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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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I wonder what that says about the entire ordeal
House votes to let states run drug tests on food stamp applicants
edited 19th Jun '13 10:28:53 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
Blame Mediate.
Ted Cruz unhappy with Gang of Eight ‘bragging’
edited 19th Jun '13 10:56:47 PM by DeviantBraeburn
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Because they cover stuff before others do.
GOP Rep. Proposes Classes On Gender Roles: Fathers Do Some Things ‘A Little Bit Better’ Than Mothers
Senator Feinstein: Pentagon should stop force-feeding Gitmo detainees
edited 20th Jun '13 2:20:53 AM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Some important cases are being decided today.
I'll update this as it goes.
- Descamps. 8-1 in favor of defendant. It is now more difficult for prosecutors to use facts of prior convictions in order to gain harsher sentences. Dissenter is Alito.
- American Express 5-3. Ideologically divided. Left-wing dissenting. Enforces a class action arbitration waiver; cannot defeat the waiver on the ground that individual arbitration is too expensive.
- Agency for International Development. 6-2. Scalia and Thomas dissent. Requiring that HIV/AIDS organizations cannot receive money unless they explicitly oppose prostitution violates the first amendment.
No more decisions today. Court returns on Monday.
ScotusBlog has said that it's getting very likely that all the hot-button social issues will be decided on the same day.
edited 20th Jun '13 7:22:30 AM by Completion
A waiver is where you waive (read: surrender) your right to a particular course of action. An arbitration waiver, in this context, likely means you waive your right to settle a lawsuit through arbitration (meaning it must go to court directly).
The SCOTUS decision is that such a waiver applied to class action lawsuits is legally valid, regardless of the legal costs of alternative courses of action. Which is fair enough, since (IMO) it isn't a very good precedent to tie legal rights to the cost of something, one way or the other.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)Can we please stop with the drug testing of food stamp beneficiaries?
It's getting old and I seem to recall something similar in Florida wasting more money than it would have saved.
I thought the way those waivers works is usually that you give up the right to take the other entity (usually a company — such as Valve Software, as I was looking over their Steam Subscriber Agreement last night) to court, and will instead use arbitration (getting some non-court third party to look over the disagreement) that's binding. I think the costs to the company are likely lower in this case. Also these waivers usually contain a clause that says you can't participate in things like class-action lawsuits.
It's almost as if they're utilizing drone technology to provide the same kind of surveillance they've been doing for years in those infernal flying machines called "aircraft". The bastards.
And in local news, over 70,000 people prepare to kiss their unemployment benefits goodbye in North Carolina. Local gov. claimed that continuing to providing it strained state finances. I can't help but wonder what kind of burden those 70,000 are going to be on infrastructure without any sort of income now. At the very least some of the cost of providing it was mitigated because it went straight back into the local economy. . .
-editad 4 grammer
edited 20th Jun '13 2:19:12 PM by carbon-mantis
I don't think they even thought it out that far. Ever since the teapartiers won, the general attitude from the state government seems to be "unemployed=government teat sucking social parasite that won't get off their lazy ass to get a job." Several local representatives have said about as much, believing that by taking away unemployment benefits they'll motivate the unemployed to "try harder" to find work.
In rural areas like mine with very few hiring opportunities, they simply say that they think that by slashing unemployment benefits they'll somehow motivate new businesses to spring up out of nowhere. Right now, a good many people I know have had to move to find work, or they travel over 150 miles a day to find work in the more populated communities and cities in the states bordering NC.
Speaker Boehner: Obama climate proposal 'absolutely crazy'
edited 20th Jun '13 3:25:30 PM by DeviantBraeburn
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