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Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. , 576 U.S. 519 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court analyzed whether disparate impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act . [ 1 ]
Texas v. White, 74 U.S. (7 Wall.) 700 (1869), was a case argued before the Supreme Court of the U.S. in 1869. [1] The case's notable political dispute involved a claim by the Reconstruction era government of Texas that U.S. bonds owned by Texas since 1850 had been illegally sold by the Confederate state legislature during the American Civil War.
A convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution, also referred to as an Article V Convention, state convention, [1] or amendatory convention is one of two methods authorized by Article Five of the United States Constitution whereby amendments to the United States Constitution may be proposed: on the Application of two thirds of the State legislatures (that is, 34 of the 50 ...
Ratification of a proposed amendment has been done by state conventions only once—the 1933 ratification process of the 21st Amendment. [1] The 21st is also the only constitutional amendment that repealed another one, that being the 18th Amendment, which had been ratified 14 years earlier.
The total number of intermediate appellate court seats currently stands at 80, ranging from three (Texarkana, El Paso, Waco, Eastland, and Tyler), four (Amarillo and Beaumont), six (Austin and Corpus Christi-Edinburg), seven (Fort Worth and San Antonio), nine (Houston-1st and Houston-14th), and thirteen (Dallas) per court.
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A shark bit three people off a southern Texas beach in what the city's fire chief called an unprecedented incident on the Fourth of July, the same day another person was bitten by a shark in ...
Texas answered immediately with its own 12-play touchdown drive, converting a fourth down inside the Clemson 10 before Wisner found the end zone on a 3-yard run on the ensuing play.