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April 12, 2018

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Texas Tribune Daily Brief

The Brief for April 12
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In today’s Brief: Counties say oil and gas drilling is ruining their rural roads, and a flurry of education news.
Cassi Pollock , Texas Tribune 04/12/2018 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Issues

Mexico Resorts: Travel Agents and Sites Didn’t Share the Risks
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Tourists from the U.S. and Canada have been traumatized by recent encounters =E2=80=94 ranging from blacking out after a couple of drinks to robberies, sexual assaults, drownings and deaths of loved ones =E2=80=94 while visiting all-inclusive luxury resorts and nearby tourist areas of Mexico. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has heard from more than 170 tourists who described their troubles in Mexico, the vast majority within the last two years. But the travel industry didn’t share the information with the next vacationers booking trips, a Journal Sentinel investigation has found. Had the governments and industry been doing their jobs, the tourists should have been told, according to well-established case law. Though few travelers know it, travel agents and companies have a legal obligation to inform their customers of known risks.
Raquel Rutledge, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 04/12/2018 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Laws/Cases

Injured Remington Gun Owners Control Key Panel in Bankruptcy
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Remington Outdoor Co.’s newly named panel of unsecured creditors is dominated by members who represent accidental shooting victims, according to court papers filed by the bankrupt arms maker. The five-member committee includes two women whose daughters were shot while on separate family hunting trips, allegedly because of faulty triggers on Remington rifles. Both have sued Remington. A third seat went to a Texas law firm that represented people who assert Remington’s Model 700 rifles can fire accidentally, according to documents filed Monday.
Tiffany Kary & Polly Mosendz, Bloomberg 04/12/2018 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Farmers Win OK Of $1.5B Syngenta GMO Corn Settlement
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A Kansas federal judge on Tuesday granted preliminary approval of a mediated $1.51 billion settlement agreement hashed out by farmers in all but four cases involved in multidistrict litigation over Syngenta AG’s genetically modified corn seed. U.S. District Judge John W. Lungstrum’s order in the nationwide class action preliminarily approved the settlement between the farmers and Syngenta defendants, provisionally certified the settlement class of four subclasses, appointed settlement counsel and class representatives and approved a notice plan.
Joyce Hanson , Law360 ($) 04/12/2018 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Hercules Must Cover $5.5M In Fees In Oil Rig Fire Suit
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Hercules Offshore Inc. must indemnify a subcontractor for about $5.5 million in attorneys’ fees and expenses incurred in litigation stemming from a Louisiana offshore rig blowout, but Hercules itself is entitled to recoup those costs from an oil production company, a Texas federal judge ruled Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt said oilfield equipment supplier Axon Pressure Products Inc. is entitled to indemnity for $4.8 million in attorneys’ fees it incurred from September 2014 to January 2018, with another $700,000 in expenses.
Jess Krochtengel , Law360 ($) 04/12/2018 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Barnes & Noble Data Breach Lawsuit Revived by Federal Court
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Barnes & Noble is to face a customer data breach lawsuit after the case was revived by a federal appeals court. The complaint seeks to hold Barnes & Noble Inc responsible for customer losses from a 2012 data breach, which involved payment verification machines that had been tampered with at 63 bookstores in nine states. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Wednesday voted 3-0 to revive the lawsuit and stated a lower court judge wrongly concluded that the plaintiffs lacked legal standing to file the lawsuit.
Jonathan Stempel, Reuters 04/11/2018 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Navajo Nation Files Sweeping Opioid Lawsuit
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This week, the Navajo Nation has filed a federal lawsuit against opioid makers, distributors and pharmacies over their alleged role in the opioid epidemic. The lawsuit was filed at U.S. District Court in New Mexico on Tuesday and alleges that prescription and illicit opioids led to 7,309 overdose deaths from 2014 through 2016 across the Navajo Nation, which covers Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Named as defendants in the lawsuit are Purdue Pharma and Endo Health Solutions and distributors McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen, in addition to pharmacies CVS Health, Walgreens Boots Alliance and Walmart.
Ken Alltucker, Arizona Republic 04/11/2018 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Products

Those Stickers Warning that Repairs will Void Your Warranty are Nonsense, FTC says
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The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that warning stickers that say people will void their warranties are not only meaningless but also illegal. These types of stickers are common on many electronics. The agency said it sent letters about the labels to six major companies that make game consoles, automobiles and cellular devices. The FTC did not name the companies that received the letters. The agency said that these types of messages are in violation of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, which prohibits companies from putting repair limits on warranties, and they may also violate rules against false representation.
Hayley Tsukayama , The Washington Post 04/12/2018 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Tesla Blames Driver in Fatal Car Crash
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Tesla Inc. defended its semiautonomous Autopilot system in the wake of a fatal crash last month, blaming the incident on the driver after his family hired a lawyer to explore legal options. Walter Huang died on March 23 after the Model X sport-utility vehicle he was driving southbound on Highway 101 near Mountain View, Calif., collided with a barrier and was struck by two other vehicles.
Tim Higgins & Mike Spector , Wall Street Journal - $$ Subscription Required 04/12/2018 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Tesla Withdraws as Party to NTSB 'Autopilot' Crash Investigation
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Tesla Inc said it is withdrawing as a formal party to the National Transportation Safety Board’s probe into a fatal March 23 crash in California in which the semi-autonomous Autopilot driving system was in use. The automaker’s unusual step means it may not be privy to some information obtained by investigators before it is made public. Tesla’s announcement, made late Wednesday in California, came after the company publicly blamed the driver for the crash and made a series of statements about the incident that drew criticism from the NTSB. Driver Walter Huang died in last month’s crash and vehicle fire in a Tesla Inc Model X near Mountain View, California, prompting investigations by the NTSB and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
David Shepardson, Reuters 04/12/2018 Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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