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3 Mar 2024, 5:54 pm by Texas Legal News
Amarillo, TX (March 3, 2024) - On Friday, March 1, a deputy with the Potter County Sheriff's Office was injured following a two-vehicle accident in the Amarillo area. [read post]
15 Feb 2024, 10:56 am by Press Release
Sheriff’s Office in the Texas panhandle notes many of those involved were “unlawfully in the United States” in yet one more case of trafficking of animals for fighting tied to the border crisis in America. [read post]
1 Dec 2023, 7:23 am by Amy Howe
”   Sandra’s mother, Ada Mae, was the college-educated daughter of a prosperous Texas merchant and rancher. [read post]
7 Jul 2023, 1:03 pm by Ryan Goodman
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18 Jun 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Exodus of Election Officials Raises Concerns of Partisanship MSN – Anthony Izaguirre (Associated Press) | Published: 6/13/2021 After facing threats and intimidation during the 2020 presidential election and its aftermath, and now the potential of new punishments in certain states, county officials who run elections are quitting or retiring early. [read post]
28 May 2021, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Michigans Top Election Official and Dominion Warn Counties About the Risks of Vote Audits by Outside Groups MSN – Amy Gardner (Washington Post) | Published: 5/25/2021 Michigan’s top election official and the company whose voting equipment has been the subject of baseless claims of fraud are cautioning local governments in the state that outside audits of the 2020 election results like the one underway in Maricopa County, Arizona, would be illegal and would void… [read post]
23 Apr 2021, 2:44 pm by Guest Blogger
While living in the Rio Grande Valley, he served as vice president and president of the Hidalgo County Bar Association and was on the State Bar of Texas Grievance Committee in Hidalgo County, eventually serving as its chair. [read post]
12 May 2020, 9:09 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Potter County would have been better off paying and calling it the cost of an education, and I suspect, when all is said and done, the same will turn out to be true for the Texas Office of Court Administration. [read post]
18 Dec 2019, 1:38 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Enjoy:Here's what's on deck this month:IntroChristmas Poem: "If The Whos Were Us"Top StoriesWhy high fines and fees are a plague on the criminal-justice system.Musical interlude: Debtors Prison BluesWhat recent Texas innocent cases tell us about needed policy reforms.Year in Review: Fill in the BlankBail reform in Harris CountyAbolition of the Driver Responsibility surchargeTexas Legislature unintentionally decriminalizes marijuanaMore prosecutors going after cops in… [read post]
17 Dec 2019, 12:15 pm by Ronald Collins
The following is a series of questions posed by Ronald Collins to Geoffrey Stone and David Strauss in connection with their new book, “Democracy and Equality: The Enduring Constitutional Vision of the Warren Court” (Oxford University Press, 2020). [read post]
29 Nov 2019, 8:45 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Potter County contains most of Amarillo, while Armstrong is a nearby, very rural county with very few lawyers, an 8-bed jail, and no municipal police departments. [read post]
16 Nov 2019, 11:09 am by Gritsforbreakfast
According to the group, "More than 74% of all misdemeanor defendants in Potter County, Texas (Amarillo) face the possibility of jail time without the aid of a lawyer, due to sheriff’s deputies, county prosecutors, and trial court judges exerting direct, overt pressure on indigent defendants to forego exercising their constitutional right to counsel. [read post]
28 Feb 2018, 2:46 pm by James Innocent
Texas is different than most states in that employers can opt out of workers’ compensation insurance. [read post]
27 Aug 2017, 7:36 am by Gritsforbreakfast
And so, if people up in Amarillo and Potter county want to pay us a few million dollars extra for bed years that we're not going to use anyway, they want it, we don't. [read post]
15 Aug 2017, 7:48 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
When he started, I think one of the big things that he did is he increased transparency in the assigned counsel system, so that we know which counties are appointing people and which counties aren't. [read post]