Day archives: August 12th, 2010

BP to pay $50.6 million to resolve US Labor Department litigation

Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this news release: “The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced that BP Products North America Inc. will pay a full penalty of $50.6 million stemming from the 2005 explosion at its Texas City, Texas, refinery that killed 15 workers and …

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Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

CREW Files Suit Against Federal Election Commission

News release: “[August 11, 2010] Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and CREW Executive Director Melanie Sloan filed suit against the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, CREW v. Fed. Election Comm’n (D.D.C.). The suit seeks to end the FEC’s practice of summarily dismissing complaints …

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Subjects: Freedom of Information, Legal Research
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