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Rule change will take toll on witnesses
Yet, the hook turn has considerable merit. With vehicles moving to the left, CBD traffic flows in an orderly manner through busy intersections. Simple really. THE government is to overturn the 800-year-old-laws of double jeopardy.
Updated: 06/03/2011 12:00P
Georgia panel to study health care exchange
Georgia has joined 25 other states in a lawsuit declaring the law's individual mandate to have insurance — a key component of the legislation — unconstitutional. Deal says he wants Georgia to have time to thoroughly study the issue as the judicial
Updated: 06/03/2011 12:00P
Whitewashing the Auto Bailouts
Despite much smaller claims from the administration, that figure will be about $5.5 billion in Chrysler's case (the administration is overlooking $4 billion written off when New Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy), and somewhere from $7-$15 billion in
Updated: 06/03/2011 11:59A
SEC Enforcers Said to Weigh Release of Report on Lehman Abuses
SEC enforcement lawyers, who have struggled for more than two years to find definitive evidence that the company and its leaders violated securities laws, are concerned that a legal attack on Lehman's accounting practices would likely fail,
Updated: 06/03/2011 11:59A
Longview Mayor Anagnostou won't seek fourth term on council
Last August, he voted with the majority of the council in approving a one-year contract with a traffic-enforcement camera company. Thursday, Anagnostou said the recent hubbub over a citizens' initiative aiming to ban the cameras had nothing to do with
Updated: 06/03/2011 11:59A
Texas governor hails frivolous lawsuit law as employer-friendly
The measure—HB 274—also allows a trial court to dismiss a lawsuit immediately if the case is not based in law or fact. In addition, it allows plaintiffs seeking less than $100000 to seek a expedited civil action. The new law “provides defendants and
Updated: 06/03/2011 11:59A
Texas governor hails frivolous lawsuit law as employer-friendly
The measure—HB 274—also allows a trial court to dismiss a lawsuit immediately if the case is not based in law or fact. In addition, it allows plaintiffs seeking less than $100000 to seek a expedited civil action. The new law “provides defendants and
Updated: 06/03/2011 11:59A
Opportunity comes from adversity
This week I thought I'd share with you the following three emails that were waiting for me when I returned home from overseas. Each of them tells a story about our economy today. "I am forty years old, married, with two kids. "My life changed forever
Updated: 06/03/2011 11:59A
Daily Mail's false details may have bolstered public interest claim, says High
Mr Justice Tugendhat said that claims, identified in Court as false, that the woman had been promoted by former RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin "would tend to mislead the reader into believing that it would be in the public interest for the identity of the
Updated: 06/03/2011 11:58A
Edwards charged in affair cover up
Edwards, 58, was due to appear in a federal court in his home state of North Carolina to hear the charges levied against him, the US Justice Department said. They include conspiracy to violate the campaign finance laws and making false statements,
Updated: 06/03/2011 11:57A
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