Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Houston Legal Links 11/4/2015

Originally published by Mary Flood.

Top legal news includes: Bathroom Fears Flush Houston Discrimination Ordinance; Mayor: Fight not over for Houston nondiscrimination measure; Turner, King Head to Runoff in Race for Mayor; Voter turnout highest since 2003 (Chron subsc); Sylvester Turner Says He Wants To Bring Houston Together As He Heads Into Runoff In Mayor’s Race; Bill King Stresses ‘Back-to-Basics’ Message Heading Into Houston Mayoral Runoff; Complete election results; State Amendments Sail to Easy Passage; Malfunctioning voting machines raise ire at precinct; OTHER NEWS: HPD officer shoots, kills suspect during traffic stop; HA Withdraws Eminent Domain Threat Against Fifth Ward Church; More East Texas Couples Forced To Choose Marriage Over Jail Come Forward; Workers fired for raising concerns about transgender student; Analysis: A Dubious Future for Historical Racing in Texas; Student arrested for bringing handgun to Travis High School & TransCanada delay could fix Obama administration’s Keystone dilemma

FOR THE WATER COOLER: Displaced Lawyers – Advice Industry Could Be Making You Stupid; Lawyer charged in marijuana operation case says state and federal laws ban prosecution; Above the Law link to Houston firm: Are we looking at the future of legal advertising?; 100 Percent Open Rate! Rethinking the Holiday Card; Is The Legal Profession Ready For The Sharing Economy?; Former ACLU lawyer should not have been removed as grand juror, appeals court rules; Lawyer saves fellow motorist in burning car from fiery explosion; Lawyer accused judges of ‘incompetence and ignorance’ in pleading, ethics complaint alleges; Judge faces ethics case for driving drunk, allegedly using office to try to avoid DUI citation; Lawyer gets prison time for secretly using client cases as collateral to obtain litigation funding; Posner Comes To Defense Of Pro Se Plaintiff, Excoriates Trial Judge; You Will Not Believe What This 10-Year-Old Wrote To A Judge Regarding His Mother’s Release From Prison; Bill Cosby can be questioned in model Janice Dickinson’s defamation lawsuit, judge rules; Harvard Law Students Want School’s Link to Slaveholder Scrubbed from Official Seal & World’s Largest Law Firm is About to Get Bigger.

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