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- 1From:The EconomistChina is making it easier for its own citizens to adopt Chinese children BACK IN 1991, when China passed its first stand-alone adoption law, state-run orphanages routinely gave foundlings the surnames "Dang" (meaning...
- 2From:National Catholic Reporter (Vol. 54, Issue 13)ATLANTA * Georgia lawmakers are considering waiving the statutes of limitations on civil lawsuits claiming sexual abuse of young people against nonprofits and businesses, but not against government agencies or public...
- 3From:The Economist (Vol. 422, Issue 9032)China finally starts to organise its legal principles THE National People's Congress (NPC), China's rubber-stamp parliament, wrapped up its annual session on March 15th. Usually its business is unremarkable. This...
- 4From:Campaigns & Elections (Vol. 28, Issue 6)Republican leaders say they don't expect to find another way to restrict civil lawsuits before the state legislature's session ends in early June. Democratic Gov. Brad Henry vetoed a bill earlier this year that included...
- 5From:National Review (Vol. 40, Issue 11)CRIME IN AMERICA CRIME STATISTICS are usually put in terms of crime rates. But how many homicides per year per 100,000 people or how many muggings per year per 100,000 is low enough to make you feel safe enough to go...
- 6From:National Review (Vol. 48, Issue 17)Absurd evidence rules have subverted the administration of criminal justice, and civil law has been corrupted by a judicial unwillingness to uphold contracts and a tendency to cater to the politically correct. The views...
- 7From:Automotive News (Vol. 75, Issue 5902)George W. Bush's position on the civil justice system was missing from a chart of presidential campaign issues on Page 41 of the Oct. 30 issue. Here is what should have been in that space: Bush proposes federal changes...
- 8From:The Economist (Vol. 340, Issue 7976)The UK's top civil judge reported on ways to speed Britain's civil trials and cut costs. Lord Woolf's recommendations include procedural judges to handle the pre-trial phase of big cases, limits on trial length and...
- 9From:Business Insurance (Vol. 35)TORT REFORM ADVOCATES had understandably high hopes for a Bush administration. After all, as governor of Texas, Mr. Bush won a reputation as a proponent of civil justice reform. There was no reason to believe that...
- 10From:Business Insurance (Vol. 38, Issue 49)Byline: MARK A. HOFMANN WASHINGTON-The Supreme Court will decide whether a law designed to promote gender equality in educational programs offers protection to whistleblowers as well as victims of sexual...
- 11From:The Economist (Vol. 358, Issue 8214)A FEW weeks before German unification, at a Franco-German summit in 1990, the French president, Francois Mitterrand, gave what Le Monde called a "bitter" little speech. Mitterrand declared that France had "no complexes"...
- 12From:Security Management (Vol. 46, Issue 3)Retaliation. According to a federal appeals court ruling, a company's admission that it terminated an employee in response to a request that his attorney be allowed to videotape his workstation for a workers'...
- 13From:Journal of Health Care Compliance (Vol. 15, Issue 2)Key Steps Your Organization Can Take to Help Diminish the Possibility of Criminal and/or Civil Actions One word that is sure to make a compliance professional cringe is "whistleblower." It is not just your...
- 14From:Reason (Vol. 29, Issue 4)A retroactive style of law application and enforcement is being adopted in many courts and even in Congress. However, such practice can only apply to criminal law since the Civil Rights Act of 1991 is yet to receive...
- 15From:The Economist (Vol. 343, Issue 8013)Researchers have determined that countries with law systems based on English common law tend to treat investors better than countries with law systems based in civil law. Common law countries also show greater capital...
- 16From:American Banker (Vol. 159, Issue 192)WASHINGTON -- In a sign of potential trouble for the banking industry, members of the U.S. Supreme Court expressed concem Tuesday at the carte blanche some companies have to put mandatory arbitration clauses in their...
- 17From:Business Insurance (Vol. 34)SACRAMENTO, Calif.--A little-noticed California law that takes effect in January will significantly increase the number of employees who could be considered disabled and make it more difficult for employers in the state...
- 18From:Canada and the World Backgrounder (Vol. 61, Issue 3)We have seen that the meaning of the term `common law' depends on the context in which it is used. The same is true of the term `civil law.' In the Canadian legal system, law can be divided by subject matter into three...
- 19From:Contractor (Vol. 40, Issue 12)Several recent court decisions will affect the businesses of heating, cooling and air conditioning contractors. One decision forced several individuals to pay a contractor $30,000 in total damages for slander. Two other...
- 20From:Business InsuranceJUDY GREENWALD SAN FRANCISCO - A California Supreme Court ruling that gives whistleblowers greater leeway to sue their former employers for wrongful termination will lead to more lawsuits, say some attorneys. But...