Friday, August 29, 2014

Houston Legal Links 8/29/14

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Top legal stories include: Judge: School finance system still illegal; A timeline of Texas school finance court battles; Houston police chief seeks body camera funding; Ex-Client Sues Beirne Maynard Over Bankruptcy (Texas Lawyer); Falkenberg: In a patent case, a lawyer misleads a judge – and is rebuked (Chron subsc); Mom says 9-year-old offered to sell her 10-year-old cocaine on school bus; Austin bans talking on your cell-phone while driving your car; Police looking for answers after man dies on Heights jogging trail; Sheriff: Texas minister charged in assault; Vandal causes disturbance at Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church; Woman, 85, faces life for plot to have prosecutors killed;; City Committee To Review Houston’s Historic Preservation Ordinance; Texas Man No Longer Faces Life in Prison for Pot Brownies; Texas Supreme Court to study controversial expedited action rules (Texas Lawyer); Attorneys: Judge in Perry Case is Thoughtful, Fair; Secretive Group Launches Pro-Perry Site; Lawmaker Sues Texas Racing Commissioners; Texas man gets 20 years in synthetic drug deaths; Parkland hospital’s patient care draws federal scrutiny; Tanker reappears on tracking system, and it’s still in the Galveston area; Plaintiffs likely to appeal ruling in BP Atlantis case, lawyer says; Company helps smaller oil companies use bigger data & HBJ: How Houston’s affluence stacks up nationwide.


For the water cooler: Nationwide Pay Raise Watch: Could Philadelphia To $160K Drive NY To $190K?; Illegal ‘hostile work environment’ harassment for co-workers to wear Confederate flag T-shirts; Former US Attorney takes plea in tax-return case, agrees to pay $290K; An AUSA Has His 82 Year-Old Neighbor Arrested Over A Dispute About A Fence; Which midlevel associates are the happiest?; Latham Sued For Malicious Prosecution; Attorney is charged in child-porn possession case after consenting to search of law office; New NFL policy imposes 6-game suspension for domestic or sexual assault, banishment for 2nd offense; 6th Circuit reverses hate-crime convictions of Amish in beard- and hair-cutting attacks; Immigration Law Is Even More Corrupt Than You Think; Again, Goodwill Does Not Accept Skull Donations; Deputy distracted by patrol car’s computer won’t be charged in fatal collision with bicycling lawyer; Do write “declination letters” confirming no representation to certain would-be clients.; Rap music scholars aim to educate SCOTUS in threats case & Class action aims to curb soccer concussions.


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