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  2. Texas Penal Code - Wikipedia

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    The first codification of Texas criminal law was the Texas Penal Code of 1856. Prior to 1856, criminal law in Texas was governed by the common law, with the exception of a few penal statutes. [3] In 1854, the fifth Legislature passed an act requiring the Governor to appoint a commission to codify the civil and criminal laws of Texas.

  3. Texas Statutes - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Statutes or Texas Codes are the collection of the Texas Legislature's statutes: the Revised Civil Statutes, Penal Code, and the Code of Criminal Procedure. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] References

  4. Is it illegal for trains to block railroad crossings in Texas ...

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    The Texas Transportation Code used to impose a criminal penalty against railway companies that blocked a street, railroad crossing or public highway for more than 10 minutes.

  5. National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Boston & Maine Corp.

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    National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Boston & Maine Corp., 503 U.S. 407 (1992), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (better known as Amtrak), could condemn railroad property from Boston and Maine Railroad and convey it to another railroad in order to continue passenger rail service over that route.

  6. BNSF Police Department - Wikipedia

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    Railroad police are certified state law enforcement officers, authorized under federal law, to operate as such in any state that allows railroad police authority under state law. BNSF Special Agents may have investigative and arrest powers both on and off railroad property if authorized by the state in which they are working.

  7. Houston East & West Texas Railway Co. v. United States

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    The Houston East and West Texas Railway Company managed an interstate railway line that ran through Dallas and Marshall, Texas (on the eastern border of Texas), and Shreveport, Louisiana. The freight shipping rates "on wagons" from Marshall to Dallas, a distance of 148 miles, was 36.8 cents, and the rate from Marshall to Shreveport, a distance ...

  8. Reagan v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. - Wikipedia

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    Statue of John H Reagan, a Texas Railroad Commissioner involved in the case. Reagan v. Farmers Loan & Trust Co. was a United States Supreme Court legal case that was submitted to the court on March 23, 1893, took place in 1894, and is revered in the history of American constitutional law.

  9. Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. - Wikipedia

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    Railroad Commission v. Pullman Co. , 312 U.S. 496 (1941), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court determined that it was appropriate for United States federal courts to abstain from hearing a case in order to allow state courts to decide substantial Constitutional issues that touch upon sensitive areas of state social policy.