Fair Defense Act

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Timeline Of United States History - 20th Century
... The Newlands Reclamation Act was passed ... The Elkins Act was passed ... The Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act were passed ...
Rodney Ellis - Texas Senate Record - Criminal Justice
... In 2001, Ellis authored and passed the Texas Fair Defense Act, overhauling the Texas indigent defense system by focusing on four critical issues timely appointment of counsel, method of counsel appointment by the ... The Texas Fair Defense Act also created a new state indigent defense commission, the Task Force on Indigent Defense (now called the Texas Indigent ...

Famous quotes containing the words act, fair and/or defense:

    “Each act of criticism is general
    But, in cutting itself off from all the others,
    Explicit enough.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “He said, truly, that the reason why such greatly superior numbers quailed before him was, as one of his prisoners confessed, because they lacked a cause,—a kind of armor which he and his party never lacked. When the time came, few men were found willing to lay down their lives in defense of what they knew to be wrong; they did not like that this should be their last act in this world.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)