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18 Mar 2013, 5:41 am by Drake Law Firm
While the dangers of unrestrained pets are garnering more attention each day, it is unlikely that significant legislation will be adopted any time soon. [read post]
14 Mar 2013, 5:30 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
Still more recountings of the tale can be found in Legislating Pi: Indiana's Squared Circle, which was reprinted in Is Mathematics Inevitable? [read post]
10 Mar 2013, 9:23 am by Susan I. Nelson
” In other words, since federal judges are not elected, they should not be legislating from the bench. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 7:15 am by Cormac Early
Reilly of The Huffington Post reports that Senator Chris Coons of Delaware is planning a legislative response if the Court strikes down Section 5, while Ryan Grim and Sabrina Siddiqui, also at The Huffington Post, report that, contrary to Justice Scalia’s concerns at oral argument, “[m]any Senate Republicans . . . are willing to say that Section 5′s time has come and gone, and that Southern states should be treated no differently than the rest of the nation. [read post]
6 Mar 2013, 2:20 pm by Alex Vitrak
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments give Congress, not the courts, the power to enforce the provisions by appropriate legislation. [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 4:01 pm
Similar guidebooks are distributed in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 6:26 am
Last year, Alabama legislators enacted a ban on texting while driving, so we hope that year-end figures may reflect a decline as a result. [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 6:26 am
Last year, Alabama legislators enacted a ban on texting while driving, so we hope that year-end figures may reflect a decline as a result. [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 5:31 am by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
 However, the plaintiffs “rebooted” their claims and focused them in a different way, with new region-specific allegations related to “Region 43”— a region allegedly centered in Middle and Western Tennessee, and including portions of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, and Mississippi. [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 10:55 am by Carl Cecere
Holder, one tiny Alabama county’s monumental challenge to the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act’s “preclearance” requirement, forces the Court to grapple directly with some fundamental questions about the scope of Congress’s authority to enforce by “appropriate legislation” the constitutional guarantees in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. [read post]
28 Feb 2013, 1:52 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
” Politicians in South Dakota, Texas, and Alabama also advanced bills this week to restrict a woman’s decision making ability. [read post]
27 Feb 2013, 8:33 pm by Joey Fishkin
 But in Alabama “there were legislators that sit today that were caught on tape referring to African American voters as illiterates. [read post]
26 Feb 2013, 5:57 am by Drake Law Firm
According to a recent article, a local legislator stated that there "was some concern [from Airbus] for [Alabama's] reputation as far as lawsuits go." [read post]
19 Feb 2013, 10:50 pm by Reproductive Rights
Reuters: Alabama House passes bill tightening restrictions on abortion clinics, by Kaija Wilkinson: The Alabama House of Representatives passed legislation on Tuesday that would tighten regulations for abortion clinics in a move critics say could force many in the state... [read post]
19 Feb 2013, 10:33 pm by Andy Frame
In 2007, catfish were raised on 164,000 water acres (the vast majority located in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana). [read post]
18 Feb 2013, 2:56 pm by Kevin Goldberg
 A version of the FCC Collaboration Act was inserted into larger FCC reform legislation last year, but that legislation didn’t pass, which is why we’re back here again. [read post]
18 Feb 2013, 5:41 am by The Charge
  The income tax was heavily favored by the Western and Southern states; Alabama was the first to ratify in August, 1909 while the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts and our northern neighbor New Hampshire only acquiesced after the required 3/4 of the remaining states had already agreed. [read post]
16 Feb 2013, 11:46 am by Reproductive Rights
ThinkProgress: Alabama Republicans Advance Bill to Close Last Five Abortion Clinics In The State, by Adam Peck: Republican lawmakers in Alabama took a crucial step on Wednesday towards their goal of shuttering the state’s last five abortion clinics, advancing a... [read post]
14 Feb 2013, 7:20 am by Spencer Overton
Katzenbach, Congress acts at the height of its authority when it legislates to protect voting rights. [read post]