Frezza WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act have been expanded to include not only what actual bribes are known to be paid but what bribes a business owner or executive "should have known" were being made.
Cordray WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The Competitive Enterprise Institute is challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
Obama WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A statistic that is at the core of the Democratic Party's argument to pass a piece of legislation that opponents say is election-year pandering could backfire on it.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) -- The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled against the National Labor Relations Board in a case regarding Starbucks employees wearing pro-union buttons.
Zoeller HAMMOND, Ind. (Legal Newsline) - The International Union of Operating Engineers on April 18 amended the complaint of a previously filed lawsuit that asks a court to invalidate Indiana's newly enacted right-to-work law.
McGraw CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - Attorneys previously given state contracts by West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw have so far contributed $36,000 to his re-election campaign.
Walker MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has rejected the attempt by labor unions to declare Wisconsin's law limiting the collective bargaining privileges of some government employees as unconstitutional.
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge on Thursday issued a temporary injunction ordering the owners of a Brooklyn apartment complex to end a months-long lockout of more than 70 unionized porters and maintenance workers and resume bargaining "immediately."
WATERBURY, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - A coalition representing consumers, filed a lawsuit March 22 in Connecticut Superior Court to oppose Gov. Dannel Malloy's executive order that turned some health care workers into state employees.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says requested increases in health insurance premiums from two companies for their customers in the states of Arizona, Idaho, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming were "unreasonable."
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- The United States Supreme Court unanimously has ruled that "compliance orders" of the Environmental Protection Agency can be reviewed by the courts.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- The National Labor Relations Board is implementing a controversial new rule April 30 to reduce "unnecessary litigation and "streamline" the election process.
Heitkamp BISMARCK, N.D. (Legal Newsline) - A group being funded by trial lawyer heavyweights is working with Heidi Heitkamp, a former North Dakota attorney general, on her U.S. Senate campaign.
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A self-described "alcohol industry watchdog" has come out against a settlement agreement the Federal Trade Commission reached last month with the marketers of Four Loko.
Obama WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- The White House's proposed "Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee" would collect taxes from financial institutions "to pay the tab of irresponsible firms, namely the auto companies, that still owe the government billions," according to a Thursday blog entry by John Berlau on the Competitive Enterprise Institute website.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) recently implemented a labor policy "scorecard" for the 112th Congress on its labor website, WorkplaceChoice.org, earlier this year. CEI experts update the scorecard after each congressional vote on a workers' rights issue.
Chin NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has rejected a proposed class action settlement, saying it would allow Google to "exploit entire books without permission of the copyright owners."
Caldwell WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Supreme Court won't hear the appeal of a group that claims the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement created a marketplace unfairly hostile to smaller cigarette manufacturers.