Monday, October 27, 2014

Houston Legal Links 10/27/14

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Top legal news includes: Houston companies hiring more in-house lawyers to save money; Court controversy not uncommon; Man says delays at Fort Bend DA’s office cost him two years (Chron susbc); Wet or dry? Alcohol restrictions in Houston area; Police seek partners of sex offender with HIV; Texas Prosecutors Discuss Their Novels at Texas Book Festival (Texas Lawyer); Houston group protests Texas’ death penalty; DPS Tells Mayor Parker’s Daughter She Can’t Have Two Moms; Key testimony in BP oil spill ruling wasn’t excluded, DOJ says; Exoneree awarded $2.3 million jury verdict over innocence evidence concealed by prosecutors; Grammy Nominated Gospel Singer/Songwriter James Fortune Arrested; Pastor subpoenas just the latest misstep in messy ERO case (Chron subsc; Houston flea market raided over counterfeit goods; Fikac: Being pro-life in governor’s race doesn’t extend to death-row (Chron subsc); Trial of Amarillo doctor in hit man plot to start; Video: George P. Bush Says Father “More Than Likely” to Run in 2016; Justice Ginsburg Issues Timely Correction in Texas Voter ID Dissent; Arizona news outlets sue for lethal injection information; Blackfeet urge government to cancel energy leases; Flood: If you’re voting for judges, have a clue or bow out & Other blog: Popular elections of American state judges is wasteful, anti-business, provincial, third-rate and a global joke.


For the water cooler: Law Firm Uses Puppet As Pitchman And This Feels Like An Acid Trip; Lawyer who didn’t share client payments with his partners is disbarred; Marvel Goes DMCA Crazy Over Leaked Avengers 2 Trailer, Then Puts It On Its Own YouTube Page; It’s Week 5 Of ‘How To Get Away With Murder’ And Viola Davis Is Allergic To Sleeves; Money, sex, madness and murder at fictional Bay Street law firm is focus of ex-partner’s new novel; Former ‘People’s Attorney’ radio host is convicted in $10M mortgage-fraud case; Driver Destroys Disputed Oklahoma Ten Commandments Statue; Man avoids UK prosecution for two years with coma and quadriplegia claims; video shows him walking; DUI case dropped after arresting officer allegedly forwarded suspect’s photos to his own phone; Stat of the Week: Where Are Young Lawyers? & DUI firm will accept payments via Apple Pay.


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