Human Rights Law

Texas Executions
Rosanna Ruiz reports, "Texas gets off to slow restart on executions," in the Houston Chronicle. Of the three inmates who had dates with death this year, only one was sent into Texas' death chamber and executed, an uncharacteristic start for...

Beldar on Fund on Perry's success in "nationalizing" a state race
With a sub-head reading "Texas governor Rick Perry's victory last night shows that nationalizing local races can work," John Fund of the Wall Street Journal - yet another analyst whose work and opinions I respect greatly - wrote this yesterday afternoon about Tuesday's Texas primary results: The late House Speaker Tip O'Neill once said "all politics is local...

10 Executions in 30 Days: Is there no halt to the 'Texas Killing Machine'
Texas is set to thin out its death row before the week is over. Since mid-October Texas has executed eight inmates, with another two scheduled for execution by the end of this week...

Ohio executes while Texas has to postpone two scheduled executions
Providing another tangible example of the unpredictability of modern application of the death penalty, Ohio and Texas had surprisingly different executions experiences over the last 24 hours...

More evidence that the death penalty is dying a slow death on the front lines
One datum showing the slow death of the modern American death penalty is the very low number of executions nationwide. (There has not been in more than a few executions in 2008 in any state other than Texas...

The Death Penalty in Texas Looks Bad
Questions about whether Gov. Rick Perry allowed the execution of a man some arson experts say may have been innocent, and then hindered an investigation into the evidence, continue to reverberate across Texas, where issues surrounding capital punishment have rarely stirred such controversy...

Busy death chamber in Texas
As detailed in this AP article, Texas is on pace for a lot of executions in the next few week: A dozen condemned inmates in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's so-called "death watch" cells are being executed at a...

US sees drop in executions, death sentences in 2008: report
[JURIST] Executions in the US are at a 14-year low and the number of death sentences has dropped 60 percent since the 1990s, according to a report released Thursday by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), a non-profit organization that opposes the death penalty...

Dumb Texas Laws
Stupid Laws in the Lone Star State

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Military Veterans Benefits
How to obtain full range of benefits for veterans and dependnets

Texas Employment Law
alleged violations of Texas labor laws including overtime pay, discrimination and harassment.

ReNu Lens Cleaner
600 Lawuits Settled and Counting

Ballot Device
Election Systems and Software agrees to pays city of San Francisco $3.5 million settlement after problems with AutoMARK lead to prolonged hand counting of votes.

Texas' KB Home Hit with Price Fixing Class Action
Texas' KB Home Faces Price Fixing Class-Action

BP to Pay $15M for Texas Refiney Violations of Clean Air Act
BP to Pay $15M for Texas Refiney Violations of Clean Air Act

Wrongful Death
alleging death was caused by the conduct of negligent defendant.