March 28, 2005
Congress recently passed the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA), intending to lower the costs and risks class-action
litigation imposes on businesses. CAFA works primarily by moving certain large class actions out of state courts and into
federal courts. This seemingly elegant solution assumes that litigating in federal court will be quicker, cheaper and yield
a better result than litigating in state court. However CAFA's complexity, combined with the good job most state courts are
already doing, undermines that...
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My city lost population. My neighborhood lost population. I hope the trend continues. Urban/suburban/rural trends point to more affluent city centers, more Balkanized (economically) suburbs and a rural America of 'Great Camps' - retreats for the wealthy.
Irvington is up and coming much like Fountain Square. We would love to have something like this in our neighborhood!
Why do we care who has submitted proposals if we can't review the proposals? It's publicly owned land, but the public has zero say in what gets chosen to be built there. Yep, that sounds about right.
Perhaps May 21 is "Evangelical Day" over at the IBJ?
I don't know what's more depressing: that this passes for a defensible elective in a publicly funded SCIENCE class, or that more than half of the posters here are defending this charlatan. Intelligent design is creationism. Creationism is religion. Yes, we have freedom of religion, which deserves to be protected. Now someone kindly show Professor Hedin his freedom by escorting him over to the Religion department at BSU. Carry on.