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26 Jun 2007, 10:37 am
Settlement Funding, LLC D/B/A Peachtree Settlement Funding as Seller/Servicer for Peachtree Finance Company, LLC Plaintiffs v Rose Garcia, Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company and the United States of America United States District Court Western Texas Waco Division Civil Action W-04-CA 339 Decided December 12, 2006 In response to an Interpleader action, the United States requested confirmation of its contractual rights as owner of the Transamerica annuity contract its purchased… [read post]
19 Jun 2007, 12:59 am
Kelly was one of the plaintiffs who won a settlement in a lawsuit spearheaded by the ACLU.Local Impact of TYC ReformsThe Waco Tribune Herald worries that new juvie laws and policies about who gets sent to the Texas Youth Commission will create local problems and become an "onerous unfunded mandate. [read post]
14 Jun 2007, 8:33 am
"Fractured 10th Court of Appeals a hotbed for dissent, animosity": This interesting article appeared Sunday in The Waco Tribune-Herald. [read post]
13 Jun 2007, 2:36 am
Like me, the Waco Herald Tribune editorial board thinks the Texas Legislature sent a mixed message by approving three new prisons in addition to new diverstion programs ("Texas lawmakers send mixed messages on penal reform," June 13):Bill authors Rep. [read post]
6 Jun 2007, 12:44 am
Kip Averitt, R-Waco, confirmed that state officials were negotiating to obtain the structure â€â [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 3:00 pm
Viviana Triana, who is pursing a dual master's degree in social work and divinity at Baylor University, and classmate Tihara Vargas, an Iraq war veteran, are attempting to set up a permanent legal service center in Waco, Texas to help... [read post]
31 May 2007, 1:16 am
Marlin is a small town southeast of Waco where TYC currently does "orientation and assessment" for every kid entering the system, so now that will have to be done elsewhere. [read post]
27 May 2007, 3:42 am
I am an attorney and I represent the former Nurse Supervisor at the McLennan County Jail [Waco] who reported the grossly inadequate medical assistance at the Jail and after six months of trying to get change to happen, was fired due to her reporting the problem. [read post]
23 May 2007, 6:18 am
June 1994 - What's Happening in WacoFrom Crawford Long of Waco (Crawford is the first assistant criminal district attorney of McLennan County), two criminal trial excerpts. [read post]
19 May 2007, 9:54 am
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15 May 2007, 11:46 pm
And this Barron piece in yesterday's Chronicle about Waco chiropractor John Patterson's work on various professional athletes is filled with all sorts of interesting anecdotes on the miraculous results of Patterson's treatments on such professional athletes as Tracy McGrady, John Smoltz, Earl Campbell and former UT star pitcher and current Oakland A's closer, Huston Street, among others. [read post]
19 Apr 2007, 7:38 pm
It is the anniversary of the tragic deaths of the Branch Davidians at Waco in 1993. [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 9:57 pm
Although he went off the rails by turning the events at VT into a plea for campaign finance reform (to be sure, you've got to give him points for an audacious rhetorical judo move with that one), Joseph Palermo likewise was onto something with his prediction that a "vapid and predictable" debate "will dominate the next five or six news cycles":Like the Columbine shootings ten years ago this month, or the Oklahoma City bombing two years earlier, or the Waco stand-off… [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 12:13 am
" See the rest here, and also Waco Herald Tribune columnist John Young's argument that "isolation" of youth is among the agency's biggest failings, as well as the Lufkin Daily News' assertion that misdemeananor offenders should not be placed in youth prisons. [read post]
13 Apr 2007, 4:09 am
And the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts are not even run in accordance with the UCMJ despite the fact that the US Supreme Court in Hamdan ruled that they should be.Whenever they are up and running the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts will constitute Stalinist Show Trials as well as Kangaroo Courts.And the fact that the Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School has publicly endorsed the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts despite Hamdan proves that Harvard has a Kangaroo Law School:Harvard Kangaroo Law… [read post]
9 Apr 2007, 7:35 am
The Waco Tribune-Herald has, Jessica's law could make matters worse.The House version of this bill has passed. [read post]
2 Apr 2007, 1:51 am
The Texas Youth Commission scandal and proposed subsequent reforms continue to dominate the headlines, and I thought I'd mention a few informative items in the news that put the problems in perspective.First, in a guest editorial in the Waco Herald Tribune ("Don't treat TYC like prison"), Marlin unit employee Anthony Mikulastik puts his finger on TYC's biggest obstacle to success:TYC is, and has been, dangerously understaffed for years. [read post]
1 Apr 2007, 5:14 am
[Online ODPI -- Ohio Death Penalty Information and an excellent source for breaking news -- has more, as well as continuing coverage of the US Attorney firings.]The Waco Tribune-Herald has a well balanced piece on Texas's proposed Jessica's Law & the problem that it may well mean: No one wants to say â€â [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 5:17 am
In what I think is his first post on Texas Monthly's Burka Blog, Nate Blakeslee reports that:The superintendent of the Marlin Orientation and Assessment Unit, a juvenile correctional facility near Waco, was arrested this morning on charges of giving a false report to an investigator, according to Falls County District Attorney Jody Gilliam. [read post]
3 Mar 2007, 6:23 am
Senate Bill 12 by Senator Kip Averitt (R-Waco) expands funding and the use of certain technologies in meeting the federal requirements. [read post]
