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26 Nov 2023, 12:00 am
The American Public Transportation Association noted in 2014 that Americans had taken almost 11 billion trips that year using buses, streetcars, and subways. [read post]
31 Oct 2023, 5:17 am
From the introduction: New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. [read post]
14 Sep 2023, 6:00 am
No matter how much authority over all the parameters of railroad competition the ICC was granted—and such authority was considerable[2]—the system of railroad regulation proved susceptible to industry capture and political influence. [read post]
13 Sep 2023, 10:00 am
: Federally-Funded Legal Aid and the Civil Rights Movement" November 8 Noam Maggor, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London; Visiting Fellow, Sciences Po Law School "Law and Development: Railroad Regulation as American Industrial Policy" November 22 Rachel Shelden, Director of the Richards Civil War Era Center; Associate Professor of History, Penn State University "Justices, Politics, and the Union in Crisis" November 29… [read post]
13 Sep 2023, 6:00 am
A number of industries were nationalized (railroads, telegraph, firearms) and the Food Administration, Fuel Administration, Railroad Administration, and War Industries Board directly controlled pricing, output, and product allocation in many key economic sectors. [read post]
3 Sep 2023, 9:30 am
Specifically, it covers freight and commuter railroads, airlines, companies directly or indirectly controlled by carriers who perform services related to the transportation of freight or passengers, and the employees of these railroads, airlines, and companies. [read post]
3 Sep 2023, 9:30 am
Specifically, it covers freight and commuter railroads, airlines, companies directly or indirectly controlled by carriers who perform services related to the transportation of freight or passengers, and the employees of these railroads, airlines, and companies. [read post]
17 Jul 2023, 1:45 pm
The Mallory ruling arose from a state lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania state court seeking damages by Robert Mallory (“Mallory”) to recover damages for cancer the argued was caused by the negligence of his former employer, Norfolk Southern Railroad (“Norfolk”) pursuant to the Federal Employers’ Liability Act workers’ compensation scheme that permits railroad employees to sue for injuries caused by employer negligence. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 5:01 am
An American Political Science Association (APSA) task force from 2012, designed to analyze the ever-growing paralysis and dysfunctionality of Congress, concluded that "gridlock in the American Congress has been exacerbated by the 'sunshine laws' that opened up committee deliberation to the public but also to lobbyists and other special interests. [read post]
25 Jun 2023, 10:54 am
[Here's a draft of my article, on the constitutionality of anti-BDS laws and other related matters, forthcoming in a symposium at The University of the Pacific Law Review.] [read post]
19 Jun 2023, 9:05 pm
These concepts were imported into UK law in the mid-1800s to serve investor protection goals, some decades later into the regulation of rates in railroads and other natural monopolies, and by the early 1900s into American tax and banking law. [read post]
9 Jun 2023, 7:30 am
What is left open are what we might call the elasticities associated with each horn of the Trilemma. [read post]
5 Jun 2023, 1:02 pm
This process occasionally produces botch jobs, such as § 102(b)(7), which got railroaded through the legislature in response to Van Gorkom. [read post]
31 May 2023, 6:30 am
Hundreds of municipalities repudiated their bonds, arguing that they had been issued ultra vires and that the holders, capitalists in Europe and the American Northeast, weren’t owed a dime. [read post]
31 May 2023, 3:00 am
I consider the association to be one of the greatest honors of my life. [read post]
24 May 2023, 1:01 am
It grew from a marginal association of 50,000 in 1886 to an established organization of nearly 3 million in 1924 that had won a permanent place in American society. [read post]
1 May 2023, 5:02 am
” From the news release of the American Association for Justice. [read post]
27 Apr 2023, 6:10 am
“Precision Scheduled Railroading” (PSR) cuts staff, reduces time for safety inspections and puts extra-long trains on the nation’s railways. [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 6:30 am
Carter Introduction While zoomed in for the LevinsonFest discussion of civic education this past November 18, I was keenly reminded of my participation on a civic education task force organized by the late Elinor Ostrom when she was president of the American Political Science Association some two decades ago. [read post]
23 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm
In his first term in Congress, he sponsored a bill on railroad stocks and bonds that passed the House but failed in the Senate.[1] In his 11th term 20 years later, in the wake of the market crash of 1929, he was successful in getting a bill through to bring full, fair, and truthful issuer disclosures to the investing public. [read post]
