The price of free labor; companies using interns as unpaid employees may run afoul of wage laws

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Companies using unpaid interns may be violating the wage laws as the Fair Labor Standards Act limits the kind of work they can do. Employers must not derive immediate advantage from them, nor can they displace regular workers for the law's minimum wage provisions to not apply to them. Other factors the Labor Department and the courts consider in deciding whether to classify interns as employees include whether training is to benefit an intern as well as an understanding that the intern will not be paid for the time spent in training.

Interpretation and construction, Usage, Interns (Business), Business interns, Labor law, Wages, Wages and salaries

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New laws for new technology

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The ABA Coordinating Group on Bioethics and the Law leads the organization's efforts in this growing field, addressing such difficult matters as the legality of physician-assisted suicide and of brain-death laws, the regulation of genetic testing and the permissibility of cloning. The group works directly with many associations active in this field as well as with outside groups concerned with these issues.The membership is drawn from the ABA and at-large members who are recognized experts in the field.

United States, Bioethics

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Three strikes a soft pitch; most states will send few to prison under new laws

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An Oct 1997 study by the National Institute of Justice on "three strikes and you're out" sentences states that the first two states to enact such legislation report its impact on prison populations to be not as severe as forecast. The researchers believe three-strikes laws passed by the federal government and 22 other states between 1993 and 1995 will also show little impact on prison populations. California courts do report case backlogs from the law.

Prisons, Imprisonment, Mandatory sentences, Determinate sentences, states

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