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  January 23, 2014

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Developing Nursing Home Rules to Frame Your Case

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The Ethics of Medicare Secondary Payer: How Present Practices Pose Practical Problems for Plaintiff Practitioners

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Dealing with Protective Orders – Another View

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New Strategies for Hospital Acquired Infections

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From First Consult to Complaint: Basic Tips for Representing a Client With a Sexual Harassment Claim

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TTLA President's Report - January 2014

Click on the headline to access TTLA President Mike Guajardo's January Report to the membership (requires login).  

 

TTLA Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Seminar | April 3-4 | Royal Sonesta, Houston

In April 2014, something BIG is coming to TTLA! Planning is underway, and the 2nd Annual TTLA Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Seminar will be bigger and better than ever. You won’t want to miss this sell-out seminar with its lineup of in-demand topics, storied speakers and unparalleled insight. Watch your e-mail for more information coming soon and save the date: April 3-4 in Houston. Think BIG. Think TTLA PMD.  

 

Laws/Cases


 

 

Texas High School Students Sued for Cyberbullying

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The parents of a high school girl from Klein, Texas have filed a lawsuit accusing several students of cyberbullying. The students were responsible for creating an Instagram account which featured derogatory and sometimes sexually explicit photos of other teenagers at the high school. After a photo of the plaintiffs' daughter was uploaded to the account, the parents took legal action. Although the account was only up for three weeks and has been deleted, the teens who posted on the account could be facing child pornography charges.
Staff Report, KVUE-TV 01/23/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Lawsuit Filed Against Website That Posts Mug Shots

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A lawsuit seeking class-action status has been filed against JustMugshots.com, a website that posts mug shots online. The website profits from making individuals whose photos and arrest records are featured pay to take them off the website. One of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit was fired from his job after a Google search turned up a 11-year-old mug shot and records of charges that were later reduced to misdemeanors and dismissed. According to the lawsuit, "the website's practices misappropriate people's likenesses for commercial gain, a violation of California's civil code." The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction to prevent the website from operating.
Ricardo Lopez, LA Times 01/22/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Justices Seem Stumped on Calculating Damages Over Child Pornography

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In a Supreme Court argument that was part math problem and part seminar on the nature of culpability, the justices seemed to agree on just two things. The first was that Doyle R. Paroline, convicted in 2009 of possessing 280 images of child pornography, “is a bad guy,†as Justice Antonin Scalia put it. The second was that the child shown in two of those images had suffered terrible harm. “The woman has undergone serious psychiatric harm because of her knowledge that there are thousands of people out there viewing her rape,†Justice Scalia said. Beyond those two points, though, the justices seemed at a loss to identify a principled way to determine what Mr. Paroline owes Amy, as the woman is known in court papers.
ADAM LIPTAK, The New York Times 01/23/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Products


 

 

What’s in Your Fish Oil Supplements?

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Millions of Americans take fish oil supplements to promote heart and vascular health. But a new analysis suggests that some consumers may not always get what they are paying for. The new research, carried out by a testing company called LabDoor, analyzed 30 top-selling fish oil supplements for levels of omega-3 fatty acids, a group of compounds with anti-inflammatory effects. It found that six of those products contained levels of omega-3s that were, on average, 30 percent less than stated on their labels.
ANAHAD O'CONNOR, The New York Times 01/23/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Car Seats to Face Crash-Test Standards

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Federal regulators moved on Wednesday to address a glaring hole in auto safety rules by proposing new crash-test standards to better protect children in car seats. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it was seeking a new rule that requires child car seats to withstand side-impact collisions of up to 30 miles an hour
BILL VLASIC and CHERYL JENSEN, The New York Times 01/23/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Issues


 

 

A Second Chemical Was Part of West Virginia Chemical Spill, Company Reveals

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The chemical spill that left 300,000 West Virginia residents without usable water involved more chemicals than the company responsible had previously reported, officials revealed this week. The owner of the storage tank where the leak occurred, Freedom Industries, initially said it had released crude MCHM — or 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, a toxic blend of coal cleaners — in the spill. But on Tuesday, the company revealed that the tank, which leaked about 7,500 gallons into the ground by the Elk River, had also contained a mixture of glycol ethers known as PPH, with a similar function as MCHM.
JOHN SCHWARTZ, The New York Times 01/23/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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