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Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 166, Subchapter C, provides for the out-of-hospital Do-Not-Resuscitate Order (“DNR”).  DNRs are fairly common among elderly or terminally ill patients, and, because improper compliance or non-compliance with the DNR can expose both the EMT and the EMS provider to civil and criminal liability, it is vital that EMTs know how to comply with DNRs…

It’s going to happen: someone you invited onto your business property is going to hurt.  It could be a slip and fall, a falling object, a runaway shopping cart, or a jagged corner.  The damages could be fairly minor or, depending upon the injury, could reach into the millions of dollars.  Large damages or not, it won’t take long for…

Probable cause to search exists when “there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place.” To illustrate, in Illinios v. Gates, police received an anonymous letter stating, “you have a couple in your town who strictly make their living on selling drugs.  They are Sue and Lance Gates . .…

The dangers of drunk driving are not disputable. Texas law recognizes those dangers by criminalizing the operation of a motor vehicle while intoxicated. However, Texas law also generally gives drivers the right to refuse to offer a breath specimen, the only penalty for doing so being a driver’s license suspension. Not surprisingly, this results in a high rate of refusals. …