On June 25, 2008, the House of Representatives passed the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 exactly as it was reported out by the House Education & Labor and Judiciary Committees (H.R. 3195). This amendment is supported not only by the disability and civil rights communities, but also by such prominent members of the business community […]
We earlier blogged about the Alaska statute that lightly regulates employer rules on bringing guns to work. See AS 18.65.800(d). Following the U. S. Supreme Court’s 2nd Amendment opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, 2008 WL 2520816 (U. S. June 16, 2008), there’s been a steady trickle of challenges to gun laws, including laws […]
The Native Village of Point Hope challenged Shell and BP’s permits to conduct seismic surveys off the North Slope of Alaska. On July 2nd, U. S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline denied the Village’s request for an injunction.
Beistline first held that the federal agencies were not required to conduct an EIS before issuing the permits (the […]
