| Free Legislative Webinar RE: Net Worth (SB735), 8/24/15 | August 24, Noon: TTLA President Bryan O. Blevins will discuss the changes to discovery of net worth of a party passed last session (1-hr CLE). Learn the impetus behind the bill and the story of the negotiations leading to the enacted version. Before the bill's effective date of September 1, 2015, He will take you through the legislative history of the bill - from an outright ban on discovery of net worth to a new discovery procedure - and share with you strategies for how to comply with this new area of discovery practice. Click on the headline to register.
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| Free Legislative Webinar RE: Forum Non Conveniens (HB 1692), 8/25/15 | August 25, Noon: Join TTLA's Vice President for Communications Laura Tamez for a webinar (1-hr CLE) on the changes to the Forum Non Conveniens statute, Chapter 71 CPRC. Laura will discuss the In Re Ford case, which led to the filing of the bill and the negotiations which crafted the final language passed into law. Laura will discuss the changes to the safe harbor aspect of the statute and the changes to the definitions in the statute - the elimination of the definition of "legal resident" and the changes to the definition of "plaintiff." The changes to this statute are effective now, so if you have a case with FNC implications, you need to listen to this webinar. Click on the headline to register.
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| Federal Judge Dismisses Herbalife "Pyramid Scheme" Lawsuit |  | A lawsuit accusing Herbalife of operating as a pyramid scheme has been dismissed by a federal judge. The lawsuit accused the company and its chief executive officer of misrepresenting the company as a legitimate company focused on weight loss and nutritional products. The lawsuit was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer in Los Angeles, who also dismissed an earlier version of the lawsuit. The judge ruled that the plaintiffs failed to show that the company defrauded its shareholders by concealing the company's inability to track retail sales.
Jonathan Stemple, Reuters 07/29/2015    | | Read Article: Reuters |
| Award in Lead Paint Lawsuit Canâ??t Be Tied to Ethnicity, Judge Rules | | A federal judge in Brooklyn explained in a court memo released on Wednesday why he rejected a landlord's attempt to use a child's Hispanic ethnicity to argue for reduced damages in a lead poisoning case. Judge Jack B. Weinstein ruled that the attempt violated federal law governing the use of statistical generalizations based on race or ethnicity, and forbid experts on both sides to discuss them. A lawyer for Mark Kimpson, the landlord, was seeking to reduce the $2 million in damages awarded to the child and his mother after she sued over lead poisoning. A jury awarded the damages on July 10 after finding that the apartment the family rented from Mr. Kimpson contained lead-based paint that had not been properly removed or contained.
ASHLEY SOUTHALL, The New York Times 07/30/2015 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| Virginia College Graduates Sue Rolling Stone Over Rape Story | | Three University of Virginia graduates on Wednesday filed a defamation lawsuit in New York against Rolling Stone magazine, its publisher Wenner Media and a journalist over a now-debunked 2014 article describing a fraternity gang rape. The three men, all 2013 graduates and members of Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity at the center of the story, claim the magazine was negligent in publishing an article entitled "A Rape on Campus" by Sabrina Rudin Erdely. They are seeking damages for defamation and infliction of emotional distress.
JOSEPH AX, Reuters 07/30/2015 | | Read Article: Reuters |
| How Your Hospital Can Make You Sick | | Though infections are just one measure of a hospital's safety record, they're an important one. Every year an estimated 648,000 people in the U.S. develop infections during a hospital stay, and about 75,000 die with them, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That's more than twice the number of people who die each year in car crashes. And many of those illnesses and deaths can be traced back to the use of antibiotics, the very drugs that are supposed to fight the infections.
Consumer Reports, ConsumerReports.org 07/30/2015 | | Read Article: ConsumerReports.org |
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