| Good Laws and Good Lawyers. | | “There’s been a lot of talk about the Texas Trial Lawyers Association’s mission lately, with several iterations of lengthy wording and lofty statements. Syntax, length and style aside, we believe TTLA’s mission is best stated as Good Laws and Good Lawyers: standing up for Good Laws in the legislative and public arena and working together to continue being the Good Lawyers our clients deserve.” Mike Guajardo, TTLA President |
| COLLABORATE! TTLA’S 2014 ANNUAL CONFERENCE! | | COLLABORATE! Join TTLA President Mike Guajardo at TTLA’s 2014 Annual Conference in Austin, June 11-13. ALL MEMBERS are invited and encouraged to attend a very important meeting of our Board of Directors Meeting on June 12th. In addition, the CLE Committee has once again planned three dynamic programs. We’ll start things off with The Jury Bias Model™ - From Car Wrecks to the Complex Case presented by Greg Cusimano and David Wenner on June 11th, followed by a ½-day CLE on June 12th with some of TTLA’s brightest stars sharing their best tips. The conference will wrap up with our Annual Med Mal program with all the latest updates and insights, before closing with an evening of Magic and Music. Click here to see all we have planned for you! Two days. Three great seminars. TTLA’s 2014 Annual Conference. Click on the headline for more information and to register. |
| The Texas Tribune & Oyez® to Launch Site for Texas High Courts | | "Texas will soon benefit from an online archive for its two highest courts, launched through a partnership between The Texas Tribune and Oyez®, a free law project at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The site will go live in late summer 2014 and offer case summaries written for a non-legal audience. The multimedia resource will include opinions, transcript-synchronized videos of oral arguments, justice biographies and decision information." Click on the headline to learn more. |
| State Bar Reprimands Former Prosecutor in Texting Scandal | | 
| | The Texas Bar Association has issued a public reprimand to state district Judge Kaycee Jones for her role in clandestine texting during a criminal trial while she was a prosecutor and before her election to the bench last year. Jones, who oversees the 411th court in Polk, Trinity and San Jacinto counties, signed the agreed judgement citing her for "professional misconduct" just before she came in front of the bar's grievance panel for a hearing this month.
Cindy Horswell, Houston Chronicle 05/28/2014    | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Lawsuit Filed Over Hepatitis Exposure at Calif. Restaurant | |
| | A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Red Robin restaurants after customers at a Springfield, Calif. location were exposed to hepatitis A. About 5,000 people who ate at the restaurant between May 8 and May 16 may have been exposed to the disease, according to the Springfield-Greene County Health Department. After the exposure, free vaccinations were offered for several days. A California couple who ate at the restaurant with their child initiated the lawsuit against the restaurant chain.
Wire Report, The Sacramento Bee 05/28/2014 | | Read Article: The Sacramento Bee |
| Supreme Court Dismisses Lawsuit by Protesters of George W. Bush | |
| | The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit filed against several Secret Service agents accused of treating critics of President George W. Bush differently than his supporters. In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that "the agents were immune from a lawsuit because they had good reason to move the protesters farther away when the president decided to dine on a patio after a 2004 campaign event in Jacksonville, Ore." The lawsuit, filed by seven of the protesters, alleged that their free speech rights were violated during the 2004 incident.
Robert Barnes, The Washington Post 05/27/2014 | | Read Article: The Washington Post |
| Lawsuit Filed Against University over Dismissed Sexual Assault | |
| | A federal lawsuit has been filed against Drew University in Madison, N.J. alleging that the school discriminated against a student accused of sex assault because he's male. The student who filed the lawsuit alleges that his academic career was ruined and that "the school's investigative practices were punishment in and of themselves, and derailed his college experience and future livelihood." The student was later found not guilty of the sexual misconduct. The lawsuit names the university, the girl who accused the plaintiff of sexual assault and her boyfriend.
Louis C. Hochman, NJ.com 05/27/2014 | | Read Article: NJ.com |
| Protective Order Granted in Bev Kearney Case | |
| | A state district judge granted a protective order Tuesday, allowing for the UT to keep confidential any student records that may be part of discovery documents generated by the Bev Kearney discrimination case filed against the school. Kearney, the former Longhorn women's track coach, is suing UT for $1 million, saying she was wrongly terminated for a decade-old affair the athletic department first discovered in 2012.
Suzanne Halliburton, Austin American Statesman 05/28/2014 | | Read Article: Austin American Statesman |
| College Student Sickened in Big Beef Recall: Lawsuit | |
| | A Kalamazoo, Michigan, college student who developed a severe E. coli infection after eating ground beef is suing the Detroit firm, Wolverine Packing Co, that recalled nearly 2M pounds of potentially tainted hamburger patties and steak burgers last week.
JoNel Aleccia , NBC 10 Philadelphia 05/28/2014 | | Read Article: NBC 10 Philadelphia |
| GM Poised for More Recalls as 2 Million Vehicles Probed | |
| | U.S. regulators are investigating potential flaws in at least 2M GM vehicles that remain on the road, underlining the potential for still more recalls. NHTSA is looking into complaints from drivers on issues including corroding brake lines and the unexpected failure of automatic braking and headlights in GM vehicles, according to data on its website, which is regularly updated.
Jeff Green, Tim Higgins and Jeff Plungis, Bloomberg 05/28/2014 | | Read Article: Bloomberg |
| U.S. Salmonella Outbreak Widens, 574 Sick | |
| | Another 50 people have suffered salmonella poisoning linked to Foster Farms chicken, bringing the total to 574 cases in the United States since March 2013, health officials said on Tuesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an update that the new cases were reported at an average of eight a week since an April report on new infections caused by strains of drug-resistant Salmonella Heidelberg.
Reuters, Reuters 05/28/2014 | | Read Article: Reuters |
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