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| TTLA Annual Meeting: Registration is Open! | Join TTLA December 8-9, 2016 at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas for the 2016 Annual Meeting and CLE Seminar. See this year's Keynote Speaker, Matthew Dowd, and other great speakers while earning up to 7.50 hours MCLE credit. Click on the headline to learn more.
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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Judge Throws Out Sandy Hook Lawsuit Against Gun Makers |  | A Connecticut judge on Friday agreed to dismiss a lawsuit filed against gun manufacturers and sellers by relatives of people killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in 2012, saying that the suit was not allowed under a federal shield law. The manufacturers and sellers had argued in court filings that while the shooting was tragic. Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara N. Bellis, in a 54-page memorandum of the decision, wrote that the arguments presented by the families â??did not satisfy the negligent entrustment exceptionâ?? to the federal shield law.
Mark Berman, The Washington Post 10/17/2016    | | Read Article: The Washington Post |
| Theranos Faces Growing Number of Lawsuits Over Blood Tests | | Theranos Inc. faces at least eight lawsuits filed in federal courts in California and Arizona by patients who claim that faulty blood tests led to heart attacks or other issues. Itâ??s also facing fraud claims in state court in Delaware from one of its investors.
Jef Feeley & Caroline Chen, Bloomberg 10/17/2016 | | Read Article: Bloomberg |
| Texas Hospital, Doctor Named in Lawsuits Over Botched Deliveries | | Three Texas women have filed suit against the East Houston Regional Medical Center and one of its doctors over botched baby deliveries. At the center of the lawsuits is an infant death and two severe injuries allegedly caused by the hospital's deliveries of the infants. The lawsuits, each filed separately, allege that hospital staff failed to recognize when the babies were in distress and continued to have the mothers push for longer than was medically safe.
Carter Sherman, Houston Press 10/14/2016 | | Read Article: Houston Press |
| Houston Woman Files Suit Against VA Over Husband's Death | | A woman from Houston, Texas, has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs over her husband's death. The plaintiff's husband died during an operation to remove a small tumor from his Adrenal gland. According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff's husband told hospital staff that he previously had an allergic reaction to general anesthesia. Despite agreeing to use a local sedative instead, doctors gave the patient anesthesia, which caused his heart to give out. The lawsuit accuses hospital staff of negligence which caused the patient's death.
Rucks Russell, KHOU-TV 10/14/2016 | | Read Article: KHOU-TV |
| Government Seeks Dismissal of Charleston Church Shooting Lawsuits | | The federal government is seeking the dismissal of multiple wrongful death lawsuits over the 2015 shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. An attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice has requested that the lawsuits be dismissed on the grounds that the court does not have the proper jurisdiction and that the plaintiffs have failed to outline their claims. The lawsuits were filed by nine of the Emanuel AME Church shooting victims and allege that clerical errors allowed the shooter to purchase the weapon used in the deadly shooting.
Gregory Yee, Charleston Post Courier 10/15/2016 | | Read Article: Charleston Post Courier |
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