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29 Nov 2022, 4:13 am by Bernard Bell
Can an agency properly invoke the deliberative process privilege to shield internal deliberations over a sham memo requesting that another agency take action, knowing that the recipient agency will use the request to hide the real reason for its contemplated action? [read post]
20 Jun 2023, 7:09 pm by Jacob Fishman
From pollution to fish populations, underground water sources to oil and gas flares, even the agencies tasked with regulating invisible resources find it nearly impossible to detect, measure, and account for human inputs into natural systems. [read post]
25 Jul 2024, 6:15 am
  Bias forms an essential element of both perception, and of the discovery and constitution of facts signified as information and then judged by the and trough the bias that informed both the finding and constitution of "fact" and the nature of its signification in the service of a perception framework inclined to "see", "understand" and "give meaning" to things in its own terms. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 11:38 am by Ritika Singh
Elsewhere in Yemen, checkpoints are being removed, businesses are reopening, public services have resumed in major cities, and public servants are getting paid. [read post]
2 Dec 2020, 2:45 am by Jack Sharman
In white-collar cases, there are few important disputed facts: the contract was awarded, the legislative vote cast, the commission payment made, the city council meeting prematurely adjourned. [read post]
5 Jun 2013, 5:29 am by Schachtman
Sander Greenland and others have raised various theoretical objections to the argument that relative risks should exceed two before attribution can be made in specific cases. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 7:10 am by david_moore
Congress down to 9% — lower than, yes, communism, the British Petroleum company during the oil spill, and King George III at the time of the American Revolution. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 8:58 am by Lovechilde
Gates sided with General David Petraeus and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen in 2009 to promote a major (called “moderate”) escalation of the Afghan War; yet he did so without rancor or posturing -- a style Obama trusted and in the company of which he did not mind losing. [read post]
15 Apr 2020, 6:43 am by Kevin Kaufman
Moreover, the goods and services seeing spikes in demand, like groceries and digital entertainment, are less likely to be subject to state sales tax.[1] The contraction in spending is affecting excise tax revenues and, in some cases, revenue may be eliminated entirely. [read post]
25 Aug 2022, 7:33 am by Kyle Hulehan
Localities frequently offer abatements or other property tax incentives to select companies.[9] And of course, property tax rates are set by political subdivisions at a variety of levels: not only by cities and counties, but often also by school boards, fire departments, and utility commissions. [read post]
16 Mar 2021, 5:45 am by Kevin Kaufman
Until the early twentieth century, excise taxes made up a large proportion of the total federal taxes paid, but today they contribute only 2.9 percent of federal tax revenues.[2] The Internal Revenue Service defines an excise tax as a tax “imposed on the sale of specific goods or services, or on certain uses. [read post]
2 Jan 2019, 2:55 pm by MOTP
The affirmative defense of quasi-estoppel precludes a party from asserting, to another's disadvantage, a right inconsistent with a position she has previously taken. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 2:19 pm
            The Board also found no basis to reconsider its separate finding that the Board's prior decision in Allied Mechanical Services, 332 NLRB 1600 (2001), was necessarily premised on the existence of a 9(a) relationship and barred the Respondent, under the principles of collateral estoppel, from relitigating whether the parties had a 9(a) bargaining… [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 4:22 am by Dianne Saxe
Vancouver (City), 2011 B.C.C.A. 77 [Heyes]; Antrim Truck Centre Ltd. v. [read post]
16 Dec 2015, 2:53 pm by Elina Saxena
We have to take their oil, shut down all of the mechanisms whereby they can disperse money because they go after disaffected individuals from all over the place, and they're able to pay them. [read post]