For the first time since 1974, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that an injured victim’s failure to use a seat belt in a car accident case may now be offered as evidence at trial to apportion responsibility in civil lawsuits. In other words, defendants that negligently cause auto collisions are now going to be able…
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The company that manufactured the medical devices tied to a deadly “superbug” outbreak in California is being investigated by the United States Justice Department. The Associated Press reports Olympus Corp. of the Americas (an arm of Japan’s Olympus Corp.) is being investigated for possible violations of false claims and anti-kickback laws. Olympus disclosed on February…
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Last Thursday, a federal judge in New Orleans denied BP’s request to limit its environmental penalties for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Setting this fine is the final step in a civil case regarding the April 20, 2010 blowout of BP’s Macondo subsea well, which caused the spill. Following…
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Firm Partner Benny Agosto, Jr. had an interview with Telemundo on Monday February 23, 2015 about President Obama’s administration’s plans to appeal U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen’s injunction order regarding immigration. The interview ran nationally on Telemundo’s nightly news. As an advocate of comprehensive immigration reform, Mr. Agosto has been a national leader on this…
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The number of injuries and environmental disasters along America’s roads, pipelines, and railways involving the movement of oil and gas has proliferated in recent years along with domestic production. An enormous explosion in West Virginia on Monday reminds us of the potential hazards of such activity to the communities located along such transport routes. On…
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Oil workers in Texas, California, Kentucky and Washington state are striking. One of the main issues, according to one news report on the oil workers’ strike, is safety. According to the vice president of the United Steel Workers’ Union USW), which represents oil and gas workers in the four states, the work stoppage is about: …
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I am happy and blessed to be an advocate and a voice of legal advice for almost five million DACA young immigrants across the country, who today wake up to more questions than answers about their future. DACA, which stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is a program that allows undocumented immigrants who came…
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Heavy trucks are in the news again due to two wrecks in southeast Texas. The first occurred in Beaumont late Sunday night. A crash that included multiple vehicles and a fire occurred near midnight on the eastbound side of I-10. Eight people were transported to the hospital by ambulance. Authorities had to divert traffic in…
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