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More Legal Shenanigans from the Biden Administration’s Department of Education

Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.

Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).  Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court’s humiliating rebuke last year of the Biden DOE’s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.

Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.

Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of…[more]

March 19, 2024 • 08:35 AM

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Wednesday, May 08 2013

Four Pittsburgh firefighters recently filed a lawsuit against several manufacturers alleging loud sirens on the fire trucks have caused them to suffer hearing loss.

Firefighters Ralph Bilski, Jeremiah Dengler, Roger Maher, III, and Mark Godlewski all have worked as firefighters for the city for years, some as many as three decades. They claim that the sirens have caused irreversible hearing damage and they allege that the trucks were defective in that they lacked sufficient insulation to protect their hearing. Additionally, they claim that the defendant manufacturers, American Lafrance, E-One Inc., Kovatch Mobile Equipment Corp., Mack Trucks Inc., Pierce Manufacturing Inc., Seagrave Fire Apparatus and Federal Signal Corp, failed to provide warnings about their use.
 
The lawsuit does not name the city of Pittsburgh as a defendant.

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazzette

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