Thursday, July 30, 2015

Houston Legal Links 7/30/2015

Originally published by Mary Flood.

Top legal news includes: Few Lawyers Volunteer to Serve on DA’s Panel Investigating Sandra Bland’s; Death (Texas Lawyer); San Jacinto Cancer Victims Blame Dioxin Dump, Call For Removal; Inmates find variety of methods, tools to end their lives (Chron subsc); Houston City Charter Amendments Likely Pushed To Side By HERO Referendum; Texas Civil Rights Project Sues Harris County Sheriff’s Office Over Inmate’s Jail Suicide; Maps show visible racial divides in major Texas cities (Chron subsc); 25 big Texas busts made by U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s during Summer 2015; Texas A&M Wants the Public to Know How it Treats its Dog Mascot, But Not its Lab Dogs; Houston energy companies retreat from borrowing; Law firm moves into new downtown Houston office, plans for growth; Judge declares Texas’ online solicitation statute unconstitutional; Thousands of pot plants seized in East Texas in latest of big pot farm bust; Judge: Local governments, including Houston, will get their BP payments soon; Group set to sue U.S. agency over pipeline safety plans; 2 injection wells shut down after Oklahoma quakes; Miller Energy hopes to avoid bankruptcy & Familiar Houston name joins Forbes’ 2015 Richest Families list.

For the water cooler: Meet ROSS, ‘the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney'; Full transcript of judge’s luggage rant at British Airways lawyers emerges; Disbarred attorney charged with using another lawyer’s name in traffic-court case; 9th Circuit rejects widow’s suit over fatal mountain goat attack in national park; Ex-Wilson Sonsini Employee Sentenced to Two Years for Insider Trading; Attorney quits law, opens brewery in Marysville; Suspect is charged 30 years after fatal family-court-related attacks on judges, others; Woman fell from bed through 3rd-story window while sleeping, is now suing property manager for $230K; Donald Trump’s lawyer apologizes for ‘inarticulate comment’ about marital rape; New TSA Administrator To Explain How Agency Will Fail Differently From Now On; Associate Bonus Watch: A July Bonus Memo?; If We Can’t Make School Less Like Jail, Let’s Make Jail More Like School; Why Hollywood loves lawyers; ‘Smoking gun’ evidence shows Happy Birthday lyrics are no longer protected by copyright, lawyers say & White police officer faces murder case in shooting of black motorist in license-plate traffic stop.

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