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What Makes the College-Educated More Likely to Vote?

Union of Concerned Scientists

A study investigating how much education affects voting rates from 1950 to 2004 found that this positive correlation has increased since 1980. When we see a decline in union membership, such as when right-to-work laws result in limited union participation, a coinciding reduction in voter turnout can also be observed.

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Chemical Used to Make Teflon is Causing a Sticky Situation in West Virginia and Ohio

Vermont Law

In September of 2004, attorneys represented 80,000 plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against DuPont which settled for $374 million. Based on these results, 3,500 residents that did not settle in the 2004 class action suit have brought individual liability lawsuits against DuPont for health problems linked to C8. million Americans.

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Families condemn Koch brothers over ploy to avoid asbestos compensation

Corp Watch

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on Koch Industries Total Penalties $935,266,865 (September 30, 2022) Number of Records 436 Books Axis of Ideology: Conservative Foundations and Public Policy (National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, March 2004). The fine was $30 million. Koch Brothers Could Get Up To $1.4

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Nominees Announced for U.S. Fifth Circuit and Eastern District of Louisiana Seats

The Energy Law Blog

Department of Justice and as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Law & Policy in the White House Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives during the George W. Prior to his public service he practiced labor and employment law at Haynes and Boone, LLP. Prior to that position, Mr. Ho served as a law clerk to U.S.

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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

Corp Watch

Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012). Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound by John Keeble. HarperCollins, 1991). The History of the Standard Oil Co. by Ida Tarbell (1904).

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Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors

Corp Watch

Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012). Out of the Channel: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound by John Keeble. HarperCollins, 1991). The History of the Standard Oil Co. by Ida Tarbell (1904).

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Louisiana Second Circuit Addresses: (1) Creation of Mineral Servitudes Via Notarial Acts of Correction; (2) Obstacles Suspending the Prescription of Nonuse from Running Against Mineral Servitudes; and (3) Payment of Court Costs in Concursus Actions

The Energy Law Blog

Therefore, the trial court did not err in ruling, as a matter of law, a notarial affidavit of correction cannot be used to correct the omission of a mineral rights reservation in a sale of land, since reservation of real rights is a substantive issue which implicates the thought process and intention of the parties to the transaction. [14]

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