Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Friday, November 08, 2024

Texas Top Court Gives New Trial to Death Row Inmate Because of Trial Judge's Antisemitism

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 In Ex Parte Halprin ,  (TX Ct. Crim. App., Nov. 6, 2024), the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in a 6-3 decision granted a new trial to one ...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Suit Challenges HIPPA Rules Barring Reporting of Out-of-State Abortions

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As previously reported , in April of this year the Department of Health and Human Services issued new privacy rules under HIPPA designed to ...
Tuesday, October 08, 2024

Texas Judicial Conduct Commission Withdraws Reprimand of Judge Who Refused to Perform Same-Sex Weddings

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As previously reported , in 2019 the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct issued a Public Warning to Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensl...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Texas Sues HHS Over Rule Protecting Privacy of Information About Out-of-State Abortions

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Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services challenging two HHS privacy...
Monday, September 09, 2024

Factual Issues Remain in Chaplain's Suit Over Ouster for Anti-Trans Blog Post

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 In Fox v. City of Austin ,  (WD TX, Sept. 4, 2024), a Texas federal district court refused to grant summary judgment to either side on seve...
Friday, August 30, 2024

5th Circuit Reopens Lipan-Apache's Suit Objecting to Park Modifications

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 In 2021, Texas voters approved an amendment to the state constitution that provides: This state or a political subdivision of this state m...
Wednesday, August 07, 2024

Court Enjoins Enforcement Against Texas of DOE Guidance Documents on Transgender Students

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In State of Texas v. Cardona ,  (ND TX, Aug. 5, 2024), a Texas federal district court in a 113-page opinion enjoined enforcement against Tex...
Wednesday, July 03, 2024

Court Rejects Texas AG's Challenge To Catholic Agency Assisting Migrants

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 As previously reported , a legal battle has been underway between Annunciation House, a Catholic agency serving migrants and refugees in El...
Monday, July 01, 2024

Justice of the Peace's Challenge to Reprimand for Refusing Same-Sex Marriage Officiation Is Remanded

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 In Hensley v. State Commission on Judicial Conduct , (TX Sup. Ct., June 28, 2024), the Texas Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision, held that a...
Saturday, June 01, 2024

Texas Supreme Court Rejects Expansion of Medical Exceptions to Abortion Ban

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 In State of Texas v. Zurawski , (TX Sup. Ct., May 31, 2024), the Texas Supreme Court vacated a temporary injunction entered by a state tria...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Texas School Sues Over New Title IX Rules on Sex Discrimination

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Suit was filed this week in a Texas federal district court challenging the Biden administration's new rules under Title IX on sex discri...
Friday, May 03, 2024

Feds Sue Texas Correctional Authorities for Failing to Accommodate Employee's Religious Head Covering

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The Justice Department today filed suit against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice alleging that it violated Title VII by failing to a...
Friday, April 19, 2024

5th Circuit Remands Muslim Inmate's RLUIPA and Establishment Clause Claims

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 In Lozano v. Collier , (5th Cir., April 11, 2024), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a portion of the district court's dec...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

5th Circuit Denies Further Relief to Native American Church Objecting to Park Modifications

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As previously reported , last year a Texas federal district court held that members of the Lipam-Apache Native American Church should be giv...
Monday, April 08, 2024

Texas' Claim Against HHS Over Pharmacy Guidance Dismissed As Moot

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In State of Texas v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services ,  (WD TX, April 5, 2024), a Texas federal district court dismissed as m...
Thursday, April 04, 2024

Texas Man Sentenced To 37 Years in Muslim Hate Crime Murder

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A Department of Justice press release reports that yesterday a Texas federal district court sentenced a defendant to 37 years in prison (wi...
Monday, April 01, 2024

Appeals Court Upholds Preliminary Injunctions Against Texas Treating Gender-Affirming Care as Child Abuse

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In Abbott v. Doe ,  (TX App., March 29, 2024), a Texas state appellate court upheld a trial court's preliminary injunction against the s...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

5th Circuit: Texas Statute Giving Parents Right to Consent to Teens' Contraceptives Is Consistent with Title X

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 In Deanda v. Becerra ,  (5th Cir., March 12, 2024), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Texas statute giving parents the righ...
Friday, March 01, 2024

LGBTQ+ Support Group Fights Texas AG's Demand for Information

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Suit was filed this week in a Texas state trial court by PFLAG, a national support group for LGBTQ+ individuals and their families, seeking ...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Civil Conspiracy Claims Against Religious Organization Survive 1st Amendment Defenses

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In re Gothard , (TX App., Feb. 22, 2024), is a mandamus action that is essentially an appeal of a trial court's refusal to dismiss civil...