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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

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If you mess with Texas, be prepared to do it in Texas

By The Record |
First of all, don’t mess with Texas. Second, if you’re foolish enough to try that, plan on messing with Texas in Texas, because our state’s long-arm statute gives us the home-field advantage.

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Texas cities want to turn video streams into revenue streams

By The Record |
Whom do you blame when monthly utility charges go up – for electricity, gas, phone, cable, etc.? The companies providing the services, right?

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The case of the dodgy kolache

By The Record |
We all do it: self-diagnose. Before we go to the doctor, we try to figure out on our own what condition we have and what may have caused it. Then we go to the doctor and share our findings. He asks us why we bothered coming to see him if we already knew what we had, and we tell him that we wanted a second opinion.

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The bad penny that keeps coming back: tax breaks for trial lawyers

By The Record |
It’s been going on for more than a decade: the lobbying to let lawyers filing contingency-based lawsuits deduct fees and expenses immediately from tax returns. Such expenses have long been treated as loans to clients, recoverable at settlement – or, in case of a loss in court, deducted from tax returns at the conclusion of a case.

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If you hire a security guard, make sure to provide security for him

By The Record |
Two years ago, a Harris County constable deputy working an off-duty security shift at the Five Guys restaurant on North Shepherd Drive in the Garden Oaks area of Houston was shot in the arm when he tried to intervene in a robbery there.

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Warning: Don’t be injured by this warning!

By The Record |
We knew there was little scientific support for healthy people wearing surgical masks in public, and we doubted the necessity and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, but now we know that social distancing is counterproductive and potentially dangerous.

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Our public servants are trying to impose another hidden tax on us

By The Record |
The citizens of Plano may not be the only Texans paying more for video streaming services in the near future.

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Who to blame - the man behind the wheel or the maker of the wheel?

By The Record |
A guy goes out to eat, has a few drinks, and on the way home his car slams into several police officers involved in a traffic stop in a blocked-off lane of an expressway.

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This editorial has been censored and is not available

By The Record |
What is it with Google? Surely, the creators of the world’s most popular internet search engine are the ultimate opponents of censorship, die-hard defenders of the freedom of speech.

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Judge Gallagher shocked the defendant, literally

By The Record |
A defendant is accused of soliciting the sexual performance of a child. What to do? A hundred years ago they may have tar and feathered him without a trial, but certainly such drastic actions wouldn’t occur in a modern society, right?

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Judge Bennett bans herself from Facebook

By The Record |
Imagine posting to Facebook a picture of Wile E. Coyote reading a book entitled How to Carry Kids Across the Border. Coyote, get it? Yuk, yuk.

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See you later, legislators!

By The Record |
Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is the tale of a clerk in a lawyer’s office who suddenly decides to stop working. He continues to show up at the office every morning on time and put in a full day, but he doesn’t do any work. Whenever the boss asks him to take on a particular assignment, Bartleby responds, “I would prefer not to.”

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A ‘review’ of attorney Fred McGuire’s law license may be in order

By David Yates |
Fred McGuire sued a former client for $1.2 million for posting a bad Google review of him. Has the attorney actually been defamed?

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Prepare to pay more for streaming videos

By The Record |
Last month, the city of Plano submitted for the approval of state Attorney General Ken Paxton a proposed contingency-fee contract with outside law firms Ashcroft Sutton Reyes, McKool Smith, and Korein Tillery.

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This nurse is nursing a grievance

By The Record |
Genevieve Clark is a registered nurse who injured herself while trying to transfer a patient from his bed to a wheelchair. Now she’s suing her employer for damages.

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News flash: coffee is hot!

By The Record |
Stella Liebeck was the 79-year-old New Mexico woman who spilled hot coffee from McDonald’s in her lap and sued the hamburger chain for the burns she inflicted on herself.

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Who’s a ‘bad actor’ and who isn’t?

By The Record |
The Pandemic Liability Protection Act provides COVID-19 liability protections for health care providers, businesses, non-profits, religious institutions, and schools that made good-faith efforts to follow safety protocols during the course of the public health emergency declared by Gov. Greg Abbott.

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Is Judge Kent Walston a law unto himself?

By The Record |
Jefferson County District Judge Kent Walston is staunchly supported by trial lawyers practicing before him. When he last ran for reelection, unopposed, big contributions came in from attorneys at Provost Umphrey, Reaud Morgan and Quinn, Moore Landry, Weller Green Toups & Terrell, and the Ferguson Law Firm.