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The devastation resulting from Hurricane Katrina did not occur because laws were inadequate, found a report released Thursday by the American Bar Association. Rather, the responsibility lies with the failure of various entities to ensure communication and coordination, delay from ...

Need information about the use of eminent domain in the United States – or advice on how to fight its abuse? The Institute of Justice has just the Web site for you. The site comes compliments of the Castle Coalition, ...

A Kansas City group committed to protecting property owners from eminent domain has submitted a ballot initiative to prevent government takings. Missourians in Charge, a group founded in response to the U.S Supreme Court’s June 2005 ruling in Kelo v. ...

President Bush’s proposed 2007 Occupational Safety and Health Administration budget has the same goals as last year’s: eliminate a training grant program, maintain enforcement and increase outreach. “I’m especially pleased to point out that the president’s request allows OSHA to ...

Some real estate professionals have been raising eyebrows over recent federal decisions permitting banks to develop major real estate projects. Bank of America last year requested approval from the federal government to build a 150-room, 15-story Ritz-Carlton hotel at its ...

A mother and her child do not have to hand over their DNA to buttress the state’s criminal nonsupport charges against the legally declared father, the Missouri Supreme Court said last week. The court’s decision in State ex rel. Michael ...

Police were immune from suit for a parole search of an apartment where they had an objectively reasonable, albeit mistaken, belief that the parolee still resided at that address, the en banc 9th Circuit has ruled. The state paroled a ...

A wife was entitled to survivor benefits under her husband’s pension plans even though he had assigned them to his children from a former marriage under the terms of a divorce agreement, the 9th Circuit has ruled. The husband died ...

Just about anything can be outsourced. Human resource functions, computer services, accounting, sales, even your entire staff. But why hand it off to someone else? According to a survey by the Outsourcing Institute, the top five reasons that companies outsource ...

If a buck really counts for something, we have almost 14 billion chances in which to get it right on Valentine’s Day. In the 1800s, when Miss Esther Howland sent out the first recorded Valentine’s Day cards, she probably had ...

As the U.S. Senate takes up debate on a proposed asbestos relief fund, it may want to consider numbers reported by the American Academy of Actuaries in a study released last Friday. Since 1976, asbestos litigation has driven 78 companies, ...