Svetlana Kuznetsova was looking to book a flat somewhere in Rio for the time she had to be there for the Olympics, but, she was told by the members of organizing committee that if she stayed at a place other than the players’ village, she herself would be responsible for her security and nobody else […]
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When Los Angeles County businessman Jesus Rodriguez was injured in a 1979 traffic accident, he sued the driver who caused the crash and was awarded $99,000 in damages, based partly on his lost earnings at work. But Rodriguez, who had been in the United States for nearly 20 years, was an undocumented immigrant, and a state appeals court ruled in 1986 that his losses must be based on the far lesser amount he would have earned in his native Mexico. That’s been the law in California ever since, limiting... Читать дальше...
[...] the Legislature is working to expand rules to allow local officials to green-light pet projects more likely to enrich powerful interests than benefit the communities the policy is supposed to serve. In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “economic development” constituted “public use” in its infamous Kelo decision, which allowed governments to seize private property for private development. (The state or local government derives its power to take private property for public use in return... Читать дальше...
Robert McDonald discusses the polarizing figure of Thomas Jefferson at Cato University.