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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Kimberly-Clark Faces Lawsuit Over Ebola Protection Gear | | | A class-action lawsuit in a Los Angeles court alleges that Kimberly-Clark had falsely represented to health regulators and healthcare workers that its "MICROCOOL Breathable High Performance Surgical Gowns" are impermeable and provide protection against Ebola, placing healthcare workers and patients at "considerable risk".
Reuters, Reuters 10/30/2014   
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| Sailors Can Sue Tepco in U.S. Over Radiation, Judge Says |  | U.S. Navy personnel who were exposed to radiation from Japan's wrecked Fukushima plant during earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in 2011 can sue the power station's operator in California, a court ruled. U.S. District Judge Janis L. Sammartino in San Diego denied the request by Tokyo Electric Power Co. to dismiss the class-action lawsuit based on jurisdictional issues and have it heard in Japan instead.
Jacob Adelman, Bloomberg 10/30/2014 | | Read Article: Bloomberg |
| Plaintiffs Accuse Exxon of Stifling Ark Oil Spill Case | | | Plaintiffs in an oil spill lawsuit against Exxon Mobil want documents in the case to be public. The plaintiffs' attorneys say the oil company has declared every single page of 872,000 pages about the maintenance and repair of the Pegasus pipeline confidential. They filed a motion on Monday in U.S. District Court, asking a federal judge to order Exxon Mobil to 'show cause why any document produced to date is entitled to confidentiality.' In 2013, the Pegasus pipeline ruptured in central Arkansas, spilling thousands of gallons of oil in a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood.
Associated Press, Houston Chronicle 10/30/2014
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| NE Texas Jury Finds Trucking Co. Grossly Negligent | | | A 62nd Judicial District Court jury on Tuesday awarded more than $4M to a woman whose vehicle was involved in a wreck with a truck on I30 in 2010. The jury found that the driver (Dennis Rayner) and the trucking company (Joe Tex Express of Mount Pleasant) were grossly negligent. The jury awarded compensatory damages of $1,110,629 and $3M in punitive damages.
KERRY CRAIG, Sulphur Springs News-Telegram 10/30/2014
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| Air-Bag Sleuths Home In on Shrapnel Sprayed at Crashes | | As investigators combed through the reports, they uncovered Takata air bags deploying with enough explosive force to turn the metal housing into shrapnel. The emerging theory is that explosive charges deep in the heart of the air bag had deteriorated due to moisture, production flaws or passage of time -- creating an unstable mix that explodes with more force than intended, according to documents and auto-safety experts. In the worst-case scenario, the flaw could be growing more pronounced with time. Some safety advocates are concerned about the prospect of more blasts in models more than a decade old because the explosive at the core of these systems may degrade.
Jeff Green and Margaret Cronin Fisk, Bloomberg 10/30/2014 | | Read Article: Bloomberg |
| Comcast to Settle Decade-Old Class Action Lawsuit | | Over a year after the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a larger class action lawsuit against Comcast accusing the company of overcharging cable customers, a smaller lawsuit against the company has reached a $50 million settlement. The decade-old class action lawsuit accused Comcast of monopolizing the cable TV market in Philadelphia and unfairly raising prices by buying up its competition. The lawsuit is believed to include 800,000 current and former customers of the cable company. As part of the settlement, Comcast will pay $16.67 million to current and former subscribers in Philadelphia and four nearby countries. The settlement was filed on Tuesday with the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia and still requires court approval.
Jonathan Stemple, Reuters 10/29/2014 | | Read Article: Reuters |
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