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14 Dec 2009, 8:00 am
As readers may know, General Motors and Chrysler are planning to close nearly 2,000 dealerships as part of their reorganization plan. The New York Times reports on a House bill that would provide for binding arbitration as a way for car dealers to appeal the termination of their franchise agreements.
The House has approved a compromise plan to give General Motors and Chrysler dealers an appeals process to keep their showrooms open.
GM and Chrysler have attempted to shed dealerships as part of… [read post]
16 Dec 2009, 6:46 am
On December 15, 2009, The Employment Law Group® law firm participated in the launch of Voices for Corporate Responsibility (Voices). Voices is a project sponsored by Grant & Eisenhofer P.A., Mehri & Skalet, PLLC, and The Employment Law Group® law firm. Its mission is to help and encourage corporate employees to take a stand against corporate wrongdoing and irresponsibility. The project aims to facilitate participation in legislative and regulatory reform and provide a networking environment… [read post]
9 Feb 2013, 1:05 pm
Waldo Jaquith of The State Decoded, Elmer Masters of CALI, and Eric Mill of Sunlight Foundation yesterday had an interesting conversation on Twitter about appropriate syntax and formats for online legal resources, focusing on Markdown, AsciiDoc, and EPUB.
They kindly agreed to let me to make a storify of their discussion, which is now available here.
Thanks to Waldo, Elmer, and Eric.
Filed under: Discussions, Storify Tagged: AsciiDoc and legal data, AsciiDoc and legal information, AsciiDoc and… [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 6:02 am
Last week, I spoke with Senator Len Fasano. Senator Fasano has introduced legislation to create a public cord blood bank. I believe such legislation is important to the health of Connecticut residents and vital to our economy as we look for new ways to fight and treat cancer.
Senator Fasano has been working on this legislation for some time. Over the summer Senator Fasano formed a task force to investigate how to create a public cord blood bank. Researchers from Yale and UConn were on the task… [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 10:26 am
Michael J. Bommarito II of Computational Legal Studies has posted Statistics on the length and linguistic complexity of bills on his blog.
This post presents a table of statistics on word count, word and sentence length, and Flesch-Kincaid reading level scores for the bills introduced in the 112th U.S. Congress, and a histogram showing the distribution of word counts in those bills.
Mr. Bommarito says that he will “be adding more automated analysis and figures over the next few weeks.”
HT… [read post]
14 May 2012, 7:08 pm
Grant Vergottini of Xcential Group has released his new HTML5-based XML editor for legislation, called AKN/Editor, with a video tutorial, in his new post entitled An HTML5-Based XML Editor for Legislation!, at his Legix.info blog.
In the post, Mr. Vergottini explains his approach to developing this editor, in terms of three reasons:
“The editor uses an open standard for storing legislative data.”
“The editor is built upon open web standards.”
“Cloud-based computing… [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 12:03 pm
Patty Murray has voiced her support for the BEER Act.
Last week, I discussed the federal BEER Act. Today, it looks a bit more promising for the tax cut legislation that would put millions back in brewery pockets.
A fairly wide-spreading marketing effort took over this past week. You can now see an out-pouring of support from Senators across all parts of the U.S. With each passing day, it appears more likely that this bi-partisan effort will pass through the Senate.
As of today, both Sen. Maria… [read post]
21 Nov 2011, 4:55 pm
Governor Brown signed a number of new employment laws that take effect in January 2012. During this webinar, we will cover the new obligations facing employers under these recently enacted employment laws as well as the proper steps employers should take to comply with them. The discussion will also cover the recent oral argument in Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior Court and what steps employers should take while waiting for the Supreme Court’s ruling.
Other topics will… [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 8:03 am
On Sunday, March 21, 2010, the House passed H.R.
4872, the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of
2010. The Act passed by a vote of 220-211. No Republicans voted for
the bill, and 34 Democrats voted against it. The New York Times has an article on the history
and context of the new law.If you, like many people, are
wondering how this new law will affect the U.S. health-care system, the
Atlantic magazine's Web site has a useful, short article on the
insurance and tax… [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 2:01 pm
Dr. Francien Dechesne of the Delft University of Technology Centre for Ethics and Technology, and colleagues, have published No smoking here: values, norms and culture in multi-agent systems , forthcoming in Artificial Intelligence and Law . Here is the abstract: We use the example of the introduction of the anti-smoking legislation to model the relationship between the cultural make-up, in terms of values, of societies and the acceptance of and compliance with norms. We present two agent-based… [read post]
28 Feb 2011, 8:52 am
On February 24, 2011, Lee Smith and I presented "How Regulatory Changes Affect Litigation Risks" to the Grocery Manufacturers Association's food litigation conference. A link to the slide-deck can be found here.
We discussed ways that the Reportable Food Registry (RFR) and the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) are affecting litigation now and can be expected to affect litigation in the near term.
In particular, we discussed:
Ongoing and pending changes to the RFR
FSMA’s… [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 3:45 am
In addition to the bills discussed in our last post, the 82nd Texas legislature also passed H.B. No. 1951, relating to the continuation and operation of the Texas Department of Insurance; Bill Status; Analysis. Part of the bill is provided below.
SECTION 1.003. Subchapter B, Chapter 36, Insurance Code, is amended by adding Section 36.110 to read as follows:
Sec. 36.110. NEGOTIATED RULEMAKING AND ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION POLICY. (a) The commissioner shall develop and implement a… [read post]
20 Dec 2010, 5:43 am
"Tonight we unanimously passed a measure to improve on our current food safety system by giving the FDA the resources it needs to keep up with advances in food production and marketing, without unduly burdening farmers and food producers," stated Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada), after the Senate passed S.510, the Food Safety and Modernization Act last night for the second time. The Senate had passed the Act on November 30, but the bill was invalidated on technical grounds. The… [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 5:49 am
The White House has finally released its long-anticipated report on consumer privacy.The 60-page White House report, “Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy,” is the start of what promises to be a fascinating legislative and regulatory process.
It is curious that the Department of Commerce has been charged with "work[ing] with other Federal agencies to convene stakeholders, including our… [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 1:32 pm
That's the title of a Dallas Morning News editorial from the Wednesday edition. LINKThe motive behind
the Timothy Cole Act, passed overwhelmingly by the Legislature last
year, could not have been clearer: to create a fair system of
compensation for those wrongfully sent to prison. Named after a Texas Tech
student who died in prison an innocent man, the law's goal was to make
exonerees as financially whole as possible for the injustice committed
against them. The idea was never to turn… [read post]
8 Dec 2010, 6:28 am
by Ryan McKeen
If you haven’t already, read OLR’s Brief Descpritions of Majoy Issues the legislature may face in 2011.
The report details issues large and small that the legislature may choose to confront in 2011. Of course, nothing in politics is certain but this list represents a pretty educated short list of legislative reforms that may come in 2011. It’s really a goldmine. My love for OLR reports continues to grow. They are the fuel in the fire that is this blog.
If you’re like me… [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 8:17 am
Any parent of a teenager in the modern era of instant and high definition technology has concerns about the manner in which their child or children are utilizing this technology. Although we as parents always hope to raise moral children, it is unrealistic to think that our children will never send inappropriate material via email or text message from their cell phone. Webcams and camera phones make it so easy. Prior to the most recent Legislative session, “teenagers being… [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 6:35 am
by Brian P. Bialas, Esq.
A bill to adopt the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (“UTSA”) has been pending in the Massachusetts Legislature since late January. Forms of the UTSA have been adopted in 46 states, as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Only New York, Texas, North Carolina, and Massachusetts have not adopted the UTSA.
The bill would supersede the definitions, procedures, and remedies applied in Massachusetts chapter 93A actions (regulating unfair and… [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 6:27 pm
One based on the German model…“Earlier this month, a biometric ID card was introduced at a large technology show in Hanover, Germany. The card is mandatory for all Germans on November 1, 2010. “The card has three functions: 1. biometric identity verification, 2. electronic identity verification, 3. authenticated electronic signature…”
Germany has introduced a biometric national ID card. It will be required of all citizens beginning November 1, 2010. "WOW! Everybody could have one of these… [read post]
30 Nov 2012, 8:08 am
Today’s Law360 addresses “HHS Data-Scrubbing Guidance” with quotes from me and others on the subject:
Clarifying the types of data that need to be removed from data sets can also help companies maximize the value of the information that they hold as the value of and ability to use this data for research and public health purposes increases, Foley Hoag LLP security and privacy practice co-chair Colin Zick added.
“The guidance answers discrete questions that people have come… [read post]