Report: closing law ineffective
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The General Accounting Office has studied the efficacy of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), concluding that violations are common and that using the courts to enforce the law is not working. The study found that 54% of the employers required by WARN to provide notice of plant closings and mass layoffs did not do so. Democrats plan to introduce legislation strengthening enforcement, while some Republicans would like a study of WARN's effect on international competitiveness and small businesses.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1993
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The ABA responds to Quayle
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The ABA has issued a report that answers Vice President Quayle's criticism of the civil justice system by urging the US government to ally itself to lawyers in order to reform the system. In a speech to the ABA's House of Delegates in Aug 1991 Quayle blamed the system for hampering the US's global competitiveness. The ABA's report supports some of the Bush Administration's recommendations but declares that the real problems are underfunding, the rise in criminal filings and the growing denial of access to the courts.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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Prosecutors pinning hopes on trial No. 3
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Porter County, IN, prosecutors hope to obtain a murder conviction in the third trial of a black man accused of the racially motivated killings of seven whites and one Indian in 1990. Two previous trials in neighboring Lake County foundered on questions of coercion of a confession and problems with witnesses' identification of the accused killer, Christopher Peterson. Peterson will face an all-white jury and will stand trial three more times on murder charges.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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