Rio Tinto is a large borax mine on the edge of California’s Kern County. The mine has been the life blood of the town of Boron, California for generations. However, if an agreement cannot be reached between management and the labor union representing the workers, the mine might be shut down permanently.

A former Nashville schools Payroll Coordinator was awarded about $1.5 million dollars by a Federal jury on Monday, January 25, 2010 based on a claim that she was wrongfully terminated in 2003 when she cooperated in a sexual harassment investigation of a school official. The former employee, Vicky Crawford, who worked for the district for thirty years, sought lost wages, future wages and pension benefits.

The constitutional crisis which has rocked the nation for over two months now arose because President Yar’Adua went, or was taken, to Saudi Arabia on November 23, 2009 on health grounds without sending to the National Assembly, as envisaged in section 145 of the Constitution, a declaration concerning his impending absence from office.

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has released a study in 2008 showing that seven out of 10 child seats were either the wrong size or not properly installed, thus reducing the effectiveness of this safety equipment in the event of a car crash.

US patent protection is critical in order to protect your invention. This article discusses the many reasons why filing for a patent application sooner rather than later is so important.

Fictional and graphic characters move effortlessly from one medium to another. Such liquidity means that they also move from one channel of commerce to another with similar ease, often creating a snowball effect through cross-marketing. This broadly expands the commercial value of the character and providing the character with legal protection in a variety of different settings and characterizations other than those in which the creator originally depicted the character becomes paramount.

Under Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), employers are prohibited to discriminate workers based on their physical or mental disability.

When Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced an increased targeting of impaired drivers, he specifically noted the national increase in female drivers arrested under drunk driving charges.

When the negligence of others causes any type of significant injury in Florida, it is important to know what to do at the time the accident occurs and how to preserve your right to fair compensation for your medical and other costs.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently ruled that the use of a taser stun gun by a police officer can be considered, under certain circumstances, excessive force which leaves the police officer open to be sued for the injuries received by the tasered individual.