Legal News

GAO Report recommends stronger oversight of PBGC
Summary of the report: The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) insures the retirement future of over 44 million people...

THE ?AVIATION? MODEL IN HEALTHCARE AND AIR FRANCE FLIGHT 447
In the 1980s the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (?CAST?) determined that eighty five percent of aviation accidents and fifty two percent of all fatal aviation accidents were the result of cognitive error by pilots...

GAO report highlights need for PBGC reforms
Summary: Corporation (PBGC) insures the retirement future of nearly 44 million people in over 29,000 private-sector defined benefit pension plans...

USAPA Sues PBGC for Breach of Fiduciary Duty Under ERISA
Global Pensions is reporting this morning: The US Airline Pilots Association (USAPA) has filed a lawsuit against the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) seeking the removal of the PBGC as trustee of US Airways pilots? pension plan...

FAA Orders Safety Review for All Airlines
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered federal aviation inspectors to ensure that all commercial airlines operating in the U...

Conversations with Aviation Leaders
With the U.S. Congress and governments worldwide fixed in a reregulatory mindset with respect to civil aviation, readers of the blog may be interested in viewing online the first two installments of the International Aviation Law Institute's Conversations with Aviation...

Rightwing Extremism
Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment

Federal Adoption Tax Credit
Financial Incentive for Adoptive Parents

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

F-1 Visas
Visas for Foreign Students

Is a child fathered out of wedlock by an American diplomat to a foreign women on foreign soil entitled to US Citizenship by jus sanguinis?
This is a very tough situation your friend is in. It is difficult to know the ex...

Can collection agency call me for my mother debt that she never had?
Get an Attorney - quickly. Do not talk to the collection people. Do not tell the...

I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...

How can i sue for a straw purchase?
Anyone can co-sign. A straw purchase would be if you has someone buy the car for...

How to prove housing discrimination based on sexual orientation in student housing?
There are several things you can do. First of all, contact any welfare advisors,...

Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and Social Security Administration
allegedly denied social security insurance to disabled and elderly immigrants.

Patni Computer Systems Ltd.
H-1B visa holders to get $2.4 million settlement from federal wage rate violation suit.

Frank Bluestein, The Maximum Financial Group, Inc., Questar Capital Corporation, and Gunnallen Financial, Inc.
alleging schemed investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Student Loan Xpress Settles Class Action with Students
Student Loan Xpress Settles Class Action with Students

Garden Benches
Recalled Following Reports of Injury

Healon D
Reports of Postoperative Eye Problems Prompts FDA Recall