Dan Immergluck (Georgia State--School of City and Regional Planning) has posted From Global Buck to Local Muck: Capital Markets, Public Policy and Neighborhood Wreckage in the U.S. The abstract: The U.S. subprime crisis was the result of a continual movement...

You wait ages for an interesting legal costs decision from the Court of Appeal and then two come along together.Both cases concerned a similar issue as to the extent of a costs judge’s discretion to limit costs in a manner that appears to go beyond a strict reading of the final costs order.In Drew v ...

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When the President of the United States, allegedly possessed of the best bully pulpit in the free world, needs to go on the Super Bowl pre-game show to attract a big audience, you know that something has gone horribly, horribly wrong. We can't solve that problem here at HealthBlawg, but perhaps ...

In my previous post I pointed to an excellent analysis of liberal condescension and gave a couple of examples of it (and discussed a fabulous example of it here). This condescension, as many others have pointed out, is in large part a product of liberals’ faith in their superior morality and their s ...

I have a confession to make: Im incredibly lazy. If you follow me around the intertubes this may surprise you: I post daily on my website, contribute robustly on three forums, and twitter all the live long day. So how do I do it? My key to action: no-ones too lazy to do something fun. So how do you ...

I understand from various sources that preparations are well advanced for the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries. Among other things, the meeting offers an invaluable platform for legal publishers and law librarians to share information with each other. A key element of the ...

Miami Beach's own Gerald Posner, who recently was the talk of the town with his salacious book Miami Babylon, has been suspended by The Daily Beast for lifting passages from prior articles, including the Herald:On Friday, it looked like writer Gerald Posner had his minor plagiarism scandal under con ...

Normal 0 0 1 958 5463 45 10 6708 11.1282 0 0 0 Ballard Nursing Center is yet another large nursing home facility located in Des Plaines, Illinois. Ballard can accomedate 231 Medicare / Medicaid pati ...

Past practice and the reversion defenseLocal 891, International Union Of Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO and Board Of Education of The City School District of The City Of New York, PERB U-27711, ALJ CacavasThe term “reversion defense” is used to describe the argument that once the parties reach an agre ...