| TTLA 2013 Annual Conference: Online Early Bird Registration will close this Friday, June 7 at 5:00 pm | June 12 - 14, Sheraton Downtown Hotel - Austin Register Now! At-door pricing will be $1020.00 for full package, so register early and save $170.00. The TTLA CLE Committee is proud to have Rick Friedman present Reinventing the Rules during the Annual Conference. Additionally, we are fortunate to have Paul Begala as a Keynote Speaker for the June 14th Annual Conference Luncheon. A Texas native, Paul is a Democratic strategist and most of you know him as a Special Contributor to CNN. You will want to reserve the date and book early as we expect that this will be the most heavily attended seminar in TTLA history and space will be limited. Click on the headline to learn more!
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| Judge Orders Girl Put on Transplant List |  | A federal judge has ruled that 10-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis must be put on the adult organ transplant list. The girl's family sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after they refused to put the girl on the list because of a 12-year-old minimum age policy. The judge issued a 10-day temporary lift on the age requirement, and her family says the girl has about a 75 percent chance of receiving a transplant.
Edith Honan, Reuters 06/05/2013    | | Read Article: Reuters |
| City Pays After Cops Raid Wrong Home | | The city of Longview, Texas has agreed to pay $5,000 to two local brothers who say police raided their home by mistake while attempting an arrest warrant. Police smashed the doors of the plaintiffs' home and tossed in a flash grenade while storming into the home, but they had the wrong address.
Sarah Thomas, Longview News-Journal 06/05/2013 | | Read Article: Longview News-Journal |
| Wells Fargo Settles Complaint on Foreclosed Homes | | Wells Fargo has agreed to spend at least $42 million to settle allegations that it neglected the maintenance and marketing of foreclosed homes in black and Latino neighborhoods across the country, the National Fair Housing Alliance announced Thursday. The agreement, reached Wednesday, is rooted in a Department of Housing and Urban Development complaint filed in April 2012 by the alliance.
Danielle Douglas, The Washington Post 06/06/2013 | | Read Article: The Washington Post |
| Chrysler Agrees to Recall 630,000 Jeep SUVs | | Just two days after refusing a government request to recall 2.7 million older-model Jeeps, Chrysler has decided to do two other recalls totaling 630,000 vehicles worldwide. The automaker will recall more than 409,000 Jeep Patriot and Compass small SUVs across the globe from the 2010 and 2012 model years to fix air bag and seat-belt problems. It’s also recalling 221,000 Jeep Wranglers worldwide from 2012 and 2013 to fix transmission fluid leaks, according to documents posted Thursday on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration website.
Associated Press, The Washington Post 06/06/2013 | | Read Article: The Washington Post |
| Drillers Silence Fracking Claims With Sealed Settlements | | In cases from Wyoming to Arkansas, Pennsylvania to Texas, drillers have agreed to cash settlements or property buyouts with people who say hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, ruined their water, according to a review by Bloomberg News of hundreds of regulatory and legal filings. In most cases homeowners must agree to keep quiet. The strategy keeps data from regulators, policymakers, the news media and health researchers, and makes it difficult to challenge the industry’s claim that fracking has never tainted anyone’s water.
Jim Efstathiou Jr. and Mark Drajem, Business Week 06/06/2013 | | Read Article: Business Week |
| Women Target Vancouver Plastic Surgeon in Suit | | Six women have filed suit against a Vancouver plastic surgeon and the PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Washington over botched surgeries. The women claim in their suit that the doctor was negligent in his care and that each of the plaintiffs were forced to undergo "additional corrective surgeries" after their procedures. The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages.
Marissa Harshman, The Columbian 06/03/2013 | | Read Article: The Columbian |
| Suit Filed over Boy Killed at Alabama Airport | | The parents of a boy killed by a fallen sign have filed suit against a group of contractors that worked on signs at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. The boy was killed by one of the airport monitors that displays flight information; the suit alleges the contractors knew the monitors were unstable and likely to fall. The family is seeking unspecified damages.
Matt Campbell, Kansas City Info Zine 06/05/2013 | | Read Article: Kansas City Info Zine |
| Suit Filed After Construction Worker Killed in Calif. | | A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against a drunk driver in California, Caltrans and the state highway patrol over the death of a construction worker in April 2012. The victim was struck after the driver drove through a freeway closure. The lawsuit claims Caltrans and other state and local defendants failed to properly secure the barricade and construction site.
Brian Day, San Gabriel Valley Tribune 06/05/2013 | | Read Article: San Gabriel Valley Tribune |
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