Jan. 2010 : "Supreme Court Decision Marks the End of Democracy"

May God help us all preserve our nation when the Federal DOJ will not act to prevent the Asarco Bankruptcy Fraud, our health/welfare is sold down the river to line the pockets of large attorney firms feasting off the fraudulent proceedings, and the Supreme Court not only meets to hear about possibly demolishing the honest services provision of the mail and wire fraud act - but, has marked the end of democracy by allowing corporations like Asarco, Grupo Mexico and Carlye Group to fully fund ANY candidates, without a monetary limit. 

"Supreme Court Decision Marks the End of Democracy-A Special Newsletter from the Texas Climate Emergency Campaign"

"I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country." ~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Logan. November 12, 1816

 

The words above were written by Thomas Jefferson, one of the distinguished founding fathers of this nation. Clearly, neither he nor any of the other signers of the declaration of independence thought they were declaring freedom for big corporations, and yet that's what happened in the Supreme Court yesterday. Many are calling it the End of Democracy, for we have now sold our souls down the river of corporate greed.  As one pundit put it, we are looking at our last President and our last Congress which will not fully be funded by corporate giants. It is a sad day for issue advocacy, it is a sad day for all of us as Americans..."

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Honest services law must go - - Epstein Becker & Green ( "New Jersey waterways and rivers in the northwestern portion of the state that have been contaminated with metals")

Honest services law must go
The Supreme Court should declare it unconstitutional rather than try to rewrite

it.http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202438103655&Honest_services_law_must_go&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1
Hervé Gouraige

January 18, 2010

"...In an unusual move, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari petitions in three separate honest services cases: U.S. v. Black, 530 F.3d 596 (7th Cir. 2008); U.S. v. Weyhrauch, 548 F.3d 1237 (9th Cir. 2008); and U.S. v. Skilling, 554 F.3d 529 (5th Cir. 2009). Two of those cases (Black and Weyhrauch) have been argued, and Skilling is to be argued in the spring. In the Skilling case, Jeffrey Skilling, the former president of Enron Corp., has clearly requested that the Court hold the statute unconstitutional because it is too vague to provide notice of what conduct is deemed potentially criminal."

Hervé Gouraige is a member in the Newark, N.J., and New York offices of Epstein Becker & Green and co-group leader of the firms' national litigation practice.
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"Over the last several months, federal and state environmental regulatory agencies have devoted substantial regulatory attention to New Jersey waterways and rivers in the northwestern portion of the state that have been contaminated with metals, declaring some of them to be federal Superfund sites. In light of these events, the judicial determination that the metals contamination on the southern edge of the property was solely due to our adversaries’ prior disposal activity was timely. The Opinion is perhaps the first trial court decision to apply the apportionment principles articulated in the Supreme Court's May 2009 decision in Burlington Northern.   

Tags: 107(a)(3), Arranger Liability, Burlington Northern, CERCLA, Cost Recovery, Environmental Litigation, Epstein Becker & Green, New Jersey, New Jersey Spill Act, Reichhold, Section 107, Sheila Woolson, Spill Act, USMR, United States Metals Refining Co, Victoria Sloan, William A. Ruskin, aerial photogrammetry, apportionment"
http://www.toxictortlitigationblog.com/articles/cercla/burlington-northern/