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Them’s Fighting Words!
With Halloween less than a week away, Bill Hatfield and his neighbor Randy McCoy are at it again. This time, it’s over McCoy’s pumpkin orange 38-foot recreational vehicle parked in front of his house....
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Living in a State of De-Nile: Are Commercial Drones Viable?
Soon, the days of having to wait for your online purchase to arrive may be a thing of the past. Nile, giant online retailer of everything from books to breakfast cereal, announced that it intended to...
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There’s a Printer for That!
Fresh off his last Tonight Show monologue, Jay Lento is scouring the vintage car dealers’ websites to find replacement wheel hubs for his antique BMW. Searching worldwide, he finds none. When his...
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Don’t Be a Target: Mitigating Liability From Cyber Attacks
During the holiday season, Bullseye, a big box retailer, was the victim of a cyber attack that compromised the credit and debit card information (including PIN and CVV codes) of nearly 40 million of...
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The Case of the Defamed Doctor – SLAPP’ing Down Defamation Cases in Texas
Special thanks to guest blogger Alex Fuller for this month’s post. Who steals my purse steals trash; ’tis something, nothing; ‘Twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to...
View ArticleGimme a U-N-I-O-N!
Willa Bepayed is a standout attacker and a Senior on State Tech’s volleyball team. Willa read about Kan Doit, the Southeastern quarterback who’s leading the unionization drive before the National Labor...
View ArticleAffluenza – Is It Contagious?
Taking advantage of his car dealership owning parents being on vacation in the Bahamas, Cache Bar, a minor, invites his high school buddies over to liberate his parents’ locked libation cabinet. Well...
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Happy Fourth of July Weekend!
Sure, fireworks are fun, but be cautious and careful. Below are Texas’ Top 10 fireworks laws (but remember, laws may vary county to county) reposted from our July 2008 blog. For a great Independence...
View Article“Affluenza” Follow-Up
For those of you who took an interest in our Affluenza article from June, you may be interested to know that there are developments in the real-life story. Frederick Couch, the father of “affluenza”...
View ArticleWeighing in – 1.2 Billion Usernames and Passwords. What, Me Worry About...
Last month one of our lead articles was Cyber Security: Forewarned is Fair-Warned. Last week the New York Times published an article reporting that at least 1.2 billion usernames and passwords were...
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Fracking! Come and Take It!
Believing that she could no longer endure around-the-clock noise, dust and truck traffic in her residential Denton neighborhood, Lisa Frick and friends collected signatures to put a proposed ordinance...
View ArticleDivorce – Four Business Reasons for a Prenuptial Agreement
With an ongoing Oklahoma divorce case in mind last month Tilting wrote about Tigh A. Knott, his wife Lucy Knott and how a business owner’s divorce can impact his business and affect his partners. The...
View ArticleDoes My Business Need Riot Insurance?
Broken windows, looting and fires were some of the lasting images from the Ferguson, Missouri riots. And if you looked at those pictures closely, you may have noticed that a substantial number of the...
View ArticleFinding Fault with Fracking – Lawsuits and Earthquakes
Lisa Frick, our fictional Denton resident, who collected anti-fracking ordinance signatures to put on the Denton City Ballot now complains that fracking near old Texas Stadium caused earthquakes that...
View ArticleLeft Shark and Lawsuits – Who Gets Bitten in the End?
Halftime was just the Beginning: A backup dancer in Katy Perry’s Super Bowl halftime show goes viral upstaging the singer, Tom Brady and Russell Wilson for MVP. Thanks to social media, “Left Shark”...
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A Measle-ly Lawsuit: Can Parents Who Don’t Vaccinate their Children be Sued?
Yearning to leave the frozen wasteland of Dallas, Texas behind her if just for a moment, Penny McCrathy, an outspoken anti-vaccination advocate, took her unvaccinated children to Disneyland in Anaheim,...
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Open Carry? Or Not?
Police Chief Steroid McMuscles reported that Colt Glockenhand who entered Wally-Mart with a shotgun was not charged with “engaging in the lawful open carry of a pump-action shotgun” – a violation of...
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Presidential Privilege? Why Presidents Can’t Escape Litigation in Office
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past three weeks, you know Donald Trump was elected the next President of the United States. You also probably know that some of Mr. Trump’s companies...
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AirBNB & VRBO: Do My Neighbors Have a Say?
Following his transfer to Houston, Ruel Benda decided to keep his posh gated neighborhood Rodeo Drive house and started advertising it on AirBNB. His profits were so good that he began renting for 7...
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Put Down Your Phone But Keep Your Sword in Your Hand
Co-author: Skyler Stuckey After finishing his weekly rehearsal for an upcoming Robin Hood performance at his local theatre, Wiley Enferee walked into his local Mega-Mart at his wife’s behest to buy a...
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