Texas Legal News

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Texas Law News

Court blocks elimination of funding for Texas Planned Parenthood clinics
A Texas law was set to defund 49 Planned Parenthood clinics, citing the state’s opposition to abortion.

New Study Questions Texas Execution
In a new book-length study written by James Liebman, a Columbia law professor, and six of his students and published in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, the decision to execute Carlos De Luna for the 1983 murder of a Corpus Christi gas station attendant is called into question again and again.

TEXAS grant shortage
By: Jake Walker State budget cuts leave low-income students with less aid Due to recent budget cuts passed by the Texas Legislature, some students will have to make do with less financial aid in the form of the TEXAS Grant for the next academic school year. ...