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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 ...
An October analysis by The Dallas Morning News found that 97 of the first 100 titles listed were written by women, ... "Books banned in Texas include 1984, Maus, and The Handmaid's Tale, but not ...
The Huffington Post reported in 2013 that Virginia still has on its books the so-called "fornication law," which prohibits any person who is not married from having sex. The act is punishable as a ...
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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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.
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 ...
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
Book challenges nearly tripled in the 2023-2024 school year nationwide. Texas is among the states with the most restrictions to books.
The Constitution of Texas is the foremost source of state law. Legislation is enacted by the Texas Legislature, published in the General and Special Laws, and codified in the Texas Statutes. State agencies publish regulations (sometimes called administrative law) in the Texas Register, which are in turn codified in the Texas Administrative Code.