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When Terri Boyette began to tell her story, the temperature in the hearing room steadily rose as she described a laundry list of every homeowners' worst nightmares.
In Texas, where it takes 10 years of squatting to obtain property through "adverse possession," a man named Kenneth Robinson recently tried to claim a $330,000 home in the city of Flower Mound for ...
The body cavity search Christina Cardenas was subjected to at a correctional facility and hospital in Tehachapi amounted to "state sanctioned torture," famed attorney Gloria Allred said.
There followed a long period of further litigation in the form of consent decrees, appeals and other legal actions, until a final judgment was rendered in 1992. [1] But problems in enforcement continued, and in 1996 U.S. Congress enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) to address these issues as well as abuse of the prison litigation process.
The Inclusive Communities Project is a Texas-based non-profit organization that helps low-income families obtain affordable housing. [5] In 2008, they filed suit against the Texas agency responsible for administering these tax credits, claiming it disproportionately allocated too many tax credits "in predominantly black inner-city areas and too ...
Faculty and students protested. For the next several years, the case was a popular topic of discussion and debate in The Daily Texan, the University's student newspaper. The Texas legislature passed the Top Ten Percent Rule governing admissions into public colleges in the state, partly in order to mitigate some of the effects of the Hopwood ...
Her story is one of many squatting incidents that have gone viral in recent months, causing worry among homeowners and landlords that illegal occupancy is a growing trend nationwide.
The act was widely expected to reduce the number of deportations by the agency. Texas filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas soon after, and Judge Drew B. Tipton issued a temporary restraining order. The state soon dismissed the lawsuit, but filed a new suit with Louisiana in April 2021 after the ...