The ruling comes after a five-day trial in July at which patients, health providers, state agency officials, bioethicists, cemetery directors and religious leaders got on the witness stand.
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Criminal Justice
In Dallas County, bail is set in secret — and often in seconds
A lawsuit alleges that the county is jailing some of its poorest people without any meaningful inquiry into their ability to pay. In most cases, bail hearings that lead to those people being put behind bars last no more than 15 seconds.
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Politics
Why Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh would be good news for Texas Republicans
Texas aims to land several high-profile lawsuits before the high court — and hopes that, with Kavanaugh there, it will win them.
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Public Education
Texas teachers unions sue education agency over charter partnership law
In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, two teacher groups argue Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath exceeded his authority and weakened protections for public school employees.
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Politics
Trump-appointed judges are shifting the country’s most politically conservative circuit court further to the right
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears cases from Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana, has already welcomed five new judges under President Donald Trump.
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Criminal Justice
Police officers are almost never convicted of murder. Body cameras may have made the difference in this Texas case.
After more than 13 hours of deliberation, jurors convicted former Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver of murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed, 15-year-old black teenager.
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Texas Voting Rights
After loss at Supreme Court, groups continue push for federal oversight of Texas redistricting
Some of the groups that have sued over the state’s political maps made their intentions clear in a court filing Wednesday.
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Families Divided
Across the country, basements, offices and hotels play short-term host to people in ICE custody
The temporary holding facilities often come as a surprise to the unsuspecting civilians who work or live nearby.
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Criminal Justice
Blocked from giving away 3D-printed gun blueprints, Texas man says he’s selling them instead
Austin “crypto-anarchist” Cody Wilson says buyers can name their price for 3D-printed gun blueprints.
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Families Divided
Judge says reunited migrant families can now face a choice: Stay locked up together, or separate again
The Justice Department asked for the order to ensure that migrant parents who would otherwise have been detained can’t “bootstrap a right to release” just because they’re reunited with their children.
