Monday, July 21, 2014

Houston Legal Links 7/21/14

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Top legal news includes: Perry expected to call up National Guard to Rio Grande Valley; Investigation to be conducted into E. Texas prison ceiling collapse; D.C. Circuit Rejects Payback for Stanford Fraud Victims (Law.com); Case shows perils of standard language in non-binding deals; Retired Harris County sheriff’s deputy drowns; For victim’s family, lack of murder investigation is an open wound (Chron subsc); Jury Finds Harlem Lewis Guilty Of Murder Of Bellaire Police Officer; Court lets EquuSearch use drones again; Sheriffs Consider Selling E-Cigarettes at Jails; Protestors do not want undocumented children in Montgomery County; Falkenberg: Mother of three pressured into changing story, but jailed anyway (Chron subsc); Owner of Willis dog refuge arrested on animal cruelty charges; Why are the sales for firearm silencers, suppressors on the rise?; Fort Worth funeral home owners charged with abuse of corpses; Computers no threat to Dallas police sketch artist; Grand jury deadline passes, 8 Tyler, Texas suspects freed; Texas agency probed oil tank for leak before blast; Feds OK first-in-decades oil studies off East Coast; Mexico’s Senate approves energy overhaul & Rising from the ashes: civil rights firm to celebrate inauguration of new building after devastating fire.


For the water cooler: Biglaw Firm’s New Timekeeping Policy May Screw Associates Out Of Bonuses; Lawyers may look at what jurors post online, but only if it’s available to the public; Macy’s settles federal racial profiling suits with shoppers; Man wearing T-shirt with judge’s picture and ethics reference is asked to leave courthouse; Judge tells teen he needed a dad to ‘beat the hell out of you’ (see the video); Company co-founder is personally liable for Buckyballs recall refunds; Cellphone call helped make stock manipulation case against corporate lawyer, FBI says & Question of Negligence Could Limit Flight 17 Compensation Claims.


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