Court Limits Perry's Power Over Agencies: Ruling Delays Coal-Plant Hearings, Likely Adds Fuel to Fire on HPV Vaccine
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By R.G. Ratcliffe, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 21--AUSTIN -- A state district judge dealt a blow to Gov. Rick Perry's official powers Tuesday by blocking the governor's 2005 executive order creating a fast-track permitting process for coal-fired, electricity-generating plants.
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The Supreme Court today substantially weakened the McCain-Feingold campaign finance act's restrictions on the kinds of ads corporations, unions and special interest groups may run in the days before an election.
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The Supreme Court plans to rule today on a case that tests the limits of medicare. A British Columbia family is arguing the province should pay for the treatment of their autistic child.
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HOUSTON Hours before she was to have been executed Wednesday in the murders of her husband and children, a Texas woman was spared when Governor Rick Perry granted her a 120-day reprieve to review disputed evidence that convicted her.
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U.S. regulators on Friday delayed a  decision on whether to approve over-the-counter sales of a Barr  Pharmaceuticals "morning-after pill" to prevent pregnancy,  prompting a lawsuit from a women's rights group.
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The congressional hearing involving Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte and former trainer Brian McNamee was postponed Wednesday, The Associated Press learned. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform was informing witnesses that the Jan. 16 session will be pushed back, a lawyer involved in the hearing told the AP.
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While Gov. Rick Perry on Friday questioned whether a state district judge&#39;s ruling on public school finance would be upheld by the Texas Supreme Court, US Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
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A group of families has sued in an attempt to block Gov. Rick Perry's executive order requiring schoolgirls to be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer.
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The Supreme Court is about to plunge into an agenda laden with issues effecting the business sector. Tobacco companies, the biotech industry and operators of coal-fired power plants have a stake in cases the court will hear in the next month.
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In a move that Republicans hope will raise the visibility of their difficult write-in campaign to hold resigned former Majority Leader Tom DeLayÃ¢ÂÂs former House seat in the general election, Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry announced Wednesday that a special election to fill the final weeks of DeLayÃ¢ÂÂs unexpired term will also appear on the Nov. 7 ballot.
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The fate of the next America's Cup was still in limbo on Wednesday when a New York court judge said after a hearing that he needed more time to decide whether he had jurisdiction to rule on the issues.
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Many efforts to expand coverage have been blocked in court. More legal tests are likely, starting in San Francisco.
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By Patricia Daddona, The Day, New London, Conn.  Feb. 8--Connecticut will not wait for the Environmental Protection Agency  to react to a federal court ruling on power plant fish kills.
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By Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 13--OKLAHOMA CITY -- An Oklahoma City lawmaker said Monday that she won't press her bill that would require all girls entering the sixth grade to be immunized against the human papillomavirus, which is said to lead to cervical cancer.
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A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday  that Arch Coal Inc. ACI.N may proceed with its bid to buy the  assets of rival Triton Coal Co. LLC, denying an emergency  request by the Federal Trade Commission to block the deal, a  spokesman for the agency said.
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Texas became the first U.S. state to require that all 11- and 12-year-old girls be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, a sexually transmitted disease that can cause cervical cancer, the governor's office said on Friday.
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A special court that will pit  scientists against activists in the debate over whether  vaccines have caused autism in many children begins hearings on  Monday with the first test case, involving a 12-year-old  Arizona girl.