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Despite Brazilian Political Turmoil, Olympic Organizers Push On

The venues are, in the words of organizers, 99 percent ready. The torch is winding its way around the country in a three-month relay ending at the opening ceremony. Even if the country is preoccupied with the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, organizers insist the Olympics won't be touched by the ongoing political turmoil.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Opportunities and Challenges for Delivering Alcohol in Pa.

With eBay's recent announcement that it is officially partnering with the retailer network platform Drync, the company joins an ever-growing group of industry startups as well as certain key online retailers focused on the shipment and delivery of alcoholic beverages directly to consumers. However, like everything related to the regulation of alcohol, the ability to directly ship alcohol varies widely by state as well as by ­product. In Pennsylvania, this is particularly true as market participants try to straddle the differences in the rules and regulations regarding beer, which is left largely to the private market, as compared to wine and spirits, which are controlled by the state. While restrictions remain, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board in recent years has developed guidance for the public as well as new market entrants on the contours of obtaining delivery licenses for beer, wine and spirits in the commonwealth.
13 minute read

Corporate Counsel

NLRB General Counsel Wants to Make Unions Harder to Decertify

If National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Richard Griffin Jr. gets his way, it is going to be harder for companies to shed their unions, even if most employees don't even want to be in one anymore.
8 minute read

Daily Report Online

Fulton County Settles Pension Case for $2.1M

Fulton County has agreed to pay more than $2.1 million to settle claims of 186 former county employees whose pension benefits were wrongly calculated several years ago.
7 minute read

The Recorder

No Big Bump in Funds for State Courts

Gov. Jerry Brown's revised budget calls for moving open judge slots to different counties.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

News Coverage Prompts Federal Judge's Recusal in Lending Case

A federal judge presiding over predatory lending claims against an international London-based bank has recused in response to a Washington Post story that explored the collapse of housing values in neighborhoods adjacent to her own.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Release of Bridgegate Co-conspirator List Delayed

The deadline for a list of unindicted co-conspirators from the Bridgegate scandal to be made public has been pushed back to May 17 after an individual named on the list filed a motion to intervene and stay the release.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

John Bowman's Priorities Kept Changing as He Moved Toward the Bench

The Broward circuit judge focused shifted away from law enforcement and toward a legal career defending seniors and foster children.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Quality-of-Life Investments Yield Economic Development Gains

Miami needs to tax itself to improve transit and become a more attactive city for business and job seekers, writes attorney Mitchell Bierman.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Q&A: Gerald Benjamin

Gerald Benjamin will be at the center of the debate in New York state over the next 18 months on whether to stage a convention to propose wholesale changes to the state constitution. He discusses the effort to inform New Yorkers, the importance of having a convention, and what state government would be like if voters had approved the recommendations from the last convention in 1967.
27 minute read

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