| Bix ticker: Friday | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 6:46:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | PHOENIX - The nation's largest nuclear power plant, a portion of which is owned by Public Service Company of New Mexico, may be facing repair issues involving millions of dollars. Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials said Thursday that they will begin a special inspection of the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station's core safety injection valves next week. NRC officials have scheduled a Nov. 20 meeting with the executives of the triple-reactor plant west of Phoenix to discuss ongoing repair issues. Palo Verde already is being watched by federal regulators, largely from a 2004 safety violation that had the potential to disrupt the water flow to the core's emergency cooling system. Nation Sports betting company barred from U.S. wagers ST. LOUIS - A federal prosecutor has reached a settlement with online gambling company BetOnSports PLC that permanently bars the London-based company from accepting any bets from the U.S.... | |
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| | | Valid? Power-of-attorney challenger may seek affidavit | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 12:46:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | One of the difficult legal issues today for people dealing with family members who purport to have a valid durable (financial) power of attorney of a loved one is whether the power of attorney is indeed valid. In this world of Internet and how-to books, how does a person know that the power of attorney is authentic, or currently enforceable? And how does a family avoid problems that occur when a person refuses to honor, or delays a decision to honor, a valid power of attorney? The General Assembly passed last year important laws to help with these issues. They are in the North Carolina General Statutes, which you can review at any of our public libraries (N.C.G.S. sections 32A-40-43.) "Good Faith Reliance. Unless a person has actual knowledge that the writing is not a valid power of attorney, or that the action taken or to be taken is beyond the authority or apparent authority of that power of attorney, a person who relies in good faith on a writing is generally protected.... | |
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| | | Duke Energy dukes it out in Supreme Court | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 6:46:13 AM by Blog57 Team | | A company operating coal-burning power plants was sharply critical of what it called "arbitrary" changes in government pollution-control rules over the past quarter century, in an important environmental case argued Wednesday before the Supreme Court. The justices appeared divided over whether Duke Energy Corp (Charts). should be punished for ignoring a federal enforcement program when it sought to modernize more than two dozen of its coal-powered generating units. .... | |
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| | | The Attorney General | | Posted Tuesday, October 24, 2006 6:46:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | One hundred and ninety years after Martin Van Buren used the position of attorney general to try to topple the governor, candidates Jeanine Pirro and Andrew Cuomo are trying to topple one another. Over and over again during their recent debate -- 16 times by one count -- Republican Pirro hammered her Democratic rival for a lack of experience, saying that as a junior prosecutor for only 14 months 21 years ago he did not understand the criminal justice system or know how to run a legal operation. And for good measure, she accused him of corruption. For his part, Cuomo charged that Pirro is under investigation not only for seeking to wiretap her husband Albert, whom she suspected was having an affair, but also for failing to pursue corrupt officials in Westchester County. (Two days later, current Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said there is no such corruption probe.) Such heated contests are nothing new for attorneys general.... | |
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| | | Easy marks for a White House con | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 6:45:49 AM by Blog57 Team | | "Never give a sucker an even break," W.C. Fields, the comical con man of so many old films, was famous for saying. He'd be right at home in the Bush White House. For we now have it on fairly good authority that the Bush team, led by Karl Rove, exploited the gullibility of Christian evangelicals to further Republican political ambitions while privately scorning them as "nuts" or "ridiculous" or "boorish" or worse. They mocked and laughed at their Christian shock troops, which is shabbily cynical but understandable. It must be hard for experienced con artists to feel anything but contempt for the suckers, or the marks as they're known on the street. Indeed, even onlookers feel little sympathy for marks, many of whom, maybe most, get scammed because they're promised something they shouldn't have in the first place.... | |
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| | | Punjab cancells LIT's power of attorney to Today Homes | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 10:45:42 PM by Blog57 Team | | Chandigarh, Oct 6: The Punjab government has cancelled the power of attorney executed by the Ludhiana Improvement Trust (LIT) to a Delhi-based private firm for developing a multi-crore project at Ludhiana."The local government has passed an order cancelling the power of attorney executed by the LIT to the Today Homes Infrastructure and Private Ltd on March 29, 2005," official sources told PTI here today.Under the power of attorney, the Delhi-based company was supposed to do various acts for the development of city center at Ludhiana under a joint venture on 25.29 acres of land owned by the LIT, the sources said.With the cancellation order, Today Homes would become incompetent to strike any deal related to the project in future, the sources said.Around 24 days ago, a section of media had exposed "gross irregularities" in the Ludhiana city center project.Following the expose, the main opposition Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and BJP demanded CBI probe into the alleged irregularities in the project that forced the state government to dissolve the LIT and ordere a inquiry into it.The blatant violation of the norm was non-formulation of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) by LIT to safeguard the state's interest and to monitor the project.... | |
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| | | Georgia Power consultant also sits on state DNR board | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 2:45:45 PM by Blog57 Team | | ATLANTA The latest member of Georgia's Board of Natural Resources, which oversees enforcement of environmental laws, is also a paid consultant for Georgia Power. And some see this as a possible conflict of interest. Governor Perdue appointed William Archer the Third to the board in June. Both say they see no conflict between getting a consultant's fee from a power company while also serving on a board that sets environmental policies and votes on water and air regulations. But Russell Willard, spokesman for the state attorney general's office, says Archer's appointment raises some concerns about potential conflicts. Archer says he would not allow a conflict to exist. And he says he is "open minded" to the possibility of recusing himself from future Department of Natural Resources board votes involving Georgia Power.... | |
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| | | AG won't give education board more power over textbooks | | Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:45:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | AUSTIN Attorney General Greg Abbott has refused to give the State Board of Education more power to review and reject content of public school textbooks. The ruling declines to give board members more authority beyond what was included in a 1995 state law. Socially conservative board members in January asked Abbott to overrule a ten-year-old opinion on that law that's limited board control over textbook content. Board member Terri Leo said former Attorney General Dan Morales misinterpreted the Legislature's intent. But the Legislature repeatedly has rejected bills over the past decade that would have given the board more control to screen and reject textbooks it might deem inappropriate. Abbott this week did reject one part of the Morales ruling, saying the board can review -supplemental materials-, such as teacher guides, workbooks and charts.... | |
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| | | When Is It Appropriate To Have A Power Of Attorney? | | Posted Sunday, September 17, 2006 12:45:35 PM by Blog57 Team | | A Power of Attorney is a legal document that authorizes one person to act on behalf of another in the legal or business dealings of the person authorizing the other. This type of document has a lot of relevance when, for example, somebody needs to execute some business or legal matter but is unable to do so for whatever reason. In the absence of the person, another person may be authorized to execute the matter through use of a Power of Attorney, which in common law systems or in civil law systems, authorizes another person to act on behalf of the person so authorizing the other. The person authorizing is known as the “Principal" and the person authorized is called the “Agent". The Agent may, on behalf of the Principal, do such lawful acts such as signing the principal's name on documents.... | |
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| | | Power of Attorney can file complaint on behalf of client:HC | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 2:45:48 PM by Blog57 Team | | Chennai,Aug 30: The Madras High Court has held that a power of attorney was entitled to sign in his own name a complaint on behalf of his client."A complaint even if not signed by the power of attorney on behalf of the complainant but signed in his own name is maintainable and not bad in law because it is more procedural than substantive," a Division Bench, comprising Justice P Sathasivam and Justice S Manikumar, said, giving their ruling on points raised whether a complaint could be signed by a power of attorney holder on behalf of a complainant.A single judge had referred a petition,for hearing by a Bench, filed by K Gopalakrishnan challenging a cheque bounce case filed against him in a magistrate's court based on a complaint registered in the name of the power of attorney of Karunakaran, in whose name the cheque was drawn.On the failure of the power of attorney to produce the deed or an affidavit of the complainant in proof of execution of the power of attorney at the time of filing the complaint, the Bench said it could be rectified by producing it at a subsequent stage of proceedings as and when the validity of the power of attorney was questioned by the accused."The court can then be called upon to decide the genuineness or validity of the power of attorney", the judges said and directed the registry to post the matter back to the single judge to be decided on merit.... | |
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