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Litigating Testosterone Therapy Cases: An Overview
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Aug
New Horizons: Lifetime Damages - New Factors for Future Damages for Mild, Moderate & Severe Disabilities
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Aug
Jail and Jailer Liability
14
Aug
The Emerging Consensus on TBI and How You Can Use It To Achieve an Adequate Award
20
Aug
Arbitrating Class Actions
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Aug
Don't Miss the Boat: Basics of Maritime Personal Injury Law
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Aug
How to Handle a Class Action Case
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Technology: Taking Your Paperless File from the First Interview to Trial
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Operation PAC 100
Operation PAC 100: Inspired by Past President Mike Gallagher's $100,000 matching challenge, the TTLA Advocates formed Operation PAC 100 to amplify our members' collective political voice through the TTLA PAC. Be one of the PAC 100, by contributing $1000 or any amount you can. Help give our legislative team the tools needed to protect the civil justice system in the 2015 legislative session and beyond.Click on the headline to learn more.  

Truck Accidents Surge - Killing Nearly 4,000 People Each Year
Fatal truck accidents are all too common-happening nearly 11 times every single day in this country on average, and killing nearly 4,000 people each year, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. On top of that, more than 100,000 people are injured every year in truck crashes and the numbers have been getting worse: Truck-crash fatalities have increased since 2009. Click on the headline to learn more.  

Issues

 
New Rules Say Poultry Plants Can Conduct Own Checks
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The Agriculture Department released long-awaited poultry-inspection rules on Thursday that will give plant operators the option of conducting their own inspections for bird defects and feces on the processing lines and allow government inspectors to concentrate on other food-safety issues in the plant.
RON NIXON, The New York Times 08/01/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Laws/Cases

 
Family of Boy who Died at Lake Conroe Files Suit
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The family of an 8-year-old boy who died after slipping from a private resort's dock into Lake Conroe have sued the company that operates the resort. The lawsuit alleges that the company, Dallas-based Silverleaf Resorts, Inc., was negligent in its maintenance of the dock and liable for Andrew Orvis' death on July 20 because the dock "posed an unreasonable risk of harm." The suit notes that city inspectors found exposed live wiring on the dock at Piney Shores Resort two days after Orvis' death and that mechanisms that were supposed to prevent or shut off electricity to the dock in the event of a change in the current were malfunctioning.
Mihir Zaveri, Houston Chronicle 08/01/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Va. Pays $200K to Settle Mistaken Alcohol Arrest
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The state of Virginia has agreed to pay over $200,000 to settle a $40 million lawsuit that was filed by a college student who was arrested when officers mistook her sparkling water purchase for alcohol. The underage girl was arrested by Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control agents after they mistook her case of sparkling water for beer as she was leaving a grocery store in Charlottesville, Virginia. The lawsuit alleged that the plainclothes officers violated the plaintiff's constitutional rights and used excessive force when they surrounded her car in the parking lot of the grocery store and arrested her.
K. Burnell Evans, Richmond Times-Dispatch 08/01/2014   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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