Court orders new look at Texas redistricting
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The Supreme Court kept alive a Democratic constitutional challenge to a Republican redistricting plan in Texas yesterday, ordering a three-judge district court to re-examine its decision in January upholding the plan.
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A judge declared Texas&#39; share-the-wealth system of school financing unconstitutional Wednesday and gave the Legislature a year to find a new solution.
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The counties of South Texas are among the nationâs poorest, and their jumbled subdivisions, known as colonias, can look the part.
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The Supreme Court is expected to rule Friday on rerunning the country&#39;s disputed presidential election. By Fred Weir and Helen Womack | Correspondents of The Christian Science Monitor.
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SEGUIN - After nearly six weeks of testimony in Austin, District Judge John Dietz ruled the current funding system for Texas schools unconstitutional and gave the state one year to come up with a better plan.
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The power of incumbency and an advantageous GOP redistricting in Texas swept Republicans to another two years of control over the House of Representatives.
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In a divided ruling, justices strike down portions of federal guidelines, forcing a redrawing of the sentencing system.
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By John Moritz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb.
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Area legislators and school leaders are ready for the Texas Legislature to formulate a new school finance plan, hoping for an improvement over the &quot;Robin Hood&quot; plan deemed unconstutitional by a state district judge Wednesday.
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The Supreme Court is meeting to announce new cases it will decide and hear oral arguments.
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A lawsuit seeking to block a new state law that gave Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa partial control of the nation's second-largest school district has gone to a judge.
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California's governor wants to reform the way Congressional districts are drawn. Does he have a good idea?
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A Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered the state to rewrite, reprint and redistribute all its ballots for the Nov. 2 election, saying the wording of a ballot initiative was inaccurate and biased.
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By Ron Sylvester, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 11--A Sedgwick County district judge who has pushed for campaign reform in judicial elections for 10 years has asked a federal judge in Topeka to let him join a lawsuit against the commission that wants to keep candidates silent.
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This election's potential impact on the Supreme Court has seemed to be an afterthought, but the stakes for the court and the law are even higher now than they were in 2000. The prospect of a change on the court is greater and the replacement of one justice could affect the law on hot issues.
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What sets Marshall apart from its neighbors is a red-hot patent docket. An estimated 234 cases will be filed in the Federal Eastern District of Texas this year, a majority of them in Marshall.
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The Supreme Court begins its new term today by moving to clear up confusion over the future of federal sentencing rules that have been in place for nearly two decades.