Replacement workers face grim future; NLRB decision requires reinstatement of strikers

Article Abstract:

The National Labor Relations Board ruled on Sept 1, 1998, that the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News withholding of key merit pay and overtime plans from a coalition of six unions during failed collective bargaining talks that started in 1995 amounted to unfair labor practices and ordered them to rehire hundreds of strikers by the end of the month. This rehiring was to take place even if it meant replacing the "permanent" replacements hired since the strike began in July 1995. Union officials declared a major victory and newspaper attorneys vowed an appeal.

Unfair labor practices, Strikebreakers, Strikes

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State says the first trial was just a sham; prosecutor, claiming judge was bribed to acquit, says he wants to try alleged hit man again

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Cook County Circuit Judge Michael P. Toomin has ordered a second trial on murder charges for alleged mob hit-man Harry Aleman, who was acquitted in 1977 by a supposedly bribed judge. A federal informant told state prosecutors of that arrangement in 1993, but a subsequent, exhaustive search of US and English legal records yields no precedent. Judge Toomin decided that the double jeopardy defense requires both a final decision and an element of risk of being convicted. The latter was apparently not present.

Laws, regulations and rules, Illinois, Double jeopardy, Judicial corruption, Judicial misconduct, Assassins

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Lloyd's peers into brink in face of U.S. legal setback

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London-based reinsurance titan Lloyd's may soon file for bankruptcy in the wake of an adverse ruling from a federal judge and fraud complaints from state agencies in Illinois and Arizona. Those events could persuade US investors to reject the company's Reconstruction and Renewal Plan, which addresses pre-1992 losses, as well as trigger new lawsuits. Litigants have long said public policy should bar Lloyd's from invoking a contract clause calling for litigation in London, since its own fraud is involved.

Insurance, Lloyd's of London, Conflict of laws, Insurance fraud

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