Friday, January 27, 2017

Houston Legal Links 1/27/2017

Originally published by Mary Flood.

Top legal news: Former Houston school trustee Marshall ordered to pay up to $2.1M in bribery case; Texas executes man convicted in Dallas-area double murder; Proposed Mexico tariff flusters local businesses (Chron subsc); State Lawmaker Wants Morning After Pill, Abortion Criminalized So Women Will Behave; League City woman admits to federal child pornography charge; Woman caretaker filmed hitting 94-year-old now in custody; Judge Wood Begs Family of Anna Nicole Smith’s Husband To Let Him Quit Case; Baker Botts Highlight Prosecutorial Misconduct Allegations (Texas Lawyer); Outburst in court between neighbors involved in Spring shooting; Ex-Baylor Financial Aid Staffer Claims Retaliation In Title IX Suit (Law360); What Exonerations Mean For The Texas Death Penalty Debate; Houston-area day care inspections: Children left unattended, unsanitary procedures found; Amid “sanctuary” standoff, Abbott asks agencies to list Travis County funding; Undocumented Community Puts Heat on Sheriff Gonzalez to Cut Controversial Policy; UT Researchers Find Travel Distance to Abortion Clinic Directly Impacts Access; Texas Jury Helps Steve Harvey Defeats $50M Claim Over Stand-Up Videos (Law360); Stanford Ponzi Receiver Doubles Down On Clawback Claim (Law360); Texas home raided for operating makeshift casino; Report: Dallas ISD teacher on leave for shooting at Trump image with squirt gun in class; Jury to decide Border Patrol agent’s fate & FBI director Comey to address South By Southwest festival.

For the water cooler: Lawyer is reprimanded for pretending to gag during prosecutor questioning of witness; Judge certifies class action claiming Pacer fees are too high; The Real Reason Cravath Raised Salaries; Belgian Parliament Decides to Keep Serving Itself Free Beer; Florida judge accused of racist and sexist remarks resigns before impeachment probe; 40 lawyers leave Sedgwick in two separate mass moves; firm calls them ‘efficiency adjustments’; ‘Alternative Facts’: Workplace Sexual Harassment Is Now Legal, And ‘We Can Say Fag Again’; Federal Judge Benchslaps Mich. Attorney General For ‘Superficial Posturing’; Speech-To-Text Dictation For Lawyers: What You Need To Know; Arbitrator tosses fired bar executive’s claim against former California bar president; Scalia opinion on EPA regulations could block Trump’s wall; Law Professor Arrested For Child Abuse; 33 Complaints Filed Against Company Run By Trump’s Labor Secretary.; Alito and Roberts are less like Scalia than two of the three top SCOTUS contenders, study says; Trump signs order banning federal grants to ‘sanctuary cities’; are there legal obstacles? & Standard Of Review: Afterlife Law On ‘The Good Place.’

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



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