Originally published by Mary Flood.
Top legal news includes: Authorities: Terror arrests made in Sacramento, California, and Houston; Iraqi man charged with lying to FBI; Officials identify refugee arrested in Houston terror case (w/video); Indicted Trooper Surrenders, Will Plead Not Guilty; Mother Of Sandra Bland Says Charges Not Enough; New video shows jailer’s assault on inmate in Houston; Houston Coats Rose, & Dallas Wright Ginsberg law firms merge; Harris County officials outline plan to curb jail population (Chron subsc); DA expands pretrial diversion for shoplifting, certain drug cases; 16 Lawyers & Judges Disciplined on December List; Northern District of Texas Emerges as Wildcard Among Infringement Venues (Texas Lawbook); Houston parents battling CPS get two of their 3 kids back; Family of Student Shot at TSU Files Wrongful Death Lawsuit; Why Is It So Easy For the Feds to Deport Women and Children Fleeing Violence at Home?; Teacher investigated after allegedly body slamming 3rd grader with special needs; In Terms of Bizarre Legal year in Texas , 2015 Will Be Hard to Beat (Texas Lawyer); Wayne Reaud Moves to Dismiss Allegations He is ‘Ringleader’ in Civil Conspiracy (Texas Lawyer); Barbecue trailer receives Facebook threat due to open-carry policy; Texas Zoos Struggle to Limit Guns Under New Open Carry Laws; NW Harris man found living with mother’s decomposing body; The EU Puts Another Snag in the Halliburton/Baker Hughes Merger; Retirees Group Spars With Hunt Over Oncor Sale; United Airlines fined $2.7M for violating consumer rules & Among most big U.S. cities, Houston had the cheapest gasoline for nearly all of 2015.
For the water cooler: Thomas Jefferson School Of Law To Stand Trial For Allegedly Inflating Employment Statistics; ‘Big Bang Theory’ producers are sued over ‘Soft Kitty’ song; Biglaw Firm Announces New Base Salary Scale; Lawyer charged in attack on law firm partner may use involuntary intoxication defense; White People Weigh In On How They Should Be Punished For Using The N-Word; Above the Law’s 2015 Lawyer Of The Year Contest: The Finalists!; Lawyer Asks For Football Continuance, Judge Says He Must Wear Green Bay Packers Cheesehead To Court; Dear Media – Stop Trying to Convince Us Lawyers That Our Profession Is A Bad Place To Be; Suit accuses Fitbit of unfair practices for inaccurate pulse trackers, late-revealed lawsuit ban; Does monkey have standing to assert copyright in selfie photos? Judge is skeptical; These law schools accepted and lost the most transfer students; is Harvard too eager?; 2016 Predictions For the World of White-Collar Criminal Defense; Bill Cosby won’t be charged in Los Angeles; Great Advice If You Have $200K To Blow; Justice Breyer on Term Limits, Differences with Justice Scalia and More; Chicago mayor orders ‘third-party review’ of federal civil rights litigators after verdict tossed & Chemerinsky: The best, worst and most surprising SCOTUS opinions of 2015.
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