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The Arizona Center for Disability Law has recently filed a lawsuit against the state’s Department of Economic Security from cutting the budget in such a way that would negatively influence money that benefits disabled infants and children.  The cuts are being proposed to address...

Antwon Tanner, an actor from a popular Volkwagon commercial who also plays the character “Skills” on the CW program “One Tree Hill” was recently arrested for charges of selling Social Security numbers and cards. He pleaded...

Women in Kabul who recently protested the changes to Afghan law regarding women’s rights were spat upon and pelted by stones. The women argue that the new “Shia Family Law” is in direct violation of article 22 of the Afghan constitution...

Alaska employers in the resource extraction industries (oil, mining, timber and fishing) must provide housing at remote sites for their workers.   Too often employers turn a blind eye toward unsafe crew quarters provided by the employer...

Tuesday April 7, 2009

For the second time in 17 years, the Navajo Nation’s request for a price increase on their coal supply was denied by the Supreme Court. In 1992, the Navajo’s filed suit to bump the price of coal that the Peabody Coal Co. paid per ton, which was set at about 37.5 cents. The coal comes from a mine located on the Navajo reservation in the southwestern United States.

Wednesday April 8, 2009

In a historic move yesterday, the Vermont Senate overruled a decision made by the state’s governor in regards to legalizing gay marriage. Vermont will now be the fourth state in the United States to allow same sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples. This decision came only a week after Iowa’s move to embrace same sex marriages.

Friday April 10, 2009

Several years ago, it was predicted that fiscal year 2017 would see the drop off of social security, as it began to drag down federal finances. However, recent reports from the White House and the Congressional Budget Office show that social security benefits will actually exceed incoming payroll taxes by about $7 billion. This is the first time that such an occurrence has happened since 1984.

Friday April 10, 2009

A recent audit, released by the city of San Jose, California, shows that its rate of disability claims was the highest in the state and one of the highest in the country. It was found that the majority of the claims for disability or workers compensation came from police officers and fire fighters.

In the recent suit regarding Staples, for example, a New Jersey jury ordered the payment of $2.5 million to Staples' employees, who claimed their title of "manager"...

The reasons behind the downtrend in illegal immigration, it appears, may be directly linked to the downtrend economy.  Pundits all have their own opinions, including the beefed up security placed at the border during the Bush and early Obama...

The number of Yamaha Rhinos recalled because of safety issues has climbed to one hundred forty five thousand . Just hours after advising owners of Yamaha Rhino of rollover dangers with Rhino model numbers 450 and 660, Yamaha Motor...

In a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, the Wyeth v. Levine case establishes that pharmaceutical corporations can and will be held responsible for their actions.  In essence, the Supreme Court ruled drug approval by federal regulators, such as the FDA and others, does not shield pharmaceutical...

In a move that some are calling superfluous, Nebraska has created a group of laws that will keep illegal immigrants from receiving any public benefits. A federal law actually protects most state benefits, so that they are not handed out to non-American citizens.

Recently, contentious debate rages throughout the National Review website, which is the soul for Conservative and Republican thought.  Party to the debate are the inward thinking, anti-immigration members lead by Rep. Lamar Smith and Mark Krikorian against pro-immigrationist, forward thinking Richard Nadler.

Today, the state of Iowa became the third in the Union, after Connecticut and Massachusetts to allow gay marriage. The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that limiting the definition of marriage to that between a man and a woman is distinctly unconstitutional. According to a Reuter’s report, the court compared the struggle for marriage rights among same-sex couples...

When a Michigan couple was arrested on their way to their friend’s funeral because of an anti-war sign posted in their vehicle’s window, they approached the ACLU. Their friend had been killed during battle in Iraq, and the couple was well known for posting signs that admonished the Bush Administration and the War in Iraq. They pair was arrested for violating Michigan’s law against protesting at a funeral.

One of the biggest global financial frauds uncovered in history is now calling the G-20 Nations to put together an International Financial Court to deal with large scale financial legal cases. Bernard Madoff has been convicted and pleaded guilty of 11 felony charges which include: securities fraud, investment adviser fraud...

Securities fraud attorney Mark A. Tepper recently filed claims against Merrill Lynch, on behalf of an eighty-three year old investor, alleging assuring the woman there was no risk associated with what was an unsuitable, high risk...

President Barack Obama’s aunt is currently in a legal battle to retain her right to remain in the United States.  In actuality, Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango was ordered to leave the country more than four years ago...

Today, President Obama signed a new bill into law that will protect some of this country’s most precious nature preserves. It was actually a collection of over 170 different bills and proposals, which will provide conservation efforts for more than two million acres of wilderness, and will create a new national system to oversee these efforts.