year there before leaving for academia. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 6:26 pm by Amy Howe
Neither of her parents attended college: Her father, Nathan, came to the United States from Russia as a teenager and worked as a furrier; her mother, Celia Amster Bader, was born a few months after her parents arrived in the country from Austria and worked in a garment factory to put her brother through college. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 7:46 am by Matt Cooper
Hasen traced courts’ use of the democracy canon to the 1885 Supreme Court of Texas case of Owens v. [read post]
14 Sep 2020, 6:00 am by Josh Blackman
Here is a summary of Festa's argument: This case involves important issues of Texas State law regarding the statutory authority delegated by the Texas Legislature; the State's legal limits on the powers of municipal corporations; state-delegated local land-use regulatory power; and the individual property rights of all persons under the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Texas. [read post]
12 Sep 2020, 7:07 am by Gritsforbreakfast
That's still true in most other Texas cities under the state civil service code. [read post]
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, “[f]ive states currently conduct all elections entirely by mail: Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. [read post]
States including Illinois, Washington and Texas also have passed specific laws regulating the collection and use of biometric data. [read post]