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Return of comparable worth?
Sen. Specter's party switch might make it more likely that Congress will enact one of the truly bad ideas of our time, according to Manhattan Institute fellow Diana Furchtgott-Roth...

Comparable worth, under any other name, still invites lawsuits
Heard at the House Education and Labor mark-up of H.R. 1338, the Paycheck Fairness Act. "This should be re-named the Trial Lawyer Paycheck Expansion Act" -- Rep...

Was Heller comparable to Roe v. Wade?
 So argued the eminent Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, III, in Of Guns, Abortions, and the Unraveling Rule of Law, recently published in the Virginia Law Review...

CA1: Circuit split on comparable grounds
Gonzalez-Mesias v. Mukasey, No. 07-2346. This is an immigration case on a fairly narrow question of law. This issue comes down to whether sodomy in Virginia, under Va...

Weighing Comparable Sales-Adjustments Matter
When a property owner and municipality each have their own expert appraiser, the New Jersey Tax Court has the daunting task of determining (1) whether the property owner has overcome the presumption of correctness, and (2) assuming the presumption is overcome, which appraiser is the more credible expert...

Archbishop of Canterbury: Same-sex relationships ?comparable to marriage?
"I concluded that an active sexual relationship between two people of the same sex might therefore reflect the love of God in a way comparable to marriage, if and only if it had about it the same character of absolute covenanted faithfulness," Dr...

How can I get my parents away from my bulling brother?
First of all, if you are paying your lawyer, you should not be on the back burne...

I feel everyone should be treated equal in this world, but in a lot of cases that doesn't happen. I live in a white community with only 2 to 3 African American families. I belong to one of them. A week after getting into
I would call the courthouse and ask for the judges assistant, and ask them why t...

I had an account with GEMB/Select Comfort to buy a new bed back in 2005. After paying it off (in 2006), I requested they close the account. In January of 2008, I declared bankruptcy (chapter 7). The creditor was NOT list
if you did pay it off before the bankruptcy and it wasn't listed as a accou...

I want to know if its legal for a healthcare provider to tell you something is going to be covered and when it isn't charge you; after you specifically said you couldn't afford it?
I'm not going to sugar coat anything. It's a sad world we live in toda...

How to make a landlord honor an option to buy provision in the lease (OH)?
Most leases are written as a one year agreement, if neither party elects to form...