Economy's ills can be healed with new prescriptions
Desperate times call for creative measures. We're in desperate times, but we've had little creative thinking from the Obama administration on how to fix the economy. According to Ron Suskind's new book, "Confidence Men," Lawrence Summers, formerly the president's chief economist, was concerned more with controlling than developing policy.Feds pursue drug companies for off-label marketing
U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE Patti Saris had seen cases like this before, and she was fed up.Another pharmaceutical company was in her court, waiting to be slapped with a multimillion-dollar fine for marketing its drugs for uses that had not been approved by the federal Food Drug Administration."You can't thumb your nose at the FDA," Saris said.Recent raises intensify pay compression
It figures that a new partner ought to be making a lot more than a senior associate. After all, a move into the partnership rewards years of hard work, and it comes with a whole new set of responsibilities to the firm. But the most recent round of associate pay hikes has edged senior associates ever closer to junior partner pay rates.Chief Justice Seeks Higher Pay for Judges-and Lower Rent for Courts
Tony [email protected] year 2005 was a stormy one for the judiciary, not only because of the death of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, but because of clashes with Congress over the Terri Schiavo case, the politicking over judicial nominees and issues such as U.S. Supreme Court citation of foreign laws and precedents.Judicial Council calls for more bench seats
WHILE GOV. SONNY Perdue prepares to pick new judges for Gwinnett County and three other areas, Georgia's judges want him to have more choices to make.Last month, the Judicial Council of Georgia recommended that new bench seats be created for 11 judicial circuits-with a new judge in Fulton County Superior Court as one of the top priorities.Trending Stories
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