• Johnson joins judges in California and Manhattan who have attempted to shut down lawyers like Weitz and Shore, who file lawsuits against bars, restaurants and retailers accusing them of violating the Americans With Disabilities Act and seeking fees under a provision of the law that allows courts to order the defendants to pay them.

    FORBES: Judge Raps Disability-Lawsuit Mill After `Client' Disappears

  • By failing to be specific in this article as to what it is precisely that the president said that should cause him to be removed from office, has the House effectively and unconstitutionally ceded its authority under this provision of the Constitution to the managers who are not authorized to exercise that authority?

    CNN

  • The purpose of the provision is both to unify POWs under a common set of guidelines but also to articulate to the enemy that our men and women in uniform will not willingly provide intelligence information.

    FORBES: Changing Rules of Engagement in the War on Swiss Bank Accounts

  • And I have opined that if the president does not renounce this rather preposterous claim of inherent authority to run roughshod over every provision of the Constitution under the banner of fighting a war, Congress needs to consider an express statute reining him in or even impeaching him.

    NPR: Gonzalez: U.S. Surveillance Legal

  • In Florida, the Reform executive committee petitioned to put Nader on the ballot under a provision of state law governing candidacies by minor parties.

    CNN: Court OKs Nader on Florida ballot

  • Under a provision of the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law that takes effect in July, all consumers who are turned down or don't get the best terms because of a credit score will get a copy of the credit score used, as well as information about where their scores fall among all consumers.

    WSJ: Getting Going: Why the Latest Credit-Score Fixes Fall Short

  • It turns out that under an old provision of the Clean Air Act, power plants do have to tell the government about their releases of one greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.

    NPR: And the Biggest Producer of Greenhouse Gases Is ��

  • They were established under a special provision of the bankruptcy code Congress passed just to deal with the millions of lawsuits filed by people who claim to have been exposed to the substance, which can cause lung disease and a rare cancer of the chest wall lining called mesothelioma.

    FORBES: Asbestos Is A Good Lesson For BP -- To Avoid

  • But as my colleague Ashlea Ebeling explains in a story here in Forbes about smart tax moves for the next two years, an immediate SUV write off is allowed again under a different, even more generous provision of the tax code, good through Dec. 31, 2011.

    FORBES: How To Take A 100% Tax Write-Off For A New Porsche, BMW or Cadillac

  • Whenever possible, each provision of these terms shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision is deemed prohibited or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity without invalidating the remainder of such provision or the remaining provisions of these terms.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Terms of Use

  • In this case, there is plenty of room under the flood provision, but the deductible is steep.

    FORBES: The Art Of Tapping Disaster Insurance

  • He sees his report as complementing the Independent Budget Review under Crawford Beveridge which, among many other things, questioned the universal provision of certain services.

    BBC: Sympathetic ear for 'flawed' social report

  • And while these losses are not subject to the 2% of AGI floor and are deductible in calculating alternative minimum tax, they will be subject to the overall limitation on the itemized deductions of a high-earning taxpayers under the newly-resurrected PEASE provision.

    FORBES: Former San Diego Mayor Gambles Away $1 Billion; What Are The Tax Implications?

  • Under Article 22 of the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights, there is a provision for respect of minority languages used in Europe.

    BBC: Minority language statement

  • Under the SEC's application of the so-called Sarbanes-Oxley fair funds provision, government penalties passed on to victims are not supposed to reduce any settlements won in court.

    FORBES: Here Come the Lawyers

  • Dewey said the Ninth Circuit allowed the plaintiff lawyers to sidestep a number of onerous provisions of class action law by certifying the class under a provision providing for injunctive relief.

    FORBES: Supreme Court Takes On Massive Wal-Mart Discrimination Case

  • Now it allows whistle-blowers to sue their corporations that are defrauding the United States Government under a qui tam (suit on behalf of the government and oneself) provision and receive a portion of any rewards.

    FORBES: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

  • Under a provision put into place in the early days of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, security contractors have immunity from Iraqi prosecution.

    CNN: Iraqi official: Blackwater staying on 'is bad news'

  • It is removing from law -- if it gets through the entire Congress -- would remove from the law a provision that was passed under the previous administration, and voted for by Republicans, including the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Bringing together the services under one document was "common sense" that would allow SEN provision to focus more on both the needs of the children and their education.

    BBC: SEN is 'too bureaucratic, too complex'

  • On behalf of the Conservatives, Janet Finch-Sauders, acknowledged the benefits of streamlining public services under a single integrated plan and called on the government to ensure that no service provision is downgraded through this process.

    BBC: Debate on public service reform

  • So far in 2011, shareholders at U.S.-listed companies are taking advantage of the Say on Pay provision provided under the Dodd-Frank Act, the legislative response to the 2008 financial crisis.

    FORBES: No Work and All Pay? Shareholders Will Have Their Say.

  • At Scarborough Magistrates' Court on 19 December Wilson admitted an offence under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 of abandoning a cat and making no provision for its needs, and two counts of theft.

    BBC: Pensioner Gordon Wilson trapped neighbour's cats in cage

  • Under current accounting rules most companies do not report the full costs of pension provision in their profit and loss account.

    ECONOMIST: The companies with the biggest holes in their pension funds

  • Many of the most eye-catching claims, such as the one (rejected) for the upkeep of a now-iconic moat, were made under this provision.

    ECONOMIST: It is payback time for naughty MPs

  • All or parts of 16 states, including Alabama, are currently covered under the provision.

    CNN: Court upholds key tool of Voting Rights Act

  • They joined up under a special provision that allowed the Syiems to retain their royal privilege to preserve the customs of the tribe.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | A Royal Tribe Under Threat

  • Under this provision, according to Mass Mutual, if any premium payment is not made by the end of the grace period, the amount due will automatically become a loan against the cash value of the policy, provided there is sufficient value in the policy.

    FORBES: Unfair Tax Court Decisions On Life Insurance Are Tip Of Unclaimed Property Iceberg

  • In the pastoral sector, the services that the negdel provided for herders under socialism the regulation of access to pastures, the upkeep of wells for watering animals, the provision of winter hay, a collective truck for transport to fresh seasonal pastures, and much more collapsed, and little replaced them.

    ECONOMIST: Nomadism in Mongolia

  • Its earlier plutonium production is thought to have produced enough fissile material for at least a couple of bombs, before it was frozen under a 1994 deal that involved compensation in the form of oil deliveries, chiefly from America, and the provision of two western-designed nuclear-power reactors, chiefly by South Korea and Japan.

    ECONOMIST: Giving diplomacy a chance

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