The head of Maine's Department of Health and Human Services told a group of lawmakers Tuesday that the LePage administration isn't trying to take the state's social safety net away from people who truly need it. But, Mary Mayhew said, the administration wants to make sure that Maine's welfare programs are providing temporary help for the people who are most in need. That's especially important, given the difficult budget, she said.
Arbitration clauses in contractual arrangements are fairly standard today. By agreeing to arbitrate, the parties to an arbitration agreement waive their rights to seek redress of their claims in a court in favor of an arbitration tribunal. While litigation is criticized as being expensive and time-consuming, costs associated with arbitration are far from inconsequential. If the parties have waived their right to go to court, even in situations in which fees and costs may be awarded to the prevailing party, and if arbitration costs are cost-prohibitive, could there be a defense to the arbitration contract on grounds of unconcionability? This paper explores situations in which such an argument could be successful, and suggests ways to apportion costs that would make arbitration clauses le...
WASHINGTON - Democrats have all but written off at least three Senate seats - in North Dakota, Indiana and Arkansas - and at least six House seats in Tennessee, Louisiana, New York and elsewhere as they embark on a final-weeks advertising push to minimize congressional election losses. Emboldened by their prospects, Republicans are throwing at least $3 million into West Virginia in hopes of winning a Senate seat that was long thought out of reach. With polls showing a close race, the GOP decided late last week to boost its initial investment in the state - the party's latest move to expand a playing field already heavily tilting its way.
GILBERT, Ariz. - Before she lets them shoot her little pink stun gun, Dana Shafman ushers her new friends to the living room sofa for a serious chat about the fears she believes they all share. The worst nightmare for me is, while I'm sleeping, someone coming in my home," Shafman says, drawing a few solemn nods from the gathered women. Shafman, 34, of Phoenix, says she knows how they feel. She says she used to stash knives under her pillow for protection.
Unable to get Hollywood studio backing for their new documentary, "Not Evil Just Wrong" - an answer to Al Gore's climate-change lecture "An Inconvenient Truth" - husband-and-wife filmmakers Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney have taken matters into their own hands. Hoping to tap the surge of populist anger and activism on the right, they are bypassing traditional distribution avenues and bringing their film directly to motivated audiences through "cinematic tea parties," their term for the patchwork of grass- roots screenings in living rooms, campus auditoriums and rented theaters across the country that they have scheduled for Oct. 18.
Legal doctrines vary in the extent to which they apply either detailed, categorical rules or broad, open-ended standards that allow for case-specific adjudication. Antitrust law is generally thought of as inhabiting the standards end of this spectrum. In fact, however, despite the generality of the enabling statutes antitrust law is rife with categorical distinctions. In this Article, we explore not only the well-known distinction between conduct that is per se illegal and conduct judged under the rule of reason, but also a number of categorical distinctions the courts draw, either to help delineate the scope of the per se rule or to create distinctions within the scope of the rule of reason itself. By and large these rules don't come from the antitrust statutes. They are created by co...
...Parties go to great lengths to fit into a box that will gi...
KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai acknowledged Saturday that the U.S. and Afghan governments have held talks with Taliban emissaries in a bid to end the nation's nearly 10-year war, even as suicide attackers launched a bold assault in the heart of the county's capital, killing nine people. The attack, which occurred just blocks from Karzai's office, shows the parties have a long way to go to reach a political settlement as the Obama administration weighs a major withdrawal of its forces. The White House neither directly confirmed or denied Karzai's statement.
KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai acknowledged Saturday that the U.S. and Afghan governments have held talks with Taliban emissaries in a bid to end the nation's nearly 10-year war, even as suicide attackers launched a bold assault in the heart of the county's capital, killing nine people. The attack, which occurred just blocks from Karzai's office, shows the parties have a long way to go to reach a political settlement as the Obama administration weighs a major withdrawal of its forces. The White House neither directly confirmed or denied Karzai's statement.
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