This weekend's Mardi Gras celebration in Galveston resulted in several arrests after a crowd became violent and refused to disperse. Just after midnight police began to sweep the area to end the Mardi Gras celebration, and they encountered a group who had used fencing to barricade the street. As police began to remove the fencing from [...]
Nearly 700 employees of IRS contractors owe $5.4 million in back taxes according to a report from the agency's inspector general. More than half of those workers should be ineligible to work for the IRS because they're not enrolled in installment plans to pay back what they owe. The IRS requires both employees and contractors [...]
The nation is in a partial government shutdown, and as a result thousands of federal workers in Texas are set to begin furloughs. National parks as well as the Johnson Space Center in Houston are affected by the shutdown as well as three presidential libraries in Texas. The majority of Houston-area NASA employees will be [...]
Five individuals were killed in a car crash on Monday, all coming from a cast party for the musical drama called "Texas." In most cases, party hosts are not liable for the actions of their intoxicated guests, but this case might be a little different. Those who died in the crash ranged in age from [...]
An Ohio village has been held in contempt over its use of speed cameras. Judge Robert Ruehlman of Hamilton County ruled March 7 that the Elmood Place ordinance allowing cameras to be used to ticket speeders without actually pulling them over was unconstitutional. But despite this ruling, they continued to issue speeding citations. Now Elmwood [...]
New legislation proposed by New Jersey state Senator James Holzapfel would allow cops to confiscate cell phones if they have "reasonable grounds" to believe that a driver may have been talking or texting on his cell phone when an accident occurred. Officers would be required to return the phone after they had a chance to [...]
Texas State Representative Jeff Leach is proposing a bill that would allow sheriffs and other legal entities the right to serve legal papers over Facebook and other social media accounts. So if House Bill 1989 becomes a law, a comment on your blog, a Facebook message or a Tweet could count as legal notice when [...]
Although Sandy has slowed down a few cases, there are a handful to continue watching this week in the Supreme Court as well as several legal events elsewhere. One of the cases that is on the full docket for the Supreme Court this week includes the "drug-sniffing" cases which concern p0lice drug dogs as well [...]