The mandatory arbitration agreement is one tactic large companies use to limit their liability and control an employee or customer's access to the court system. A mandatory arbitration agreement requires the signing parties – which can be a consumer or an employee, though this post will focus on employment contracts – to surrender their rights to … [Read more...]
New Jersey Ban on Large Ammunition Magazines Upheld in Court
The state of New Jersey's ban on firearm magazines holding more than 10 bullets can be enforced, a federal court ruled in early December, a victory for the state and for gun control activists who argue the ban is a common sense gun safety rule. The ruling from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia upheld a similar decision by a … [Read more...]
2018: A Year of Corporate Misbehavior and Government Apathy
As many Americans look forward to a new year and a new political environment in Washington D.C., it's worth taking one final look back at the year that was. Specifically, 2018 was a year when our biggest, wealthiest corporations seemed to feel free to engage in a staggering range of misconduct and misbehavior. Corporations have never exactly … [Read more...]
Widespread Concern Over Trump Administration Plan to Re-Classify Some Nuclear Waste
The Manhattan Project and America's resulting Nuclear Age have left a long and complicated legacy that the country will be dealing with for centuries to come. Much of that legacy is buried deep underground at facilities across the country. How we finally dispose of the tons of nuclear waste currently lying dormant in our military facilities and … [Read more...]
States Move To Expand Protections for Pregnant Workers
Over the last few decades, women have moved into the workforce in ever-increasing numbers. This has created tension in calcified institutions that have shown little interest in changing to make their environments more accommodating to women who are simply trying to work and earn a living. One of the biggest sore spots in the American labor … [Read more...]
Multiple States Move to Expand Government Expression of Religion
A coordinated push by religious groups is resulting in an explosion of legislation across the country that mandates the inclusion of “In God We Trust” in schools and other constitutionally dubious public religious expressions. With a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, activists are hoping any litigation will result in important … [Read more...]
Workers Exposed to Coal Ash Face Long Road to Compensation
Workers responsible for cleaning up a catastrophic coal ash spill in Tennessee will have the opportunity to prove their illnesses were the result of their exposure to the coal ash after a federal jury found Jacobs Engineering did not exercise reasonable care for their health. However, the workers have a difficult task in making their case, and … [Read more...]
Government Continues to Fail in Fight Against Climate Change, Free Market Steps-Up
The story of the Trump Administration's environmental policy is as consistent as it is depressing. Time after time, on issue after issue, the White House and the executive branch officials the president has appointed to oversee environmental regulations have sided with big polluters and dirty energies at the expense of any policies to address the … [Read more...]
Strict Term Limits Force Nation’s Highest Turnover in Michigan Legislature
In the 80's and 90's, the idea of term limits took hold across the country. Activists pushed them as a way of bringing change to moribund legislatures, while angry voters dissatisfied with their local governments seized on term limits as a way of holding politicians to account. Term limits represented an important part of the “Contract With … [Read more...]
Kentucky Right to Work Law Upheld, Ohio Republicans Pass Stand Your Ground Bill
Republicans in control of the governments in two states – Ohio and Kentucky – won big victories in mid-November, as the latter's Right to Work law was upheld by a state court and the former's GOP-dominated legislature passed a controversial stand your ground bill. These victories show just how meaningful control of state governments can be, … [Read more...]
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