Civil-rights lawyer remains missing in Syria

August 13, 2018 Leave a comment

Gender bias, law school, back to class round out roundup.

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Supreme Court strikes down Texas abortion clinic regulation

June 27, 2016 Leave a comment

Activists demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 27, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court struck down Texas’ widely replicated regulation of abortion clinics Monday in the court’s biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter century. The justices voted 5-3 in favor of Texas clinics that had argued the regulations ...

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Texas threatens court action over refugees

November 30, 2015 Leave a comment

Texas threatens to sue over refugees leads news summary that includes juveniles' rights, Antonin Scalia and a White House fence jumper.

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Supreme Court agrees to hear first abortion case since 2007

November 13, 2015 Leave a comment

In this Aug. 11, 2014 file photo, the Hilltop Women's Reproductive clinic is seen in El Paso, Texas. Conflicting rules about whether women should have to cross state lines to obtain an abortion could prompt the Supreme Court to take up its first case on the hot-button social issue since 2007. With the abortion law, this center will be forced to close due to new requirements and women will have to travel hundreds of miles or go to New Mexico to obtain an abortion. (AP Photo/Juan Carlos Llorca, File)

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is taking on its first abortion case in eight years, a dispute over state regulation of abortion clinics. The justices said Friday they will hear arguments over a Texas law that would leave about 10 ...

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Texas executions likely on, despite Supreme Court dissent

August 10, 2015 Leave a comment

In this May 27, 2008 file photo, the gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where Texas' condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs. Wherever their summer travels have taken them, Supreme Court justices probably will weigh in over the next few days on Texas’ plans to execute two death row inmates in the week ahead. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

WASHINGTON — Wherever their summer travels have taken them, Supreme Court justices probably will weigh in on Texas’ plans to execute two death row inmates in the week ahead. If past practice is any guide, the court is much more ...

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Prosecutor: Texas jail death investigated thoroughly

July 21, 2015 Leave a comment

In this July 13, 2015, frame taken from video provided by the Waller County Sheriff's Department from a motion-operated camera, emergency personnel carry a gurney near Sandra Bland's jail cell, at the Waller County jail in Hempstead, Texas. The video, released Monday, July 20, shows there was no activity for about 90 minutes in the hallway leading to the cell where authorities say Bland was found hanged, three days after her arrest. (Waller County Sheriff's Department via AP)

HEMPSTEAD, Texas — A Texas prosecutor says the death of a black woman whose family disputes authorities’ finding that she hanged herself in a jail cell is being examined as thoroughly as a murder investigation. Waller County District Attorney Elton ...

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Supreme court may take up major abortion case

June 22, 2015 Leave a comment

In a Tuesday July 2, 2013 file photo, pro-abortion rights supporter Yatzel Sabat, left, and anti-abortion protestor Amanda Reed demonstrate at the state Capitol in Austin, Texas. The Supreme Court is considering an emergency appeal from abortion providers in Texas, who want the justices to block two provisions of a state law that already has forced the closure of roughly half the licensed abortion clinics in the state. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

WASHINGTON — Abortion is back before the Supreme Court, and the justices could signal by the end of June whether they are likely to take up the biggest case on the hot-button subject in nearly a quarter-century. If the court ...

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Justices hear dispute over Confederate license plates

March 23, 2015 Leave a comment

Texas refused to issue a license plate bearing the Confederate battle flag.

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Texas prison agency seeks to replenish execution drug supply

March 9, 2015 Leave a comment

Texas’ prison agency is scrambling to find a supplier to replenish its inventory of execution drugs, which will be used up if the state goes forward with two lethal injections scheduled for this week and next.

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Hughes contract expands in Texas

August 12, 2014 Leave a comment

Hughes Network Systems LLC, of Germantown, a provider of broadband satellite systems and services, announced it has been awarded an expanded contract by the State of Texas Department of Information Resources for its offerings under the Texas Agency Network Next ...

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