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'Boston Legal's' Kelley delivers parting shots
No other current scripted TV series is as political, topical or self-referential as ABC's 'Boston Legal.' After tomorrow night, the show will disappear, ending its five-year run. Created and largely written by David E. Kelley, 'Boston Legal,' which began as a spin-off of Kelley's 'The Practice,' probably won't go gently in its two-hour finale Monday (9 p.m., WTAE).
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Dec 7, 2008
Legal Group May Become Very Influential
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy was founded seven years ago to counter a growing right-leaning legal philosophy that has reshaped the American legal landscape on issues from the reach of federal regulation to the separation of church and state. Now, as President-elect Barack Obama assembles his administration, the little-known legal organization stands on the brink of ...
Washington Post - Dec 7, 2008
Victim impact videos stir unease in criminal cases
Writing for a 6-to-3 majority, then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist said prosecutors could balance the unlimited defense mitigation evidence by offering 'a quick glimpse of the life' of the victim. But the court laid out little specific guidance beyond saying that victim impact evidence must not be 'unduly prejudicial' WASHINGTON The images are those of any childhood: a toddler wearing a ...
Houston Chronicle - Dec 7, 2008
Election was no sweeping mandate
Chief Justice William Rehnquist liked to take small groups of Supreme Court law clerks to lunch at the Monocle, an old Capitol Hill watering hole near the Senate. He ordered the same meal every time, a hamburger and a beer. Just as predictably, one of the young clerks would ask the chief justice of the United States for career advice. 'Go home,' he would say.
Philadelphia Inquirer - Dec 7, 2008
O.J. Simpson faces prison during appeal
LAS VEGAS -- In the harsh light of the morning after his sentencing, O.J. Simpson s future was clear Saturday. His new home will be a prison cell in the Nevada desert with his door to freedom hinging on an appeal of a trial that his lawyers say was filled with errors. This is not a frivolous appeal, Yale Galanter, Simpson s lawyer, said. There were some grave errors made by Judge ...
China Post - Dec 7, 2008
O.J. lawyer cites trial errors
PHOTO GALLERY O.J. Simpson sentencing LAS VEGAS - In the harsh light of the morning after his sentencing, O.J. Simpson's future was clear Saturday. His new home will be a prison cell in the Nevada desert with his door to freedom hinging on an appeal of a trial that his lawyers say was filled with errors. 'This is not a frivolous appeal,' Yale Galanter, Simpson's lawyer, said.
Los Angeles Daily News - Dec 7, 2008
Proposed cow, hog fee causes stink
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - For farmers, this stinks: Belching and gaseous cows and hogs could start costing them money if a federal proposal to charge fees for air-polluting animals becomes law. Feeders speak out The Texas Cattle Feeders Association said in a Nov. 25 letter to the EPA that it strongly opposes any effort to regulate greenhouse cases under the Clean Air Act.
Amarillo Globe News - Dec 7, 2008
Term limits still a bad idea
Sen. Mary Easley, D-Tulsa, hopes Oklahoma voters will abolish the 12-year limitation on legislative service that they approved overwhelmingly in 1990. She tried and failed last session to get the issue on the state ballot but undeterred, she will try again when the Legislature convenes Feb. 2. Senate Joint Resolution 3, which Easley has pre-filed, calls for a vote of the people to repeal the ...
Tulsa World - Dec 7, 2008
Indian Democracy: Time to be 'Of the People, By the People and For the People'
Jawahir Mulraj There is, justifiably, a palpable anger at the political leaders for failing miserably in governance. Democracy, as practised in India, is more about survival of politicians, guarded by a bevy of commandos whom they dont pay for, and not about the people. The terrorist attacks in Mumbai have revealed the disdain and insensitivity of our political class for the people who have put ...
Seeking Alpha - Dec 7, 2008
For sale: Fake futures
PRICIEST FAKE: 'DIPLOMA' FROM U OF T Here is the price list Peng Sun quoted in emails and brought with him to meetings with a Star undercover operative: $3,000 Most university degrees (York, University of Toronto, etc.) $6,000 University of Toronto-post 2006 (with anti-counterfeit hologram) $1,000 Two copies of sealed transcripts, on watermarked paper $1,000 Letter from the Chinese Ministry of ...
Toronto Star Online - Dec 7, 2008
Fishermen begin to get payments from Valdez oil spill
CORDOVA, Alaska A little less than 20 years ago, Mike Webber was king of his own watery world. He was 28, with three herring fishing boats. He leased another boat for halibut, and gill-netted the fat salmon that made Prince William Sound one of the most legendary fisheries in the world. Then came the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Overnight, it was all gone: Fish prices plummeted.
Star-Telegram - Dec 7, 2008
Guns and butter
Under the UN umbrella, there are at least 12 conventions and protocols on terrorism and, ad nauseam, UN documents tell us lack of consensus on defining terrorism inhibits adoption of an international comprehensive convention. In 1937, League of Nations did attempt a definition, but nothing much came of that proposed convention. 'All criminal acts directed against a State and intended or ...
Yahoo! India - Dec 7, 2008
Extremism breeds extremism
Following the expulsion of families from Beit Hashalom in Hebron, during a radio interview with the BBC, I was asked about our future plans. When I responded that the community would continue to purchase property in Hebron, the interviewer asked, 'But won't that just cause more violence?' I answered, 'If I bought a home in London and was told that a Jew purchasing on 'that side of the city' ...
Jerusalem Post - Dec 7, 2008
For Some Elderly, Mentally Ill Patients, There's Nowhere to Go
BREMERTON The old man is getting worse. He spent his life as an educator active in the community. Now, he is losing his mental capacity. He is becoming combative and confused. He frightens his wife and hits her. Eventually, he ends up in a Harrison Medical Center emergency room. A rush of doctors, bright lights and loud voices whirl around him. He is bewildered.
Kitsap Sun - Dec 7, 2008
CIBC faces $600M class-action lawsuit hearing Monday
TORONTO - The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce squares off in a Toronto courtroom Monday with bank teller Dara Fresco, in a $600-million class-action fight about overtime. It's the first major national class-action lawsuit to be contested at the certification stage and the case could spill over into workrooms across the nation if Justice Joan Lax accepts arguments from Ms.
National Post - Dec 7, 2008
Columnist: Local judge's Ten Commandments poster ensures religious liberty
In a nation that espouses the motto, 'Liberty and justice for all,' are we really ready for the consequences should the Ten Commandments suddenly become unprotected speech? Fortunately, the Federal Court of Northern Ohio last summer ruled in favor of the display of a form of the Ten Commandments in a courtroom in Richland County. The American Civil Liberties Union challenged Judge James DeWeese ...
Mansfield News Journal - Dec 7, 2008
How 'visionary' raised - and lost - a fortune
In Minnesota, his chiropractic clinics collapsed in a flurry of lawsuits and unpaid bills. Two girlfriends had him arrested, one for allegedly abusing her, the other for assertedly trashing her house, according to court records. After a traffic stop, police booked him on suspicion of using cocaine. There was little about John P. Rogers' turbulent, erratic life as a Midwestern businessman to ...
San Francisco Chronicle - Dec 7, 2008
Martha Crawford von Bulow, famed heiress dies at 76
The notorious aristocrat at the center of the von Bulow Trial of the Century greeted the news of his ex-wifes death with sadness, his famous lawyer said yesterday. Its a tragic ending to a tragic story, said s former attorney, Harvard law professor . Claus was falsely accused of something that he didnt do and I was privileged to represent him. This is not a day for celebration.
Boston Herald - Dec 7, 2008
Will Obama's recession become a 1930s depression?
Gordon Bishop Posted:12/08/08 With all of these bailouts and bankruptcies throwing millions of people out of work, is America about to plunge into another Great Depression like the 1930s? General Motors, CitiGroup, AIG and thousands of small, medium and big size businesses are begging the federal government to bail them out. The bailouts could cost taxpayers 2 or 3 trillion dollars, or ...
Bayshore Courier - Dec 7, 2008
Ex-beau's rant leads to criminal charges (12/05/2008)
FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Locked in a visitation dispute with his ex-girlfriend over their young daughter, J.P. Weichel wanted to vent, court records show. Mr. Weichel, 40, allegedly posted comments about the woman on the Craigslist 'Rants and Raves' forum, accusing her of child abuse and welfare fraud and making crude comments about her sex life. The woman said the postings were defamatory.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Dec 7, 2008
What does a Collection Company do?
What is a collection company? There are two possibilities. Some creditors will try to deceive a debtor by using a DBA'ed company name, address, and telephone number for their internal collection department. They want to give the impression of an 'outside' agency hoping the debtor will take it more seriously. This strategy is generally only used when the debt is not older than six months old. ...
Article Motron - Dec 7, 2008
NC death row inmate dies in a hospital
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. George Franklin Page, a death row inmate convicted of killing a police officer in 1995, has died at a hospital, more than four years after state and federal judges postponed his scheduled execution. He was 68. Page died Friday at WakeMed hospital in Raleigh, where he's been for the last month. He had a chronic heart condition and other health problems, said Ken Rose and ...
Asheville Citizen-Times - Dec 7, 2008
LA Weight Loss Settles Nationwide Sex Discrimination Lawsuit With EEOC
Company Refused to Hire Men into Weight Loss Counselor and Other Jobs, Agency Alleged BALTIMORE The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today that it has resolved its pattern or practice sex discrimination lawsuit against LA Weight Loss Centers, Inc., (renamed Pure Weight Loss, Inc., in early 2007), for $20 million and other significant relief.
Equal Employment Opportunity - Dec 7, 2008
Proving a disability is about to get much easier
Effective Jan. 1, the Americans With Disabilities Act will be amended to make important changes in the definition of the word 'disability.' The amendments retain the basic definition of disability as: (1) an impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities; (2) a record of such an impairment; or (3) being regarded as having such an impairment.
Tennessean - Dec 3, 2008
Colorado man faces criminal charge in libel case
Reporting from Fort Collins, Colo. Locked in a visitation dispute with his former girlfriend over their young daughter, J.P. Weichel wanted to vent, court records say. Weichel, 40, allegedly posted comments about the woman on the Craigslist 'rants and raves' forum, accusing her of child abuse and welfare fraud and making crude comments about her sex life. The woman said the postings were ...
Los Angeles Times - Dec 3, 2008
High court hears clean water case involving R.I.
By John E. Mulligan Journal Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- Several members of the Supreme Court agreed with environmentalists today that it's difficult, and perhaps impermissible, to weigh the value of an environmental rule directly against its economic cost -- ''a few baby clam larvae'' versus the dollars it would cost to save them, as Justice David H. Souter put it.
Providence Journal - Dec 3, 2008
Give bankruptcy judges power to alter mortgages
I watched a middle-aged widow lose her home recently. Her story was familiar. She owned her simple brick residence outright until four years ago, when a mortgage broker stopped by and offered her a loan too good to be true. In exchange for taking on a modest monthly payment, she could make some needed repairs and consolidate other debts. More sophisticated than many borrowers, she realized she ...
Press of Atlantic City - Dec 3, 2008
White House fights for nuke plants over towers
The Bush administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to let the nation's older power plants, including the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Lacey, avoid installing costly cooling towers that would best protect fish and other aquatic organisms. Lawyers for the government and electricity producers urged the justices to overturn a lower court ruling that says the Clean Water Act does not ...
Asbury Park Press - Dec 3, 2008
Justices object to Oregon court's actions in tobacco case
Tobacco giant Philip Morris USA might be partially freed from a $145 million punitive judgment, from the sounds of some Supreme Court justices Wednesday. In an epic legal dispute pitting the will of one court against another, conservative justices made clear their sympathies with Philip Morris and their dismay over seemingly being ignored by the Oregon Supreme Court.
San Luis Obispo.com - Dec 3, 2008
An Important Case the Supreme Court Heard This Week Shows Why Constitutional and Statutory Remedies for Gender Discrimination are Not Redundant
The Supreme Court argument this week in Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee was less than helpful to the petitioner's constitutional cause. The Justices were given little help by counsel in working through the complex interrelationships between constitutional and statutory remedies for gender discrimination. Normally, when the correct interpretation of a major federal statute outlawing ...
Find Law - Dec 3, 2008
Pa. High Court Hears Arguments Over Taxpayers' Standing
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has heard arguments over the issue of whether Philadelphia taxpayers have standing to appeal rulings of the Zoning Board of Adjustments and other panels. In a case linked to the battle over billboard proliferation in Philadelphia, the state Supreme Court heard arguments over a state law enacted several years ago. An attorney for the city argued that the law is ...
KYW News radio - Dec 3, 2008
Gas-station dispute may draw Supreme Court's scrutiny
The U.S. Supreme Court signaled interest in a case that could affect how much leverage oil companies have to change their leases with tens of thousands of independent service station owners. The justices asked the Justice Department for advice on a bid by Massachusetts gas station owners to sue Shell Oil Co. and Motiva Enterprises LLC. A group of station owners say Shell and Motiva used rent ...
Salt Lake Tribune - Dec 3, 2008
Judge Hears Arguments Over Telco Immunity
Constitutional-questions dept We were quite disappointed with Congress earlier this year, selling out the country and granting retroactive immunity to telcos for any involvement they might have had in any warrantless wiretapping program. The immunity basically gave the White House a get out of jail free card that it could hand to any telco -- even if that telco clearly violated constitutional ...
Techdirt - Dec 3, 2008
RPM International loses bid to get insurers to cover asbestos-related liabilities
Medina firm fighting to get insurers to cover liabilities from lawsuits Frank Bentayou Plain Dealer Reporter A federal court in Ohio has handed RPM International Inc. a loss in its efforts to get insurance companies to cover the Medina-based corporation's asbestos-related liabilities resulting from lawsuits. But the company said Tuesday that it will seek to overturn that ruling with a filing in ...
Cleveland Live - Dec 3, 2008
Septic system proposal tweaked
County Council continues debate The proposal to require homeowners near the waterfront to put in pollution-reducing septic systems was scaled back last night as county councilmen tried to quell concerns that state money for the project would run out. The plan would mandate that homeowners with failing systems near the waterfront replace them with more expensive pollution-reducing systems.
HometownAnnapolis.com - Dec 3, 2008
Family of man trampled at Wal-Mart sues retailer
NEW YORK (Reuters) The family of a man killed in a stampede of frenzied holiday shoppers filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Wednesday, seeking unspecified damages. Shoppers on New York's Long Island broke down doors and surged into the Valley Stream Wal-Mart at 5 a.m. Nov. 28, the day after Thanksgiving, known as 'Black Friday' and traditionally the busiest retail ...
Business Insurance - Dec 4, 2008
Ex-WorldCom chief Ebbers seeks clemency from Bush
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Imprisoned former WorldCom Inc chief Bernard Ebbers has joined the list of high-profile corporate defendants petitioning for clemency in the final days of President George W. Bush's term in office. Ebbers, convicted of orchestrating an $11 billion accounting fraud, joins former publishing mogul Conrad Black and 1980s-era financier Michael Milken in seeking ...
Portland Tribune - Dec 4, 2008
Tobacco trial: Philip Morris disputes addiction claims
(The Miami Herald - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- MO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Philip Morris, defending a lawsuit brought by the Cooper City widow of a chain smoker who died of lung cancer, disputed allegations that he was addicted to cigarettes and therefore couldn't stop smoking. In opening arguments of a closely watched trial, the first to be heard of ...
TradingMarkets - Dec 3, 2008
Half of civil servants are unqualified, says minister
Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Responding to the discouraging results of recent public service surveys, State Minister for Administrative Reforms Taufiq Effendi revealed half of the country's 4 million civil servants are unqualified. He said his office was preparing to reassign 2 million unqualified officials to other government jobs in an effort to tackle bureaucratic inefficiencies ...
Jakarta Post - Dec 4, 2008
Change: The Election's Effect on Securities Regulation
The SEC's Chairman, Christopher Cox, typically describes the SEC as a 'law enforcement agency.' The election of Barack Obama and a House and Senate dominated by the Democratic Party will likely change this job description. Under the US Constitution, law enforcement is the duty of our executive branch of government. Chairman Cox's statement shows that he thinks the SEC is part of the executive ...
Traders Magazine - Dec 4, 2008
Stopping WMD; Plan for Economy; Mortgage Crisis; Selective Enforcement; College Loan Crisis
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. LOU DOBBS, CNN ANCHOR: Thank you, Wolf. Tonight, startling evidence that one in five young American adults now suffers from serious psychological problems. Many are abusing alcohol and drugs. We're going to tell you what's causing this crisis and what can be done about it.
CNN - Dec 3, 2008
MedQuist Announces Resolution of the DOJ Investigation and Dismissal of Shareholder Lawsuits
MedQuist Inc. (Nasdaq: MEDQ), the largest Medical Transcription Service Organization (MTSO) in the world, is pleased to announce the positive resolution of several material legal matters As previously announced, the Company received an administrative HIPAA subpoena for documents from the United States Department of Justice ('DOJ') on December 17, 2004. The subpoena sought information primarily ...
PR Newswire - Dec 3, 2008
Department of Justice Announces Improvements and Name Change for Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website
Feature News Text hiding to spacing of Justice Announces Improvements and Name Change for Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website Changes Announced Near the 5-year Anniversary of Dru Sjodin Disappearance WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Justice today announced improvements to the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Web site (NSOPW) and a new ...
PR Newswire - Dec 3, 2008
Patent Office Stifles Innovation
Information Age innovators need not apply. At least that's the implied message being stretched like police tape across the door of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office [USPTO]. The agency seems fixated on eliminating the last, true, sustainable American advantage: our capacity to innovate. Recent moves by the USPTO have resulted in a precedent-setting legal victory that now threatens software ...
MSNBC - Nov 11, 2008
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- President-elect Barack Obama should make the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility a top priority when he takes office Jan. 20, U.S. and international human rights groups said Monday. They are also calling for the abolition of the military commissions that have begun trying suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo, and for them to be transferred to ...
Macro World Investor - Nov 11, 2008
COLUMN: Workplace Law: Court to clarify meal requirements
Recently, the authors of this column have followed case law regarding meal periods with interest. You may remember that the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District concluded in the Brinker decision, which was the topic of an earlier article, that employers are not required to force their employees to take their meal periods but, rather, need only 'authorize and permit' them to take ...
The Californian - Nov 11, 2008
Covalence SA: Innovation Fuels Techs' Reputation Despite Corruption Scandals
(M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Innovative green and social products greatly contribute to the ethical reputation of technology hardware companies, while labour, legal, institutional and production-related challenges are rising, states a report published today by -based research firm Covalence - Covalence Technology Hardware Industry Report 2008. In Covalence cross-sectors EthicalQuote ranking ...
TMC Net - Nov 11, 2008
The Lanier Law Firm Announces Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Nintendo Over Wii Video Game Technology
Attorney W. Mark Lanier of The Lanier Law Firm is announcing a patent infringement lawsuit filed against Kyoto, Japan-based video game giant Nintendo Co. Ltd. and its U.S. subsidiary on behalf of a small Ohio technology company based on claims that Nintendo infringed the company's patented technology to produce the popular Wii video game. The lawsuit, Motiva, LLC v.
PR Newswire - Nov 11, 2008
Ex-S.F. firefighter's workers' comp problem
Christina Hijjawi, 37, surrendered at the Hall of Justice last week, after a warrant was issued for her arrest on multiple felony counts of workers' compensation and disability insurance fraud, and attempted perjury, authorities said. Hijjawi is free on $30,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned Dec. 3. 'Many of these (endurance) events were completed while Hijjawi reportedly was too injured ...
San Francisco Chronicle - Nov 11, 2008
A Quiet Windfall For U.S. Banks: With Attention on Bailout Debate, Treasury Made Change to Tax Policy
The financial world was fixated on Capitol Hill as Congress battled over the Bush administration's request for a $700 billion bailout of the banking industry. In the midst of this late-September drama, the Treasury Department issued a five-sentence notice that attracted almost no public attention. But corporate tax lawyers quickly realized the enormous implications of the document: ...
Washington Post - Nov 10, 2008
ABA President Calls Expensive Judicial Races Obscene
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The president of the American Bar Association says enormously expensive judicial races, like this year's $5 million slugfest for a Supreme Court seat in his home state of Alabama, threaten the public's confidence in the judicial system. 'More was spent on that race than was spent on providing access to the courts for people of limited means.
New York Lawyer - Nov 10, 2008
4th Circuit could be reshaped: Obama's picks could swing the court to one with a majority named by Democratic presidents
Nov. 10--As president, Barack Obama and a new U.S. Senate could transform the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, long one of the most conservative in the country. President Bush failed to fill four vacancies on the 15-judge court, which decides cases on issues such as abortion, the death penalty and terrorism. The Bush administration steered terrorism cases to the court, where it ...
Calibre Macro World - Nov 10, 2008
US labor looks to Obama to help advance its agenda
The labor unions that helped Barack Obama win the White House are looking for some return on their investment. Labors wish list for the incoming president and the expanded Democratic majority in Congress includes an easier path toward forming unions, expanding the pool of workers who can join them, prohibiting employers from permanently replacing striking workers and expanding health care.
Japan Today - Nov 10, 2008
In California, What Happens After Prop 8?
Well perhaps this sill put an end to the absurd @ssunption that African American support can be taken for granted by those on the left. Cookie Puss Says: Monday, November 10, 2008 at 9:46 am Roberta McCain was right -- Mormons are trouble! textee Says: Monday, November 10, 2008 at 9:49 am Yawn. Ana Marie Cox, pimping for the unwatched freakshow hostessed by Kief Olbermoronn, announces that ...
Time - Nov 10, 2008
California Enacts New Disability Access Legislation
A landmark disability access bill aimed at decreasing unwarranted disability-access litigation that does not advance disability access and increasing equal access for individuals with disabilities has been approved by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The legislation, S.B. 1608, adds new provisions to the states existing disability access laws which are likely to benefit employers and ...
Jackson Lewis - Nov 10, 2008
Family under the foreclosure gun (3)
Family under the foreclosure gun The Sylvester family stands to lose their Mendham home in foreclosure. Above: Valerie Sylvester in front of the home. Family says they re subprime victims and will lose home without last-minute help MENDHAM Valerie and Gary Sylvester and their five children don t want to become another casualty in the subprime mortgage scandal that has been the focus of ...
Madison Eagle - Nov 10, 2008
Health Care Workers Get Help Fighting Unprecedented Attacks from Service Employee International Union Leadership
Fundraising has begun to help United Healthcare Workers-West members fight unprecedented attacks by Andy Stern and Anna Burger, Service Employees International Union President and Secretary-Treasurer. 'A Salute to Union Democracy' honoring the 150,000 members of SEIU United Health Care Workers-West and their President, Sal Rosselli, takes place Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 5:30 to 7:30 at the ...
San Antonio Business Journal - Nov 10, 2008
Proper medicine for sound' economy
CST The truest thing that Sen. John McCain said during this election campaign is what got him into the most trouble: The economy is sound.Sound does not mean bullet-proof. Nor does it mean that everything is going wonderfully at the moment or that nothing needs to be done. You may be as sick as a dog from having eaten the wrong thing. But that does not mean that you need to have your arm ...
Mohave Valley News - Nov 10, 2008
Property Law Overview Through Conversion
Takeaways Overview, Ownership, Conquest, Conversion, PROPERTY OVERVIEWProperty law gives owners rights over non-ownersa. Right to exclude non-owners from propertyb. Imposes duty on others not to enter without consentc. Power to transfer titled. Immunity from having property taken or damaged without consente. Privilege to use = power over peoplei. pros: creates jobsii.
Associated Content - Nov 10, 2008
Protests Continue in Paraguay
Asuncion, Nov 10 (Prensa Latina) Paraguayan doctors, teachers, indigenous people and farmers began on Monday a day of protests in front of the Congress building, simultaneously to the beginning of the 2009 budget analysis. In their demands, they highlighted salary rises, funds for cotton crops and land buys, mother-infant health, social security, snacks, and school materials.
Prensa Latina - Nov 10, 2008
PRESS DIGEST - Philippine newspapers - Nov 11
MANILA, Nov 11 (Reuters) - These are the leading stories in Manila newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories. - Former agriculture secretary Jocelyn Bolante, suspected of diverting fertiliser money to finance the candidacy of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in 2004, promised to attend the Senate inquiry on the multi-million pesos fertiliser fund scam.
Reuters - Nov 10, 2008
B.C. health workers get $68 million in compensation after jobs privatized
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Thousands of British Columbia health-care workers who lost their jobs through contracting out will be getting payouts from a total of $68 million in compensation. The Hospital Employees' Union, which represented about 92 per cent of the affected employees, said Monday that the average amount will be $9,500, and the cheques will be in the mail before Christmas.
1057 EZRrock - Nov 10, 2008
Construction: When is a development project a project?
LATEST CEQA RULING CLOUDS PROCESS FOR PUBLIC-PRIVATE EFFORTS BUSINESS JOURNAL STAFF REPORTER Instead of clarifying a long-running legal question about when a development plan becomes a project, triggering environmental-impact analysis, a new state Supreme Court ruling will prompt a review of commonly used public-private agreements, according to Phillip Kalsched, a construction and land-use ...
Press Democrat - Nov 10, 2008
InterTAN Canada to File for Creditor Protection
InterTAN Canada Ltd. ("InterTAN"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based Circuit City Stores Inc. (NYSE: CC), today announced that it intends to file for creditor protection under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act. InterTAN expects that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice will hear the application today. InterTAN Canada Ltd. ("InterTAN"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based Circuit ...
MarketWire - Nov 10, 2008
Federman & Sherwood Announces That a Securities Class Action Lawsuit Has Been Filed Against Daktronics Inc. (NASDAQ: DAKT)
On November 7, 2008, a class action On November 7, 2008, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the District of South Dakota against Daktronics Inc. (NASDAQ: DAKT). The complaint alleges violations of federal securities laws, Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5, including allegations of issuing a series of material ...
MarketWire - Nov 10, 2008
Judge tells White House to release wiretapping docs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration must give to a federal court documents related to government wiretapping of domestic communications without a warrant after the September 11 attacks, according to a recent court order. U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy signed the order on Friday requiring the U.S. Justice Department to provide the court for private review certain documents that were ...
Reuters - Nov 2, 2008
Whatever the Outcome, the World Wont End
You would think from the way some political partisans on both sides of the ideological divide are talking, the sky will fall Tuesday night if the presidential candidate they oppose is elected to the White House. You just want to look them square in the eyes and slowly and calmly say Breathe & take deeeeep breaths. The true believers on the both the right and the left are hyperventilating and ...
Lynchburg News and Advance - Nov 2, 2008
Gay marriage votes may show changing U.S
By Peter Henderson LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gay couples are not hiding any more and that has made all the difference, said health care administrator Linda Merkens before Tuesday's vote in California that will decide the legality of same-sex marriage there. It's one of several important ballot measures voters will face in states across the country on Election Day.
Reuters - Nov 2, 2008
Dirty politics: Election of 1898 among nastiest in history
Theres no telling how many votes were dumped into the Cape Fear River. No telling how many would-be voters were dumped along with them. But people who balk at the name-calling, the mean-spirited bickering, even the sporadic property damage that has flavored this years campaigns in North Carolina can take a look at history to see just how nasty elections around here can get.
Fayetteville Online - Nov 2, 2008
Terrorism financing blacklists at risk
BRUSSELS - The global blacklisting system for financiers of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups is at risk of collapse, undermined by legal challenges and waning political support in many countries, according to counterterrorism officials in Europe and the United States. In September, the European Court of Justice threw the future of the United Nations' sanctions program against al-Qaeda and the ...
MSNBC - Nov 2, 2008
How the Supreme Court Fractured Online Pricing
A June 2007 ruling gave manufacturers greater leeway to set retail prices. That s set off a free-for-all as online retailers seek creative ways to compete including on price. Just as millions of consumers are turning to the web to find the lowest prices, online retailers in many categories find they no longer can compete on price. That s because a growing number of manufacturers are ...
InternetRetailer.com - Nov 2, 2008
U.S. Senate " Minnesota
Party: DFL. Family: Wife Franni; 2 children. Age: 57. Home: Minneapolis. Education: B.A., Harvard University. Professional experience: Political commentator; satirist. Political experience: See above. - On the economy: Franken proposes to increase support for working families, including assistance with child care and tax credits for employers with family-friendly policies.
Grand Forks Herald - Nov 2, 2008
Direction of high court hangs on election
WASHINGTON As Election Day nears, Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama are sparring over the economy, taxes, health care and each other. But the next president of the United States may make his most lasting imprint on the U.S. Supreme Court. With four of the nine justices in their 70s and one in his 80s, the next president likely will have the privilege of appointing at least one new justice to ...
St. Petersburg Times - Nov 2, 2008
EPA passes wastewater authority to state
Discharger user fees will rise to handle agency's new workload The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday said it would hand off wastewater discharge permitting authority and enforcement in Alaska to the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Alaska joins 45 other states that will oversee their own National Pollutant Discharge Elimination Systems, and they all have to follow ...
Juneau Empire - Nov 2, 2008
US electoral system flaws come to fore
Moved by the powerful speech of Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, one of his supporters cries during a rally at JFK Stadium in Springfield, Missouri Saturday. Photo: AFPAs Republicans and Democrats are expecting record turnout in the November 4 US presidential election, experts fear loopholes in the electoral system may bring into question the fairness of the historic ...
Bangladesh Daily Star - Nov 2, 2008
40,000 Jewish Conversions Annulled by Israel High Court
JERUSALEM In a rigorous conversion process, she studied religious law for a year, took a Hebrew name and changed her wardrobe to long skirts and sleeves as dictated by Orthodox Jewish custom. Finally, a panel of rabbis pronounced her Jewish. But five years later, she and some 40,000 like her have suddenly had their conversions annulled by Israel's Rabbinical High Court.
FOXNews.com - Nov 2, 2008
Argentina Impoverishes Itself Again
'It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.' -- Frederic Bastiat, 'The Law,' 1850 Our subject today is not Barack Obama's 'change' plan to 'share the wealth.' But readers who want to know what happens to a nation that legalizes plunder -- as the 19th century French economist termed the taking ...
Wall Street Journal Online - Nov 2, 2008
Surrey homes with high power usage can still be inspected -but cops stay outside
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Local municipalities and B.C. police forces have to rewrite part of their battle plan in the war against marijuana grow operations after a B.C. Supreme Court drew the line at police entering homes without a search warrant. The provincial government widened the powers of cities two years ago under the Safety Standards Act, in the effort to rid communities of the power-hungry and ...
Yahoo! Canada - Nov 2, 2008
Jump-starting climate action
This is a guest essay by Michael Northup and David Sassoon. It was originally published at . ----- The urgency of the current situation cannot be overemphasized: The latest scientific research tells us that global warming is accelerating at a rate beyond previous expectations, and that the window for a timely response is closing quickly. Despite some political efforts to muddy the waters, there ...
Grist Magazine - Nov 2, 2008
Drug makers seek new limits on lawsuits
Children's musician Diana Levine watched her right hand gradually turn black in the six weeks after she was injected with a Wyeth anti-nausea drug. The pain, so powerful even morphine couldn't mask it, subsided only when doctors amputated the arm just below the elbow. 'It was totally shocking to wake up to this,' said Levine, motioning toward her sleeve-covered stump as she sat in the kitchen of ...
Delaware Online - Nov 2, 2008
Obviousness: On carbon nanotubes
Home> Nanotechnology Columns > Magda Carvalho PhD, JD > Abstract: Carbon nanotube inventions have succeeded as innovative and hundreds of patents have been awarded. But as claimed inventions accumulate, issues of patentability relating to obviousness inevitably arise. Specifically, methods that produced end-derivatized single-wall carbon nanotubes could not successfully stand up to 35 ...
Nanotechnology News - Nov 2, 2008
Economic woes mean boom time for lawyers
LOS ANGELES - The loose-leaf binders on Beverly Hills attorney Paul Kiesel's shelves contain hundreds of stories alleging deception, loss, and heartache. Kiesel is representing struggling homeowners who say they were misled about the terms of their mortgages. He is far from the only lawyer finding himself busy these days as a result of the hard economic times.
Boston Globe - Oct 31, 2008
Nevada Cap on Medical Damage Awards Draws Criticism
As 59-year-old Richard Krikalo lumbers through the office of a junkyard he helps manage, he bumps into a desk and clips a wastebasket with his right leg. Krikalo is almost blind in his right eye and has trouble with depth perception and peripheral vision. 'I go to the buffet and bump into people carrying food,' he growls, shaking his head, his static right eye unable to follow his blinking left ...
Insurance Journal - Oct 31, 2008
Neighbours left rich spinster 'in squalor'
Squalor ... rich spinster Betty Dyke gave neighbours $1.2m to look after her, but was found in filthy conditions, a court has been told. Rich spinster died in squalor Gave neighbours money to care for her Court hears they did nothing MILLIONAIRE spinster Betty Dyke was so desperate to end her days in her own home with her beloved animals that she gave neighbours $1.2 million to look after her.
NEWS.com.au - Oct 31, 2008
Campaign ad watch: Dueling ads in attorney general race mislead
This week's most popular (2198) Regional News By JENNIFER McKEE Missoulian State Bureau HELENA - The Montana Democratic and Republican parties both released fresh attack ads this week in the withering air war of the attorney general race.The Missoulian State Bureau analyzed both ads for accuracy.Republican ad vs. Bullock The ad attacks Democratic candidate Steve Bullock and neither mentions ...
Missoulian - Oct 30, 2008
Rabbis' ruling puts thousands of converts in limbo
LAURIE COPANS JERUSALEM, Raised without religion in Maryland, Shannon sought to make a new life for herself as a Jew in Israel. In a rigorous conversion process, she studied religious law for a year, took a Hebrew name and changed her wardrobe to long skirts and sleeves as dictated by Orthodox Jewish custom. Finally, a panel of rabbis pronounced her Jewish.
Calibre Macro World - Oct 30, 2008
Mee wins patent case against corporate giant
Mee Industries has announced the successful conclusion of a patent infringement suit brought against it by Dow Chemical Company. The Federal Court suit, tried in December of last year in Orlando, Florida, USA, was ended by a decision of the court in late September of this year. In the suit, Dow accused Mee Industries of infringement of patents dealing with the use of fogging technology for ...
Power Engineering - Oct 30, 2008
Military Members to Face General Court Martial in Database Corruption Case
Petty Officer Second Class (PO2) Silvya Reid and PO2 Janet Sinclair will face a General Court Martial in relation to the alleged corruption of a Government database in July 2007. Petty Officer Second Class (PO2) Silvya Reid and PO2 Janet Sinclair will face a General Court Martial in relation to the alleged corruption of a Government database in July 2007. PO2 Reid and PO2 Sinclair were charged ...
MarketWire - Oct 30, 2008
Baseball and the reserve clause
These election days have seen political terms bandied about such as socialism and the Bradley Effect. Essentially socialism is the distribution of money and goods by the government. It s not something new, we have been going down that path for many years beginning with social security, which has allowed our aging a better life. Socialism flies in the face of the free market, but maybe it s ...
Albert Lea Tribune - Oct 30, 2008
Nursing home cameras will help reduce abuse
God bless Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for placing hidden cameras in nursing home rooms. Much elder abuse is assault, pure and simple, and those in any way involved, including staff who avert their eyes, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent. Residents in nursing homes are often thought of as other, not normal adults. But they are your mother and father, sister and brother; they are you if ...
Buffalo News - Oct 30, 2008
ExxonMobil profit surges to record $14.8bln
US oil giant ExxonMobil shook off economic troubles and hurricanes to post a record third-quarter profit of 14.83 billion US dollars, up 58 percent from a year ago, the company said Thursday. The latest report pushed up profits for the first nine months of 2008 to 37.4 billion US dollars, putting the biggest oil and gas company toward another record year for earnings.
Sydney Morning Herald - Oct 30, 2008
Persons With Psychosocial Disability [opinion]
(Ghanaian Chronicle/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX News Network) -- Everybody has the right to rights; fundamental human rights are meant for everyone, no matter the circumstance one might find him or herself. Most times societies tend to disassociate with people who are psychologically screwed up. Little attention is given to them when it comes to the issue of rights.
Calibre Macro World - Oct 30, 2008
Lost-gun ordinances usually fire blanks
Lose a gun in Cleveland and fail to report it to police and you could face a $250 fine and 30 days in jail. But in the 12 years that ordinance has been on Cleveland's books, only two people have been taken to court for failing to report a lost or stolen gun. That experience, and those of other cities, suggests that Pittsburgh's proposed ordinance on reporting lost or stolen guns and others ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Oct 30, 2008
India's Vanishing Tigers
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OhmyNews - Oct 31, 2008
Races to Watch: Pennsylvania 11
Previous Races to Watch: Ohio 15 Minnesota 3 Once upon a time, when the Republican presidential hopefuls were all attempting to 'out-Tancredo Tancredo,' immigration looked to be shaping up as a major issue in the 2008 election. Of course, that was before the selection of immigration moderate John McCain as the GOP nominee. Before Palin-mania. Before the financial crisis.
American Prospect - Oct 30, 2008
Am Law Litigation Daily -- Oct. 30, 2008
Years ago, the Litigation Daily remembers, we were sitting in Steven Schulman's office at One Penn Plaza as he boasted about the big, big returns he was expecting from the 300 class actions that were later consolidated to become the multidistrict IPO securities litigation. It was way back in 2001, and Schulman's firm, today just known as Milberg, was leading the plaintiffs bar's charge against ...
The American Lawyer - Oct 30, 2008
Growing National Demand For Marijuana Expert Eric Nash
GROWING NATIONAL DEMAND FOR MARIJUANA EXPERT ERIC NASH Eric Nash sits quietly in a small room at the Duncan court offices. He's impeccably dressed in a black suit and burgundy tie, and with his glasses and closely cropped hair, he looks every bit the qualified court expert. What's not immediately apparent is that this man's area of expertise is marijuana. 'We're beginning to become known by ...
Media Awareness Project - Oct 30, 2008
The Senior Citizens League's Comments on U.S. Supreme Court Case Wyeth v. Levine
The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) filed an amicus brief in support of a courageous Vermont woman's fight to preserve her common law right to damages for the amputation of her gangrenous arm caused by the tortious conduct of a large pharmaceutical company. Wyeth, with the wholehearted backing of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), argued that the administration of its drug in a manner not ...
Pharma Live - Oct 30, 2008
The Victorian Liberal Nationals Coalition has stopped the government from raiding the Public Purpose Fund, through an amendment passed by the Legislative Council, Shadow Attorney-General Robert Clark said today. The Brumby Government attempted to give itself the power to take money from this fund, which provides money for legal aid, education and research, and use it to pay running costs for its ...
Liberal Party Victoria - Oct 30, 2008
Many states' ballot measures concern social issues
WASHINGTON California voters on Tuesday will consider the care of pregnant pigs, and Massachusetts voters will have a chance to abolish the state's income tax, but most ballot issues this year again target a variety of social issues. State ballots contain 153 propositions, including 59 initiatives from citizen petitions. Some are on the ballot because of a constitutional mandate Illinois' ...
Chicago Tribune - Oct 31, 2008
Emptoris Comments on Initial Verdict of Patent Infringement Lawsuit Case
Emptoris, Inc., a leading provider of Emptoris, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise supply and contract management software, commented today on the patent infringement lawsuit filed against the company by Ariba, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARBA) of Sunnyvale, CA. The suit, filed in April 2007, was heard over the past two weeks in Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Case Number ...
MarketWire - Oct 30, 2008
New Report Shows How Drug Industry Immunity Would Endanger Women
A new report released today by the national consumer rights group Center for Justice & Democracy finds that many of this country's dangerous government-approved drugs and devices have been marketed specifically for women. Many of these products were removed or made safer only after women filed lawsuits. The release of the report, THE BITTEREST PILL -- How Drug Companies Fail To Protect Women ...
PR Newswire - Oct 29, 2008
Lawsuit over Obama's citizenship dismissed
I believe that only McCain has the standing to sue. JakeD Says: October 27th, 2008 at 11:43 am Although, I guess the other Presidential candidates could technically argue they have standing to sue as well (but what is the harm to them? McCain would simply win). Flyboy Will Says: October 27th, 2008 at 12:04 pm I m going to go sue Berg for molesting puppies in 1973, I heard some guy in ...
Orange County Register - Oct 29, 2008
DWP OKs payouts for overcharges to L.A. County, schools, MTA
After almost a decade of what state prosecutors called 'ripping off state agencies,' the Department of Water and Power on Monday agreed to pay out a $160 million settlement to the county, local schools, community colleges and the MTA. Coming after years of legal wrangling, the settlement is the largest ever against a utility for overcharging customers, according to attorneys for the plaintiffs.
Los Angeles Daily News - Oct 29, 2008
Court weighs state ban on violent video games
SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals panel on Wednesday considered whether California can ban the sale of violent video games to minors. The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held a rare hearing in Sacramento to take arguments over a 2005 state law. It prohibits the sale or rental of violent video games to anyone under the age of 18 and requires that such games be clearly ...
Los Angeles Daily News - Oct 29, 2008
Wealthy interests alter Calif's initiative process
SACRAMENTO, Calif. When Hiram Johnson championed an initiative system for California nearly a century ago, he sold it as a grassroots way to 'arm the people to protect themselves.'California's 23rd governor foresaw citizen campaigns putting propositions on the ballot when the Legislature failed to address a pressing need.But 97 years after Californians voted to allow themselves to put measures on ...
Vida en el Valle - Oct 29, 2008
The George W. Bush factor looms large
The campaign for the election of the 44th president of the United States has been dominated by the administration of George W. Bush, as Sen. Barack Obama speaks as if hes running against him and Sen. John McCain spares no effort to distinguish himself from Bush. This is not surprising, considering that most public opinion polls report President Bushs popularity at about 35 percent (although more ...
Desert Dispatch - Oct 29, 2008
The Supreme Court matters
Marian Wright Edelman Carolina Peacemaker Originally posted 10/29/2008 On the way to the voting booth on November 4, in addition to thinking about who should occupy the White House, we should also be concerned about who will appoint to federal courts. The next president will likely name one to three Justices to the Supreme Court and hundreds to lower federal courts.
Carolina Peacemaker - Oct 29, 2008
Life Insurance Is Big Business in the USLoading...
Life - Life in America.; Life insurance is big business in the US, with changes brought about by the credit crunch creating new opportunities reports Stephen Gray. UK The integration of the financial services sector is a worldwide phenomenon, and the US life industry with its $4tn of assets has not been immune. The surge tide of regulatory rulings and law changes began in the 1980s, when rulings ...
Insurance News Net - Oct 29, 2008
B.C. judge's ruling could change way suspected grow-op inspections are done
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Provincial legislation that allows electrical inspections of homes identified as having high electricity usage - and therefore suspected of being marijuana grow-ops - is sound but police cannot accompany those safety teams without a warrant, a B.C. Supreme Court judge has ruled.The decision came after two Surrey residents went to court against the City of Surrey, BC Hydro and ...
Metronews - Oct 29, 2008
Group challenges Nativity scenes at state parks: Letter to attorney general alleges church/state violation
Oct. 29--An organization that advocates separation of church and state has asked the Ohio attorney general for her position on having a Nativity scene in a state park, while warning of a possible legal challenge. The Freedom from Religion Foundation wrote to Nancy H. Rogers on Oct. 6 to complain that a stand-alone Nativity scene at Malabar Farm State Park in north-central Ohio was 'a recurring ...
Calibre Macro World - Oct 29, 2008
The Other Half of Standard Oil
John D. Rockefeller could not have built his empire without one of America s greatest entrepreneurs, Henry Flagler. In all of American industrial history, perhaps only Henry Ford is more closely identified with the company he founded than is John D. Rockefeller. In the 1860s, Rockefeller was just one of many entrepreneurs seeking to exploit the possibilities opened up by the brand-new ...
American.com - Oct 29, 2008
IR tribunal faces firing squad
THE NSW Labor Government has delivered an ultimatum to Australia's oldest industrial relations tribunal: sack yourselves or we'll do it for you. The tribunal's commissioners have been told that NSW Attorney-General John Hatzistergos wants half of them to take redundancy under the threat that all their positions will be abolished if they refuse. The Attorney-General's move has been prompted by ...
The Australian - Oct 29, 2008
Chickens and the egg
But thanks to Olivera Egg Farm and its 700,000 chickens, country life is not all sunshine and butterflies. With a quick turn of the wind, the pleasant breeze suddenly sours to the sickening, fetid stench of ammonia from the nearby 'lagoon' a 16.5-acre cesspool of chicken manure that lies 370 feet from the nearest house. 'It takes your breath away,' said Janice Magaoay, who has lived in a ...
San Francisco Bay Guardian - Oct 29, 2008
Algeria president to abolish term limits
ALGIERS, Algeria-Algeria's president is giving himself the constitutional right to stay in power, announcing plans Wednesday to abolish term limits that would have prevented him from seeking a third term next spring. Abdelaziz Bouteflika said in a speech broadcast from Algeria's supreme court that he wants to bring 'stability, efficiency and continuity' to the oil- and gas-rich nation, which is ...
Macro World Investor - Oct 29, 2008
CO2Emission Cuts: The Economic Costs of the EPA's ANPR Regulations
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) foreshadows new regulations of unprecedented scope, magnitude, and detail. This notice is not just bureaucratic rumination, but could very well become the law of the land. Jason Grumet, a senior environmental advisor to Barack Obama, has promised that a President Obama would 'initiate those rulings.' These ...
Heritage Foundation - Oct 29, 2008
Republican Loyalists Jumping Ship
BOSTON -- The Republican Party was the model of unity leaving its national convention barely two months ago. But no more.Displaying a fracture that stands to become a clean break if John McCain loses the election next week, Republicans of all stripes and stature have broken with their party's nominee and are not only supporting Democrat Barack Obama, but trashing the GOP in the process.Former ...
WSMV - Oct 29, 2008
'Eli Stone' Recap: Lead Paint and a Magic Book
With the resolution of Eli's crisis of faith having already come (his reluctance to become a prophet was so last season), 'Eli Stone' was in need of a larger story arc to keep the momentum going and provide viewers with a reason to tune in each week. Posner (Tom Amandes) and Klein's (Katey Sagal) attempt to wrest the firm from Jordan's (Victor Garber) control has provided just that.
Starpulse - Oct 29, 2008
Security and Financial Risks of Data Breaches Grow as Some IT Departments Inadvertently Expose Data by Improperly Retiring Data Storage Products
OAKDALE, Minn., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Patient health records, social security numbers, bank account numbers and internal auditing procedures are examples of the kinds of information that is unknowingly 'leaking' out of data centers. This disturbing trend is the result of companies improperly disposing of used data storage products at end-of-life, including a growing practice of ...
Columbus Business First - Oct 29, 2008
Sri Lankan government tests all milk products for melamine
Oct 29, Colombo: Sri Lanka government today said that it is taking urgent steps to implement procedures recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO) over the melamine found in some food products. The government has instructed the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) to test all milk products being sold in the market to test whether they are suitable for human consumption.
Colombo Page - Oct 29, 2008
Ex-Haitian strongman sentenced in NYC fraud scheme
Emmanuel Constant was sentenced in state Supreme Court in Brooklyn to 12 years to 37 years in prison, said state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office, which prosecuted the case. Constant was found guilty of fraud and grand larceny in July. He has been jailed since 2006 for the fraud case. An investor who testified as part of a plea deal claimed Constant offered to broker deals to buy ...
San Francisco Chronicle - Oct 29, 2008
Aussie sues casino over gambling binge
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian gambler who lost millions in a A$1.4 billion (548.5 million pounds) gaming spree is suing one of the country's largest casinos, claiming he was targeted by managers despite a known gambling addiction. In a case which lawyers say could have implications stretching to China, gambling addict Harry Kakavas is suing Crown Casino in Melbourne for A$50 million damages ...
Tiscali - Oct 30, 2008
Discover Financial Services Reaches $2.75 Billion Settlement Agreement in Antitrust Dispute with Visa and MasterCard
RIVERWOODS, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) said today that it has reached an agreement with Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. in the settlement of a lawsuit seeking damages for practices that suppressed third-party issuing on the Discover Network and the acceptance of its cards. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Discover is expected to receive up to $2.75 ...
Street Insider - Oct 27, 2008
CBS increasingly airing indecency
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--CBS and other broadcast television networks increasingly are pushing the boundaries of what is acceptable entertainment as the Federal Communications Commission, the government body charged with enforcing indecency laws, awaits an upcoming Supreme Court hearing in order to determine a response.The Parents Television Council, a nonpartisan watchdog group, filed an indecency ...
Town Hall - Oct 27, 2008
Supreme Smackdown Over Speech
While America will be busy at the polls on Nov. 4, Fox has a different, pressing Election Day appointment at the Supreme Court. That?s where the network?s reps will battle the FCC over fleeting profanities that drew an indecency finding from the commission. Fox has elected to take aim at the FCC?s powers to regulate any broadcast speech whatsoever. News Corp.
WaveForm - Oct 27, 2008
Galvanizing the gun vote
NRA hopes to seal election by painting Obama as no friend of the firearm Tiffany Brown Canadian tourists Colin Grosh, left, and David Mitchnick check out the wares Wednesday at the Las Vegas Gun Range & Firearms Center. The NRA says that in the past year it has registered more than 1 million gun owners to vote, and at the center NObama T-shirts are hot items, with most of the 300 ...
Las Vegas Sun - Oct 27, 2008
The Dangerous Reasoning of the Connecticut Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of Connecticut recently embraced legal reasoning that opens a Pandora's Box. The Court recently handed down the latest in a series of bizarre rulings from state courts on 'gay marriage.' Using the court's logic any and all sexual conduct could be deemed constitutional -- and any and all sexual partners allowed to 'marry.' The Connecticut court's ruling brings America another ...
American Thinker - Oct 27, 2008
George F. Will: A healthy proposition (Yesterday)
WASHINGTON -- On Election Day, Arizonans can give the nation the gift of a good example. They can enact a measure that could shape the health-care debate that will arrest or accelerate the nation's slide into statism. Proposition 101, 'The Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act,' would put the following language into Arizona's Constitution: 'Because all people should have the right to make ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Oct 28, 2008
In This Election The Supreme Court Matters
Court will rule on whether cigarette manufacturers can be sued for deceptively labeling their products as "light" and "lowered tar and nicotine." This case will have a major impact on the health of children and teenagers who are influenced to start smoking because they are deceived by these ads. Many of them will grow up to be among the 438,000 who die of smoking related causes each year.
Huffington Post - Oct 27, 2008
2 skinheads accused of plot to kill Obama
Nazi skinheads accused of plot to kill Barack Obama Comments WASHINGTON - Two white supremacists allegedly plotted to go on a national killing spree, shooting and decapitating black people and ultimately targeting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, federal authorities said Monday. In all, the two men whom officials describe as neo-Nazi skinheads planned to kill 88 people - 14 by ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Oct 27, 2008
Shame, Cubed
The Drudge Report this morning led off with a link to audio of Barack Obama on WBEZ, a Chicago public radio station. And this time, Barack Obama was not eight years old when the bomb went off. York: Dunphy: Whittle: Bayefsky: McCarthy: Coulson: Busch: Miller: Neighborly WisdomGratzer: Lopez: Reality ElectionBenard: Pitney: Whittle: Biden's HintSteyn: Barone: Sowell: Obama, Con Speaking on a ...
National Review - Oct 27, 2008
Credit Suisse Repurchases Auction Rate Securities (ARS) From Rosetta Genomics
REHOVOT, Israel and JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, October 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Rosetta Genomics Ltd. (Nasdaq:ROSG), a leader in the development of microRNA-based diagnostics and therapeutics, today announced that Credit Suisse, as part of a settlement agreement it has reached with the Attorney General of the State of New York and the North American Securities Administrators Association Task ...
PR Newswire - Oct 27, 2008
Banks lose in Bell litigation saga
A group of 20 financiers, including three of Australias four biggest banks, face having to pay back more than $280 million they snatched out of Alan Bonds failed Bell Group after it collapsed in April 1991. Bringing an end to the first chapter of a 13-year legal battle, WA Supreme Court judge Neville Owen today upheld parts of claims by Bell liquidators over the actions of the Westpac-led banking ...
The West Online - Oct 27, 2008
Parental notification measure on ballot again
For the third time in four years, California voters will be asked to require doctors to notify an unmarried minor girl's family before performing an abortion on her. Thirty-four states have laws requiring parental involvement in abortion decisions, but the issue has proved to be a hard sell in California. AT ISSUE:PROPOSITION 4 The measure would amend the state constitution to require a doctor ...
SignOn San Diego - Oct 27, 2008
Parenting abused children
DOUBLE TAKE THE Philippines is a country filled with hurt and angry children. Some of these children have been burned with flatirons, cigarette butts, bathed in alcohol or gasoline, beaten up with wood or iron rods, chained to staircases, caged like dogs, or their heads bashed against the wall. There are some who were born alcoholic or addicted to drugs simply because their expectant mothers had ...
Manila Times - Oct 27, 2008
Mokbel loses bid to have charges stayed
Accused underworld killer Tony Mokbel has lost his bid to have drugs and murder charges against him stopped. Mokbel's lawyers argued in the Victorian Supreme Court that the charges against him should be stayed on the basis his extradition to Australia was unlawful because his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights was pending. Mokbel fled Australia in 2006, but was extradited from Greece ...
Sunshine Coast Daily - Oct 27, 2008
ACLU to new president: End rights slide
The American Civil Liberties Union has recommendations Here's an excerpt from the ACLU issued to alert media about its new report: 'This past administration has left us with a disastrous legacy of bad policy, abuse of power, and civil liberties violations,' said Caroline Fredrickson, director of the Washington Legislative Office of the ACLU. 'The next president, whoever he is, must immediately ...
Baltimore Sun - Oct 27, 2008
Labor Unions Prolonged the Depression
Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com By the mid-1930s, the U.S. economy appeared to be climbing out of the Great Depression. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), which had ...
Wall Street Journal Online - Oct 27, 2008
Senator Stevens Guilty; McCain Slams Obama; San Francisco Policy Rejected; Election Fraud Risk
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. LOU DOBBS, HOST: Thank you, Wolf. Tonight a bombshell verdict in the Senator Ted Stevens trial. Stevens found guilty of seven charges of corruption. We'll have a live report and we'll examine the political impact. Also tonight Senator McCain and Obama presenting their so-called closing arguments in this ...
CNN - Oct 27, 2008
Hedge Lawsuit Threat Has Hill Seeing Red
When Braddock Financial heard about out a plan to fix the mortgage dilemma, it threatened a lawsuit. The Denver hedge fund had a mortgaged-back portfolio, so a renegotiation could hurt its performance. That threat of legal action did not sit well with Capitol Hill. Now, Braddock Financial along with another hedge fund, Greenwich Financial, is being summoned to Washington, D.C., to explain its ...
HedgeFund.net - Oct 27, 2008
From Vogue to MTV, Palin drew press to Alaska
GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is keeping reporters at arms' length in her campaign, but she had a very different approach as Alaska's new governor: She couldn't get enough of them. Palin cultivated interviews with local and national journalists and welcomed them from as far away as London, earning time in the spotlight even before Republican presidential candidate John McCain selected ...
Fresno Bee - Oct 27, 2008
McCain warns of dangers of Dem control
This election comes down to how you want your hard-earned money spent, McCain said to a small audience at the Renaissance hotel in downtown Cleveland. Do you want to keep it and invest it in your future, or have it taken by the most liberal person to ever run for the Presidency, and the Democratic leaders who have been running Congress for the past two years -- Nancy Pelosi and Harry ...
The Politico - Oct 27, 2008
SC frowns upon unnecessary use of Contempt of Court Act
New Delhi, Oct 27 (UNI) The Supreme Court has strongly disapproved the use of Contempt of the Court Act for purpose other than to secure the compliance of the order of the court. A bench comprising Justices S P Sinha and Cyriac Joseph while dropping the contempt of court proceedings against a TV programme producer company 'Three Cheers Entertainment Pvt Ltd' also imposed a cost of Rs one lakh on ...
United News of India - Oct 27, 2008
Obama vs. McCain: Iraq, Afghanistan and the Treatment of Veterans -- Voter Guide
The current financial crisis, which experts are roundly describing as a calamity of unprecedented proportions, has convinced most voters that the economy is the most urgent priority of the incoming administration. The war on Iraq -- and the broader existential conflict known for years now as the Global War on Terror -- has taken a backseat in many voters' minds.
AlterNet.org - Oct 27, 2008
McCain tackles Obama on plan to 'spread the wealth'
Reporting from Pottsville, Pa., and Canton, Ohio - Addressing a boisterous crowd in eastern Pennsylvania, John McCain said Monday that Barack Obama wanted to be 'Redistributionist in Chief,' putting a new twist on his warning that the Democrat intends to 'spread the wealth around,' as he told Joe the Plumber. McCain's new turn-of-phrase came after his campaign unearthed an obscure, 7-year-old ...
Chicago Tribune - Oct 28, 2008
Happy Is as Happy Does: Mortgage Interest Deductibility & the GAAR
Happy and Snitty are soon-to-be neighbours. Snitty shops around for a mortgage, haggles over half a percentage point, and ultimately accepts the financing offered by the institution he's banked with for years. He purchases a home with the funds and makes the first of many mortgage payments, knowing a large portion of each payment will go toward the interest, and not the principal amount, of his ...
Ottawa Business Journal - Oct 27, 2008
Secure Computing Reports Q3 2008 Results
Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), a Secure Computing Corporation (NASDAQ: SCUR), a leading enterprise security company, today announced third quarter GAAP revenue of $63.0 million. This represents a 5% increase in revenue compared to $60.0 million in the same quarter last year. Third quarter non-GAAP revenue was $64.7 million. This represents a 1% decrease compared to the same ...
MarketWire - Oct 27, 2008
Stull, Stull & Brody Announces Class Action Lawsuit on Behalf of AIG International Group, Inc. 7.70% Series A5 Junior Subordinated Debentures (NYSE: AVF) Investors
Notice is hereby given that Stull, Stull & Notice is hereby given that Stull, Stull & Brody filed a lawsuit on October 27, 2008 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking class action status on behalf of purchasers of 7.70% Series A5 Junior Subordinated Debentures (NYSE: AVF) of American International Group, Inc.
MarketWire - Oct 27, 2008
Holzer Holzer & Fistel, LLC Announces That a Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit Has Been Filed Against The Spectranetics Corporation (NASDAQ: SPNC)
Shareholder class action lawsuits have been Shareholder class action lawsuits have been filed in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado against The Spectranetics Corporation ("Spectranetics" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: SPNC) and certain of its officers and directors on behalf of purchasers of Spectranetics common stock, who purchased shares between April 19, 2007 and ...
MarketWire - Oct 27, 2008
Bankruptcy not the best choice for borrowers
WASHINGTON -- Can filing for bankruptcy help homeowners facing foreclosure? For most people, trying to negotiate changes in their loan with help from a housing counselor or lawyer is a far better option. While bankruptcy judges can reduce or eliminate certain kinds of debt, they aren't allowed to alter the total amount owed or interest rate of primary mortgages.
The Sun News - Oct 26, 2008
Knowledge is the best defense for renters
By E-E Business Editor Many people choose to rent a place to live as an alternative to buying a home. While rental options are many and varied, it is always wise to protect oneself when entering into a lease or rental agreement, which is, after all, a legal and binding contract between a landlord and a tenant.Glenna Dorris, managing attorney for Legal Aid Services of Bartlesville and Jay, said ...
Examiner Enterprise - Oct 26, 2008
European politics: Why don't we care?
The decisions taken by our representatives in Brussels have a direct impact on nearly every area of our lives. Yet British voters remain stubbornly apathetic toward EU affairs John Edward What is it about the United States that makes its politics so exciting to us? Is it the shared language? Is it the vast amounts of money and influence at play? Or is it just the sheen of 'West Wing'-esque ...
Edinburgh Journal - Oct 26, 2008
PRO BONO WORK: Not a self-serving activity
As a law professor (and now dean of a new law school), I work hard to encourage my students to use their legal training to make society a better place and to help those who cannot afford legal services. Whatever their field of practice, they should spend some time doing legal work without charging for their time and services. There are so many pressures on lawyers, especially economic ones, that ...
National Law Journal - Oct 26, 2008
Freedom of Choice in Health Care
WASHINGTON -- On Election Day, Arizonans can give the nation the gift of a good example. They can enact a measure that could shape the health care debate that will arrest or accelerate the nation's slide into statism. Proposition 101, 'The Act,' would put the following language into Arizona's Constitution: 'Because all people should have the right to make decisions about their health care, no ...
Town Hall - Oct 26, 2008
Dems predicting earthquake election
Carville likened the Washington political environment to pre-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, saying that there will be nothing left standing after the election. He added that Republicans stand to lose not just an election but a generation of voters. [John] McCain and [Sarah] Palin are losing the argument, Greenberg said, pointing to favorable numbers for Obama on the campaign s ...
The Politico - Oct 26, 2008
Credit card lawsuits on the rise
More Wisconsinites sued for defaulting on debts A growing number of Wisconsinites are being sued for defaulting on credit card and other debts, another sign of stress in a weakening economy. Large-claim money judgment lawsuits - debt collections exceeding $5,000 on credit cards as well as business, car and college loans, and medical and other bills - jumped 49% statewide in 2007, a review of ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Oct 26, 2008
McCain: Obamas Judges Would Coddle Criminals
The National Law Journal invited John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden to write op-eds about their views on the rule of law, the federal court system, judicial appointees and priorities for the U.S. Department of Justice. So far, only McCain accepted the offer. Tomorrows NLJ will feature this article. Frankly, were a little disappointed. McCain begins the article with a call for a ...
Wall Street Journal Online - Oct 26, 2008
How candidates stand on the issues
A recap of where Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., stand on issues that have helped to define their campaigns for the presidency: TAXING AND SPENDING McCain would extend the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 and add new breaks: He would cut the corporate income tax rate to 25 percent from 35 percent, repeal the alternative minimum tax and double the deduction for dependents.
Akron Beacon Journal - Oct 26, 2008
Missing from Prop. 8 ads: gays
These days, it's pretty hard to walk the streets of a California city without seeing same-sex couples -- shopping, strolling, holding hands, sometimes accompanied by children. What used to be called, self-consciously, 'public displays of affection' are now merely public displays of ordinary family life. For gay folks, then, it is all the more stinging an irony that the one place where same-sex ...
Los Angeles Times - Oct 26, 2008
IndyMac, FDIC are models for mortgage relief
Los Angeles earlier this year. With her family's construction business sputtering, she and her husband soon fell behind on their home loan on their four-bedroom ranch home in Los Angeles. After missing three payments, the Carrillos were $9,800 behind on their mortgage with IndyMac Bank. But after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized IndyMac, the bank agreed to modify Carrillo's loan, ...
San Francisco Chronicle - Oct 26, 2008
Activist files suit to halt bailoutFORT ANN -- Activist Robert Schulz won't let the $700 billion bailout of American International Group and other Wall Street giants slide by.
FORT ANN -- Activist Robert Schulz won't let the $700 billion bailout of American International Group and other Wall Street giants slide by.When he heard the news that the insurance giant would receive taxpayer money in order to stay afloat, the Fort Ann resident and nationally known constitutional rights scholar filed two lawsuits in federal court.He contends the bailout package goes against the ...
Post Star - Oct 26, 2008
Ariz. health plan debated
WASHINGTON - On Election Day, Arizonans can give the nation the gift of a good example. They can enact a measure that could shape the health care debate that will arrest or accelerate the nation's slide into statism. Proposition 101, 'The Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act,' would put the following language into Arizona's Constitution: 'Because all people should have the right to make ...
The Leaf Chronicle - Oct 26, 2008
Ethiopia: the authoritarian executive, rubber-stamp parliament, and delegation of power
The Nondelegation Principle The doctrine of nondelegation is explicit or implicit in all written constitutions that impose a structural separation of powers. It is usually applied in questions of constitutionally improper delegations of legislative powers to the executive. In 1690, John Locke (1632-1704), one of the most influential political philosophers of the modern period, wrote that ...
American Chronicle - Oct 26, 2008
Ambani brothers feud over natural gas sharing reaches SC
NEW DELHI: A petition has been moved in Supreme Court seeking vacation of stay granted by Bombay High Court, which restrained Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries from selling gas to any company other than Anil Ambani group and NTPC. The petition filed in public interest by one B A Aloor, a practising advocate from Pune, alleged that the feud between two brothers is affecting people at large ...
Economictimes - Oct 26, 2008
Lawyers movement gaining lost momentum
By Sohail Khan ISLAMABAD: The upcoming election of the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), scheduled to be held on October 28, and the recent pace of the lawyers movement for the independence of judiciary is likely to gain momentum which the legal fraternity had lost during the last few months for the restoration of deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.The recent visits of deposed ...
The News International - Oct 26, 2008
Indonesia fights terrorism with power of persuasion
By WARREN P. STROBEL - McClatchy papers (0) Text Size: tool name tool goes here Sitting in a Papa Ron's pizza outlet in the Indonesian capital, Nasir Abbas looks more like a would-be business entrepreneur than a former Islamic militant. He's dressed in a gray polo shirt and blue jeans, ordering a takeout pizza for his children. He munches on an appetizer in between calls on his cell ...
San Luis Obispo.com - Oct 26, 2008
Monopoly On Pot Fought
MONOPOLY ON POT FOUGHT It's a marijuana 'monopoly' that deserves to go up in smoke, activists say. Lawyers representing a group of 30 medicinal marijuana users will be in court Monday to fight the federal government's bid to keep control of large-scale medicinal pot distribution in Canada. Activists say the government-issued pot is weak. They say Health Canada's regulation that forbids licensed ...
Media Awareness Project - Oct 26, 2008
AIG settles North Carolina disability case: $18 million payout is 'huge'
(The News & Observer - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- AIG | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- American International Group, the major insurance company that received an $85 billion federal bailout for risky financial practices, has agreed to pay $18 million to a former North Raleigh man who was completely disabled when a pickup truck hit him in the parking lot of ...
TradingMarkets - Oct 26, 2008
DOL puts socially conscious funds on tighter leash
All 'non-economic' factors should be rare, managers advised By Sara Hansard October 26, 2008, 6:01 AM EST Socially conscious fund managers participating in qualified plans have been put on notice that investment returns must always be a higher priority than any other consideration. An interpretive bulletin issued Oct. 17 by the Labor Department's Employee Benefits Security Administration ...
Investment News - Oct 26, 2008
Roe vs. Wade? Bush vs. Gore? What are the worst Supreme Court decisions?
Gov. Sarah Palin appeared to draw a blank recently when asked by CBS' Katie Couric to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade. Recalling high school history, she might have cited widely condemned 19th century decisions such as Dred Scott (1857), which upheld slavery even in the 'free states,' and Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896), which upheld segregation as 'separate ...
Los Angeles Times - Oct 22, 2008
In Hawaii, Whether or Not to Con Con is a Contentious Debate
This November 4 election, Hawaii voters must decide whether to support a Constitutional Convention or a 'Con Con.' Even if they leave their ballot blank, they will have a say in the issue, because a Supreme Court ruling determined blank votes are no votes (a whole other issue that could be taken up in a Con Con). Hawaiis has not had a Con Con for 30 years since 1978, but powerful forces are ...
Hawaiian Reporter - Oct 22, 2008
Campaign 2008: Where the candidates stand
With Election Day fast approaching, we want to help you cut through the campaign blather. Here s a quick comparison of where Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain stand on 10 key issues. EDUCATION Obama: Opposes private school vouchers as a drain on public education funds. Proposes $18 billion a year in new spending on early childhood classes, teacher recruitment, performance pay ...
DothanEagle.com - Oct 23, 2008
Putting the brakes on foreclosures
A week into the big bailout, banks are beginning to charge each other less for loans and companies are finding it easier to borrow short term. The Dow has been up and down, but so far this week, it is back above 9,000. So has the worst passed? Probably not. The unfortunate reality is that as long as millions of Americans continue to default on their mortgages and housing prices continue to ...
International Herald Tribune - Oct 22, 2008
Next US President Could Set Direction Of Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AFP)--Abortion, torture, gay marriage, war-on-terror detentions - whoever the next president appoints to the U.S. Supreme Court could play a major role in shaping constitutional rights for a generation. Appointments to the country's highest court have always been a political battleground as the nine judges, who hold life terms, rule on some of the weightiest issues in U.S.
Nasdaq - Oct 23, 2008
OPINION: Judicial candidates should gear campaigns to rule by the law
(Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- DJCO | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Electing judges and writing about judicial elections are both difficult tasks. We can demand to know how John McCain and Barack Obama or senatorial candidates Ronnie Musgrove and Roger Wicker stand on every issue. We can quiz congressional candidates Greg ...
TradingMarkets - Oct 22, 2008
Hidden cameras to monitor nursing homes
Calling it a deterrent against nursing home abuse, State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday that his office will use hidden camera technology in Western New York to expose and prosecute mistreatment of residents. Hidden cameras have been used by the attorney generals office in four cases already, resulting in 26 convictions of nurses, nurses aides and a nursing home owner.
Buffalo News - Oct 22, 2008
Many Obstacles to Drilling Remain
Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com Sen. Lisa Murkowski raises critical points about the challenges facing the U.S. with respect to energy production on the Outer Continental ...
Wall Street Journal Online - Oct 22, 2008
Florida turns into tossup after financial meltdown
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Democrat Barack Obama poured millions of dollars into Florida over the summer but couldn't close in on John McCain's comfortable lead. The Republican didn't flinch, confident the state was trending toward the GOP eight years after it gave George W. Bush the White House. Then the mortgage crisis hit, jolting the high-foreclosure state - and its presidential politics.
The Sun News - Oct 22, 2008
Obama lawyers aim to stop repeat of Florida fiasco
Just before Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton walk on stage in front of a roaring Florida crowd of 40,000 - arm-in-arm and beaming - Richard Siwica, a harassed looking lawyer, takes the podium to invoke the ghosts of hanging chads past. We'll have lawyers in every significant precinct, Mr Siwica told this Orlando crowd. Many Democrats here still speak of the 2000 Florida recount that gave the ...
The Times - Oct 22, 2008
How the U.S.A. elects its President
Every four years, the world looks with bafflement at the United States as the country goes through its curious process of electing its President. Truth be told, the system is far from obvious, and remains misunderstood and controversial even within the U.S.A. A brief primer on how it all works. Foto: AFP With early voting opening in some states such as Florida, voting season has begun. ...
Time - Oct 22, 2008
Do you qualify for severance pay?
Losing your job is tough enough but you'll get some severance pay, won't you? Not necessarily. There are many situations where you won't get any severance pay. I divide these no severance situations into two categories. The first category covers people hired for a specific task or for a fixed period of time. Let's say you've been hired to fill in for one year while Debbie is on a maternity ...
Toronto Sun - Oct 22, 2008
Seminole explains constitutional amendments
SEMINOLE - Vice Mayor Thomas Barnhorn has been busy hitting the speaker's circuit over the last couple of months. After attending an educational seminar provided by the Florida League of Cities, Barnhorn has be heading out to present free seminars on the ramifications of six Florida constitutional amendments that will be on the ballot Nov. 4. "I hope to speak to civic clubs and other groups as ...
Tampa Bay Newspapers - Oct 22, 2008
Justice Roberts delays U of L visit
Business First of Louisville Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jr. has postponed indefinitely a talk he originally planned to give on Monday at the University of Louisville. He had an unavoidable schedule conflict, but plans to speak at the university sometime in the future, McConnell Center director Gary Gregg said Wednesday in a news release.
Biz Journals - Oct 22, 2008
An irresistible force meets an immovable Mass v. EPA
Kate says: The Wall Street Journal spazzes out about Obama adviser Jason Grumet's assertion that a President Obama would fight climate change under the Clean Air Act if Congress doesn't move to address the issue within 18 months. In what may be a historical first, I actually think the WSJ editorial board is right about this. Not that it's bad, but that it's a Very Big Deal.
Grist Magazine - Oct 22, 2008
Justice, Texas Supreme Court
What does the term activist judge mean to you? Does this term affect the public s perception of the judiciary? Please explain (75 words) Question 3: What method of selection of judges is most likely to result in a qualified, diverse, and independent judiciary? (75 words) Question 4: Should a judge or justice recuse himself or herself from cases in which the participating lawyers, their ...
Fort Bend Sun - Oct 22, 2008
EDITORIAL: Initiative power: Supreme Court strikes down unconstitutional law
Oct. 22--Earlier this year, the Legislature gutted the people's power to make land-use laws through initiatives and to refer the implementation of land-use laws to the voters. Last week, the Utah Supreme Court reversed that action by declaring unconstitutional the law that stole the people's rights. Thank goodness for the balance of powers. In its opinion, the court offered the Legislature a ...
Calibre Macro World - Oct 22, 2008
Big-time Waffle House guy in trouble
Local entrepreneur James L. Shaub II's job running SouthEast Waffles, a 113-restaurant Waffle House franchise based in Nashville, remains under the scrutiny of creditors amid whispers of missing millions and the shadow of a pending Chapter 11 bankruptcy hearing. Next week, Shaub could lose his job at what is now the second-largest franchise under the umbrella of Norcross, Ga.-based Waffle House, ...
Tennessean - Oct 22, 2008
Trial of Economic Saboteurs Postponed
(The New Times/All Africa Global Media via COMTEX News Network) -- The first hearing on economic sabotage that had been scheduled for October 16, 2008, at Kacyiru Lower Instance Court was postponed to November 13 by Claudine Nyirabikenye, the Court President has said. Economic sabotage is any act or crime that impedes economic growth of the country. According to the Prosecutor General's office, ...
Calibre Macro World - Oct 22, 2008
U.S. Intervenes in False Claims Act Suit Against McKesson Corp. and Golden Horizons Nursing Homes
WASHINGTON - The United States has intervened in a lawsuit against several companies alleging that they submitted false claims to Medicare arising from illegal kickbacks and the establishment of sham durable medical equipment (DME) suppliers, the Justice Department announced today. The companies are McKesson Corporation, McKesson Medical-Surgical MediNet Inc.
United States Department of Justice - Oct 22, 2008
Congress' report card
With 36 days left for the assembly elections in Delhi, HT does a reality check on what the ruling Congress promised in its election manifesto before the 2003 polls and what it actually delivered during the last five years. Statehood for Delhi The Congress in its 2003 election manifesto had promised that it would demand full statehood for the National Capital from the Central government.
Yahoo! India - Oct 22, 2008
Anti-JPEPA groups fail to get temporary respite
THE Supreme Court did not give due course to the petition of civil and environmental groups for the issuance of a temporary restraining order to stop the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) from becoming final and binding. Instead, the High Court asked the Senate and Malacaang to comment on the petition filed by the anti-JPEPA groups within 10 days.
Yehey - Oct 22, 2008
SC dismisses Excise Dept plea against Tata Motors
(Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) -- TTM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- The Supreme Court has dismissed the Excise Department's appeal which alleged that Tata Motors had changed the classification of motor vehicle chassis supplied to its distributors just to evade duty to the tune of around Rs 2.9 crore including penalty. A bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia dismissed the petition ...
TradingMarkets - Oct 22, 2008
Thaksin convicted of corruption
Outgoing Manchester City owner Thaksin Shinawatra has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to two years in jail by Thailand's Supreme Court. The former PM was not present for the ruling, having fled to exile in England two months ago. The ruling was the first against him since he was removed in a 2006 military coup after being accused of corruption and abuse of power.
Bromsgrove Advertiser - Oct 22, 2008
Nigerian Court Seen Ruling On 2007 Presidential Election Thursday
LAGOS (AFP)--Nigeria's Supreme Court is expected to decide Thursday whether to declare invalid the results of the April, 2007, election that brought President Umaru Yar'Adua to power. Two opposition candidates - former vice-president Atiku Abubakar and ex- president Mohammadu Buhari - have petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling that upheld Yar'Adua's victory in the ...
Morningstar.com - Oct 22, 2008
Palin to give deposition later this week (AAP)
Sarah Palin, already found by one investigation to have abused her power as Alaska governor, will take time from her campaign for vice president later this week to give a deposition in a second inquiry into her firing of the state's top public safety official. It will be the first deposition in the affair by the Republican vice presidential candidate. She wasn't subpoenaed to answer questions in ...
Yahoo! News Australia - Oct 21, 2008
How green is the high court?
WASHINGTON Is the U.S. Supreme Court hostile to environmental regulation? Does it shy away from the tougher environmental questions of today? Or are its decisions a 'mixed bag,' giving comfort and angst to environmentalists and industry depending on the issue? The justices this term have taken five environmental cases for decision thus far a significant number for a relatively small docket.
National Law Journal - Oct 21, 2008
Hollywood money boosts opponents of Calif. amend.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (BP)--After sounding the alarm two weeks ago, opponents of a proposed California constitutional marriage amendment have outraised supporters by a wide margin, and fundraising in the coming days could determine which side gets more ads on television between now and Nov. 4 -- and wins. Proposition 8 opponents have raised $6.8 million since Oct.
Town Hall - Oct 21, 2008
World events now steer election
WASHINGTON Republican presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. John McCain's answer to the first question in last week's debate was an acknowledgment that 'Americans are hurting right now, and they're angry.' He said it twice, so there could be no missing the message. Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., quickly agreed. 'Everybody understands at this point that we are ...
CourierPostOnline.com - Oct 21, 2008
U.S. -- Lawsuit Claims Mapmaking Firm Owns Your Neighborhood
A mathematician who pioneered a fractal-based urban-mapping technique is embroiled in a copyright battle that raises legal questions about whether a company can claim ownership of the definition of neighborhoods: their specific locations and boundaries. The dispute highlights a growing movement to quantify the amorphous tendrils connecting communities. Bernt Wahl had the idea in 2004 to use a ...
Wired News - Oct 22, 2008
Accused knew of status, HIV murder trial told
Johnson Aziga, who has HIV, is alleged to have had sex with 13 women without disclosing his medical condition. He is believed to be the first person in Canada to be charged with murder in an HIV transmission case. (Hamilton Spectator/Canadian Press)An HIV-positive man charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two sexual partners knew of his status for seven years before he was arrested, ...
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Oct 21, 2008
Thailand to demand Britain hand over Thaksin
Britain will be asked to extradite former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra after he was convicted of corruption charges today. Thaksin was found guilty of abusing his office by the Thai Supreme Court and sentenced to two years jail in his absence. The former Manchester City football club owner and his wife fled to Britain in August where they remain in exile but the Thai attorney-general s ...
Breaking News.ie - Oct 21, 2008
Canada doesn't have to reduce greenhouse gas emissions: apex court
Toronto, Oct 22 (IANS) Canada, the world's fourth worst polluter, has been let off the hook, with the country's top court dismissing a lawsuit to force the government to implement the Kyoto Protocol to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, though it has signed and ratified the protocol. Of the 38 industrialised nations with binding targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Canada is the only ...
Yahoo! India - Oct 22, 2008
Bush Decides to Keep Guant namo Open
WASHINGTON Despite his stated desire to close the American prison at Guant namo Bay, Cuba, President Bush has decided not to do so, and never considered proposals drafted in the State Department and the Pentagon that outlined options for transferring the detainees elsewhere, according to senior administration officials. Mr. Bush s top advisers held a series of meetings at the White House ...
RINF.com - Oct 21, 2008
Comment on What presidential team is more likely to support fathers? by Roger Knight
Punish Biden for VAWA and deprive the NOW and VAWA feminists of the reward that they will ask and obtain when Biden is elected? Is the Peter Principle operating among some MRAs?: What happens if social workers cure poverty? Most of us do not want to continue to pay fees to lawyers to feel good and lose. If Biden loses, VAWA and NOW feminists will not be rewarded.
Men's News Daily - Oct 21, 2008
New Zealand's chief justice to speak
New Mexico Business Weekly Related News The first female chief justice of New Zealand s Supreme Court will present a lecture this week on indigenous rights. The Right Honorable Dame Sian Elias will give the Ramo Lecture on International Law and Justice on Oct. 23 at 5 p.m., at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Elias address First Peoples and Human Rights: A South Seas ...
Biz Journals - Oct 21, 2008
Both campaigns have lawyers at the ready
Barack Obama and John McCain have a litigation game plan to accompany their election strategy. Both candidates have armies of volunteers to ring doorbells and get voters to the polls. They are also forming squadrons of lawyers who are filing challenges and preparing in case Election Day doesn't settle the contest for the White House. Legal battles unfolding in Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin provide ...
Philadelphia Inquirer - Oct 21, 2008
Groups Go to Court to Force Cleanup of Air Pollution in National Parks
As autumn foliage season reaches its peak, clean air advocates are going to court to make sure visitors to national parks can enjoy scenic vistas free of the yellowish haze caused by industrial pollution. The nonprofit environmental law firm Earthjustice filed a lawsuit today on behalf of Environmental Defense Fund and National Parks Conservation Association over the failure by the U.S.
Calibre Macro World - Oct 21, 2008
Libby judge on leave for conduct
LIBBY - A small-town judge is off the bench, with a recommendation that he be removed permanently from office, after investigators ruled he did, in fact, offer leniency to female defendants in return for sexual favors. The fate of Gary Hicks, a two-term justice of the peace from Libby, now is in the hands of the Montana Supreme Court. I didn't see any surprises here, said Stephen Berg, ...
Missoulian - Oct 21, 2008
Initiative power: Supreme Court strikes down unconstitutional law
In its opinion, the court offered the Legislature a short course in the legislative power that the Utah Constitution reserves to the people independently of their Legislature. We hope that an arrogant Legislature gets the message that, when it comes to making laws, the people have co-equal constitutional power with their elected lawmakers. The subject of the lawsuit is an initiative in Sevier ...
Salt Lake Tribune - Oct 21, 2008
Lawsuit: Atlanta Cops Violated HIV-Related Privacy
A man who applied to become a police officer in 2006 sued the Atlanta police department, claiming they tested him for HIV without his consent and then wouldnt hire him after learning his HIV-positive status, reports. According to court documents, the defendantwho filed the lawsuit under pseudonym Richard Roeaccused the department of discrimination and violation of privacy and claimed the ...
POZ.com - Oct 21, 2008
Billions of fish and roe die in nuclear power plants intake systems
For a newly hatched striped bass in the Hudson River, a clutch of trout eggs in Lake Michigan or a baby salmon in San Francisco Bay, drifting a little too close to a power plant can mean a quick and turbulent death. Sucked in with enormous volumes of water, battered against the sides of pipes and heated by steam, the small fry of the aquatic world are being sacrificed in large numbers each year ...
Taipei Times Online - Oct 21, 2008
Trying Times, Complex Solutions
During a July conference call introducing former Treasury Under Secretary Robert Steel as Wachovia Corp.'s new chief executive, Lanty Smith, the company's chairman, made a somewhat humbling admission. Just two years after paying $25.5 billion to acquire Golden West Financial Corp., the big Oakland, California-based thrift, Wachovia's board was conceding that the deal was a mistake. A bust.
Bank Director - Oct 21, 2008
U.S. Labor Department's Office of Labor-Management Standards obtains 900th criminal conviction for the decade
The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS) today announced its criminal enforcement data for September 2008. During the month, OLMS obtained three convictions, seven indictments and court orders of restitution totaling more than $80,000. The office's totals for fiscal year 2008 (which ended on Sept. 30, 2008) are 102 convictions and 130 indictments, with ...
PR Newswire - Oct 21, 2008
Cybersecurity 'needs to move beyond IT'
Businesses need to expand in-house departments that focus on cybersecurity beyond IT, and the chief financial officer should be dedicated to assessing and reducing cyberrisk, according to a new report. Although the IT department should remain a major player in cybersecurity efforts, the CFO and the legal, risk management, human resources, public relations and other departments need to be involved ...
Computerworld UK - Oct 21, 2008
Murder Who Claimed He Was Too Fat To Die Is Executed
A convicted murder who claimed he was too overweight to be executed was put to death Tuesday morning by lethal injection. Warden Phillip Kearns of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility said Richard Cooey, 41, was pronounced dead at 10:28 a.m. Cooey's execution happened an hour after the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal to stop it. Cooey was 75-pounds overweight and argued his weight would ...
WMFD - Oct 14, 2008
How Sarah Palin lived down Troopergate.
Perhaps it was the overblown coverage of her every move and misstep or perhaps I too have come down with a case of Palin fever. But last Friday, as I read the details of the report confirming that Palin abused her power as governor to get her brother-in-law fired, I was nonplussed. Troopergate is a significantly more severe infraction than anything she's been accused of since we first met Palin ...
Slate - Oct 14, 2008
$700 Billion Worth of Vagueness
Despite what you read in the press, the $700 billion 'Wall Street bailout' program granting the Treasury and the Fed almost unlimited and only slightly defined authority to implement the bailout bill is hardly unprecedented. Most new regulatory programs are approved in broad principle by the public and by Congress. Legislative implementing language typically is along the lines of, 'An act to ...
American Daily - Oct 14, 2008
National Lampoon Asks ... Are Americans Too Dumb to Vote?
Statistics from the new book How Dumb Are You? point to a lack of basic knowledge in Americans LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In recent political discourse, much has been made of whether Barack Obama is too inexperienced to lead, or whether John McCain is too old to be elected. But in all the discussion, one question has been overlooked: Are Americans too dumb to make that ...
KVIA.com - Oct 15, 2008
Patent Law: Juicy Enough for the Silver Screen
The new film 'Flash of Genius' may be based on a 1960s case of patent infringement, but its David-vs.-Goliath story involving independent inventors going up against monolithic corporations continues to spin off sequels well into the 21st Century, says a Minneapolis-based patent attorney. And while the movie uses the automotive industry to tell its tale of innovation, obsession and redemption, the ...
E-Commerce Times - Oct 14, 2008
Wells Fargo asks judge to void Citi-Wachovia pact
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co , which has agreed to buy Wachovia Corp , asked a federal court to void Citigroup Inc's earlier agreement to buy parts of the big North Carolina lender. In a complaint filed Tuesday with the U.S. district court in Manhattan, Wells Fargo said the earlier agreement is unenforceable under the government's $700 billion banking industry bailout because it is ...
Reuters via MSN Money - Oct 14, 2008
Chinese Lawyers Help Tainted Milk Victims Despite Suppression
A shopper carries Chinese-produced milk powder in a supermarket in Beijing on Sept. 12, 2008. (China Photos/) A Beijing Lawyer Mr. Xu Zhiyong, told Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Oct. 13 that at least 10 lawyers have decided to take the tainted-milk cases to court, which goes against the Chinese regimes decision to discourage lawyers from doing so. It is unclear whether the regime will have any new ...
Epoch Times - Oct 14, 2008
Vioxx heart risks confirmed in long-term study
A long-term study has confirmed the risks associated with the arthritis drug Vioxx. The study, an analysis of people who took the arthritis drug carried out by Dr. Robert Bresalier of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, has found Vioxx doubles the risk of strokes and heart attacks. Dr. Bresalier says other drugs in the same class of painkillers known as Cox-2 inhibitors ...
News-Medical.Net - Oct 14, 2008
Judicial Watch Announces: California Court of Appeals Rules That Extra Compensation for Los Angeles County Judges Violates California Constitution
Judicial Watch, the public interest group Judicial Watch, the public interest group that fights government corruption and judicial abuse, announced today that a California Court of Appeals ruled on October 10th that a scheme by Los Angeles County to pay superior court judges in the county approximately $21 million annually in perks and supplemental benefits on top of what they already receive ...
MarketWire - Oct 14, 2008
Defense Opens In Mob Murder Trial
MIAMI - Former FBI agent John Connolly opened his defense to murder and conspiracy charges today by calling a senior federal judge from Boston as his first witness - a judge who six years ago was publicly reprimanded for using his position to praise Connolly. Judge Edward Harrington was again effusive in his description of Connolly as one of the nation's top mob busters.
Hartford Courant - Oct 14, 2008
Uncle Sam, Inc.
Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com Yesterday's latest installment of bailout money has the government virtually annexing the financial sector.
Wall Street Journal Online - Oct 14, 2008
Direct US stake in banks has many precedents
President Bush's announcement on Tuesday that the government would directly invest up to $250 billion in the nation's top financial institutions was the latest step in increasingly bold efforts here and abroad to prop up a financial system near collapse. It was presented as a last-resort intervention. But already this year, the Federal Reserve had taken a $85 billion stake in failing insurer ...
TheDay.com - Oct 14, 2008
POLITICS-US: Judge Sides with Voting Rights Groups
By Bankole Thompson DETROIT, Michigan, Oct 14 (IPS) - A federal judge ruled Monday that the current practices to purge the voter rolls in Michigan are illegal and ordered Republican Secretary of State Terry Lynn Land to immediately stop the cancellation of registered voters whose voter identification cards are returned as undeliverable in the mail.The purging of registered voters, many of whom ...
Inter Press Service - Oct 14, 2008
LegalView Reintroduces Its Medical Malpractice Information Portal with Updated Links to Finding Immediate Legal Assistance
(PR.com)-- LegalView.com, the number one legal resource on the Internet, announced the re-launch of its medical malpractice information portal to provide victims of medical malpractice injuries with the most up-to-date news, the latest on medical malpractice as well as how to obtain a medical malpractice attorney, should the need arise for a medical malpractice lawsuit to be developed.Medical ...
PR.com - Oct 14, 2008
Options narrow
Gloria Arroyo's options to extend her stay in Malacaang have gotten narrower, what with the Supreme Court (SC) dismissing the petition of a pro-administration congressman for the alleged unconstitutionality of the House rules on Congress constituting itself as a constituent assembly. As things stand, it will be very difficult to effect changes in the Constitution without the cooperation of the ...
Philippines Daily Tribune - Oct 14, 2008
Accused therapist killer headed to mental hospital
NEW YORK -- Prosecutors in the case of a mentally ill patient accused of hacking a psychotherapist to death with a meat cleaver decided Tuesday not to challenge a psychiatrist's finding that the killer is not mentally fit to stand trial. David Tarloff, 40, will be turned over to the state and sent to a mental institution, where he will be held indefinitely, said Manhattan state Supreme Court ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Oct 15, 2008
Muslim rumor exposed
So now we know the genesis of the false Obama-is-a-Muslim rumor. According to the New York Times, Patient Zero in this particular epidemic which has virally spread around the nation thanks to the Internet is a fellow named Andy Martin, known for filing copious lawsuits that on occasion have contained very anti-Semitic language. After reading the NYT story that places Martin at the starting point ...
Chicago Tribune - Oct 13, 2008
Tainted milk, a baby's death and lawsuit in China
Yi Yongsheng holds his daughter Yi Xuan, right, as he speaks about the death of his infant son, at their Xinxing home in China's northern Gansu province, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. The death of Yi's son from kidney failure was one of four China's government has reported so far in a tainted milk scandal. Thousands of children were sickened after eating milk powder laced with the industrial chemical ...
Buffalo News - Oct 13, 2008
Patent trolls responsible for dramatic increase in state suits
Florida nearly doubled from 72 in 2004 to 131 in 2007. As many as half of last year's cases were filed by companies that might be termed patent trolls, which have no commercial products but own patents and aggressively file patent infringement suits against companies that may be reluctant to get involved in lengthy and costly court battles over complex issues.
Daily Business Review - Oct 13, 2008
Citigroup Drops Bid to Block Wachovia Sale, Presses Ahead With $60 Billion Suit for Damages
Citigroup Inc. may have abandoned its attempt to purchase the assets of Wachovia Corp. but continues to pursue its claim for $60 billion in damages. The focus in the latest maneuvering was whether those claims belonged in federal or state court. Citigroup no longer is seeking to block the acquisition of Wachovia by Wells Fargo for $15 billion but insisted in a statement Thursday that 'it has ...
Yahoo! Canada - Oct 13, 2008
Law cracks down on attorneys
Gov. David Paterson signed legislation into laws that crack down on attorneys in the state pension system. The legislation, first introduced in late June, represents the states response to separate investigations by the state comptroller and state attorney general into alleged abuses of the states $153.9 billion pension fund. Albany law firm Girvin & Ferlazzo PC was one of the early targets of ...
Business Review Albany - Oct 13, 2008
Political advocacy in the workplace: What are the limits?
As the race for the White House reaches the home stretch, the nonstop campaign rhetoric has reached a fever pitch. Political candidates are promising change to bring about needed reforms in how we deal with immigration, health care, the economy, education, the tax system and other hot-button issues. It s a process fundamental to our democracy, right? But what happens when that political ...
Fort Worth Business Press - Oct 13, 2008
New Evidence of Systemic Bias in Guant namo Trials
Andy Worthington, author of The Guant namo Files, continues his analysis of the corrupt command structure of the Military Commissions at Guant namo, with new information from Maj. David Frakt, one of the Commissions military defense lawyers. In the last three weeks, two events have occurred that have dealt what should have been a knockout blow to the Military Commissions at Guant namo, the ...
RINF.com - Oct 13, 2008
Nationalization Has Happened Before in U.S.
The government s plan to take ownership stakes in American banks is an exceptional step, but not an unprecedented one. The United States has a culture that celebrates laissez-faire capitalism as the economic ideal, yet the practice strays at times. Over the last century, the federal government has occasionally nationalized railways, coal mines and steel mills, and has even taken a controlling ...
New York Times - Oct 13, 2008
Comcast Bucks the Plan
Washington- Comcast, the country's largest cable operator, is challenging a plan by Federal Communications Commission chairman Kevin Martin that could allow hundreds of TV stations to demand cable carriage for the first time. An attempt to force cable operators to distribute so-called low-power Class-A stations would both violate the law and needlessly embroil cable operators, the stations and ...
Macro World Investor - Oct 13, 2008
Justices to consider whether man entitled to damages from company's 'alter ego'
Justices this morning are expected to consider whether a northeastern Ohio ironworker is entitled to damages from not only his employer, but a sister corporation, after he was rendered paraplegic in a workplace accident in 2003. The case is one of eight the Supreme Court of Ohio is scheduled to hear during sessions at the Ohio Judicial Center, downtown, today and Wednesday.
The Daily Reporter - Oct 13, 2008
Anti-same-sex marriage groups hope for victory this time around
Those same opponents are hoping for redemption Nov. 4, when Arizona voters again will have to decide whether they want the state's constitution to be amended to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman. 'It actually helped us out having it fail the first time because it allowed us to raise more money,' said state Sen. Ron Gould, a Lake Havasu City Republican and prime sponsor of ...
Casa Grande Valley Newspaper - Oct 13, 2008
States Ask Baby Product Companies To Avoid BPA
Connecticut's attorney general on Monday said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration was 'asleep at the switch' by failing to take action against companies that use the chemical bisphenol A in making baby bottles and baby formula containers. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he and attorneys general from New Jersey and Delaware sent letters Friday to 11 companies that make baby bottles and ...
Hartford Courant - Oct 13, 2008
Economic downturn expected to fuel litigation, study predicts
San Antonio Business Journal - by Tricia Lynn Silva Stephen C. Dillard chairs Fulbright & Jaworski's global litigation practice. Related News The current economic slump will likely lead to an increase in lawsuits, according to a new litigation trends survey released Tuesday by law firm Fulbright & Jaworski LLP. The blame game will prompt many of these suits.
Philadelphia Business Journal - Oct 13, 2008
Lawsuit filed against UW police alleges bias
A lawsuit filed by six current and former members of the University of Washington Police Department contends discrimination is pervasive within the agency, and that their complaints about the harassment have been ignored by department brass. The suit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court, alleges the department violated the civil rights of the plaintiffs, who are a records clerk, three ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Oct 13, 2008
Apple's Psystar Case Is Explained
Apple's filing to dismiss with prejudice Psystar's countersuit revealed the tenants of Apples' strategy to win. The basis of Apple's argument is that and Macs do not, in themselves, create a legally plausible market, antitrust does not apply, and Apple has no obligation to share its sources of advantage. An attorney who has been following the case, and wishes to remain anonymous, explained ...
NewsFactor Network - Oct 13, 2008
Asbestos Witch Trials
Hercules Chemical Co. has been a reputable manufacturer of plumbing-heating specialty chemicals for almost 100 years. Many years ago, ending in 1983, they produced a rather innocuous sealant that contained a tiny amount of fully encapsulated asbestos. For that they have been put to the stake and tortured ever since. As we reported last month, Hercules decided to pursue a voluntary bankruptcy ...
Supply House Times Magazine - Oct 13, 2008
For Ousted Candidate, Fight Goes On: Venezuelan Disqualified Along With Other Chvez Foes Campaigns for Those Remaining
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Young and photogenic, Leopoldo Lpez has been running the campaign of his political life, rummaging for votes here amid a warren of crowded slums and as far away as Venezuela's lawless western frontier. Polls show that the politician has won a strong following by promising a sharp change from the populist government of President Hugo Chvez, who after nearly a decade in office ...
Washington Post - Oct 13, 2008
Broadcom renews patent battle with Qualcomm
(Datamonitor via COMTEX) -- QCOM | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Communications chip maker Broadcom has renewed its patent battle with wireless telecommunications products and services company Qualcomm with a new lawsuit accusing Qualcomm of patent misuse. In the suit filed with the US District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego, Broadcom is seeking to stop ...
TradingMarkets - Oct 13, 2008
Anti-JPEPA groups petition SC
CIVIL rights and environmental groups on Monday sought a last minute intervention from the Supreme Court to stop the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) from becoming final and binding. The petitioners include groups like the Initiatives for Dialogue and Empowerment through Alternative Legal Services Inc., Alliance of Progressive Labor, Ecological Coalition of the Philippines ...
Manila Times - Oct 13, 2008
Hypocrisy at its Heights
Why did Rawlings sack Tsatsu Tsikata as CEO of GNPC? This is a question which the adherents of the NDC have refused to answer in spite of numerous challenges thrown to them. I wont relent on it. Ghanaians deserve to be told the answer. Now judging by the criteria with which the NDC as a party has set that any official who losses his position in the government is guilty, it follows that Tsatsu ...
GhanaHomePage - Oct 14, 2008
India: Tribe Vows To Fight Mine With Axes & Arrows
India: Tribe Vows To Fight Mine With Axes And Arrows One of Indias most isolated tribes, the Dongria Kondh, is preparing to stop British FTSE 100 company Vedanta from mining aluminium ore on their sacred mountain, after police and hired thugs forced protestors to dismantle a barricade over the weekend. About 150 people had blocked the road in Orissa state on Wednesday after hearing that Vedanta ...
Scoop - Oct 14, 2008
Law Bulletin Publishing Company's DM2000(R) Expands into Will County, Illinois; Law Firms With Cases in Will County Courts Gain Powerful Case Calendaring Tool
Law Bulletin Publishing Company announced today the expansion of its Court Docket Management Program, DM2000(R) into Will County, Illinois effective today. The Will County Circuit court calls and information will also be published each day in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin(R) and available online via name and case number search at http://www.ChicagoLawBulletin.com.
PR Newswire - Oct 13, 2008
FindLaw's New Case Summaries Through RSS Feeds
Time was you had to go to FindLaw (www.findlaw.com) to find out about the law. Now FindLaw comes to you! Last week FindLaw announced 'up-to-the-minute' court opinions and case summaries available through RSS feeds. The summaries are written by attorney-editors at the Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters of FindLaw, tagged by jurisdiction and law topic, and then fed into an RSS (really simple ...
Information Today - Oct 13, 2008
Age Discrimination Laws Have Unintended Consequences
They make companies less competitive and reward the underperformer who feels entitled to a job. October 12, 2008 - by Melissa Clouthier Support Pajamas Media; Visit Our Advertisers Too often, laws have unintended consequences. McCain-Feingold comes immediately to mind. A lot of good that law did about getting money out of politics. Other laws are just confusing.
Pajamas Media - Oct 13, 2008
Financial chaos good for lawyers
NEW YORK As the corporate victims continue to pile up in Wall Streets great financial collapse, that flapping noise coming from the skies over Manhattan isnt the pigeons circling, its the vultures. With personal fortunes, retirement savings and institutional assets evaporating each day, swarms of attorneys from some of the nations most prestigious firms are positioning themselves to cash in on ...
Times Leader - Oct 13, 2008
Guest Column: Bill looks to undermine democracy at work
The Employee Free Choice Act's proposed elimination of secret ballot elections flies in the face of pronouncements by the Supreme Court. Can you imagine the United States denying to its citizens the right to vote for whomever they want to be their president? Or their senators or congressmen? Of course you can't. The foundation of our democracy is the secret ballot.
Commercial Appeal - Oct 14, 2008
From Vogue to MTV, Palin drew press to Alaska
GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is keeping reporters at arms' length in her campaign, but she had a very different approach as Alaska's new governor: She couldn't get enough of them. Palin cultivated interviews with local and national journalists and welcomed them from as far away as London, earning time in the spotlight even before Republican presidential candidate John McCain selected ...
Ledger-Enquirer - Oct 13, 2008
DNA exoneree fell victim to 'drive-by' identification
Billy Wayne Miller was asleep in a back bedroom of his father's modest Oak Cliff home when three Dallas police officers burst through the front door around 3 a.m., guns in hand, yelling another man's name. Still groggy and clad only in his underwear, Mr. Miller was taken to the front porch. There he spotted a woman in a squad car glance at him and nod to an officer seated beside her before the ...
Dallas Morning News - Oct 12, 2008
Litigating Patent Obviousness
To be patentable, an invention must be completely novel and be the result of inventive activity, that is, it would not have been obvious to a skilled person at the time it was made. But when is this the case? In spring 2007, the Supreme Court ruled on KSR International v. Teleflex, commenting for the first time in decades on the meaning of obviousness under patent law.
Bio-IT World - Oct 12, 2008
State and federal election laws can be confusing
Text Size: tool name tool goes here For all of our bluster and promotion of democracy, one would think that by now we would have a fairly foolproof voting system, but we still have problems. Some are technical and unintended and others are more sinister.While people look to America for guidance, we are really a hodgepodge of states with 50 different sets of election rules.
Macon Telegraph - Oct 12, 2008
Wachovia fate may get court hearing
NEW YORK - A court hearing may be held on Monday over the rival bids of Citigroup Inc. and Wells Fargo & Co. for Wachovia Corp. even though Citigroup dropped out of negotiations, a U. S. judge said yesterday. Citigroup has said it would seek damages from Wachovia and Wells Fargo because it had an agreement with Wachovia to acquire the North Carolina bank before San Franciscobased Wells Fargo ...
National Post - Oct 12, 2008
Meltdown 101: Bankruptcy won't help borrowers much
WASHINGTON -- Can filing for bankruptcy help homeowners facing foreclosure?For most people, trying to negotiate changes in their loan with help from a housing counselor or lawyer is a far better option. While bankruptcy judges can reduce or eliminate certain kinds of debt, they aren't allowed to alter the total amount owed or interest rate of primary mortgages.Whether to change this law to help ...
Arizona Daily Sun - Oct 12, 2008
Palin book smack dab in middle of legal fight
Tiny Epicenter Press Inc. struck gold in late August when little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was named Sen. John McCains vice presidential running mate, just three months after the Kenmore, Wash., company published a book about Palins rise to power. Today, the company and its bestseller, Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaskas Political Establishment Upside Down, are smack dab in the middle of ...
Portland Tribune - Oct 12, 2008
Are America's easy credit days gone?
But sitting across from a salesman in a quiet back room, Adrian Clark could see it would not be nearly that easy. This was the ninth or tenth dealership for Clark, a steamfitter looking for a car to commute to a new job. Every one offered a variation on the discouragement he was getting here: Without $1,000 for a down payment, no loan. 'It's just rough times right now,' Clark said.
Record Publishing Online - Oct 13, 2008
School nurses' roles expand as medical technology grows
Oct. 12--There's the story Teresa Martin likes to tell about the time a young boy at Oakdale Elementary School entered her office and announced to Martin, the school nurse -- 'Mrs. Martin, I have a song stuck in my head, and I can't get rid of it.' 'He came to the nurse to fix that,' Martin said, smiling. Gently, she counseled the young student to think of another song.
Calibre Macro World - Oct 12, 2008
Navy Sonar v. Whales Argued in U.S. Supreme Court
The closely watched case touches on controversial issues of presidential power and the military's obligation to follow key environmental laws that require federal agencies to consider and mitigate the environmental impacts of their activities. The dispute emerged from the Navy's plan to conduct a series of 14 submarine hunting exercises using its mid-frequency active sonar off the coast of ...
Environment News Service - Oct 12, 2008
Draft signup rules unfair to men?
If Henry Tucker were a woman, he'd still have a job with the federal government. In February, he resigned from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., ending a 17-year career that started in the mailroom and took him to the post of 'financial institution specialist.' The end came because of an oversight dating to his teenage years: Mr. Tucker, now 38, never registered with the Selective Service, ...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Oct 12, 2008
Intel Says AMD Split Violates License Agreement
AMD says the split into two companies doesn't interfere with the agreement AMD and Intel are rivals in the marketplace when it comes to x86 compatible CPUs and graphics processors. AMD and Intel have a cross-license agreement in place that allow AMD to use Intel IP to build x86 compatible processors. On October 7, AMD announced that it was splitting its holdings into two separate companies.
DailyTech - Oct 12, 2008
Lotteries elsewhere raking in millions as high court set to hear arguments on Arkansas proposal
Political Blog From the Stephens Media team in Arkansas and Washington D.C. By Rob MoritzArkansas News Bureau LITTLE ROCK - It seems state lotteries can be just the ticket in tough economic times.As the U.S. economy slows under the burden of a widening financial crisis, lotteries are raking in millions of dollars for many states, some reporting record revenues from the games.
Arkansas News Bureau - Oct 12, 2008
Vermont consumer rights case goes to Supreme Court
(Host) A Vermont woman is at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case that could determine the rights of consumers to sue over dangerous products. The woman is Diana Levine, a musician who lost her right arm because of a medical disaster. VPR's John Dillon has the story that leads from the back roads of Marshfield to the marble halls of the Supreme Court. (Dillon) Eight years ago, Diana Levine ...
Vermont Public Radio - Oct 12, 2008
How high will hybrid mortgage go?
Article: :/c/a/2008/10/11/REKL1388NM.DTL Home of the San Francisco Chronicle Home Delivery| Today's Paper | Ads SFGate Web Search by YAHOO! | Advanced Search Quick links to the best of SFGate | Still can't find it? see Site Index News Today Sections Sports More Features Food Travel Living Entertainment Classifieds How high will hybrid mortgage go? Benny L.
San Francisco Chronicle - Oct 12, 2008
Presidential Poll: Buhari Alleges Plots to Influence Judges
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear the petition of both the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and Action Congress (AC) presidential candidates, the Director General of the Presidential Campaign Organisa-tion of the ANPP, Alhaji Sule Hamma, has raised an alarm over alleged moves to influence the outcome of the case at the apex court. Hamma however said Buhari's faith in the ability of the ...
This Day Online - Oct 12, 2008
The quadrennial plea to consider the court
BOSTON - I really hate to bring it up. We already have two branches of our national government in full-scale meltdown. The president looks like a guy pleading before the parole board for early release. The Congress makes 'dysfunctional' sound like a compliment. But there is the third branch also in dire need of a rescue operation. Oyez, oyez, or should I say oy vey.
Hutchinson News - Oct 12, 2008
The Man Behind the Whispers About Obama
The most persistent falsehood about Senator Barack Obamas background first hit in 2004 just two weeks after the Democratic convention speech that arguably set him on the path to his presidential candidacy: Obama is a Muslim who has concealed his religion. That statement was contained in a press release and it spun a complex tale about the alleged ancestry of Mr. Obama, who is Christian.
New York Times - Oct 12, 2008
Landlords hit hard by foreclosure
Filings are up by 136 percent since 2000. Tom Wolf says he could not stop the spiral that ended with foreclosures on his rental homes and a wrecked credit history. In the early 2000s, the former electrical engineer lost half of his savings in the high-tech bust and wanted to change pace. He started acquiring Tulsa houses. 'Ultimately, I did not want to be a landlord for more than five or 10 ...
Tulsa World - Oct 12, 2008
Declare SAP first before reserving cane area, say growers
Any move to reserve area before SAP would go against the law. UP Govt has already formed a committee to recommend SAP for 2008-09. Growers in a better bargaining position due to lower crop. Harish Damodaran New Delhi, Oct 12 In what could well create a precedent, sugarcane growers in Uttar Pradesh (UP) are demanding that the State Government declare the price payable by mills for their crop ...
Hindu Business Line - Oct 12, 2008
Church, Constitution and the RH bill
Philippine Daily Inquirer Other Most Read Stories x Opinion Opinion Most Read RSS MANILA, Philippines - The debate on the reproductive health bill in Congress is by no means over. It should surprise no one that this is happening; after all, religion and the Constitution, both of which are involved in any evaluation of the bill, are very much at the heart of the life of our people.
Philippine Daily Inquirer - Oct 12, 2008
Govt, farmers fight aerial spraying
DAVAO CITY: Once a week, the drone of airplanes shatters the early morning calm in Calinan, a cluster of small farmlands in the hilly terrain around Mount Apo. It is the signal for farmers to rush indoors or take cover and stop feeding livestock, for women to pull down clothes hanging out to dry, and for everyone to stay indoors, windows shut. The small fixed-wing planes, known as crop dusters, ...
Manila Times - Oct 12, 2008
Post-Cold War era over, but not US primacy
The end of the Cold War had a triple significance for world affairs: the defeat of one power by another, the triumph of one political ideology over another, and the discrediting of one economic model in favour of another. All three have now been attenuated. The Cold War was a global and transcendental struggle centred on and led by the Soviet Union and the United States.
Frontier Post - Oct 12, 2008
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concludes today its visit to Colombia, which took place from 1 to 10 October 2008, at the invitation of the Government. During its visit, the Group visited Arauca, Bogota and Cali. The delegation was headed by Mrs. Manuela Carmena (Spain), Chairperson-Rapporteur and included Mr. Roberto Garretn (Chile), member of the Group.
UNHCHR - Oct 12, 2008
No beating around the Bush
Racy Tales of a Fictional First Lady cause Red Faces in the White House was one headline, says Curtis Sittenfeld, laughing. Then there was Book to Smear First Lady's Sex Life. NBC said my bedroom scenes were too graphic to print. In one poll 60 per cent of Americans said that the book shouldn't be published. Sittenfeld refused to be deterred. The 33-year-old, who only half-jokingly compares ...
The Times - Oct 12, 2008
Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Explains How Intellectual Property Damages Innovation
Over the last year or so, there have been a bunch of excellent books that have come out highlighting many of the issues we talk about here on a regular basis. The latest may be The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind, written by Nobel Prize winning physicist, Robert B. Laughlin. I became aware of the book thanks to the fact that he'll be speaking at the Cato Institute this ...
Techdirt - Oct 9, 2008
Wells Fargo, Citigroup said to share Wachovia
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- As their two-day litigation timeout was drawing to an end, Wells Fargo & Co. and Citigroup Inc. might ultimately be forced to share Wachovia Corp., the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Wednesday. Among the possible scenarios reported, the San Francisco-based Wells Fargo could agree to take 75 percent to 80 percent of Wachovia's 488 billion U.S.
Xinhua News Agency - Oct 8, 2008
Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they would side with a longtime government worker who claims she was fired in retaliation after she cooperated with a sexual harassment investigation.CONTINUE
WASHINGTON Supreme Court justices indicated Wednesday they would side with a longtime government worker who claims she was fired in retaliation after she cooperated with a sexual harassment investigation.The court wrestled with whether the anti-retaliation provisions of a landmark civil rights law apply to people who havent themselves complained about workplace discrimination.
Maryland Daily Record - Oct 9, 2008
Supreme Court takes up timber dispute
WASHINGTON -- A well-seasoned Sequoia National Forest logging dispute comes to a boil today as the U.S. Supreme Court considers when activists can challenge the management of federal lands. In one of the year's most anticipated environmental cases, the court could either narrow or expand the public's power over the Forest Service. Everyone from homebuilders to California Attorney General Jerry ...
Fresno Bee - Oct 8, 2008
Georgia's dysfunctional death penalty
Troy Davis' execution was the fifth scheduled this year. Each raises hard questions about the death penalty. All photos provided by Georgia Department of Corrections DEATH CHAMBER: The lethal injection gurney at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Butts County, where the state executes convicted offenders Defense attorney Steve Bright, who arguably knows more about the death ...
Creative Loafing - Oct 8, 2008
Spotlight: Supreme Court 'Light' fight as judges gear up
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court picked up Monday where it left off last term, signaling support for efforts to block lawsuits against tobacco companies over deceptive marketing of 'light' cigarettes. Hundreds of appeal denials O'Connor visits: The first day of the court's new term, which is set in law as the first Monday in October, included denials of hundreds of appeals.
Commercial Appeal - Oct 8, 2008
Blame on every level for finance meltdown
Finally, some relief for the little guy. Under terms of a court settlement reached this week, as many as 400,000 homeowners in 11 states -- including 11,000 homeowners in Illinois -- can expect help soon to avoid foreclosure. Do the little guys deserve help? Not always. Many took out mortgages that they fully knew were risky, but they just had to have that house in the suburbs.
Chicago Sun-Times - Oct 8, 2008
China tries to halt lawsuits, anger in tainted milk scandal
BEIJING -- Lawyers advising the families of children sickened in China's tainted milk scandal said Tuesday they are facing growing official pressure to withdraw from the cases. A loose grouping of more than 100 lawyers across China has been offering free legal advice to the families of children who became ill after drinking milk laced with the industrial chemical melamine, said Chang Boyang, one ...
The Detroit Free Press - Oct 8, 2008
Next Up After Countrywide: Everyone Else (1579)
Monday that the settlement struck between 11 states and Countrywide Financial Corp. catapults his office forward in an effort to stop foreclosures for San Diego borrowers who were victims of predatory lending practices. Aguirre said he will announce by Friday a list of other subprime lenders he will be targeting with similar legal action, in line with his efforts to create a 'foreclosure ...
Voice of San Diego - Oct 8, 2008
Eli Lilly settles Zyprexa inquiries
INDIANAPOLIS -- Drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co. cleared another legal cloud hanging over its top-selling drug Zyprexa when it announced a $62 million settlement Tuesday, but several other storms are still brewing for the antipsychotic medication. Lilly agreed to pay 32 states and Washington, D.C., to resolve an investigation into the company's marketing practices.
Anchorage Daily News - Oct 8, 2008
Vince Warren Addresses the Need to Restore Constitutional Rights
Vince Warrren, Executive Director, Center Vince Warrren, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), will deliver the address "100 Days to Constitutional Restoration: What the Next President Must Do," on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at The Jonathan Club. Warren's "100 Days" talk is part of a larger CCR campaign designed to communicate the concerns of Americans through a series of ...
MarketWire - Oct 8, 2008
Frugality can look good on you, for less
This lousy economy has given rise to something called "the new frugality," a story on Tuesday's front page reported.
I don't know about you, but most of the folks I know might have something to say to this new class of bargain-conscious Americans, if they got a chance.
"Welcome to our world," perhaps. Or "Gee, where have you guys ...
After an often bitter debate, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed and sent to the White House a bill that would help immunize Sprint — and other phone companies — from lawsuits accusing them of illegally helping conduct terror surveillance after Sept. 11, 2001.
President Bush said he would sign the bill, which passed the House in ...