| TTLA
Membership Drives: Grow the Family in 2020 |
The first
membership drives of 2020! Houston membership drive is scheduled for Jan 21st.
Austin, Dallas & San Antonio drives are scheduled for Feb 13th. Click on the
headline to learn more and RSVP. #GrowTheFamily
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| REGISTRATION
IS NOW OPEN for the Houston Car Wrecks Seminar |
Houston
Car Wrecks Seminar, Thursday, February 6
South Texas College of Law. This daylong seminar includes nuts-and-bolts
presentations that take you from client intake all the way through trial. Come
away with the tools you need to compete in the courtroom. Click on the
headline to learn more and register.
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Texas
Tribune Daily Brief
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| The
Brief for Jan 16 |
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In
today's Brief: A Texan will help make the case for impeachment in the Senate,
and a federal judge temporarily halted a policy allowing state leaders to
block refugees.
Elvia Limón, Texas Tribune 01/16/2020   
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Texas Tribune
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| Investigation:
Hidden Justice |
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CPSC is
one of more than a dozen regulatory agencies tasked with protecting Americans
from dangerous products. Often the only way they can learn about and act on a
possible threat to consumers is from evidence produced in lawsuits, but that
evidence is often hidden behind a wall of secrecy.
MIKE SPECTOR, JAIMI DOWDELL and BENJAMIN LESSER, Reuters 01/16/2020
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Reuters
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| Dickies
Arena Facing Lawsuit Over Death of Man Crushed by Gate |
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A lawsuit
has been filed against the operators of Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas,
over the death of a man crushed by an electronic gate. The lawsuit was filed
by the man's family and alleges the nonprofit company that operates the
concert and sports arena and the contractors who built it failed to properly
install the gate. The lawsuit was filed in Dallas County Court.
Gordon Dickson, Ft. Worth Star Telegram 01/14/2020
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Ft. Worth Star Telegram
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| Four
Lawsuits Announced Over Deadly Dive Boat Fire in California |
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On
Monday, four more lawsuits were announced against the owners of a dive boat
that caught fire off the California coast, resulting in the deaths of most of
the passengers. The lawsuits were filed on behalf of four victims of the fire
and allege ion lithium battery charging stations aboard the Conception were to
blame. Attorneys cited a fire that took place a year earlier on a similar boat
when a charging station caught fire. The complaints were filed in U.S.
District Court for the Central District of California.
Megan Diskin, Ventura County Star 01/13/2020
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Ventura County Star
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