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NBCUniversal's GC stays in the limelight
Richard Cotton, the executive vice president and general counsel of NBCUniversal Media LLC, doesn't mind the limelight. He goes on talk shows like "Charlie Rose," testifies before Congress, and often meets journalists for breakfast at the caf overlooking the ice skating rink at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City.Voting rights law under high court review
Days before the first black president takes office, the Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider overturning a key feature of the main federal law that ensures access to the polls by minorities. The justices said they will review a lower court ruling upholding a provision of the Voting Rights Act that requires all or parts of 16 states with a history of racial discrimination, most in the South, to get approval before implementing any changes in the way elections are held.White supremacist executed in Ga. for 1994 murder
JACKSON, Ga. AP - A Georgia man convicted of murdering one of the followers of his white supremacist group insisted that he was not to blame for the killing shortly before he was put to death Wednesday evening.William Mark Mize, 52, said the legal system refused to accept that another one of his followers may have been responsible for the 1994 murder of Eddie Tucker, who was shot to death after he failed to follow Mize's orders.View more book results for the query "*"
Disabled Entitled to Same Sight Line in Theaters
Expanding on other courts' decisions, a federal judge in New York has held that a movie theater providing handicapped patrons with an unobstructed sight line to the screen has not necessarily complied with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Rather, the judge found, the law implicitly requires a qualitative element demanding an analysis into whether the sight lines available to ambulatory and wheelchair customers are comparable.Viera v. Lexington Leasing Co.
Accident Where Defendant Hit Stopped Disabled Car Is Not Deemed Qualifying EmergencyFourth Circuit to Hear Dispute Over Cell Phone Contraband Conviction
Faulkner Act Mayors Have Authority To Negotiate Vendors' Contracts
The state Supreme Court last Tuesday affirmed that New Jersey's big-city mayors, not city councils, have the sole power to negotiate and sign contracts with private consultants and vendors. The Court said that in cities organized under the strong-mayor plan permitted by the Faulkner Act, councils have only the authority to approve or reject contracts.Trending Stories
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