TTLA PAC: Light a Match Today! | The TTLA PAC is excited to announce a major match challenge! This is a tremendous opportunity, but it will only happen if each of us join in the Light a Match campaign. With the March 1 primary elections less than two months away, we need you to strike the first match right now in order that our political support gets to key races as soon as possible. Click on the headline to learn more. | Registration now open for TTLA Car Wrecks CLE In Houston, Mar 3rd | TTLA's Car Wrecks Seminar is the must-attend program for practitioners of all experience levels. The 2016 CLE Seminar features practical, in-depth tips and strategies presented by a stellar faculty covering real-world topics to help you WIN YOUR CASES. Come away with the tools you need to compete in the courtroom! Program highlights: Psychodrama Techniques, Car Wreck Law Update, Diagnosing Your Car Wreck Injuries, UM/UIM Survey Results and Things Learned and a lunch presentation from TTLA President Jeffrey Simon. Click on the headline to learn more. | Texas Tribune Daily Brief | | Company Tries to Limit Path to Courthouse | | A case in front of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans over whether a fired employee can be forced to file a complaint with a government agency instead of going straight to court may have widespread ramifications for workers and companies statewide. The plaintiff alleges he was fired from Kansas-based Terracon Consultants for refusing to break a law with criminal penalties, in a 2014 wrongful termination lawsuit against the company. Terracon believes that the plaintiff, rather than sue, should have followed the administrative process detailed in federal legislation regulating the number of hours a trucker can spend behind the wheel. L.M. Sixel, Houston Chronicle 02/12/2016 | Read Article: Houston Chronicle | "Wrongful Birth" Lawsuit Denied by Montana Jury | | A judge has denied a wrongful birth lawsuit filed by the mother of a girl with cystic fibrosis. The woman from Gardiner, Montana filed the lawsuit seeking monetary compensation for her child born with cystic fibrosis. After a two-hour deliberation, a Gallatin County jury ruled that the Livingston HealthCare nurse and a Bozeman OBGYN did not violate their standard of care with the plaintiff. The lawsuit alleged that the plaintiff's chorionic villus sampling (CVS), which can detect abnormalities in fetuses, came back normal, despite the fact that the child was born with cystic fibrosis. According to the lawsuit, if the plaintiff and her husband had known of the cystic fibrosis, they would have terminated the pregnancy. Whitney Bermes, Bozeman Daily Chronicle 02/11/2016 | Read Article: Bozeman Daily Chronicle | | |