HowAppealing

DECEMBER 9, 2022

“Texas Doctor Who Violated Abortion Law Wins Dismissal of Suit; Suit was filed under law allowing private policing of statute; San Antonio doctor wrote op-ed detailing his violation of law”: Madlin Mekelburg of Bloomberg News has this report. Supreme Court overturned Roe v.

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JURIST

JANUARY 3, 2024

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Texas and Governor Greg Abbott in his official capacity on Wednesday over a state law that criminalizes illegal entry into the border state from anywhere but a port of entry, exerting state jurisdiction over what is usually a federal matter. Last month, Abbott signed SB 4.

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HowAppealing

JULY 16, 2021

“New Texas Abortion Statute Raises Cutting-Edge Questions Not Just About Abortion but About the Relationship Between State and Federal Courts”: Law professors Vikram David Amar and Jason Mazzone have this essay online at Justia’s Verdict.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Share The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard the case of a Texas death-row inmate seeking DNA testing for evidence that he believes will clear him. A federal appeals court threw out Rodney Reed’s federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Texas law governing DNA testing, explaining that Reed had filed his suit too late.

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JURIST

MARCH 10, 2023

A Texas man Friday sued three women who allegedly aided his ex-wife by providing her with “illegally obtained abortion pills” without his knowledge. Silva is represented by the former Solicitor General of Texas, Jonathan F. Therefore, the court does not have any license to put aside Texas’ abortion laws.

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JURIST

MARCH 17, 2022

Texas Secretary of State , challenged the constitutionality of the state’s system for verifying signatures on mail-in ballots. The claim alleged that Texas Election Code (TEC) § 84.001 violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). .”

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Share The Supreme Court on Monday appeared skeptical of a pair of laws in Texas and Florida that would regulate how large social media companies control content posted on their sites. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld the Texas law.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to block a Texas law banning abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy, keeping intact the most restrictive anti-abortion law in the US. The Texas Legislature was well aware of this binding precedent.

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HowAppealing

DECEMBER 9, 2021

“State judge declares Texas abortion law unconstitutional — but does not stop it from being enforced; The fate of the statute remains uncertain; An appeal to the ruling is already underway, and an opinion on the law from the U.S.

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JURIST

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging a highly controversial Texas law, Senate Bill (SB8) , which bans all abortions after six weeks and authorizes citizens to report individuals who assist or intend to assist people seeking to terminate their pregnancies. Wade and Planned Parenthood v.

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SCOTUSBlog

APRIL 20, 2023

Share The Supreme Court on Wednesday revived the case of a man on death-row in Texas who is seeking DNA testing to provide evidence that he asserts will clear him. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that Rodney Reed had filed his challenge to the Texas law governing DNA testing too late.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 18, 2022

But earlier this year, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton opened up a new battleground: the home. A few days later, the governor of Texas ordered the state’s Child Protective Services (CPS) to investigate families whose children are in transgender therapy. The attorney general then appealed to the Texas Supreme Court.

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HowAppealing

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

“Texas’s Abortion Law Blunder: The Supreme Court was right not to interfere for now, but the statute won’t survive scrutiny on the merits.” ” This editorial will appear in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Texas was another instance of a common jurisprudential problem for the justices: how should a modern court, largely devoted to textualism in its statutory interpretation, deal with cases about Native American tribes, which traditionally have depended on historical and contextual understandings only weakly linked to the text of the statute.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

Texas Department of Public Safety , the Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a Texas court and held that a military veteran could proceed with a lawsuit against his former employer, the Texas Department of Public Safety. A Texas court agreed and dismissed Torres’ suit. Share In Torres v.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it has opened a statewide investigation into the conditions in the five secure juvenile correctional facilities operated by the Texas Juvenile Justice Department. . The investigation will also look into whether Texas provides adequate mental health care to these juveniles.

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HowAppealing

OCTOBER 9, 2021

“Texas’ restrictive abortion law temporarily restored by federal appeals court”: Madlin Mekelburg of The Austin American-Statesman has this report. Marimow of The Washington Post reports that “ Appeals court reinstates Texas’s six-week abortion ban, two days after it was lifted.” ” Ann E.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Another Texas inmate, Ruben Gutierrez, who was set to be executed on Oct. His attorneys cited the Constitution’s First Amendment and a federal statute that protects an inmate’s religious rights. A judge granted a request by the Cameron County District Attorney’s Office to vacate the execution date.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Texas presents yet another installment in the decades-long conflict between state gambling regulators and Native American tribes. In 1983, responding to a lower-court decision holding that the transfer of those trust responsibilities violated the Texas Constitution, Texas terminated the trust relationship.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 16, 2022

Texas resolves a longstanding dispute about the ability of Texas to control gambling on the lands of two of the Native American tribes that reside there. The most controversial provisions of that statute, addressed in Ysleta , are the provisions that govern the tribes’ subjection to Texas gambling regulations.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Texas for infringing two patents covering pre-natal genetic tests. So, venue was proper under the narrow venue statute for patent cases, Section 1400(b). So, venue was proper under the narrow venue statute for patent cases, Section 1400(b). Ravgen sued Quest in W.D. Quoting Juniper. Transfer ordered.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Share A Texas law that bans abortions anytime a fetal heartbeat is detected will “immediately and catastrophically reduce abortion access in Texas” if it is allowed to take effect on Wednesday, a group of abortion providers told the Supreme Court on Monday. Greg Abbott signed the Texas law, known as S.B. 8 , on May 19.

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OilandGasLawyer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

According to an article in The Texas Tribune , senators on the Senate Business and Commerce Committee were frustrated that the Railroad Commission had not done more to require natural gas producers, processors and pipelines to winterize their systems. ” Continue reading ?.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 12, 2023

Sylvia Gonzalez rode to victory in her 2019 race for city council in Castle Hill, Texas, on a promise to unseat the allegedly corrupt city manager through a petition. Rather, she argued that she qualified for the exception outlined in Nieves by presenting data of indictments under the Texas tampering statute over the past decade.

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SCOTUSBlog

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Beatty, 61, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Wednesday evening. In particular, the state wrote, the purpose of the statute is to address “financial hurdles to obtaining services, not hypothetical correctional facilities’ policies that may render an inmate unable to obtain the psychological evaluation of choice.”

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

10, 2022, a judge in the Western District of Texas struck down the federal law that prohibits access to guns for people subject to domestic violence protection orders. The ruling in Texas was based on an originalist legal argument rather than the data. But now, the U.S. He did this based on a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, NYSRPA v.

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Mondaq

APRIL 25, 2022

In a recently issued taxpayer-favorable opinion, the Texas Supreme Court overturned the court of appeals' decision holding that the state's performance-based sourcing statute for service receipts.

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JURIST

JUNE 21, 2021

Under Wisconsin Statute § 343.305 , an officer can request a blood sample from the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in the death or great bodily harm to another person. Many courts have addressed the issue of taking blood samples from drivers without consent, including Texas and Nevada.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 11, 2022

Starr County, Texas district attorney Gocha Allen Ramirez, has dismissed the murder charge levied against Lizelle Herrera for having a “self-induced abortion,” saying that it was clear that she did not commit a criminal act under state law, reports the New York Times.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Texas authorities say they have the right to keep it under civil forfeiture statutes. If police and prosecutors succeed, Texas law will let them keep 100 percent of the proceeds for themselves without ever filing criminal charges against anyone. Photo courtesy Institute for Justice. Neither did compliance.

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Above The Law

APRIL 29, 2022

Talk about long-arm statutes. [ Oklahoma just passed their version of Texas's Roe sidestep. People are upset that the Texas bill disincentivizing the use of clean energy isn't enough to keep them using fossil fuels. . * The EU's laws will be impacting American free speech, eh? The Hill ]. NBC News ].

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Marimow, The Washington Post) On the heels of another mass shooting, the Supreme Court prepares to hear a gun rights case from Texas (Joshua Zinn, Houston Public Media) In Texas, Local Laws to Prevent Travel for Abortions Gain Momentum (J.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Reed’s case raises a statute of limitations question about whether such a claim can be brought at the end of state court litigation or at the moment a trial court denied DNA testing. See also: I s Texas Ignoring DNA Evidenced in Rodney Reed Case?

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At the Lectern

JULY 12, 2021

First, the court resolves a statute of limitations issue. ” Thus, the plaintiff’s lawsuit was brought within the applicable two-year statute of limitations when he filed suit on his 20th birthday. City of Fontana , that is.

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OilandGasLawyer

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The Texas Supreme Court will hear arguments in December in Concho Resources v. Ellison sued all three for conversion and for payment of amounts due under the division order statute, Texas Natural Resources Code section 91.404. Ellison , No. 19-0233, a fight over ownership of the minerals in 154 acres in Irion County.

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Constitutional Law Reporter

JUNE 1, 2023

According to the Court majority, when a prisoner pursues state post-conviction DNA testing through the state-provided litigation process, the statute of limitations for a 42 U.S.C. Facts of the Case A Texas jury found petitioner Rodney Reed guilty of the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites. Reed then sued in federal court under 42 U.S.C.

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SCOTUSBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Share On Tuesday the justices will hear oral argument in the case of Texas death-row inmate Rodney Reed , who is seeking DNA testing for evidence that he believes will clear him. The question that the justices will consider in Reed’s case is when the statute of limitations to pursue a federal civil rights claim begins to run.

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