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  • We Should Have A “Which” Hunt Instead of A Witch-Hunt

    I told you so. One has to be selective about whom at AIG to direct our “bonus anger”. As “Exhibit A” I give you the resignation letter of Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of AIG’s Financial Products unit, to AIG president Edward Liddy, which appears as an op-ed in today’s New York Times. Quoting from his letter: “I started at this ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by mathpol on March 25, 2009

  • The Merrill-Lynch-Mob

    Welcome to mob rule, as orchestrated by the House of Representatives, who yesterday created a “bonus tax bracket” of 90% on bonuses paid by certain companies receiving Federal Bailout money. Forget about contracts, the rule of law, the fact that Eliot Spitzer engineered the departure of longtime AIG chief Maurice Greenberg by threatening a ...
    Posted to Today's Papers by mathpol on March 20, 2009

  • Re: Legal talk

    But the point of the City's actions isn't to make the BSA accept gays -- the Supreme Court already struck down a similar New Jersey law in BSA v. Dale. The City wants to raise the rent, which is financial, and is therefore barred.
    Posted to Hot Document by Silent Cal on October 25, 2007

  • Re: Legal talk

    You're right that the Philadelphia law is a law of general application. Does that make it exempt from the Contract Clause? If, in United States Trust Co., the state had instead passed a law that repealed all transportation laws, would the voiding of the contract have been valid? It still would have impaired the obligation of contract in ...
    Posted to Hot Document by Silent Cal on October 25, 2007

  • Legal talk

    Ok let's straighten out a few things: -It's not ''ex ipso facto,'' it's ''ex post facto'', and it's relevant to criminal punishment, not contract law. -The Rule Against Perpetuities applies to conveyances, not contracts, and in any case has an exception for charities, such as the BSA. In addition, the Rule was repealed in Pennsylvania in ...
    Posted to Hot Document by Silent Cal on October 24, 2007

  • BSA policies and procedures

    The BSA has struggled for decades with its sense of responsibility (as have public education and religious organizations) for protecting its immature and/or impressionable members from possible exposure or exploitation by practicing pedophiles (or atheists, militarists, religious zealots, murderers, etc.). Excesses have attended policy definition, ...
    Posted to Hot Document by Bruce Gruber on October 24, 2007

  • ok, but do they atleast get it back?

    It looks like to me that a gentlemen's contract was formed between the city and the boy scouts of america (bsa) in wich bsa agreed to give the city the structure so long as the city allowed the bsa rent-free access to the structure. At the time i'm assuming there was no underlying statement that the bsa could continue to do so as long as they ...
    Posted to Hot Document by Ferdoc on October 24, 2007

  • The BSA and the Obligation of Contract

    According to this article, ''[t]he Boy Scouts built the historic structure in 1928 and then deeded it to the city, which in exchange agreed to let the scouts use it in perpetuity rent-free.'' If the city really did agree to let the Scouts use the building rent-free in perpetuity in exchange for deeding the building to the city, this is a ...
    Posted to Hot Document by Silent Cal on October 24, 2007