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  [JURIST] A White House [official website] spokesperson said Wednesday that US President Barack Obama would veto proposed legislation [statement, PDF] that would reinstate the 40-hour work week requirement for employer health care coverage. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) [text, PDF] reduced the original 40-hour work week requirement to 30 hours in order to ensure more Americans would be covered by employers, but supporters of Save American Workers Act [HR 30 materials] argue the opposite has occurred. Supporters of the bill argue that the ACA has caused many employers to cut employee work hours in order to avoid having to cover those employees that met this threshold. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that it would cost taxpayers 47.5 billion dollars to shift back to a 40-hour work week requirement. The White House said the bill…

When it comes to human suffering, the IPCC doesn’t mince its words. According to its latest report – the culmination of seven years of research and intense negotiations – climate change is on its way to causing “severe, pervasive and irreversible” damage on the world’s people, cultures, ecosystems and economies.   The report identifies a series of imminent risks, including illness, the breakdown of infrastructure and public services, food and water insecurity, and loss of rural livelihoods.   The human cost of global warming has a name: climate injustice. The remedy, then, is climate justice. Climate justice is not just the recognition that climate change is a matter of human rights and development; it also involves recognising that the victims of global warming are not responsible for it, nor can…

Se a empresa não prevenir ilícitos de seus funcionários, representantes ou dirigentes, sofrerá sanções severas, como multa de até 20% do faturamento bruto. Na Constituição, improbidade é crime de responsabilidade do presidente, dos altos funcionários do Estado e de figuras que, além de enriquecimento ilícito e outras violações legais, praticarem atos como “inaptidão notória" e outros ilícitos culposos. Abusos e omissões já eram proibidos na Constituição de 1824. O Decreto 30, de 1892, apontava um rol de condutas ímprobas e a “desídia habitual no exercício das funções”. A Lei dos Crimes de Responsabilidade, de 1950, em vigor, prevê ações genéricas, incompatíveis com a honra, o decoro e a dignidade das funções, conceitos jurídicos indeterminados que podem significar dolo ou culpa. A Lei 3.502, de 1958, já revogada, de autoria de…

  Brasília – O presidente nacional da OAB, Marcus Vinicius Furtado Coêlho, enviou nesta segunda-feira (5) ofício ao novo controlador geral da União, ministro Valdir Moysés Simão, no qual apresenta o Manifesto à Sociedade Brasileira, destacando a urgente necessidade de regulamentação da Lei Federal nº 12.846/2013 (Lei Anticorrupção). Vale lembrar que a OAB também foi a responsável por cobrar do Poder Legislativo , no ano passado, a aprovação da lei.   Ao comentar a necessidade de regulamentação, Marcus Vinicius frisa que “a lei não somente zela pelos bens públicos mas também demonstra respeito aos cidadãos que pagam seus impostos. É importante ressaltar que um mercado regido por empresas “ficha limpa” torna-se mais justo no sentido em que os produtos correspondentes seriam adquiridos com base em sua real qualidade”.   Para…

  [JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida [official website] ruled [order] Thursday that Florida county clerks have a legal duty to issue marriage licenses for same-sex couples, while also noting that they are not ordered to do so. This ruling clarifies a stay on the August district court decision [opinion, PDF] that declared the Florida same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional [JURIST report]. US District Judge Robert L. Hinkle had stayed the decision to allow the defendants time to appeal the ruling and seek a further stay. The appeal reached the US Supreme Court, and the court declined to extend the stay [JURIST report], allowing the district court ruling to take effect. As a result of this Supreme Court action, Hinkle stated:   The preliminary injunction now in effect thus does not require the…

  El Tribunal Supremo ha respaldado el derecho de los padres de una joven que falleció en septiembre de 2011 tras ser inducida a la prostitución a cambio de sustancias estupefacientes, a acceder a su teléfono móvil para defender sus intereses y averiguar la identidad de uno de los traficantes de droga.   Así lo recoge la sentencia en la que confirma las penas s de cárcel que la Audiencia Provincial de Baleares impuso a siete acusados de inducir a varias menores de edad, una de ellas discapacitada psíquica, a prostituirse a cambio de dinero y drogas.   La Sala de lo Penal considera una prueba lícita los mensajes SMS aportados por los padres de la joven y que fueron obtenidos de su teléfono una vez fallecida. Los magistrados asimilan…

  U.S. investigators are seeking to settle a probe early next year into Morgan Stanley’s (MS) creation and sale of mortgage-backed securities before 2008’s financial crisis, the New York Times reported, citing a person briefed on the matter.   The Justice Department has been examining the relationship between the investment bank and New Century Financial Corp., a subprime lender that collapsed in the housing bust, the newspaper cited the unidentified person as saying. Authorities are focusing on Morgan Stanley after settling cases against firms including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp., according to the paper.   Morgan Stanley has said for years that it faces government inquiries into how it handled home loans and related investment products, and wrote in a November regulatory filing that some cases had reached “advanced stages.”…

  La Sala de lo Civil del Tribunal Supremo ha aplicado la cláusula “rebus sic stantibus” (estando así las cosas) a un contrato de arrendamiento de 25 años de la filial Accor Hoteles España con el propietario de un hotel en Valencia. Así, el Supremo ha dictaminado que la filial pague un 29% menos del precio pactado en el contrato y que el arrendador le devuelva el exceso del 29% que Accor ha pagado en rentas desde la presentación de la demanda.   La sentencia consolida la doctrina del Tribunal Supremo sobre el régimen de aplicación de la cláusula “rebus sic stantibus”, que permite la revisión de un contrato cuando surgen circunstancias nuevas a las existentes en el momento de su firma y las prestaciones de algunas de las partes son excesivamente gravosas rompiendo el…

  Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) was ordered to face a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general accusing the bank of fraud in sales of mortgage-backed securities before the recession.   A New York State Supreme Court judge rejected the bank’s request to dismiss the lawsuit, which demands as much as $10 billion in damages. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s suit was valid, and he demonstrated the bank may have engaged in misconduct, Judge Marcy Friedman said in yesterday’s decision.   The ruling may strengthen Schneiderman’s hand in punishing other banks in the future over liability for the financial crisis.   “We will appeal this particular decision and continue to defend ourselves in this case,” Drew Benson, a spokesman for Zurich-based Credit Suisse, said in an e-mail today.   Schneiderman sued Credit…

  [JURIST] The Obama Administration [official website] announced on Wednesday that it plans to expedite the closing of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archives]. Over the next six months the administration plans to transfer 64 detainees. President Obama has been in contact [Washington Post report] with the heads of several nations to facilitate the transfer. Currently the prison population is 132. However, within the next month the administration hopes to reduce that number to the mid-120s. Department of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel [official profile] has approved the transfer of five detainees by the end of the year, which will bring the total of detainees released in 2014 to 28.   The acceleration of the closure of Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] is a part of the administration's attempt to fulfill campaign promises made by President Obama in 2008, despite restrictions in the latest defense…