Archive for October 11, 2011

Republican Debate October 11

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1 year ago
by Logarchism.com in

The same eight are back again.

Tonight is the sev­enth in what some­times seems a nev­erend­ing string of Repub­li­can Pres­i­den­tial debates. This two-​​hour debate, to be broad­cast on WBIN-​​TV and Bloomberg TV at 8PM EDT (5PM PDT), is at Dart­mouth Uni­ver­sity in Hanover, New Hamp­shire, and mod­er­ated by Char­lie Rose, to be joined by Julianna Gold­man of Bloomberg TV and Karen Tumulty of the Wash­ing­ton Post. Tonight’s spon­sors are WBIN-​​TV, Bloomberg, and the Wash­ing­ton Post.

The exclu­sive focus of this debate is the economy.

We’re back to the Élite Eight can­di­dates; Gary John­son, present at the last debate, is again absent from the mix. So where are we now? (more…)

Supreme Court Watch: Pacific Operators Offshore LLP v. Valladolid

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1 year ago
by Monotreme in

Photo: Pacific Oper­a­tors Off­shore LLP

Today’s case to be argued before the Court, Pacific Oper­a­tors Off­shore LLP v. Val­ladolid, is a per­fect exam­ple of why I’m not an attor­ney or judge.

A good abstract of the case by Richard Epstein is in the SCO­TUS­blog. The Outer Con­ti­nen­tal Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), 43 U.S.C. § 1331–35 and Long­shore and Har­bor Work­ers’ Com­pen­sa­tion Act (LHWCA), 33 U.S.C. § 901–95 cover har­bor work­ers, and with the exten­sion pro­vided by the OCSLA, off­shore work­ers or their heirs are com­pen­sated for:

any injury occur­ring as the result of oper­a­tions con­ducted on the outer Con­ti­nen­tal Shelf for the pur­pose of explor­ing for, devel­op­ing, remov­ing, or trans­port­ing by pipeline the nat­ural resources, or involv­ing rights to the nat­ural resources, of the sub­soil and seabed of the outer Con­ti­nen­tal Shelf.

The ques­tion before the Court in the instant case is what is meant by “as the result of oper­a­tions”. (more…)

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