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Powell v. Texas, 392 U.S. 514 (1968), was a United States Supreme Court case that ruled that a Texas statute criminalizing public intoxication did not violate the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The 5–4 decision's plurality opinion was by Justice Thurgood Marshall.
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a lawsuit Friday against Travis County over its voter registration policies, making it the third Democratic-leaning area in the state ...
The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas and a New York-based law firm have sued Travis County for failing to provide lawyers at bail hearings, arguing that the county has violated arrestees ...
In addition, he was a visiting professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, and his alma mater, South Texas College of Law where he received the Student Bar Association's Professor Excellence Award for 2004–2005 and 1999–2000. Judge Baird taught criminal law and procedure, criminal trial ...
League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry, 548 U.S. 399 (2006), is a Supreme Court of the United States case in which the Court ruled that only District 23 of the 2003 Texas redistricting violated the Voting Rights Act. [1]
The ACLU of Texas is suing Travis County over the county's requirement for people to attend first court appearances even if they cannot afford an attorney.
At the time, First Assistant Attorney General of Texas Brent Webster decried Mangrum's decision as "an activist Austin judge’s attempt to override Texas abortion laws." [8] [10] On November 28, 2023, the Texas Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Zurawski. By this time, the number of plaintiffs in the case had increased to 22: 20 women ...
For example, Potter County—less than one-tenth of Travis County’s size—was projected to save over $1 million by lowering the number of jail days by 5.6 days per person on average.