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The Supreme Court received much praise from the business community this year when it upheld the enforceability of consumer class action waivers . Some even believe that the ruling upholds mandatory arbitration agreements in employment contracts. Unfortunately, this may not be true. According to a recent California appellate court ruling, the Supreme Court destroyed consumer class actions. However,...

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The Sacramento Bee – October 10, 2011 Gov. Jerry Brown handed labor a legislative loss on Sunday by rejecting a union-backed bill that would have forced the government to post outsource contracts of $5,000 or more on the Reporting Transparency in Government website and then on the Financial Information System for California website, which is still under construction....

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Undercover officers in the NYPD Special Services Unit reportedly infiltrated Muslim student groups at several New York colleges. The investigation was part of a larger racial mapping program that targets Muslim and Arab communities from scrutiny without individualized suspicion.

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October 10, 2011 – Los Angeles Times Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed legislation that would have made it illegal for police to search a suspect’s portable electronic devices during an arrest unless they had a court-issued warrant for the search. Since he didn’t sign that bill into law, California police remain clear to search…[For full story: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/10/warrant-cellphone-tablet.html ]...

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BRUSSELS, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Europe's biotechnology industry has warned the European Commission that agricultural imports vital to EU food security are increasingly being put at risk, due to the slow pace of the bloc's approval system for genetically modified (GM) crops. See the original post: Biotech firms warn EU over pace of GM crop approvals

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An increased body of evidence shows that climatic variability is adversely affecting Ghana's natural resources such as land, water, forests and vegetation, as well as human capital. Read the rest here: Ghana: Climate Change Threatens Country's Food Security

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For better or worse, uncertainty pervades projections of global warming. Read more from the original source: The Case for Climate-Change Alarmism

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U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres lauded a climate change meeting in Panama as "good progress" this weekend, even as environmental activists warned that the world's only structure for curbing greenhouse gas emissions appears about to crumble. Here is the original post: Nations Heading to Durban Climate Talks Remain Deeply Divided

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Climate sceptics are winning the argument with the public over global warming, the world's most celebrated climate scientist, James Hansen of NASA, said in London yesterday. Read the rest here: Global warning: climate sceptics are winning the battle

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The air in the auditorium smelled faintly of burnt herbs. Josefina Lema Aguilar, a Kichwa elder from the mountains of Ecuador, lit a tiny sacred fire to bless last week's conference on "Seeking Balance: Indigenous Knowledge, Western Science and Climate Change." Read more: Indigenous People Sound the Alarm on Climate Change