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So-Called "Railway Safety Act" Constitutes a Political Handout to Big Labor That Does Nothing to Improve Safety At All

America as we know it was built largely upon and because of our rail industry, and today it remains a pillar of our economy.

Unfortunately, a destructive proposal before Congress misleadingly named the "Railway Safety Act" (RSA), part of broader surface transportation reauthorization, threatens great harm to our railroads.

Simply put, the bill has nothing to do with improving safety, but has a lot to do with advancing the political agenda of Big Labor.  At a moment when inflation burdens American families and fragile supply chains remain vulnerable to disruption, the last thing our economy or rail sector need is another costly federal mandate imposed upon one of the nation’s most important transportation sectors.

As an initial matter, as noted by The Wall Street Journal, the…[more]

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Wednesday, December 11 2013

A U.S. District Judge in San Jose, California, has turned the tables on the lawyers suing some giant tech companies.

Federal judge Lucy Koh found that a lawsuit that accused AOL and Microsoft of conspiring on a bogus patent auction with the help of Goldman Sachs was "frivolous" and "utterly lacking" in facts. Koh went one step further beyond dismissing the case, holding that the lawyers who had been "harassing" the tech companies with the frivolous lawsuit deserved to be punished--they have to pick up AOL's legal tab and other punishments are set to follow, which could include fines and disciplinary measures.

According to news reports, the case in question came about after AOL sold a portfolio of patents at auction to Microsoft for over $1 billion in April 2012, causing AOL’s share price to soar. One month later, the Rosenfarb Law Firm hit AOL with a class-action lawsuit that alleged the auction was a “sham” and that the two companies had decided to do the deal months earlier.

The court found that neither a Reuters news story pointing to a conspiracy nor a single, pseudonymous blog post supported the Rosenfarb Law Firm's suit.

—Source: money.cnn.com

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