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Lawmakers and the Supreme Court, Part 2

13 Dec

Yesterday, we posted about four Texas legislators who filed an amicus brief crticizing the Texas Supreme Court for an opinion in an on-the-job injury case.  Now we have a copy of the legislators’ brief, and it is posted here. To contact Austin Personal Injury Lawyer, Austin Personal Attorney, Austin Accident Lawyer, Austin Injury Lawyer Perlmutter &…

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Personal Injury Law Round-Up #40

13 Dec

This is an early edition of the Personal Injury Law Round-Up since I’ll be out of the office tomorrow working a volunteer project at a low income school in East Austin (even personal injury lawyers do some good out there). Perhaps the biggest news of the week, Eric Turkewitz was in a car wreck. He…

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Lawmakers Criticize Texas Supreme Court

12 Dec

In what may be unprecedented, a bi-partisan group of Texas lawmakers filed an amicus brief with the Texas Supreme Court asking them to overturn their decision in Entergy v Summers. In that August 31, 2007 opinion, the court was faced with the question of whether a premises owner was a “general contractor” under the worker’s…

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Texas Cracks Down On Uninsured Drivers

11 Dec

Yesterday’s Dallas Morning News has an article detailing the legislature’s new plan to crack down on uninsured drivers.  The plan, which goes into effect next month, creates a database of uninsured drivers and makes that database available to law enforcement officials and others.  The plan is summarized by the article as follows: Uninsured drivers will be…

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Personal Injury Law Round-Up # 39

07 Dec

Welcome to Personal Injury Law Round-Up # 39 (and our third attempt at it). This week’s edition contains pretty big news on the US Supreme Court front, but first we’ll start off with the traditional look at tort reform. We’ll start off with a bit of good news for those of us on the plaintiffs’…

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