Posted by Archie Parsons on June 28, 2011 0 comments
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Indiana Recount Commission voted unanimously in favor of Secretary of State Charlie White Tuesday. The ruling rejected the challenge filed by state Democrats claiming White was ineligible to run for the office he now holds.
This essentially means White can keep his job for now. However Democrats can appeal this ruling.
White is accused of being illegally registered to vote at his ex-wife’s home when he declared his candidacy. White maintains it was all a mistake from a complicated personal life.
White is also facing criminal felony charges following an indictment by a grand jury in Hamilton County. Should he be found guilty on any one of those counts, he’ll be forced to step down.
Posted by Cameron Heron on June 28, 2011 0 comments
The Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice Ginsburg, held that three Goodyear USA subsidiaries, organized and operating, respectively, in Luxembourg, Turkey, and France, are not subject to personal jurisdiction in North Carolina. The specific question, as phrased by the Court, was:
Are foreign subsidiaries of a United States parent corporation amenable to suit in state court on claims unrelated to any activity of the subsidiaries in the forum State?
“A bus accident outside Paris that took the lives of two 13-year-old boys from North Carolina gave rise to the litigation” that ended upon the Supreme Court. T Read full article…
Posted by Archie Parsons on June 27, 2011 0 comments
Columbus Dispatch
COLUMBUS
Mahoning County Democratic Party Chairman David J. Betras was awarded the Ohio Democratic Party’s highest award, the Democrat of the Year Award, at the state party’s annual dinner Saturday night.
It is the highest honor awarded by the Ohio Democratic Party. U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Niles, D-17th, presented the award.
“I accept this award on behalf of the Mahoning County Democratic Party Executive Committee and 287 members of the Central Committee Members of the Mahoning County Democratic Party, and the loyalty of every Democrat in the Valley,” Betras said during his acceptance speech. “This a