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| Car Wrecks CLE Seminar in Houston, March 2, 2017 | TTLA's Car Wrecks Seminar is the must-attend program for practitioners of all experience levels. Come away with the tools you need to compete in the courtroom! Click on the headline to learn more and register.
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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Facebook Comment Leads to $500K Settlement in Defamation Suit |  | A woman has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a defamation suit over a comment she made on Facebook that allegedly implied a onetime rival had caused the death of her child. A judge in Buncombe County, North Carolina, approved a consent judgment in the case last week, the Asheville Citizen-Times reports in a story published by USA Today.
DEBRA CASSENS WEISS, American Bar Association Journal 02/14/2017    | | Read Article: American Bar Association Journal |
| Fishermen, Landowners Allege Harm From Waste Pits in Suit Against Owners of San Jacinto River Superfund Site | | 600 people are part of an ongoing legal dispute in Harris County, filed in 2012, the case has grown into one of the largest environmental class action lawsuits in Texas history. This is the third of three San Jacinto waste pits lawsuits to have been filed in Harris County civil district courts. But it is the first suit filed on behalf of residents who in many cases lived their entire lives along the river or owned businesses along its banks. Many argue their health was compromised by unknowingly eating toxic fish, while others are focused on the damages to their property values from the contamination.
Lise Olsen, Houston Chronicle 02/14/2017 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Relatives of Beach Sand Collapse Victims Seek Beach Closure | | The families of three people who were killed when sand at a New Jersey beach gave way are asking that the Jersey Shore beach be closed. The relatives of one man who died there in 2012 asked Superior Court Judge Julio Mendez on Friday to close the allegedly dangerous beach. The relatives of two other victims, who died in 2009, although not officially part of the lawsuit, have also asked that the area be closed to the public before another death occurs
Wayne Parry, NBC 10 Philadelphia 02/14/2017 | | Read Article: NBC 10 Philadelphia |
| Jury Awards $1.26M to Husband of Woman Killed in Ohio Bus Crash | | A jury has awarded $1.26 million to the family of a woman from Mentor, Ohio who was killed in a bus crash in 2014. The woman was killed in a collision with a school bus in 2014 and her husband filed suit against the bus driver and the Mentor School District in 2015. The wrongful death lawsuit argued that the plaintiff "deserves $3 million for Cribbâ??s conscious pain and suffering in the hours before her death, Bruckâ??s suffering from his wifeâ??s death and for the expected 23.8 additional years he was deprived of his wife."
Andrew Cass, The News-Herald 02/10/2017 | | Read Article: The News-Herald |
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