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15 strange enforceable laws in Texas No. 1: Selling your organs. Tex. Pen. Code. §48.02 says it's illegal to sell human organs in Texas: your eyes, heart, kidneys, liver, lungs, skin, and other ...
Strange laws, also called weird laws, dumb laws, futile laws, unusual laws, unnecessary laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law). A number of books and websites purport to list dumb laws.
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Story at a glance A proposed bill in Texas would require all publishers to slap “age-appropriate” ratings to the covers of books. Under the bill, if a state agency disagrees with the rating it ...
Plenty of fascinating and strange food laws are rumored to exist across the country, but whether they are fact or fiction is hard to tell. If it didn't have an eyewitness report or the language in ...
Twenty-nine Jim Crow laws were passed in Texas. The state enacted one anti-segregation law in 1871 barring separation of the races on public carriers. This law was repealed in 1889. 1865: Juneteenth [Constitution] The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are ...
A federal judge in Texas last week ruled that Llano County officials must return more than a dozen books they had banned and removed from the county’s library shelves during 2021. The ...
Mel and Norma Gabler were religious fundamentalists active in United States school textbook reform between 1961 and the 2000s based in Longview, Texas. [1]Norma Gabler started her foray into school book banning in 1961 when her son pointed out how the phrase "one nation under God" was missing from the Gettysburg Address, which inspired her to complain to the State Board of Education. [2]