Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Houston Legal Links 9/7/2016

Originally published by Mary Flood.

Top legal news includes: Waller County takes too long to process poor defendants’ requests for counsel, report says; Feds working with local authorities on evidence-destruction cases; Defendant suing after evidence destroyed by Precinct 4; Abbott Will Pick Susan Hawk’s Replacement as Dallas County DA; Jury finds against union, awards $5.3 million in damages to cleaning firm (Chron subsc); Who Are the Top-Paid GCs in Texas? (Texas Lawyer); Turner urges rejection of ‘offensive’ textbook; State Representative Reynolds declares bankruptcy; Houston Lawyer Resigns as Trump Adviser Over Immigration Stance (Texas Lawyer); Houston-bound flight diverted after man breaks door, throws up, starts speaking loudly in Arabic; North Texas Hospitals Face $27 Million Penalty in Medicaid Dispute; Closing Private Federal Prisons Can Impact Texas Because It Has The Most In The U.S.; Will Texas Tackle Backlog Of Thousands Of Abandoned Oil Wells?; Houston-Based Spectra Energy To Be Sold To Canadian Pipeline Company Enbridge For $28 Billion & Judge grants partial stop on North Dakota pipeline work.

For the water cooler: 90 people who were told they failed the Georgia bar exam learn it’s not true; Thinking Of Stiffing A Referring Attorney? Think Again.; Biglaw Firm To Pay $20 Million In Settlement To A Former Client; The Trend Continues — Another Gender Bias Lawsuit Against A Large Law Firm; Gretchen Carlson Settles With Fox — And We Are All Denied The Discovery We So Richly Deserve; What does increase in MBE pretest questions mean for test takers?; Longtime K&L Gates chair Peter Kalis to step down in 2017; Missouri must reveal suppliers of lethal injection drug, 8th Circuit says; Trump says he didn’t speak with Florida AG Bondi about his foundation’s $25K donation; Disbarred lawyer, released from prison due to cancer, says killers of police were ‘avengers’; Battle of the Joes Is Back On; Chemerinsky: What will the presidential election mean for SCOTUS?; Mary Shen O’Carroll: Googling up law department efficiency & This Indiana county sends more people to prison than San Francisco.

Curated by Texas Bar Today. Follow us on Twitter @texasbartoday.



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