That’s not going to work,” said Charles Ewing, a psychologist and law professor at the University at Buffalo Law School.Prosecutors in the case in the small community of St Johns say in court documents that the juvenile system is ill-equipped to handle the boy. It’s not their desire, they say, to “persecute” a child who [...]

The law school, under the direction of Dean Blake Morant, is expanding clinical opportunities, and exploring externships and other methods of integrating the classroom with the realities of legal practice. �Our current students, our alumni, and even some prospective students are very excited about this new clinic,� Wright said.
The new clinic and the student organization [...]

Legislatively, rebuilding labor will require at long last the repeal of the most repressive anti-labor law ever to visit the halls of congress: The Taft-Hartley Labor Act of 1945. An amendment to the National Labor Relations Act, it extended the concept of “unfair labor practices” to labor itself. It prohibited wildcat, jurisdictional, political and solidarity [...]

That same survey also found that almost eight in 10 Americans support stronger laws to give employers more incentive to obey labor laws. Seven in 10 workers favor passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, which would impose stiffer penalties on anti-union employers, reduce federal red tape, and give workers a greater choice about unionization [...]

Federal labor laws require 60 days� notice in case of plant closings and large layoffs. Republic owners said it needed to shut down the factory because their main credit lender Bank of America had cut off it�s expected financing. Bank of America recently received a $25 billion bailout package from the federal government but decided [...]

The settlement was reached after Dakota County Judge Robert King Jr. ruled this summer that Wal-Mart had broken the state’s wage-and-hour labor laws over 2 million times, requiring the discount retailer to pay compensation to about 100,000 current and former employees who worked at any Wal-Mart or Sam’s Club store in Minnesota.

Employees [...]

Dealers, meanwhile, would lose the protection state franchise laws leaving the automakers free to rationalize their sales channels.

The attorneys also argued that a prepackage could protect consumers. Though many worry consumers, who often count buying a car as their second-biggest financial decision after buying a house, will avoid bankrupt automakers, Charles and [...]

“Unlike terrorist groups of the past, [al-Qaeda] operated not as a single, secretive organization but more like a global franchise,” Ms. Applebaum writes in Slate. “Organizations and individuals with various agendas could go to al-Qaeda for weapons and training. Afterward, they could, in effect, set up their own local branches, whose goals and methods might [...]

San Leanna’s quarter-of-a-million-dollar budget comes from water sales, property taxes, franchise fees and interest from savings.

Unlike Sunset Valley, San Leanna does collect property tax. Property tax in San Leanna is the highest amount allowable under state law for a village at $0.25 per $100 property valuation. At that rate, homeowners in the [...]

Our programs leverage our expertise in technologies, and reflect our core business. Our aim is to go beyond donations or one-time events, and foster a culture of employee volunteering and thereby to improve education opportunities, and strengthen the talent pipeline in India,” said Michael Kuehner, Head, Nokia Siemens Networks, sub-region India. Bridge the Gap The [...]