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February 2009 Newsletter |
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 | What effect may the recession have on your practice?
By NANCY GARDNER, ESQ. |
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Some economists are describing the events on Wall Street as the "worst market crisis in 60 years." Banks, Wall Street, the auto industry, large municipalities and giant insurers are calling for financial bailouts from the federal government. Pessimistic pundits predict another great depression unless Congress immediately passes a near trillion dollar "stimulus package" to jump start the economy and encourage lending. The most optimistic forecasts maintain that we are in a recession that began in April 2008 and will last until at least the end of June 2009. Assuming this prediction is accurate, we are half way through a 14 month recession. Only two other recessions, those occurring in the mid 1970's and early 1980's have lasted longer than the current prediction.
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| When Something Needs To Be Done, Please...Don't Take The Initiative!
By JAMES KENNA, ESQ. |
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Even though the Framers never used the actual word democracy, we learned in elementary school that the United States is a constitutional republic, a form of democracy. More precisely it is a representative democracy and the elected members (435 Representatives and 100 Senators nationally) chosen by a majority of the voters, are charged with the responsibility of acting in the people's interest. Contrast this with direct democracy where the citizens who choose to participate directly make laws, instead of voting for representatives to decide for them. The ballot initiative, referendum, and recall, are the methods of direct democracy permitted in the United States and have gradually gained favor with the electorate. Approximately half the states allow some form of direct democracy but nowhere is the initiative process adopted with such unbridled enthusiasm as here in California.
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| Combatting The Injustice Of The "Reformed" Workers Compensation System By Finding Ways Of Additional Recovery For The Injured Worker In The Civil Courts: A New Path To Justice, California
By JOHN MCCARTY, ESQ. |
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On April 19, 2004, Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law Senate Bill 889 providing for Worker's Compensation "reform." Although Governor Schwarzenegger's administration declared that the "strong reforms" were to "improve care for injured workers," they had to admit that it was designed to "save jobs" and "reduce costs" for employers. Injured workers advocates knew that however phrased, the reform only meant further destruction of the rights of injured workers who had already lost so much over the preceding years with each so called "reform" movement.
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