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Lawyers - particularly those based in New York City and Wilmington - say the process helps shepherd complicated cases into the hands of experienced judges. Yet some legal experts argue that venue-shopping is a way for companies to run from local suppliers, creditors and employees, making it tougher for those groups to file claims and otherwise participate in the case. "The autoworkers live around Detroit," says Lynn LoPucki, a law professor at UCLA. "You go to New York, and suddenly all of those workers can't sit in the courtroom." (Read "Can Detroit Be Retooled - Before It's Too Late...
...companies filed in New York City and 34% filed in Wilmington, even though companies were headquartered in New York City only 7% of the time and in Wilmington less than 1% of the time. Executives typically decide where to file on the advice of their legal counsel. The two law firms that GM has hired to advise it on bankruptcy - Weil, Gotshal & Manges and Dewey & LeBoeuf - are both based in New York City...
...Helens, he used to work in the timber industry, as a lumber broker. But his more recent turn, as a general contractor, brought him face-to-face with an economic force he felt he could influence: illegal immigration. Although St. Helens has a relatively small Hispanic community - some legal, some illegal - the town is just 30 miles (about 50 km) from major population centers like Portland and Beaverton, close enough that out-of-town contractors with crews of underpaid, underdocumented construction workers began bidding on jobs around town eight years ago, says Mayo. Local contractors had a stark choice: either...
...Wrong. Vermont (and the District of Columbia, whose council voted unanimously that same day to provide equal rights to all couples married outside D.C. regardless of gender composition) was not creating a new institution called "gay marriage." Rather, it was correcting a historical, legal and moral error, one that restricted the institution of marriage to couples that possessed a certain arrangement of genitalia...
...growing number of New Age tourists from the U.S. and Europe, some of whom pay thousands of dollars to stay at jungle lodges where Indian medicine men guide them through all-night ayahuasca rituals. Sting and Tori Amos have admitted sampling it in Latin America, where it is legal, as has Paul Simon, who chronicled the experience in his song "Spirit Voices." "It heals the body and the spirit," says Eustacio Payaguaje, 51, a Cofán Indian shaman who regularly treks to Bogotá to lead weekend ayahuasca ceremonies in the city. "It is medicine for the soul." (Read...