After a number of deadly incidents at oil and gas storage facilities over the course of the last 20 years, federal investigators are these facilities to better secure their storage sites. According to statistics provided by the Chemical Safety Board (CSB), at least 44 people have died in explosions and fires that occurred while they…
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CooperVision recently announced that it is expanding its recall of the Avaira brand of contact lenses due to the level of silicone oil residue on the lenses. Over 4.9 million Avaira Sphere contact lenses were added to the August recall of over 780,000 Avaira Toric lenses that were linked to blurred vision, eye injuries, and…
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Three of the injured passengers from last week’s fatal bus crash in Texas remain hospitalized. Just over a week ago on Friday night, a bus from Abliene Christian University was carrying 12 students majoring in agriculture, three faculty members and a faculty member’s wife to Medina, Texas. The group was scheduled to spend the weekend…
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The law treats pets as property. Therefore, the value of pets would normally be the “market price” for the animal. Unless a pet is a pure bred show animal, its market value is likely to be a very small sum. The Fort Worth Court of Appeals ruled this month that owners should be able to…
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Social media increasingly permeates our everyday lives. Two recent stories reflect just how social media in general, and Facebook in particular, have begun to play increasingly larger roles in judicial system. According to the Houston Press, Facebook will help prosecute a quartet of individuals allegedly involved in over thirty burglaries in the Heights neighborhood of…
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Toyota Motor Corp. is once again issuing a recall, this time announcing the recall of more than 420,000 vehicles in the United States in connection with potential steering problems. The problem is involved with the “crankshaft pulley on the V6 engine” and affects over 550,000 vehicles worldwide – 283,200 Toyota and 137,000 Lexus vehicles. According…
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The death of a 14-year-old boy at a juvenile detention center in Texas now the public wondering whether official will take a closer look into what exactly is happening in these Texas juvenile centers. The middle school boy was found unconscious in his cell at the Granbury Regional Juvenile Justice Center in early October. He…
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The article titled “But Your Honor, He’s an Illegal! Can the Undocumented Worker’s Alien Status Be Introduced at Trial?” co-authored by Houston personal injury attorney [email protected], Jr. of has recently been published in the Spring 2011 issue of the Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy. Co-authored with Texas Southern University Law Professor Lupe Salinas…
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