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"Supreme Court Hears Environmental, Employment Discrimination Cases"
"Supreme Court Hears Environmental, Employment Discrimination Cases": law.com's Tony Mauro has this report.

"Energy Contracts Spark High-Stakes Supreme Court Case; Justices to review multibillion-dollar energy contracts"
"Energy Contracts Spark High-Stakes Supreme Court Case; Justices to review multibillion-dollar energy contracts": Marcia Coyle has this article in the current issue of The National Law Journal.

Supreme Court hears arguments to allow some age discrimination in employment
  By LINDA GREENHOUSE N.Y. Times April 24, 2008   WASHINGTON ? It is not necessarily unlawful for an employer to adopt policies that put older workers at a disadvantage. Such policies pass muster under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act as long as they are based on ?reasonable factors other than age...

"Supreme Court Likely To Uphold Energy Crisis Power Contracts"
"Supreme Court Likely To Uphold Energy Crisis Power Contracts": Mark H. Anderson of Dow Jones Newswires provides this report. And The Associated Press reports that "Court Voices Support for Power Producers...

Age Discrimination Protection-the ADEA
Age discrimination is a hot topic these days, with several cases pending for decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protects employees age 40 and older from discrimination in employment based on age...

Not a "Pro-Business" Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is not, as the media claims, "pro-business" in discrimination cases, as I pointed out below. That's buttressed by today's decision against employers in Federal Express v...

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Legal Forms
Business and Commercial Legal Forms

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

Missouri Attorney General's Office
$26,000 settlement reached in disability discrimination lawsuit, pending court approval.

FRS Healthy Energy
alleging the quercetin benefits from FRS energy products are a scam.

Salmonella Found in Tomotoes
57 Reported Cases in New Mexico and Texas

ConAgra Peanut Butter
Hundreds of Salmonella Cases Settled

Auto Financing
Credit Acceptance Corp. agrees to $52.1 million class action settlement after overcharging consumers for fees and interest on automobile installment contracts.

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million