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Sarbanes-Oxley Accounting Board: An Agency Without Accountability
In 2001, the energy giant Enron unexpectedly filed for bankruptcy, laying off 4,000 of its employees and consuming the life savings of thousands more. In…
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Tobacco Ruling Erodes Charter
In Thursday’s ruling in British Columbia v. Imperial Tobacco, the Supreme Court of Canada gravely eroded the Charter of Rights and Freedoms by…
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Big Tobacco Market Share Is Big Concern for States
In defending its settlement with Big Tobacco, the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) argues that “the states are not 'partners with the…
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Why Stop with Non-Judges?
Senate Democrats have urged President Bush to appoint to the Supreme Court candidates from outside the judiciary. Their idea is to add diversity of…
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Property Rights Yield to Corporate Welfare, by Hans Bader
Americans can wave goodbye to constitutional property rights protections, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-to-4 that a Connecticut city could condemn the homes…
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Spitzer’s ‘Obligations’
Darren Dopp claims that his boss, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, was right to sue Dick Grasso for collecting $190 million in pay during…