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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!  

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!  

Laws/Cases

 
Suit: IRS Illegally Seized Millions of Medical Records
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A class-action lawsuit has been filed against the IRS accusing officials of illegally seizing more than 60 million personal medical records from a health care provider in California. The company claims IRS agents had a warrant to take financial data related to a specific former employee, but had no legal right to seize any medical records, especially those of third parties unrelated to the matter. The plaintiff says as many as 10 million individual peoples' records may have been illegally taken.
Scott Gottlieb, Forbes 05/15/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Man Imprisoned in Cuba Settles Suit with Employer
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An American man who has been imprisoned in Cuba since 2009 has settled a lawsuit he filed against his former employer, who sent him to Cuba without adequate security training. In the lawsuit, the man said he expressed concerns over his trip as a subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, but his company and the USAID "ignored his complaints." The lawsuit was seeing $60 million in damages, but the settlement has remained confidential.
Andrew Zajac, Bloomberg 05/16/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Ticketmaster To Pay in Rewards Program Lawsuit
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Ticketmaster will pay $23 million to settle a lawsuit over a rewards program that charged millions of people a monthly fee but never provided any benefits. The plaintiffs claimed they were not aware they were signed up for the program upon buying tickets through Ticketmaster.com, and were charged automatically through their credit or debit card each month. Of the people enrolled between 2004 and 2009, 93 percent did not redeem any online coupons for which they were charged.
Wire Report, LA Times 05/16/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Issues

 
Military: Sex Assault Victims Labeled as Mentally Ill and Forced Out
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Accounts from members in every branch of the military show that those who disclose a sexual assault face commanders who often disregard their reports and send them to uniformed counselors, who subsequently find them to be mentally unfit for duty, a seven-month San Antonio Express-News investigation shows. Through dozens of interviews with experts and victims, and a review of thousands of pages of military and medical documents, the newspaper found the problem to be pervasive and long-standing, with cases spanning three decades.
Karisa King, San Antonio Express News 05/20/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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In West, Investigators’ Focus Shifts
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Federal and state authorities made headlines last week when they announced, before a televised audience, that they couldn’t determine what started a fire that caused the West Fertilizer Co. to explode. Out of the spotlight, a separate team of investigators is trying to determine, no matter how the fire started, what more could have been done to save this Central Texas farm town. Leading that line of inquiry is a small, relatively new federal agency that is staffed by experts in chemistry, public health and engineering, but lacks the power to levy fines or make arrests.
REESE DUNKLIN , The Dallas Morning News 05/20/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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Class Action

 
Class Action Suit over Asset Seizures OK'd
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A federal judge in Michigan has certified a class action lawsuit against the state over the way officials seized assets "without court approval to cover overdue taxes." The suit stems from an incident with a pub in Southfield, where state treasury agents seized cash from the bar and changed the locks "with a warrant that was never reviewed by a judge." The Detroit Free Press reports that there could be as many as 150 plaintiffs represented in the lawsuit.
Wire Report, Detroit Free Press 05/17/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon
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