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Justice Anthony Kennedy delivered the opinion of the Court, which in a 5–4 decision held that disparate impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act. [10] Justice Kennedy began his analysis by reviewing the historic development of disparate impact claims in federal law and concluded that Congress specifically intended to include ...
The Justice Department further hastened the case by waiving its right to file a reply brief. [32] On January 19, 2016, the Supreme Court agreed to review the case. [ 33 ] The Court took the unusual step of asking for a briefing on the new constitutional question as to whether or not DAPA violates the Take Care Clause .
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.
In one of the odd provisions of the Texas Government Code, there is no requirement that a municipal judge be an attorney if the municipal court is not a court of record (Chapter 29, Section 29.004), but the municipal judge must be a licensed attorney with at least two years experience in practicing Texas law if the municipal court is a court of ...
Some of Donald Trump's allies are assembling proposals to curtail the Justice Department's independence and turn the nation's top law enforcement body into an attack dog for conservative causes ...
Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, 576 U.S. 200 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that license plates are government speech and are consequently more easily regulated/subjected to content restrictions than private speech under the First Amendment.
On December 15, 1836, the Texas Congress passed the implementing statute establishing the courts of Texas, and elected the chief justice and four district judges the next day. [11] The four district judges covered 22 counties and were ex officio members of the Supreme Court. [ 12 ]
The Navy and Justice Department announced a new settlement offer Wednesday to some of the tens of thousands of ... More than 93,000 people have filed claims under the Camp Lejeune Justice Act ...