Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Houston Legal Links 10/6/2015

Originally published by Mary Flood.

Top legal news includes: BP, Justice Department file $20.8 billion oil spill accord with court; In Final BP Deal, Texas to Get $800 Million for Gulf; Pardons board reject bid for clemency as execution date arrives; Texas inmate says he shouldn’t die for $8 robbery, slaying; Texas Cases Factor in New U.S. Supreme Court Term; Advances in DNA Testing Could Put Thousands of Texas Cases in Legal Limbo; Ex-UH professors sentenced in research grant scheme (Chron subsc); Attorney for deputy’s murder suspect wants text messages, emails; Lawmakers Jump into Tussle Over God’s Trust; Man gets 20 years in prison after posing as child; Apparent murder-suicide at Houston market; Will Federal Crackdown On Corporate Crime Hit Houston’s Energy Sector?; Group Calls For Stricter Standards For Developers Receiving Tax Incentives In Houston; Publisher apologizes for textbook calling slaves ‘workers'; Andrews Kurth Helps Houston Law School with Career Development Program (Texas Lawyer); Investor Sues Lawyer For Legal Malpractice (Texas Lawyer); Repeat bank “juggers” arrested by HPD’s Northeast Tactical Unit; Husband forced to live on lawn; FBI has new tactic to fight child pornography; Border Patrol parent agency issues custody standards & Houston companies team up to build Eagle Ford natural gas plant, pipelines for $240 million.

For the water cooler: Judge tosses defamation suit by Yankees fan caught napping on camera; Gotta catch ’em all: Pokemon lawyers hit cafe manager with $5,400 bill for copyright infringement; Disbarred Judge Won’t Resign; The Capitulation Of Merely ‘Rich’ Firms (And How To Bring In $3 Million In Profits Per Partner); Lawyers slow to adopt email encryption and other forms of secure communications, ABA survey finds; Are fantasy sports payouts legal? CEO says it’s a game of skill like the stock market; Firm’s pre-indictment representation of co-defendants didn’t violate right to counsel, judge rules; Maryland Law Student Says Something Insensitive On Facebook, Starts Firestorm; Alabama judges turn to Jim Crow-era law to combat same-sex marriages; Legal services sector adds 4,700 jobs; Supreme Court justices become more liberal as they age, statistics blog says; Or Not: Revenge Of The Roberts Court; Do the states with the most gun laws have the fewest gun deaths? It depends on what is counted & California becomes 5th state to legalize assisted suicide.

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



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