| TTLA Pioneers Series: Those On Whose Shoulders We Stand | The second in the TTLA Pioneers Series, written by TTLA member Ralph Red Dog Jones, is his recollection of Dallas attorney R. Guy Carter, TTLA's first President and, later, Red Dog's law partner. Click on the headline to access.
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| Railroad Blamed for Fiery Oil Train Derailment |  | Federal investigators are blaming a fiery oil train derailment along the Oregon-Washington border on Union Pacific Railroad, saying the company failed to properly maintain its track. The Associated Press obtained preliminary findings on the June 3 derailment in the Columbia River Gorge in advance of their Thursday release. The wreck spilled 42,000 gallons of crude oil and sparked a massive fire that burned for 14 hours.
Associated Press, Yahoo News 06/23/2016    | | Read Article: Yahoo News |
| Fine Print Says Riders Can't Blame Uber for Unsafe Drivers | | Under terms and conditions that riders agree to ' but few read ' at sign up, the app-based ride-hailing companies say they aren't legally liable for the safety of their drivers or the quality of their services. That's because the drivers are independent contractors, not employees. Uber "does not guarantee the quality, suitability, safety or ability of third-party providers (drivers)," its terms say. Riders also agree that the "entire risk arising out of your use of the services, and any service or good requested in connection therewith, remains solely with you."
Associated Press, The New York Times 06/23/2016 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| Lawsuit Against Psychiatric Facility can Continue, Supreme Court Says | | On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a couple's lawsuit over the death of their daughter at a psychiatric facility can continue. However, the case will be transferred to a lower court for review. The lawsuit was filed by the parents of a 19-year-old girl who died after being prescribed medication at the Arbour psychiatric facility in Massachusetts. The lawsuit alleges that nearly every therapist who came into contact with the girl at the clinic in Lawrence was unlicensed and unsupervised.
Liz Kowalczyk, Boston Globe 06/16/2016 | | Read Article: Boston Globe |
| Obama Signs Chemical Safety Overhaul Into Law | | President Obama on Wednesday signed into law a sweeping overhaul of the nation's chemical safety standards. The measure is the most significant environmental law in more than a quarter-century. It promises to completely revamp the way the federal government oversees thousands of potentially toxic chemicals sold to millions of Americans every day in common products.
Timothy Cama , The Hill 06/23/2016 | | Read Article: The Hill |
| Obama Signs Pipeline Safety Bill | | President Obama signed a bill Wednesday to renew the federal government's pipeline safety program, giving regulators new emergency authorities. The Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety Act of 2016, or PIPES Act, reauthorizes the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's (PHMSA) oil and gas pipeline programs through 2019, with a few new mandates for the agency.
Timothy Cama, The Hill 06/23/2016 | | Read Article: The Hill |
| TX Trucker Who Survived Being Covered in Molten Asphalt Sues Oil Co | | A Denison man is suing a Calumet Specialty Products Partners a Shreveport-based oil company after an asphalt tanker exploded at a refinery last year, covering him in molten asphalt. Darrell Allen, 59, suffered third-degree burns on 90 percent of his body and spent more than three months in intensive care. According to the lawsuit, the doctor treating Allen said that in 30 years of treating burn victims he had never seen anyone burned as badly as Allen survive.
Caleb Downs , The Dallas Morning News 06/23/2016 | | Read Article: The Dallas Morning News |
| Risks Higher for Front-Seat Passengers in Some S.U.V. Crashes, Tests Show | | Front-seat passengers in some small sport utility vehicles may not be as well protected as drivers in certain types of crashes, according to recent tests of seven vehicles by the nonprofit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The tests, known as small overlap frontal tests, were similar to the kind that the institute conducts by directing the front-end impact to the driver's side of the vehicle. But in these latest tests, whose results were released on Thursday, the impact was on the S.U.V.s' front passenger side.
CHERYL JENSEN, The New York Times 06/23/2016 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
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