A federal judge has blocked the new federal rules requiring unions to report on the use of members' dues, says the AP. Judge Gladys Kessler says the Labor Department "has simply failed to offer any reasonable justification for requiring such ...
We've got a new edition of our Legal Briefs newsletter posted today. Feature article is on lawsuits against makers of drugs designed to fight the effects of schizophrenia. As usual, we include a brief story about a silly lawsuit ...
I read this report from the Media Research Center to see if my personal pet peeve about the New York Times -- some particulars about its environmental coverage -- made the list. It didn't, but I see from the list ...
Writing in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Professor Ralph Reiland of Robert Morris University tells the story of an Illinois high school pitcher, Danny Hannant, who was hit in the head by a line drive. Rather than blame himself for failing to ...
The FDA may have severely undermined a group of personal injury attorneys looking to sue the makers of a new class of wonder drugs for schizophrenia. It turns out that the nation's premier drug regulatory agency recently agreed with the ...
BACKGROUND: The Washington Post on January 1 ran a page one article questioning the usefulness of the Bush Administration's reliance on voluntary programs to reduce emissions of so-called "greenhouse gases." The article, which ran in other newspapers nationwide, begins: "Two ...
At an Earth Day observance in 2003, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) pledged to make "environmental justice" a top priority of his administration should he be elected president in the (then-upcoming) 2004 presidential election (a similar assertion can be found here) ...
Everyone benefits from a cleaner environment, but not everyone is forced to shoulder the same economic and regulatory burden to meet the government's standards for a clean environment. African-Americans and the poor are often forced to take on an unfair ...
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