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28 Jun 2019, 1:30 pm
The Border Rights Center (BRC), housed at the ACLU of Texas, advocates for the 15 million people from California to Texas who call our southwest border home. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 12:54 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
The death of Texas' Driver Responsibility surcharge was the single, outstanding #cjreform highlight of the 86th Texas Legislature, outdistancing all other reforms in terms of impact by a country mile. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 10:12 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
New York, California, Florida and Texas get many seats, as they are the most populous states. [read post]
A federal court in Texas has enjoined a Texas law regulating the treatment of fetal remains for exactly this reason. [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 2:40 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
They have state-specific pages for each jurisdiction; here's the one for Texas.By their calculations, 47 percent of people entering Texas prisons in 2017 were revoked either from probation or parole - 36 percent from probation, 11 percent from parole.My first thought was to double-check their math, so here's my calculations using verifiable, public sourcing.In Texas, according to an annual TDCJ report to the legislature, probation revocations to prison… [read post]
24 Jun 2019, 12:42 pm by Courtney Warren
The Texas Legislature Has Stalled The Texas Legislature was expected to unequivocally preempt the local ordinances by statute in its most recent session, but the legislative session ended before the bill could come to a final vote. [read post]
21 Jun 2019, 7:49 am by William K. Berenson
The governor’s final day to sign or veto bills passed by the state legislature was Sunday. [read post]
20 Jun 2019, 9:05 am by Amy Howe
The justices confronted a similar case nearly 15 years ago, when they rejected a challenge to the display of a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Texas state capitol. [read post]
20 Jun 2019, 5:29 am by Charles Sartain
The 86th Legislature produced a few, but not many, changes in laws affecting the business, (most going into effect on September 1). [read post]
20 Jun 2019, 5:24 am by Joe Patrice
[Courthouse News Service] * Right-wing groups have drafted copycat bills for state legislatures to pass for years and now pro-choice groups are following the same blueprint. [read post]
19 Jun 2019, 7:55 am by rstokes
In 2013, the Texas Legislature passed a law requiring that all maternal care facilities be classified based on their ability to provide specific levels of care. [read post]
18 Jun 2019, 12:17 pm by Jennifer Long
Wendy Davis – revealed there were at least 18,000 untested rape kits in the state of Texas at the time. [read post]
15 Jun 2019, 7:56 am by John Floyd
  Like in most state legislatures, individual lawmakers over the past several years in the Texas Legislature have attempted to reform the state’s antiquated money bail system but to no avail. [read post]
14 Jun 2019, 10:06 am by admin
That is the question Florida’s legislature and Gov. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 1:25 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
For an example of how to analyze appellate records to identify this type of prosecutor misconduct, see a study of California cases by the Veritas Institute.Police records a gap in the system: Prosecutors cannot disclose records of police misconduct in Texas civil service cities governed by the state civil-service code: about 74 police departments out of nearly 2,000 statewide. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 10:03 am by [email protected]
Asset forfeiture has led to an outcry in Texas and unsuccessful moves for reform at the Texas legislature. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 10:03 am by [email protected]
Asset forfeiture has led to an outcry in Texas and unsuccessful moves for reform at the Texas legislature. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 8:36 am by Herrman & Herrman, P.L.L.C.
The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) says that as of May 2019, 19 states —Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia — and Washington, D.C. have banned hand-held phone use by all drivers. [read post]