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Texas Tribune Daily Brief
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Documents Detail Concerns About Houston Dams' Before Harvey |
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Just how worried is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers about a possible failure of the Addicks and Barker dams? And how worried should Houston be? The agency has long been criticized for providing few specifics on that issue, even after it found voids in the walls of the dams years ago, and classified them in 2009 as "unsafe" with an "urgent and compelling" need for action. Both dams withstood Hurricane Harvey's historic floods a month ago, but the Army Corps, which operates and maintains them, is offering little information about how the added stress may have affected the integrity of the dams E2=80=94 or how worried they were about them failing during the storm. NEENA SATIJA AND KIAH COLLIER, Texas Tribune09/28/2017 |
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Report: More Than Half of Nonunion Workers Subject to Mandatory Arbitration |
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The Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute and Cornell University Professor Alexander Colvin found that 54 percent of those workers, or about 60 million people, are bound by the agreements, up from 2 percent in 1992. The report comes ahead of arguments scheduled for Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court on whether class-action waivers in arbitration agreements violate workers=E2=80=99 rights under federal labor law. Reuters, Reuters09/28/2017 |
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Lawsuit: Army Corps Should Have Bought Easements |
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A federal lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers claims government officials knew for years that water impounded behind Addicks and Barker dams would flood thousands of suburban homes during an extreme storm - and yet did nothing to advise or compensate property owners. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Christina Micu, a homeowner in the Canyon Gate neighborhood in Cinco Ranch, a subdivision that essentially became part of the Barker Reservoir during Harvey. The case is pending in the Washington D.C.-based U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Lise Olsen, Houston Chronicle09/28/2017 |
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Man Who Served Teen Alcohol Prior to Fatal Crash Named in Lawsuit |
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A Florida woman has filed a lawsuit against a man she says gave her son alcohol prior to a fatal crash. The Jupiter woman filed suit against the 35-year-old man she alleges gave her teenage son alcohol at his home. According to the lawsuit, the man served alcohol to her underage son and then allowed him to drive home while he was intoxicated. The teen died when he crashed his car into another vehicle on his way home. His mother is seeking unspecified damages in the lawsuit. Jane Musgrave, Palm Beach Post09/27/2017 |
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She Needed a Tumor Removed - Surgeon Took Out 1/2 of Her Pancreas Instead |
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Bernice Gomez went in for surgery last November for an operation that was supposed to remove a cancerous tumor from her left adrenal gland, near her kidneys. But nearly a year later, the 63-year-old Alvarado woman is still =E2=80=9Csick every day,=E2=80=9D she said, and her cancer prognosis remains uncertain. Instead of removing the tumor, Dallas surgeon Sujeet Acharya removed about 40 percent of her pancreas, according to a medical malpractice lawsuit filed by Gomez last week. Acharya E2=80=94 the chief of urology at Methodist Dallas Hospital, where the surgery was performed E2=80=94 and his employer, Texas Oncology, are named in the lawsuit, which is seeking more than $1 million in damages. RYAN OSBORNE, Star Telegram 09/28/2017 |
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