| Take 60 seconds to vote NOW! | TTLA encourages all members to take 60 seconds right now and cast your ballot in the run-off election for State Bar President-Elect. You can vote in this important run-off election whether or not you voted in the first election. Click on the headline and vote now!
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| TTLA 2013 Annual Conference - Reinventing The Rules With Rick Friedman | June 12 - 14, Sheraton Downtown Hotel - Austin Register Now! 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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| Kansas City Diocese Settles Child Porn Lawsuit |  | The Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed against a priest who has been convicted of producing child pornography. The lawsuit accused the priest of taking "sexually explicit photos" of a young Missouri girl and distributing them over the Internet; the suit also named a diocese bishop, who allegedly discovered the photos but failed to report the abuse. The lawsuit was settled for $600,000.
Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star 05/16/2013    | | Read Article: Kansas City Star |
| Suit: Woman Got Meningitis from Steroid Injection | | A Jefferson County, Ala., woman has filed a lawsuit against a local medical center and a compounding center after becoming seriously ill from a steroid injection. The injection was similar to a batch of drugs produced by the center linked to a deadly outbreak of meningitis. A few months after she received her injection in May 2012, the plaintiff was hospitalized and treated for meningeoncephalitis. The lawsuit is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
Kent Faulk, AL.com 05/16/2013 | | Read Article: AL.com |
| Suit: College Coach Coerced Player into Sex Acts | | A former student at Concordia University Chicago has filed suit against the school's former baseball coach, claiming he was coerced into sexual acts as payment for helping the student get drafted by a major league team. According to the suit, the baseball coach would "talk up [the plaintiff] if he performed sexual acts on video." The student allegedly performed between 20 and 30 sexual acts in the coach's office between the summer of 2008 and 2009.
Naomi Nix, Chicago Tribune 05/16/2013 | | Read Article: Chicago Tribune |
| Hotel Pays $10.9 Million to Settle Fall Lawsuit | | A Ramada hotel in Norfolk, Va., has agreed to pay $10.9 million to settle a lawsuit with the parents of a toddler who fell from a hotel walkway in 2011. The railing on the second-floor walkway at the hotel was missing, the suit claimed, and the toddler fell through the open space, suffering permanent brain injuries.
Patrick Wilson, Virginian Pilot 05/16/2013 | | Read Article: Virginian Pilot |
| Reverse Discrimination Suit in Tenn. to Proceed | | A federal judge in Tennessee has ruled that a former employee of the state Labor Department can continue with his reverse discrimination lawsuit against the agency. The lawsuit claims that the former head of the agency and two aides, all of whom are African-American, "conspired to fire [the plaintiff] and other longtime employees because they are white." The judge ruled that while the plaintiff's claims have not been proven, they do contain "ample allegations of [the defendant's] intent and malice as well as a factual basis for the pleadings."
Walter F. Roche Jr, Tennessean 05/16/2013 | | Read Article: Tennessean |
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