She might as well have hidden the recorder in the guy’s office. If she didn’t want to invade a private conversation to hear its contents, she probably shouldn’t have gone out of her way to hide a recording device on her unconscious body.

As you said, Texas is a single party state, even for electronic and oral communications. However, to be a party to a conversation one must be in some way capable of taking part of it. People who are under general Anesthesia are incapable of forming consent or engaging in legal activities that require it, for instance…

When I had minor surgery last year, I had a patients’ rights advocate before and after the surgery. I wonder if she was offered one as well.

If the hospital has reason to take action, they would have to admit they did wrong, which the patient would still have more rights.

I’m not a lawyer but I don’t think she was a party to the conversation. She was spoken about but not spoken to. That being said, if she decided to sue, it would be incredibly foolish for the hospital to counter-sue. The PR damage has already been done; they would make it worse with fighting her in court.

I believe with the now national law protecting our rights to record/film police actions, there’s likely a very good chance recording/filming a surgical procedure may be allowable. After all, they’re not private affairs.

Spirit of the law: Of course it’s fine to secretly record the conversations surrounding your own health when people are putting you under the knife.

Texas is a “One party consent state,” so recordings can be made or used as evidence if only one party to the conversation is aware of them. Ms. Easter was present, but was she legally a party to the conversation, or is this an illegal recording or illegal to use as evidence? Would the Hospital have some difficulty…

They are specifically telling you to call the police, so it isn’t a run, just a hit. Car insurance already covers an at fault vehicular death.

We have 2 cats that spend a lot of time outside, yet when they come in they go straight to the window to look out at the yard.

Today news outlets reported that Fitbit helped the police when they charged a husband with his wife’s murder: http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/25/us/fitbit-womans-death-investigation-trnd/

Might work. Depends on whether there are cameras in the courtroom. After all, one wouldn’t want t to fraudulently misrepresent the law in Louisiana.

To be completely accurate, Peak Oil won’t really happen when there’s Not One Drop of oil left - there will always be oil in the Earth, probably lots of it.

So wait...let me get this straight.

America has no culture of its own. We get our originality and culture from magazines and popular media and our tattoos out of catalogs. It’s why so many idiots have koi fish and phrases in other languages tattoed on them, cause they are so deep and connected to that culture, no wait cause they were super trendy to…

I didn’t know that, but when I googled it I read that the president can extend that protection. (Bush did that for his daughters.) And since the article says “Secret Service agents detained a Brooklyn, N.Y., man last week,” it sounds like it was extended.

16 is laughably young to end Secret Service protection. The…

Pretty sure the Secret Service would be the ones to testify.

Franklin Duckworth is well documented. He worked for the UN but was not British.

Believe me, when it comes to taxation Grover is to the right of many Tea Partiers. He’s only hated by the Tea Party because he commited the unpardonable sin of actually marrying a *gasp* muslim.