Family members and loved ones are mourning the deaths of two teenage girls, while two others are recovering from their injuries from a recent crash. The one-vehicle wreck occurred Friday morning on Highway 288. Four girls–two who are 18 years old and two who are 17 years old–were in a Nissan Rogue. The black SUV…
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The Hispanic National Bar Association’s Legal Education Fund (HNBA-LEF) is now accepting applications for its high school pipeline program the Legal Education Action Program (LEAP). This year LEAP is being held in Houston, Texas on June 21-28th. LEAP was started in 2013 in order to provide Hispanic students with a legal education-immersion program that allows…
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President Obama’s immigration plan has been at a standstill since mid-February when a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction. This injunction halted the implantation process of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) Program. In response to the injunction, leaders from over 70 U.S. cities have joined together to file…
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Forbes Magazine, usually a mouthpiece for Chamber of Commerce agitprop, recently ran an article online acknowledging the failure of the so-called “tort reform” movement (available here). That conservative canard, long a pet project of big business and the insurance industry and a prominent plank in the GOP platform, blames plaintiff’s lawyers and supposedly frivolous lawsuits…
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2015 is less than two months old. Yet there have already been numerous natural gas pipeline accidents in the United States. Texas has 425,000 miles of pipeline, the most in the United States. The country as a whole has 2.4 million miles of pipeline that could be the source of an explosion or leak. Are…
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A young man who endured years of sexual abuse at the hands of his elementary school principal has been awarded a multimillion dollar verdict from a federal jury last week. In 2011, former elementary school Principal, Michael Alcoser, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for aggravated sexual assault of a child and possession of…
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Sunday’s disappearance of AirAsia flight QZ8501-which has not yet been located as of the time of this writing-has left the families of its 162 passengers and crew in anguished suspense. These families are surely devastated by the certain knowledge of the loss of their loved ones, yet the ongoing search for the airliner’s wreckage cruelly…
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Cane Creek has issued a recall for their DBINLINE Rear Shock. The shocks have labels which indicates the direction to turn a knob on the shock to adjust the High Speed Rebound (“HSR”) damping. The adjuster works by turning the knob counter clock wise to increase tension and counter clockwise to decrease it. The problem…
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