| EARLY BIRD PRICE ENDS TOMORROW! TTLA Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Seminar | October 22-23 | Get ready for 2015 PMD Night Out! Click the headline for more information on TTLA Party of the Year! Held exclusively during TTLA Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Seminar, this is the party you will be talking about all year. You also won't want to miss the sell-out seminar with an unprecedented lineup of in-demand topics, storied speakers and unparalleled insight. This year, experience something REAL. Real Torts. Real Talk. Real Time.
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| TTLA Annual Meeting & Advanced PI CLE Seminar December 2-4 | Mark your calendar and register today! TTLA Annual Meeting & Advanced PI CLE Seminar, December 2-4, Four Seasons Hotel, Houston. CLE speakers are confirmed and the program agenda is set. Registration is now open. Hotel room rate of $195 per night expires November 10. Reserve your room today using promo code CI1215LA or call 800-734-4114 and mention the Texas Trial Lawyers Association. Click on the headline to learn more.
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| San Antonio Car Wrecks CLE Seminar, November 5, 2015 | Earn up to 7.25 hours MCLE credit including 1.0 hr ethics credit. TTLA's Car Wrecks CLE Seminar features practical, in-depth tips and strategies to help you WIN YOUR CASES. 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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| Calif. Student Forced to Play Football Game After Concussion Sues |  | A California school district is facing a lawsuit by a student who alleges he was forced to continue playing football despite having suffered a concussion. The La Jolla High School student alleges in the lawsuit that his assistant coach told him to "suck it up" after suffering the concussion. The lawsuit, filed last week in San Diego Superior Court, accuses the school district of negligence and failing to recognize the head injury.
Dana Littlefield, San Diego Union Tribune 10/14/2015    | | Read Article: San Diego Union Tribune |
| Supreme Court Case has Broad Implications for Businesses and Consumers | | The US Supreme Court debated to a draw Wednesday over an unusual question with broad implications for businesses and consumers: If a defendant in a civil case offers to pay the plaintiff in full, is the lawsuit moot? Is it settled? Or can it live on? What the justices decide either could give companies a way to avoid class-action lawsuits or prevent consumers from having their challenges ended with a simple payoff.
Richard Wolf, USA Today 10/15/2015
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| DuPont Reaches Settlement with Family of One Worker Killed at La Porte Plant | | DuPont has settled one of the lawsuits brought by the families of four workers killed in a fatal gas leak at DuPont's La Porte plant, a lawyer announced Wednesday. The estate of Crystle Wise, represented by her daughter Jasmine, has reached a confidential financial settlement, according statements issued by DuPont and the Wise family attorney. Wise, an operator at the Lannate Unit, was killed last November when nearly 24,000 pounds of toxic methyl mercaptan spewed into a tower housing a pesticide manufacturing unit at the plant just outside Houston.
Lauren Caruba, Houston Chronicle 10/15/2015
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| Military Child Petitions Supreme Court Over Feres Doctrine | | Attorneys for a military child who suffered brain damage at birth in Evans Army Community Hospital at Fort Carson, Colorado, filed a petition Tuesday for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the case. At issue is a 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that disallowed the case under the Feres doctrine, the exception to the Federal Tort Claims Act that bars active-duty troops from suing the government.
Patricia Kime, Military Times, USA Today 10/15/2015 | | Read Article: USA Today |
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