| Dallas Car Wrecks CLE Seminar, October 8, 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! Join the TTLA Advocates Board of Directors at Happy Hour after the Seminar from 5:00-8:00pm (included in registration). Click on the headline to learn more and register.
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| TTLA Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Seminar | October 22-23 | Royal Sonesta, Houston | This October, be prepared to experience something REAL at 2015 PMD. Click the headline to see the extraordinary lineup of speakers coming to the 3rd Annual TTLA Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Seminar. You wonâ??t want to miss this sell-out seminar with our 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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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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| Calif. School District Settles Sex Abuse Lawsuit for $1.35M |  | A sex abuse lawsuit filed against Belmont-Redwood Shores School District in California has reached a tentative settlement. The school district agreed to settle the lawsuit for $1.35 million before it was schedule to go to trial in San Mateo County Superior Court. The lawsuit was filed by a woman who alleges that she was sexually abused by the school janitor while she was a student. The janitor, who had worked at the school for twenty years, was fired after he groped another student.
Aaron Kinney, San Jose Mercury News 09/21/2015    | | Read Article: San Jose Mercury News |
| Landowners Challenge Chesapeake on Royalties | | More than 400 lawsuits have been consolidated in Tarrant County, with cases stretching to Dallas, Pennsylvania and Ohio and reaching into France. The lawsuits accuse Chesapeake of deliberately cheating property owners by improperly calculating the price of gas sold â??at the wellheadâ?? and by wrongly deducting expenses â?? some paid to Chesapeake affiliates â?? after the gas was transmitted.
DIANNA HUNT, The Dallas Morning News 09/21/2015 | | Read Article: The Dallas Morning News |
| Peanut Exec in Salmonella Case Faces Life Imprisonment | | A year after a federal jury convicted Stewart Parnell of crimes behind a salmonella outbreak blamed for killing nine people and sickening hundreds more, former owner of Peanut Corporation of America returns to court facing possible imprisonment for the rest of his life. Due in U.S. District Court with Parnell were two co-defendants â?? his brother and a plant manager â?? also found guilty in what experts called the first food-poisoning trial of American food processors. Parnell was convicted Sept. 19, 2014, of knowingly shipping salmonella-tainted peanut butter from his plant in Blakely, Georgia, to Kelloggâ??s and other customers who used it in products from packaged crackers to pet food. The jury also found Parnell and his brother, food broker Michael Parnell, guilty of faking results of lab tests intended to screen for salmonella.
Russ Bynum, The Associated Press, USA Today 09/21/2015 | | Read Article: USA Today |
| Jury Awards $3M to Fired Nurse | | A Portland jury on Friday awarded a nurse (Linda Boly) more than $3 million -- agreeing that she was wrongfully terminated by Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center after she complained to management that cost-cutting measures were jeopardizing patient care.
Aimee Green |, Oregon Live 09/21/2015 | | Read Article: Oregon Live |
| Maximum Settlement from TxDOT Awarded to Family of Woman Killed in Crash | | Texas Department of Transportation offered a maximum settlement to the family of a Graford woman (Cresha Leanne Greer) who died in a December crash. TxDOT admitted liability in the Dec. 18 head-on crash and awarded $250,000 â?? the maximum settlement allowed by Texas tort law â?? to Greer's surviving son, Brendan Curtis Greer, who turned 12 in June.
TODD GLASSCOCK, Mineral Wells Index 09/21/2015 | | Read Article: Mineral Wells Index |
| Volkswagen Denied Deception to E.P.A. for Nearly a Year | | For nearly a year, Volkswagen officials told the EPA that discrepancies between the formal air-quality tests on its diesel cars and the much higher pollution levels out on the road were the result of technical errors. Then, Volkswagen executives made a startling admission: The diesel vehicles it sold in the US had software deliberately designed to cheat on the tests. The E.P.A. disclosed the yearlong series of letters with Volkswagen as part of accusations it made against the company on Friday. The agency will require the company to recall nearly half-a-million vehicles equipped with 2-liter diesel engines dating to the 2009 model year. Volkswagen also faces fines that could run into the billions of dollars.
JACK EWING, The New York Times 09/21/2015 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| Common Solvent Keeps Killing Workers, Consumers | | Methylene chloride, a common ingredient in products such as paint strippers, can kill when its fumes build up in an enclosed area. The solvent is common in paint strippers, widely available products with labels that warn of cancer risks but do not make clear the possibility of rapid death. In areas where the fumes can concentrate, workers and consumers risk asphyxiation or a heart attack while taking care of seemingly routine tasks.
Jamie Smith Hopkins, ProPublica 09/21/2015 | | Read Article: ProPublica |
| 'Disruptive' Doctors Rattle Nurses, Increase Safety Risks | | Whether it's angry outbursts, lewd remarks or passive aggressiveness, bad conduct by those in the medical community is called "disruptive behavior." It's considered such a risk to patient safety that hospitals must have a system for addressing it in order to meet accreditation standards.
Jayne O'Donnell and Laura Ungar, USA Today 09/21/2015 | | Read Article: USA Today |
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