Articles in Channel: Administrative Law

That May Be A $500 Bow Tie I'm Wearing

Kendall Gray
September 02, 2010 18:16

I will admit it.  My sense of style is not for everyone.  Atypical.  Iconoclastic. Nerdy. Or just bad.  I would accept any of those words as accurate descriptors. But as I sit here in my Brooks Brothers seersucker suit and my Brooks Brothers regimental stripe bow tie, I am...

Mobile Content Providers Settle Unauthorized Billing Class Action

September 02, 2010 17:00

While the FCC has taken an interest in mobile marketing by carriers -- most notably with investigations of carrier early termination fees and proceedings examining wireless consumer "bill shock" -- it also is helpful to remember that the mobile content providers are subject to...

Patty Salkin

Patricia E. Salkin
September 02, 2010 05:25

Defendant companies entered into a contract where Grace Property would purchase 48 acres of Pacific Farm’s 74-acre property, which was bounded to the north by New York and to the east by Connecticut, to build a church.  The planning and zoning commission for the town of New Canaan granted su...

Texas Eastern Transmission L.P. Pushes Forward in Arkansas

September 01, 2010 19:39

The Texas Eastern Transmission Company has notified residents and businesses in Arkansas that their pipeline representative is about to seek acquisition of their property.  This is being done prior to approval of the environmental assessment by FERC.  Licensing has not been granted. ...

159: IPC issues first refusal to accept an application

Angus Walker
September 01, 2010 16:17

This is entry number 159, first published on 1 September 2010, of a blog on the implementation of the Planning Act 2008. Click here for a link to the whole blog. If you would like to be notified when the blog is updated, with links sent by email, click here. Today's entry reports on the...

Late-Filed Forms Update: Airband Seeks Review of FCC Denial

September 01, 2010 13:15

Last week, we posted an entry about the tough stance the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau is taking on late-filed Universal Service Forms submitted by contributors.  One of the parties whose USF appeal was denied, Airband Communications, has filed an application for review of the...

Patty Salkin

Patricia E. Salkin
September 01, 2010 05:22

The Rustons filed a complaint in United States District Court for the Northern District of New York against the Village of Skaneateles, Town Board and Town Planning Board (Town Defendants) for unconstitutionally frustrating their development plans for building a subdivision and additional sewer...

Important Medicare Preemption Decision

August 31, 2010 21:24

At long last, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion in the Uhm v. Humana, Inc. (.pdf), matter, finding the Medicare Act’s exhaustion requirements and preemption provision barred all of the plaintiffs’ common law claims. (-- F.3d --  (9th Cir. 2010).) Originally, the...

Clean Energy Writer Has a Different Attitude

August 31, 2010 18:50

Craig Shields, Editor of 2GreenEnergy.com maintains a different outlook on the power transmission system.  The owners often worry about the harm to the personalized, farming or business operations.   Mr. Shields insight is probably consistent with the majority in the country, although...

New Jersey Appellate Division Holds that Shareholders of New Jersey Corporations Have a Limited Right to Inspect Board of Directors and Executive Committee Minutes

August 31, 2010 18:50

In the recent decision Cain v. Merck & Co., Inc., the New Jersey Appellate Division held that shareholders of New Jersey corporations are entitled to inspect board of directors and executive committees minutes, in addition to minutes of shareholder meetings. The Appellate Division made clear,...