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Clear and Present Danger: U.S. Supreme Court Greenlights the Chrysler-Fiat Deal
Buckle your seatbelts, 40 million Chrysler/GM owners?and better hope they work. Late yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted its temporary stay of bankrupt Chrysler?s sale to Fiat ?placing millions of Americans at risk in the process...

Avandia – A Real and Present Danger
Reno, NV: A year after starting Avandia Bill suffered a heart attack. It was life-threatening, and happened without any major warning signs...

Editors: A Clear Danger to Free Speech
Let's treat political speech at least as well as we treat porn

Chain saws present another post-nor'easter danger
With the skies clear after last week's nor'easter, attention is turning to cleanup – especially the hundreds of trees and thousands of large limbs that were felled throughout Hampton Roads...

From Stranger Danger to Infra-Danger: the Green Collar Path
For a while now I've been pumping the theme that American society will only overcome mass incarceration and its attendant pathologies by shifting the attention and concern of Americans from "stranger danger" (the risk that someone out there is waiting with a gun to hurt you or your family) to "infra-danger" (the risk that technical systems on which you and your family depend for survival, might fail when tested by a natural disaster, like a major hurricane or earthquake striking a major city)...

A nice welcome home present (or early birthday present)
We (Stanford's Fair Use Project) got word of another great success today. We're representing the filmmakers of Ben Stein's Expelled...

Can a former employee use photographs of jobs completed whie working for me in marketing material for a new business?
There are several issues here

1. Sub contractor started up a compe...

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...

Can I be held responsible for paying child support if I signed a birth certificate of a child that was not mine (am not the biological father)?
Get yourself some legal counsil straigth away. Explain you situation to him/her ...

What can I say without libeling?
You moral nazi. Are you kidding me? It is her personal choice, leave her alone. ...

Could I sue Best Buy for illegally detaining me?
You should have called the police , He didn't detain you you stayed on your...