Word: legalism
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Legislation is slowly beginning to change. Since 2003, Washington State's vessel-removal program has led a crackdown on derelict boats, using ramped-up boat-registration fees as funding for the program, which has so far cleared 188 boats. "It gave us financial capability, plus the legal hammer if we needed to use it," says Doug Sutherland, the state's commissioner of public lands. Other state officials have expressed interest in Washington's model. In September, the California legislature passed a bill to increase fines for owners of derelict vessels. And last year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed...
...legacy: Imeem, which was co-founded by engineers from the original Napster music service, struggled early on and even got sued in May 2007 by Warner Music, which charged it with copyright infringement. (Imeem started out in late 2006 allowing its users to share music - without seeking legal permission...
...Claude said, by way of prefacing a speech, at the beginning of an event held last Wednesday at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston. The afternoon and evening were devoted to celebrating the artists and their work, and, more specifically, their skill in negotiating complex social and legal issues in order to pursue their enormous installation projects. Their talk lasted 45 minutes, and there were 81 slides.Christo and Jeanne-Claude were in town to receive the Great Negotiators award from the Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. Previous winners of the yearly prize have usually...
...anti-smoking measures. They've found support from faculty and even from nonsmokers. "This law, [the Clean Indoor Air Act], very explicitly defines its terms," Kutztown University geography professor Steven Schnell, a nonsmoker, told Cavanaugh during a campus visit last week. "I suggest a grammar class for your legal counsel...
...Campus employees are threatening legal action against the ban. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 13, which represents 2,500 system employees, and the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) plan to file an unfair labor practice suit, arguing that to prohibit smoking without negotiations first violates employee contracts. "The system, no matter how politically correct the idea of a smoking ban is, should have negotiated the policy with the union," says APSCUF president Steve Hicks, adding, "[It] was insensitive to not recognize the impact on their largest constituent group - the students." PASSHE...