By: KATIE MARASCO, ESQ. The Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act was enacted in 1988 and became effective in 1989. Only employers that meet certain requirements are obligated to comply with WARN, but those who are should be aware of the rules. In this economic climate companies are making layoffs left and right and [...]
By: KATIE MARASCO, ESQ As facts come to light regarding the political connections of the men who ran the alleged multi-billion dollar ponzi schemes, it makes one wonder what the SEC was doing during their audits of these businesses. It’s being said that the SEC began investing Allen Stanford’s businesses in October of 2006, though the [...]
Paper or Plastic?
Colorado Lawmakers Keep Option Alive by Stopping Plastic Bag Ban
By: LISA R. WILSON Colorado shoppers will be able to keep using plastic grocery bags after lawmakers stopped what would have been the nation’s first statewide ban on plastic grocery bags. Lawmakers successfully lobbied that the ban would lead to increased use of paper bags, which take more energy and money to produce, and take [...]
Divorce when your marriage is financially “bankrupt”?
By: LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ. When a marriage fails, dividing the marital property is hard enough when the couple actually has assets to split. A divorce attorney colleague of mine recently pointed out that he’s seeing a trend in what’s called the “bankrupt marriage” – when the couple has more debt than it does assets. In [...]
Suspending Foreclosures for Valentine’s Day?
By: LINDSEY O’NEILL, ESQ. In the midst of the financial crisis, many Americans are foregoing expensive Valentine’s Day celebrations this year. The money that might otherwise be spent on fancy dinners, hotel suites, and luxurious gifts is commonly being saved in order to pay this month’s mortgage. Well, guess what? We all just might have a new [...]
Lead Regulations Will Cut Manufacturing Jobs: The Lesser of Two Evils?
By: LISA R. WILSON Garment workers, manufacturers and small-business owners gathered in front of Macy’s flagship store in New York Tuesday to protest a new anti-lead law they say will cut their jobs and devastate wide-spread retail profits. The Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act of 2008 requires that all items sold for use by children [...]
Texas family seeks to clear dead man’s conviction
By BETSY BLANEY Associated Press Writer LUBBOCK, Texas — A Texas man’s family will return to a courtroom this week with the hope that they’ll be able to clear his rape conviction from more than two decades ago, giving the state its first posthumous DNA exoneration. Tim Cole was sentenced to 25 years in prison [...]
Phelps in hot water again after pot pic surfaces
By PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer Michael Phelps embarrassed himself again after a triumphant Olympics, this time getting his picture snapped as he inhaled from a marijuana pipe. The photo wound up in a British tabloid Sunday, forcing Phelps to publicly apologize and his handlers to deal with sponsors who are surely none too pleased [...]
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