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2 days ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Ryan Autullo |Stephanie Gleason
Texas no longer can offer undocumented immigrants lower tuition to attend state schools than US citizens who live outside Texas, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, after Texas signaled it wouldn’t defend a lawsuit the Trump administration filed earlier in the day. Texas agreed with the administration that the migrant tuition model the state has used for 24 years is unconstitutional, jointly requesting a permanent injunction.
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2 days ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Ryan Autullo |Stephanie Gleason
The Trump administration sued Texas on Wednesday for charging undocumented immigrants lower tuition to attend state schools than US citizens who live outside Texas. The tuition model Texas has used since 2001 “is squarely prohibited and preempted by federal law,” the lawsuit alleges, because it gives a postsecondary education benefit to a noncitizen that isn’t available to citizens.
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4 days ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Ryan Autullo |Stephanie Gleason
Texas judges, among the lowest paid in the country, are getting their first raise in 12 years after a breakthrough deal struck by lawmakers Monday, the final day of the biennial Legislative session. The compromise calls for a $35,000 annual raise, which also triggers higher pensions for the lawmakers that approved it. The link long has been a politically sensitive obstacle to increasing judge pay, and one that nearly killed the proposal this weekend. The bill, HB 40, now heads to Gov.
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4 days ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Ryan Autullo
Lawmakers were at odds over impact on their own pensionsTexas ranks ahead of just one state with $140,000 salaryTexas judges, among the lowest paid in the country, are getting their first raise in 12 years after a breakthrough deal struck by lawmakers Monday, the final day of the biennial Legislative session. The compromise calls for a $35,000 annual raise, which also triggers higher pensions for the lawmakers that approved it.
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4 days ago |
news.bloombergtax.com | Ryan Autullo
Signaling that Texas can continue to prohibit strip clubs from employing adults under 21, a federal appellate judge said it’s the lower court judge’s ruling, not his reasoning, that will inform his decision. Judge Carl Stewart of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said that because the lower court ruled Texas’ ban on employees aged 18 to 20 by sexually-oriented businesses is lawful, the judge’s commentary on the issue carries no weight.
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