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Sachs, Supreme Court hammer GM, Ford. (labor attorney Theodore Sachs wins workers' compensation case against General Motors and Ford Motor Co.)
Theodore Sachs, touted as Detroit's Perry Mason of labor attorneys, dealt a crippling blow to General Motors and Ford Motor Co. on the issue of workers' compensation.
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the automakers' challenge to an amendment to Michigan's workers' compensation law. Sachs argued the case, General Motors v. Romein, on behalf of hundreds of UAW workers who stood to lose millions as a result of the automakers' position.
Sachs says the decision is critical for two reasons. "The immediate impact of this decision is to redress what I consider to be a terrible injustice. It means that more than $25 million, with interest, will be restored to workers."
As important, he adds, is the jurisprudence involved in the case. Corporations had hoped the Supreme Court would use the Michigan case to expand companies' rights to attack a wide group of state laws they say are violating the Constitution's protection of contractual arrangements. In unanimously siding with Sachs, ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 10, 2006 700+ words
...Judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court, most Americans draw a blank...of the current members of the Supreme Court. Fifty-seven percent of Americans can't name any current Supreme Court justices, according to a new...
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00-00-0000 The Supreme Court is the highest court in the United...States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior [lower...ordain and establish.'' The Supreme Court heads the judicial branch of the...
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- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin November 6, 2003 700+ words
Byline: REY G. PANALIGAN The Supreme Court heard until late last night the arguments...Justice Hilario G. Davide Jr. The Supreme Court heard until late last night the arguments...Dean Pacifico Agabin - said while the Supreme Court has jurisdiction over the cases, the...
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...WASHINGTON _ Fifteen years after the Supreme Court said the Constitution doesn't bar...sentenced to death, but the Missouri Supreme Court overturned the sentence in August...when they committed their crimes. The Supreme Court's decision Monday to review the case...
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- Transcript from: Congressional Testimony July 13, 2009 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Appellate Practice and Process Iacobucci, Frank March 22, 2002 700+ words
...INTRODUCTION In September 2000, the Supreme Court of Canada celebrated its 125th anniversary...steps taken through which the modern Supreme Court of Canada has emerged from its unpromising...hope, afford an understanding of the Supreme Court of Canada's tradition as well as...
