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Announcements
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Best Kept Trial Secrets: What
Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas
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Don't gamble with your cases. 48 hours in Vegas can change
your practice forever! Join some of TTLA's battle-tested veterans and
emerging superstars in Las Vegas for a CLE experience that'll change
your luck in the courtroom. February 23-25, 2012, Bellagio Hotel, Las
Vegas, 8 hrs. MCLE w/ 1 hr. Ethics
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Laws/Cases
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Family of Murdered Inmate Files
Lawsuit
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The murder of a Hawaiian man in a private prison in
Arizona has prompted a lawsuit by the man's family against the state of
Hawaii and the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). The man was
fatally stabbed by another inmate, and the lawsuit claims "CCA's
business model of grossly short-staffing prisons and cutting
corners" contributed to the death. Staff Report, Honolulu
Advertiser 02/15/2012
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Read Article: Honolulu Advertiser
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Man Says Cops Beat Him Because He
is Black
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An African-American man has filed a lawsuit against the
Chicago Police Department, claiming he was beaten and arrested by
police because he is black. In his lawsuit, the man claims he and
another person, who was white, were filming a disturbance with police
officers near a Chicago train station when officers approached them.
The plaintiff claims the officers "politely" asked the white
man to stop filming; when they approached the plaintiff, however,
officers "grabbed his phone, cussed at him, beat him and dragged
him to the hood of a squad car." The lawsuit is seeking
unspecified damages. Jeremy Gorner , Chicago Tribune 02/15/2012
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Read Article: Chicago Tribune
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Harris Cnty Jury Awards $20M to
Rape Victim
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A Harris County jury awarded $20 million in damages
Wednesday to a rape victim who sued her apartment complex for failing
to notify residents about previous sexual attacks on the property. The
woman lived at The Promenade Cullen Park when a masked man who resided
in the west Houston complex raped and sodomized her for more than 10
hours in February 2009. According to the lawsuit, apartment officials
knew about a break-in next door to the woman's unit a few weeks before
her ordeal in which a man tried to rape that resident and failed to
notify other tenants about a sexual predator. After a weeklong trial,
the jury awarded $7 million for physical pain and mental anguish, $5
million for future mental anguish and $8 million for conduct forbidden
by the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Cindy George,
Houston Chronicle 02/16/2012
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Read Article: Houston Chronicle
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Suit: Woman's Death Due to Pharmacy
Mix-Up
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A lawsuit has been filed against a Walgreens drugstore in
Kentucky and one of its pharmacists over the death of a woman who
supposedly was given the wrong prescription. According to the suit, the
woman's prescription was for a high blood pressure medication, but she
instead was given an antihistamine. The woman's hypertension went
untreated for two weeks, and she died in a hospital shortly thereafter.
The suit states that she was not given counseling regarding the
medication when she picked it up, which would have allowed the
pharmacist to notice the mistake and give her the correct medicine.
Jason Riley, Louisville Courier Journal 02/16/2012
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Read Article: Louisville Courier Journal
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Suit: NYC To Blame for Death During
Blizzard
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A lawsuit has been filed against the city of New York over
the death of an elderly woman during the December 2010 blizzard. The
lawsuit claims the city took "too long to clear snow-choked
streets for medical help," and that the woman had to wait 30
minutes for paramedics to arrive after she had a heart attack. The city
failed to properly salt the streets before snow accumulated and did not
properly equip their snow plows, the suit contends. Thomas
Zambito, New York Daily News 02/15/2012
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Read Article: New York Daily News
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Healthcare
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Parkland's Stand Makes Sense to
Some, Not Others
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Parkland Memorial Hospital’s decision not to release a
taxpayer-funded performance report, despite its subsequent leak to the
press, has raised the ire of patients’ rights advocates, but some
attorneys say the hospital is within its rights to keep the report
confidential. Parkland spent about $7M to hire the firm after
inspections last summer uncovered systemic patient safety problems and
CMS required the hospital to operate under external supervision or lose
hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicare and Medicaid funding.
Patients rights groups and some attorneys argue that Parkland, as a
public institution, should release the report. “Patients deserve as
much information as they can get,” said Alex Winslow, of Texas Watch.
“They have to make decisions about where they’re going to seek care,
and they need to know if there are any dangers or pitfalls that they
need to be aware of as they’re making those decisions.” Bill
Hethcock, Dallas Business Journal 02/16/2012
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Read Article: Dallas Business Journal
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Editorials/Columns/Letters
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Column: Privacy Controversy Over
Path Should be a Wake-Up Call
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Last week, a new product, a social networking app called
Path came under fire after a programmer discovered a major issue.
Namely, that when you logged into the app on an Apple iOS device — an
iPhone or iPad — it automatically uploaded your entire address book to
its servers. Without asking. The situation set off a firestorm online
among users, app developers and tech bloggers, who hotly debated the
practice. The assumption was that if one app could pull your contacts
without permission, then certainly other apps could as well. Sure
enough, there were others out there. Although many developers have
scrambled to squash the functionality, research from a variety of media
outlets shows that the issue is far from over. Joshua
Topolsky, The Washington Post 02/16/2012
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Read Article: The Washington Post
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