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15 Apr 2020, 10:42 am
The South Carolina Blockchain Industry Empowerment Act of 2019 is currently pending before the state legislature of South Carolina. [read post]
27 Mar 2019, 8:18 pm
The end result would be a statute similar to Texas and Washington’s biometric privacy bills which may only be enforced by the respective state attorney general. [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 9:29 am
"Our side" considered it a loss (I was lobbying for the Innocence Project of Texas on the subject), but the law simply did not give criminal defendants the means to keep eyewitness testimony out of evidence if lineups don't follow written policies, nor if written policies are inadequate.Ironically, though Chief Rodriguez wants to blame the Legislature for his woes, the much more significant penalty for failing to follow best practices was laid down in October by the… [read post]
6 Mar 2021, 12:41 pm
Hubbard whatever they had to pay the last football coach to buy out his contract and leave town,The Texas Legislature hereby commissions Ray Wylie Hubbard to write a new school song for the University of Texas that sucks significantly less than the current one.May God Bless Texas. [read post]
8 Apr 2012, 9:07 am
Tragedy Stirs debate on Stand Your Ground Laws and Racial Stereotypes By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal Billy Sinclair In February, 2012, we posted a piece about Texas’ version of the “stand your ground” law which was passed by the Legislature in 2007. [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 6:13 am
In its 2009 Legislative Session, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 2259, whose stated purpose is to ensure that inactive oil and gas wells get plugged and that surface equipment associated with those wells gets removed. [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 7:13 am
In its 2009 Legislative Session, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 2259, whose stated purpose is to ensure that inactive oil and gas wells get plugged and that surface equipment associated with those wells gets removed. [read post]
22 Jun 2010, 7:46 am
Levenson, now a deputy federal public defender based in Los Angeles, will get a $1 million annual budget and small team of team of lawyers to handle a dozen or more new death cases each year across the Lone Star State.The office was created by the Texas Legislature after a series of scandals generated by ill-prepared and mostly poorly-paid death row defense lawyers assigned to handle writs of habeas corpus across Texas. [read post]
23 May 2024, 3:50 pm
In 2023 the Texas legislature passed Senate Bill 1045. [read post]
5 Jan 2021, 10:20 am
Stay Up to Date on State Legislation The 87th Texas Legislature will meet from January 12 to May 31. [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 6:48 pm
As a Fort Worth Medical Malpractice attorney I am providing this Texas medical malpractice update. [read post]
28 Nov 2021, 9:01 pm
If asked to identify the state with the most people on its death row, most Americans would likely say Texas or maybe Oklahoma. [read post]
17 Apr 2024, 9:44 am
” This change suggests that the legislature intended for the term to function similarly to the repealed exception, indicating a non-substantive alteration. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 8:26 am
(See an interactive presentation with details about all the cases.)See related Grits posts:What can the Texas Legislature do to reduce prosecutor misconduct? [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 12:14 pm
Reasons why an alternative custody arrangement might be best The standard possession order (let’s abbreviate it as SPO) and the extended SPO contained in the Texas Family Code is a default option created by the Texas legislature to govern custody rights when the parents cannot or will not agree to their own arrangement. [read post]
23 Jan 2015, 5:59 am
The Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee's interim report (pdf) to the 84th Legislature is out. [read post]
7 Nov 2013, 4:52 am
That's what the Texas legislature was really doing when it prescribed the PBO program. [read post]
19 Jan 2018, 1:45 pm
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting I have any sympathy for thieves, rather I think they could use a little more company living as guests of the State of Texas. [read post]
3 May 2012, 3:05 am
In 2003, the state Legislature enacted significant changes limiting the amount of damages for pain and suffering that plaintiffs could recover in medical malpractice cases. [read post]
12 Aug 2011, 10:23 am
Michael Li, who’s been following all of the back and forth, has an analysis here … but the upshot is that since redistricting is conducted by the state legislature, federal legislators couldn’t claim the protection of the Speech or Debate Clause. [read post]
