The Texas Tech Administrative Law Journal welcomes its new staff editors for Volume XI.

Danielle Andis
Danielle Badeaux
Allyson Bazan
Dustin Brown
Alexis Butler
Marisa Dunagan
Michael Griffin
Glenn Hasler
An Lee Hsu
Matt Innes
Coleman Johnson
Melia Jones
Matthew Koos
Mazelle Krasoff
Jayne Langerock
Molly Marten
Michael Martinez
William Scheihing
John Shelton
Kyle Williams

Book 1

Lead Articles 

Case Law Update

by Teresa Wohlers, Leigh Vandiver, Ryan Rollans, Megan Kraatz, Emily Jolly, Zachary Hall, Ryan Greene, David DuBose, Margie Corbett, Alessandra Beavers, Patrick Pearsall

The Erosion of Traditional Ratemaking Through the Use of Special Rates, Riders and Other Mechanisms

by Lino Mendiola

Constitutional Concerns with the TxDOT Sanctioning Process

by R. Carson Fisk

The Impact of a Criminal Conviction on Obtaining and Retaining an Occupational License

by Bradford Jay Bowman and Wendy M. Pellow 

Going Outside the Box? Recent Case Law Governing Non-APA Challenges to Agency Decisions

by Kristofer S. Monson

The Board of Editors attended the 3rd Annual Advanced Texas Administrative Law Seminar held in Austin, Texas, on August 28-29.

Book 1

Lead Articles 

Case Law Update

by Bryce Benjet, Patrick Pearsall, Leigh Vandiver, Megan Kraatz, Zachary Hall, David DuBose, Claire Dinsmoor, and Alessandra Beavers

Where Agencies, the Courts, and the Legislature Collide: Ten Years of Interpreting the Texas Constitutional Provisions for Home Equity Lending

by Ann Graham

Does the Open Beaches Act Seek to “Take” Private Property for Public Use Without Just Compensation

by Laurencia Fasoyiro
 

Student Comments

Is BACT Getting Cut Back?: A Look at the Requirements of the Clean Air Act in the Wake of a Possible Energy Crisis, the Desire for Clean and Efficient Energy Suppliers, the Futuregen Project, and TXU’s Proposed Plants

by Ellie Edman

Texas Administrative Procedure Act Section 2001.176: Justification and Necessity for Specialized, Local Administrative Appeals Courts

by Shane O’Dell

Re-Defining the “Affected Person”: The Contested Case Process for Permits Granted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

by Russell Jumper
 

Book 2

Lead Articles

UDJA Declaratory Judgments in Texas Administrative Law

by Pete Schenkkan

“Good Moral Character” as a Licensing Standard

by Larry Craddock
 

Student Comments

What Every Practitioner Should Know Prior to Practicing Before SOAH: The SOAH Rules of Procedure as Compared to the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure

by Mary Laski

Caution! T. Boone Pickens Plans to Permanently Alter Texas’s Landscape Above and Below Ground, from the Panhandle to the Metropolis

by Nicholas E. Arrott 

Drunk with Power: Does the TABC Know Which Lines to Stay Between?

by Andy Taylor

The Texas Open Meetings Act: In Need of Modification or All Systems Go?

by Mandi Duncan

Hello little members.