... issues that will face the next president (subscription required). Its budget cut time. Kansas. Alabama. Indiana. California. Rhode Island. Everywhere. In response states are turning to gambling. In light of tight budgets in Hawaii, they are proposing closing schools for ... Universities are not safe from record industry lawsuits. The New Jersey cap lawsuit keeps churning. Around the Ed. Law Blogosphere: Mark Walsh has the Supreme Court's broadcast indecency case. Reverse Due Process ... it happens ...
November 7, 2008 09:08 pm
... , New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia States with time off to vote laws and applicable guidelines: Alaska: Employees ... to 1 year; corporations also face forfeit of charter and right to do business in state Georgia: Employees affected: Any voter Time allowed: Up to 2 ... cast Massachusetts: Employees affected: Any voter employed in mechanical, manufacturing or mercantile businesses Time allowed: No work during first 2 hours polls are open ...
October 24, 2008 12:36 am

Good Divorce Lawyers find the Devil in the Details!

(Rhode Island Divorce Lawyer Tips for You)
... child support, medical coverage, etc.. Though my experience with law has been limited to Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire, one consistent ... divorce lawyer. A good divorce lawyer goes well beyond simply knowing the laws of the jurisdiction regarding divorce and domestic relations. Good divorce lawyers have ... ordering that the proceeds be held by the court pending the divorce proceedings? If Tom's business of "house flipping" voids the sales if any third party makes a claim to ...
October 22, 2008 12:02 am

Rhode Island Lemon Law: What You Need to Know

(Rhode Island Divorce Lawyer Tips for You)
... Lemon Law covers new and used passenger vehicles, SUVs, vans, trucks, and motorcycles that are sold or leased in Rhode Island. It also covers business vehicles ... though, that manufacturers have teams of lawyers that do nothing but fight lemon law claims, and that you'll only be on equal footing if you have ... court claim is successful, the manufacturer has to pay your attorney fees. However, the law doesn't provide for attorneys' fees for arbitration. That being said, with the help of a lawyer, you ...
October 19, 2008 09:04 pm

Certiorari Granted in Auto Body Labor Prevailing Rate Litigation

(InsureReinsure.Com: The Insurance " Reinsurance Blog)
... with respect to auto body repair labor rates, the Rhode Island Supreme Court granted petitions for a writ of certiorari filed by the Property Casualty Insurers' Association of America ("PCI") and the Department of Business Regulation ("DBR") on October 9, 2008. ... of whether it has actually issued any private passenger liability insurance policies in the state. Because Rhode Island law does not provide an appeal as of right from a superior court decision reviewing an agency determination, PCI and ...
October 17, 2008 09:06 am
... -writers-editors are the best. Nolo.com covers everything from starting a business, employment, real estate, intellectual property, immigration, family law, tax, estate planning, bankruptcy, credit law ... the latest issues, as well as legislation on bankruptcy and foreclosure. He also blogs on The Law Reform Soapbox. Nolo.com also has put together the Property & Money ... Dakota 254 Ohio 255 Oklahoma 256 Oregon 257 Pennsylvania 258 Rhode Island 259 South Carolina 260 South Dakota 261 Tennessee 262 ...
October 13, 2008 02:24 am

Nation's First Mandatory Carbon Emissions Auction Happens

(Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Blog)
... allowances," each good for a ton of emissions. The initial allowances were issued by Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont. The other states in the initiative include New York, where the ceremonial opening of the auction took ... bid, raising questions about whether the costs of the permits would be enough to prompt power companies to look for alternatives to business-as-usual operations. Organizers of the auction had set a floor price of $1.86 a ton and articles in ...
September 25, 2008 11:08 pm
... K as a boon to prostitutes' and the public's safety. The mayor, the D.A. and the business community oppose it. ....Proposition K would ban San Francisco police from using any ... health of sex workers and their clients. "It's a morally based, antiquated law," she said. "Decriminalize prostitution and you bring it out of the underground and ... like everyone else." 11 Nevada counties and the state of Rhode Island have similar laws. As for those who argue it would increase STD's, the evidence elsewhere ...
September 15, 2008 02:28 pm
... her ex-husband with whom I knew from case research had continual contact and business dealings with Mrs. Sullivan. My client was certain the ex-husband lied and ... if they are viewed using their plain language is done under Rhode Island law in both contractual interpretation and statutory interpretation there is no doubt ... legal conclusion that I had no recourse for the destruction of my reputation and my law practice. No right of appeal. No right to examine the "investigation materials or report". ...
September 11, 2008 02:21 am
... too caught up in other things. Some of them will get on law review, and will be too busy to work for you; some of those that don't will work downtown ... undertaking a radical transformation in the faculty, and perhaps the style, of University of Miami School of Law. We have at least six open jobs at present, with the likelihood of much more ... tornadoes, floods, or mudslides. If you want immunity to natural disasters, move to Rhode Island. 2. Language Many people in South Florida speak Spanish as their ...
September 9, 2008 05:00 am
... about the marketing benefits of large law firms blogging. The Wall Street Journal reports today, in Design for Learning: RISD Gets a New Type of President, that the new president of the Rhode Island School of Design "spends at least ... a university story won't carry weight with lawyers. Then I realized that universities are more like law organizations than are most businesses. Universities are loose organizations with a bunch of independent-minded faculty and students who resist central control. ...
September 2, 2008 12:38 pm

Xcel Energy Reaches Climate Risk Disclosure Pact With New YorkSubmitted by: Ted Allen, Publications

(Institutional Shareholder Services -- Corporate Governance Blog)
... ; and the physical impacts of climate change. Ceres--joined by Cuomo and state officials from California, Maryland, Florida, Rhode Island, and five other states, as well as the California Public Employees' Retirement System--have petitioned the Securities and ... utility firms were issued under the Martin Act, a 1921 New York state law that grants the attorney general "broad powers to access the financial records of businesses," Cuomo said. At that time, Peabody Energy denounced Cuomo's probe as ...
August 29, 2008 03:28 pm

Fire Safety at Warehouse Shouldn’t Be Taken Lightly

(South Florida Injury Attorney Blog)
... office in Pembroke Pines. The article says the warehouse has housed 300 small businesses in former storage units for as long as 30 years -- but an inspector has only ... preventing unnecessary deaths will be worth it. You might remember the disaster at the Station nightclub in Rhode Island in 2003, in which 100 people died and many others were ... clause in local laws. The other reason may not seem quite as clear for folks who aren't personal injury attorneys or owners of large businesses. If you're ...
August 26, 2008 02:00 pm

Choice of Laws in Connecticut Insurance Policies

(Central California Legal News)
... the place where the policies were contracted for. A federal district court has since ruled that this "location of the insured risk" approach required the application of Connecticut law to the issue of "advertising injury" coverage as the underlying suit was filed in Connecticut, even though the policy was issued in Rhode Island to a Rhode Island business. Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Company v. Dillon Company, Inc., 2000 U.S. ...
August 21, 2008 01:49 pm

401K's the Versatile Marital Asset in a RI Divorce!

(Rhode Island Divorce Lawyer Tips for You)
... running your business except for paying your attorney's fees. At the outset this looks like it poses a massive hurdle but your case is a bit different. The Rhode Island ... amount as an offset to your spouse against the marital estate. However, pursuant to the Rhode Island General Laws this is an arguable position that you should be able to take and use ... if you are within your legal rights. Authored By: Christopher A. Pearsall Attorney-at-Law 70 Dogwood Drive, Suite 304 West Warwick, RI 02893 Call ...
August 18, 2008 11:30 pm
... , these time limits vary depending on whether the employee quit or was fired. State laws have been established to dictate the timing of final paychecks. If an employer fails to ... is fired: next scheduled payday. If employee quits: next scheduled payday. Rhode Island: If employee is fired: next scheduled payday. If employee quits: ... one month, whichever is earlier. If termination is due to merger, relocation, or liquidation of business, within 24 hours. If employee quits: next payday. Wyoming: If ...
August 14, 2008 08:45 pm

ARE YOU A PROPERTY SHARK?

(Real Estate Law Blog)
... Indigo Sky Properties Development 3 meir the babaev group developer 2 shanell rhodes Investor Investor / Owner 1 Giampolo Rivera Cantor Fitzgerald Investor / Owner 2 ... Empire Estate Commercial Properties real estate broker 3 Gal Sela staten island homes Acquisitions 3 robert castillo Absolute Fitness investor 3 Abdullah Shamsiddeen ... Broker Associate 3 Stephanie Battle-Horsky Mullin & Associates Vice President - Business Development 3 Nick G. attorney Acquisitions 3 Anna Molisse Euro Bankers ...
August 12, 2008 02:00 pm
... more than a decade and Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Las Vegas, Reno, Atlanta, Boston, and Pittsburgh have also instituted business courts in some form. Most ... issue of the American Bar Association's Business Law Today magazine entitled "The 'New' Business Courts: Responding to Modern Business and Commercial Disputes" which provides ... Technology's website has an up to date summary of Recent Developments in State Business and Technology Courts which briefly explains the status in more than twenty ...
August 7, 2008 07:05 pm
... by a manufacturer from any authorized dealer. A NY Times article published August 2, 2008, on the subject of extended warranties features a Rhode Island Honda dealer, Saccucci Auto Group, that has made a business of selling discounted Honda Care service contracts over the Internet (www.myhondawarranty.com). According to Saccucci Auto Group, Honda formerly encouraged its dealers to sell the contracts over the Internet. ...
August 6, 2008 12:25 am
... are plaintiffs in the case which accused several former lead paint manufacturers of fraud, strict liability, negligence, unfair business practices, and public nuisance. Eventually, the plaintiffs agreed to move forward with only the public nuisance question. In February, ... be interesting to see if the "merely assisting" distinction succeeds. That type of distinction was adopted by the Rhode Island Supreme Court in State of Rhode Island v. Lead Industries Association, Inc., No. 2004-63-M.P. (R.I. ...
August 5, 2008 10:00 am
 
 

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