Today's Committee Meetings on the LRL website is a calendar of interim committee hearings with links to agendas. The following may be helpful resources for upcoming hearings.
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
House Committee on Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
Charge 4: Transparency in asbestos bankruptcy trusts
Charge 4: Transparency in asbestos bankruptcy trusts
- Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts and Tort Compensation, RAND Institute for Civil Justice, 2011
- The Need for Transparency Between the Tort System and Section 524(g) Asbestos Trusts, Norton Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, April 2008
- Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts: An Overview of Trust Structure and Activity with Detailed Reports on the Largest Trusts, RAND Institute for Civil Justice, August 2010
Charge 6: Whether asbestos and silica multidistrict litigation courts should be allowed to dismiss claims on their inactive dockets
- A Texas Success Story: Asbestos and Silica Lawsuit Reform, Texas Civil Justice League, February 2011
- "Federal MDL Court Dismisses Scores of Asbestos Claims," Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, October 1, 2010
- "Against Priority," Southwestern University Law Review, Spring 2008
- "Unimpaired Asbestos Dockets: They Are Constitutional," The Review of Litigation, Spring 2005
Thursday, February 9th, 2012
House Committee on State Affairs
Charge 1: Resource adequacy in the Texas electricity market including federal and state interventions in the marketplace that may be negatively impacting future adequacy, and the best way to maintain resource adequacy
- Resource Adequacy Implications of Forthcoming EPA Air Quality Regulations, U.S. Department of Energy, December 2011
- Seasonal Assessment of Resource Adequacy for the ERCOT Region Winter 2011?2012, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), December 1, 2011
- Resource Adequacy Assessment (Power Point), Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), January 13, 2012
- "Texas, New England Could See Grid Reliability Problems by 2021: NERC (North American Electric Reliability Corporation)," Platts, November 28, 2011, analyzing the NERC 2011 Long-term Reliability Assessment, including Resource Adequacy Assessment, November 2011
