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Employment law: the Conservatives are only Right-wing when no one wants them to be – Daily Telegraph Blogs
Am I only the person who gets a vague but uncomfortable sense that we’re descending into a Paul Verhoeven-style dystopia when reading about the Government’s confidential employment law report in today’s Telegraph: It says that British …
California Property Investors to Plead Guilty to Bid-Rigging – Bloomberg
The investors face sentences of as long as 10 years in prison for violating U.S. antitrust law and as long as 30 years for conspiring to commit mail fraud, the Justice Department said. Charges were filed today in federal court … Continue reading
Law Offices of Howard G. Smith Announces Investigation of Avon Products Inc. – Yahoo Finance
BENSALEM, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Law Offices of Howard G. Smith announces that it is investigating potential claims against Avon Products Inc. (“Avon” or the “Company”) (NYSE:AVP – News) concerning possible breaches of fiduciary duties by the …
Transitions Lens Users’ Antitrust Claims Tossed – site.law360.com
Law360, New York (October 27, 2011, 3:51 PM ET) — A Florida federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a class of indirect purchasers’ suit against lens maker Transitions Optical Inc., saying the end users of the corrective lenses needed to make … Continue reading
Pitfalls facing an anti-politician – The Daily Advertiser
How has this former pizza company executive with no prior political experience … To a nation disgusted with Congress’ inability to reform the federal tax laws, he had offered his “9-9-9″ tax plan, which would replace the current federal …
Obama announces new student-loan relief initiative – Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
His remarks at the University of Colorado’s Denver campus showcased his political message that only through shared … two years before the cap was due to take effect under federal law. The plan, which Obama will authorize through executive …
Package dealing: FTC zeroes in on Android phone pre-loads – New York Post
Federal antitrust investigators, nearly four months into a wide-ranging … Geoffrey Manne, executive director at the Google-funded International Center for Law & Economics, said the FTC “would need to show customer harm” in favoring a site like …
GOP Seeks Waiver of Environmental Laws at Border – FOX News
WASHINGTON – Federal agents trying to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border say they’re hampered by laws that keep them from driving vehicles on huge swaths of land because it falls under U.S. environmental protection, leaving it to wildlife — and …
Insurance Reform Needed to Lower Doctors’ Medical Malpractice Rates, California Consumer Watchdog Testifies in New York – YAHOO!
NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The author of California’s insurance regulatory reform law testified in New York City today that insurance rate regulation is key to preventing medical malpractice insurance companies from price gouging …
Education Q&A: Law and accounting – Gulf News
They can specialise in public law, civil litigation, corporate or commercial, criminal, entertainment, environment, family, intellectual property and tax law, among others. New options keep opening up such as space law, sports law and so on. A few other …
