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31 Jul 2012, 10:18 am by CJLF Staff
" The Texas Civil Rights Project sued the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in 2008 over conditions former inmate Eugene Blackmon experienced while in custody at the Garza East Unit in Beeville while serving a three-year sentence. [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 10:06 am by Adam Gillette
 According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Mr. [read post]
16 Feb 2019, 8:05 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Of those, all but 70 "civil service" departments and all but one sheriff (Harris County) operate with their disciplinary files subject to disclosure under the Texas Public Information Act. [read post]
5 May 2023, 8:28 am by Katie Hoeppner
August 5, 2021 The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Texas file a lawsuit against Texas Gov. [read post]
17 Mar 2016, 3:25 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Though the Attorney General's office recently overstated the number of people shot and killed by Texas law enforcement, it almost seems from these stories that Texas cops aim to catch up.Robots and American LawI'm really looking forward to attending this talk next Tuesday by Ryan Calo on "Robots and American Law" at the Strauss Center, UT Law School. [read post]
23 Dec 2021, 10:43 am by Neil H. Buchanan
  Are people on the right in this country now talking about civil war? [read post]
20 Dec 2023, 2:50 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
If true, the alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sexual harassment in the workplace. [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 4:27 am
PLN is ably represented by Scott Medlock with the Texas Civil Rights Project and by HRDC general counsel Daniel E. [read post]
TLJ is also committed to shaping the future of equal justice in Texas by increasing the advancement and the number of Latinx judges in Texas. [read post]
2 Feb 2016, 1:07 pm by CJLF Staff
  Andrew Blake of the Washington Times reports that the decision overturned a federal judge's ruling that it was unconstitutional to make 72-year-old Wisconsin child sex offender Michael Belleau, who was civilly committed to a secure treatment center in 2004, wear an electronic monitoring bracelet when he was released from civil commitment in 2010, two years after the requirement was put on the books. [read post]
13 Mar 2016, 8:23 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The Houston Chronicle reported that, "More than 140 inmates have killed themselves in Texas jails over the last five years, or about 24 inmates, on average, committing suicide every year. [read post]
12 Feb 2007, 1:25 pm by Bridget
Of those, about 85 have been compensated in some way, though most were through civil lawsuits, not state compensation laws.Just last month, a decorated Vietnam veteran who spent about 20 years in prison for a rape he did not commit received a full pardon from Texas Gov. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 1:31 am by Ben Vernia
Last year, the Department announced criminal pleas and civil recoveries arising from our investigation of five nursing homes operated by Cathedral Rock, a Texas corporation, and its CEO. [read post]
23 Aug 2021, 11:25 am by Benson Varghese
Notably, it also made human trafficking a first-degree felony if the actor recruited, enticed or obtained the victim from a shelter or treatment center for runaways, foster children, and the homeless, among others. [read post]
10 Feb 2013, 9:50 am
As noted on Pop Tort, a civil justice website sponsored by the Center for Justice & Democracy, such laws protect “the ‘psychic’ damage to physicians (who have well-paid insurance lawyers defending them, by the way), than the horrifying actual damage caused by negligent care, killing 98,000 people every year (at least), plus brain injury, blindness, quadriplegia, misdiagnosed cancer, the death of a child, … How about the fact that the vast majority of… [read post]
16 Oct 2018, 5:45 am by Michelle O'Neil
Under federal law, anyone found to have committed family violence (aka domestic abuse), whether in a criminal proceeding or by way of a civil protective order, is prohibited from purchasing a gun. [read post]