The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

On Thursday, Unicorn Riot released an investigative report by Arturo Dominguez documenting the crisis-level conditions at the Harris County Jail in Houston, Texas, the third-largest jail in the U.S. Overcrowding, medical crises and a lack of mental health services have contributed to the deaths of dozens of detainees, Dominguez reports.

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JURIST

APRIL 7, 2021

Texas and Louisiana filed suit against the federal government Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas, alleging that immigration authorities declined to take custody of convicted individuals who could be subject to deportation.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 6, 2017

Two other states—Texas and North Dakota—filed an amicus brief supporting EPA; the petitioners opposed their participation on procedural grounds. The Second Circuit said the Connecticut statutes authorizing the solicitations did not compel utilities to enter into contracts with specific bidders. Clean Air Council v. Pruitt , No.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 3, 2022

A feud between two of Texas’ most prominent justice reformers—Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg and Judge Lina Hidalgo—has exploded into a bitter court case. Harris County, the third most populous county in the United States, is home to Houston, the largest city in Texas and fourth largest city in the United States.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

A few days after the California court issued its order, North Dakota and Texas asked the Wyoming federal court to lift a stay that the court had imposed in December 2017. Jacobson’s lawsuit asserted defamation, breach of contract, and promissory estoppel claims. The two states said the circumstances providing a basis for the stay (i.e.,

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SCOTUSBlog

MAY 11, 2023

presents one of the dwindling number of unresolved arbitration issues: whether, when parties have entered a contract with an arbitration clause that delegates to the arbitrator questions of arbitrability, the arbitrator — rather than a court — must decide whether the contract has been superseded by a subsequent contract.

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