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| | Don't gamble with your cases. 48 hours in Vegas can change your practice forever! Join some of TTLA's battle-tested veterans and emerging superstars in Las Vegas for a CLE experience that'll change your luck in the courtroom. February 23-25, 2012, Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, 8 hrs. MCLE w/ 1 hr. Ethics | | Laws/Cases | |
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| | Family of Murdered Inmate Files Lawsuit | |
| | The murder of a Hawaiian man in a private prison in Arizona has prompted a lawsuit by the man's family against the state of Hawaii and the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). The man was fatally stabbed by another inmate, and the lawsuit claims "CCA's business model of grossly short-staffing prisons and cutting corners" contributed to the death. Staff Report, Honolulu Advertiser 02/15/2012 | | Read Article: Honolulu Advertiser | | Man Says Cops Beat Him Because He is Black | |
| | An African-American man has filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department, claiming he was beaten and arrested by police because he is black. In his lawsuit, the man claims he and another person, who was white, were filming a disturbance with police officers near a Chicago train station when officers approached them. The plaintiff claims the officers "politely" asked the white man to stop filming; when they approached the plaintiff, however, officers "grabbed his phone, cussed at him, beat him and dragged him to the hood of a squad car." The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages. Jeremy Gorner , Chicago Tribune 02/15/2012 | | Read Article: Chicago Tribune | | Harris Cnty Jury Awards $20M to Rape Victim | |
| | A Harris County jury awarded $20 million in damages Wednesday to a rape victim who sued her apartment complex for failing to notify residents about previous sexual attacks on the property. The woman lived at The Promenade Cullen Park when a masked man who resided in the west Houston complex raped and sodomized her for more than 10 hours in February 2009. According to the lawsuit, apartment officials knew about a break-in next door to the woman's unit a few weeks before her ordeal in which a man tried to rape that resident and failed to notify other tenants about a sexual predator. After a weeklong trial, the jury awarded $7 million for physical pain and mental anguish, $5 million for future mental anguish and $8 million for conduct forbidden by the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Cindy George, Houston Chronicle 02/16/2012 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle | | Suit: Woman's Death Due to Pharmacy Mix-Up | |
| | A lawsuit has been filed against a Walgreens drugstore in Kentucky and one of its pharmacists over the death of a woman who supposedly was given the wrong prescription. According to the suit, the woman's prescription was for a high blood pressure medication, but she instead was given an antihistamine. The woman's hypertension went untreated for two weeks, and she died in a hospital shortly thereafter. The suit states that she was not given counseling regarding the medication when she picked it up, which would have allowed the pharmacist to notice the mistake and give her the correct medicine. Jason Riley, Louisville Courier Journal 02/16/2012 | | Read Article: Louisville Courier Journal | | Suit: NYC To Blame for Death During Blizzard | |
| | A lawsuit has been filed against the city of New York over the death of an elderly woman during the December 2010 blizzard. The lawsuit claims the city took "too long to clear snow-choked streets for medical help," and that the woman had to wait 30 minutes for paramedics to arrive after she had a heart attack. The city failed to properly salt the streets before snow accumulated and did not properly equip their snow plows, the suit contends. Thomas Zambito, New York Daily News 02/15/2012 | | Read Article: New York Daily News | | Healthcare | |
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| | Parkland's Stand Makes Sense to Some, Not Others | |
| | Parkland Memorial Hospital’s decision not to release a taxpayer-funded performance report, despite its subsequent leak to the press, has raised the ire of patients’ rights advocates, but some attorneys say the hospital is within its rights to keep the report confidential. Parkland spent about $7M to hire the firm after inspections last summer uncovered systemic patient safety problems and CMS required the hospital to operate under external supervision or lose hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicare and Medicaid funding. Patients rights groups and some attorneys argue that Parkland, as a public institution, should release the report. “Patients deserve as much information as they can get,” said Alex Winslow, of Texas Watch. “They have to make decisions about where they’re going to seek care, and they need to know if there are any dangers or pitfalls that they need to be aware of as they’re making those decisions.” Bill Hethcock, Dallas Business Journal 02/16/2012 | | Read Article: Dallas Business Journal | | Editorials/Columns/Letters | |
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| | Column: Privacy Controversy Over Path Should be a Wake-Up Call | |
| | Last week, a new product, a social networking app called Path came under fire after a programmer discovered a major issue. Namely, that when you logged into the app on an Apple iOS device — an iPhone or iPad — it automatically uploaded your entire address book to its servers. Without asking. The situation set off a firestorm online among users, app developers and tech bloggers, who hotly debated the practice. The assumption was that if one app could pull your contacts without permission, then certainly other apps could as well. Sure enough, there were others out there. Although many developers have scrambled to squash the functionality, research from a variety of media outlets shows that the issue is far from over. Joshua Topolsky, The Washington Post 02/16/2012 | | Read Article: The Washington Post | |
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