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The Texas Public Information Act is a series of legislative acts that have been incorporated into the Texas Government Code in Title 5, Subchapter A Subtitle 552. The Act is intended to guarantee public access to governmental information in the interest of providing transparency in government. [1] [2]
The Texas Public Information Act presumes documents are open unless there’s an exception in the law to releasing the record. Even then, in most instances a governmental entity must ask the Texas ...
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The first municipal bankruptcy legislation was enacted in 1934 during the Great Depression. [2] Although Congress attempted to draft the legislation so as not to interfere with the sovereign powers of the states guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, the Supreme Court held the 1934 Act unconstitutional as an improper interference with the sovereignty of the states. [2]
The Resolution Trust Corporation was established in 1989 by the Financial Institutions Reform Recovery and Enforcement Act (FIRREA), and it was overhauled in 1991. [3] In addition to privatizing, and maximizing the recovery from the disposition of, the assets of failed S&Ls, FIRREA also included three specific goals designed to channel the resources of the RTC toward particular societal groups.
The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) made changes to American bankruptcy laws, affecting both consumer and business bankruptcies. Many of the bill's provisions were explicitly designed by the bill's Congressional sponsors to make it "more difficult for people to file for bankruptcy."
c. 19 is sometimes called the Bankruptcy Act 1623 [3] The Bankruptcy Act 1705; The act 6 Geo. 4. c. 16 is sometimes called the Bankruptcy Act 1825; The act 5 & 6 Vict. c. 122 [4] is sometimes called the Bankruptcy Act 1842 [5] or the Bankruptcy Amendment Act 1842. [6] The Bankrupt Law Consolidation Act 1849 (12 & 13 Vict. c. 106) [7]
Texas judge temporarily blocks parts of SCOPE Act On July 30, tech groups NetChoice and the Computer and Communications Industry Association filed a lawsuit to block the law, claiming it ...