Houston Legal Links

Originally published by Mary Flood.

Top legal news includes: Texas Seeks to Allow Doctors Right to Refuse Treating Transgender Patients; Why Conservative States Handpicked This Texas Judge for Transgender Bathroom Challenge (Texas Lawyer); Precinct 4 Deputy Accidentally Tossed Untold Amount of Drug Evidence; Former Houston police officer, wife sentenced for transporting undocumented relative; Counterfeit Drug that Possibly Killed Prince Found in Houston; Legal recruiting firm opens office in Houston (Chron subsc); After Chairman Resigns, Houston Housing Authority Picks TSU Prof As New Leader; Doctor arrested after DEA raids office in Museum District; Houston City Council Green Lights Study On Disparity In Public Contracts; Judge Rules Dr. Bethaniel Jefferson Should Lose Her Dentistry License; Dallas Appeals Court Affirms ‘Death Penalty’ Sanctions In Civil Case (Texas Lawyer); Dallas Woman Sues City Council Member and Atlanta Lawyer for Barratry in Fatal Dog; Mauling Case (Texas Lawyer); Former Texas school district CFO allegedly used armored cars to steal $600,000 from district; Texas Promised to Track Oilfield Waste in Aquifers. It Didn’t.; Pro-gun group approves of UT dildo-friendly protest & Railroad Commission sides with Eastman in pipeline dispute.

For the water cooler: Law Firms Keep Battling Weak Demand by Charging More; Will Millennials Make The 2,500-Hour Year The New Normal?; Black Man Calls Cops, Is Shot By Cops, While Criminal Escapes; Too Poor To Pay Million-Dollar Judgment, Former Gawker Editor Offers Up Rice Cooker, Dishes; Some Kentucky restrictions on judicial-campaign speech violate First Amendment, 6th Circuit says; Suit challenges Wisconsin’s minimum markup law; Appeals Court: Effort to Shield Air Travelers from Issue Ads Was Unconstitutional; Judge rules for artist Peter Doig, who says ‘Pete Doige’ painting once valued at $10M wasn’t his; Spurned recruiter sues BigLaw partner who used competitor; was recorded phone call a contract?; Lawyers recruited on Craigslist were unwitting ‘front men’ in phony law firms, Florida AG says; The Most Famous Law School You’ve Never Heard Of; I Want To Put A Baby In You: Worst Legislation Ever; Good Reason to Kill #63: Golfing Too Slowly & Judge declares mistrial in tobacco case, accuses BigLaw partner of ‘egregious’ comments.

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