As McKeesport council encouraged the signing of a voluntary compliance agreement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, city administrator Dennis Pittman believes requiring such action was nothing short of "blackmail. While no official motion was cast during Wednesday night's meeting, council president Michael Cherepko advised McKeesport's development department to provide the necessary signatures to get the ball rolling or the cash flowing in McKeesport.
Courts and commentators have long been concerned with holdout problems in the law. This article focuses on a holdout problem in class action litigation known as objector "blackmail." Objector blackmail occurs when individual class members delay the final resolution of class action settlements by filing meritless appeals in the hope of inducing class counsel to pay them a side settlement to drop their appeals. This article both brings to light quick-pay provisions and evaluates whether they are a better solution to the blackmail problem than those proposed by courts and commentators. Although quick-pay provisions can mitigate much of the blackmail threat without the collateral damage caused by other proposed solutions, the provisions have several serious limitations. Instead, the author ...
[Craig LaBan]!" [Brian P. Tierney] didn't offer a band-fine by me. He was carrying a manila envelope. I didn't linger on it. I knew I'd become acquainted with what was in it soon enough. "How are you?" he asked, not waiting for an answer. "We have a situation. By Tuesday afternoon, I was the talk of the town. The weeklies howled. The Inquirer stayed silent, praying for the chatter to burn off. But that only made the heat from the alts and the food sites grow hotter. "LABAN: OLIVE GARDEN 'MAGNIFICENT" jeered one headline. "LABAN'S COVER BLOWN," laughed another. "HES' A FRAUDULENCE," read a blog post. "Not a half-bad idea, [Ricky]," I said, reaching back for [Gralish]'s phone. "But I'm thinking you should tell him. Maybe even recommend that he give me my old job back." I held out the re...
By Tully Corcoran and James Carlson THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
SALT LAKE CITY -- Kevin Garn's son is offering an alternate explanation to why Cheryl Maher went public about her nude hot- tubbing with him as a 15-year-old: unpaid blackmail demands. Garn's son, Jake, on Monday sent the Deseret News a copy of a Facebook message that Maher had sent to him just before Christmas 2008. In the message, she asked for his help to get money from his father, "so things do not get ugly.
Canadian logging giant Irving Woodlands LLC is seeking to "blackmail" the Maine Legislature and avoid collective bargaining with independent logging contractors by halting work Monday on the more than 1 million acres it owns in northern Maine, two state lawmakers charge. The J.D. Irving Ltd. subsidiary argued Friday that it is the only landowner affected by a 2004 state law allowing forest workers to bargain. Saying the law destroys their competitiveness in Maine, Irving officials laid off 80 workers on Monday and said as many as 300 more will go if the law is not repealed.
The legal ban on blackmail illustrates the complex interaction between legal rules and norms. The choice is not one between laws and norms but between different combinations of laws and norms. A rational choice analysis suggests that the legal rule against blackmail functions efficiently in conjunction with norms of privacy, whereas legalization of blackmail would be less effective in conjunction with norms of disclosure. The legal prohibition of blackmail promotes gossip concerning violation of norms, whereas such gossip would be reduced by the legalization of blackmail.
A Kansas woman testified that the only reason she agreed to have sex with her ex-husband was to prevent his disclosure of an embarrassing extramarital affair. Did the ex-husband commit rape? Some states have amended rape statutes to encompass sex by extortion. Kansas is not one of those states. So the question boiled down to whether prosecutors could show that the ex-husband overcame his victim by "force or fear.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. court, alleging a fake press release defamed it and saying an imposter claiming to work for the research firm had tried to blackmail a company for $2 million to withhold a damning report. Hong Kong-based Muddy Waters and its director of researchhave shot to prominence in recent weeks after issuing research reports alleging accounting irregularities against over half a dozen Chinese companies listed in North America, driving down their stock prices.
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