CHICAGO – Plans to build Barack Obama’s $500 million presidential center on Chicago’s lakefront can move forward, a federal judge said Tuesday in dismissing an advocacy group’s lawsuit objecting to the use of historic public parkland. After hearing nearly an hour of arguments, U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey said there should be “no delay in construction.” “This case is dismissed,” he said. Blakey’s quick announcement in court surprised many. He later issued a detailed, 52-page ruling in which he called the park advocacy group’s arguments unconvincing. Protect Our Parks’ lawsuit, along with a federal review, has halted progress on the planned state-of-the-art museum and library that was supposed to open in 2021 in Jackson Park. The 500-acre park along Lake Michigan is on the National Register of Historic Places. Among other things, Protect Our Parks argued the city illegally transferred land for the park to The … [Read more...] about Judge: Obama center construction can move forward
Constructive dismissal cases
‘Bullied’ social worker unfairly and constructively dismissed by leading charity, tribunal rules
'Bullied' social worker unfairly and constructively dismissed by leading charity, tribunal rules BelfastTelegraph.co.uk A social worker was constructively and unfairly dismissed by a well-known local mental health charity, an industrial tribunal has ruled. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/bullied-social-worker-unfairly-and-constructively-dismissed-by-leading-charity-tribunal-rules-38030111.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/incoming/article38030635.ece/7059e/AUTOCROP/h342/judge.jpg Email A social worker was constructively and unfairly dismissed by a well-known local mental health charity, an industrial tribunal has ruled. Lynsey Wilson took a case against Praxis Care, which provides help for vulnerable adults and children with mental health issues and learning disabilities. She joined the charity as a team leader in 2011, working out of its Locke House base in Portadown. A four-day hearing in Belfast heard complaints by Ms Wilson that she had faced … [Read more...] about ‘Bullied’ social worker unfairly and constructively dismissed by leading charity, tribunal rules
Australian court dismisses case brought by man who accused boss of breaking wind
News / World by Press Association 29/03/2019, 10:16 am Send us a story Sign up to our Daily newsletter A bullying case brought by an engineer who accused his former supervisor of repeatedly breaking wind towards him has been dismissed by an Australian appeals court. The Victoria state Court of Appeal upheld a Supreme Court judge’s ruling that even if engineer David Hingst’s allegations were true, flatulence did not necessarily constitute bullying. Mr Hingst said he would take his case to the High Court, Australia’s final court of appeal. The 56-year-old is seeking 1.8 million Australian dollars (£980,000) damages from his former Melbourne employer, Construction Engineering. Mr Hingst told the court that he had moved out of a communal office space to avoid supervisor Greg Short’s flatulence. Mr Hingst alleged that Mr Short would then enter his small, windowless office several times a day and break wind. Mr Hingst “alleged that … [Read more...] about Australian court dismisses case brought by man who accused boss of breaking wind
From China to the APA, ‘medicalisation’ is used to dismiss political opponents
News & Analysis by Slavoj Žižek 4th March 2019 Share This Twitter Facebook Google+ Email In the Fall of 1913, Lenin wrote a couple of letters to Maxim Gorky in which, deeply disturbed by Gorky’s support of the humanist ideology of the “construction of God,” he implies that Gorky succumbed to this deviation because of his bad nerves, and advises him to go to Switzerland and get there the best medical treatment. In one of the letters, after making it clear how he is shocked at Gorky’s ideas –“Dear Alexei Maximovitch, what are you doing, then? Really, it is terrible, simply terrible! / Why are you doing this? It is terribly painful. Yours, V.I.”– Lenin adds a strange postscript:“P.S. Take care of yourself more seriously, really, so that you will be able to travel in winter without catching cold (in winter, it is … [Read more...] about From China to the APA, ‘medicalisation’ is used to dismiss political opponents
Ski doping allegations reveal web of interests, links to earlier cases
On Wednesday, Austrian police arrested a reported nine people on doping suspicions, including five skiers participating in the championships. As a result, the skiers were unable to start the men's 15-km race taking place that afternoon. As well as Veerpalu, 24, and Tammjärv, 29, two Austrian skiers, Max Hauke, and Dominik Baldauf, and Kzakh skier Alexey Poltoranin, were detained, though released ahead of the Estonian skiers. Hauke and Baldauf have both officially admitted their guilt, according to the prosecutor in Innsbruck as reported by Austrian regional daily Kleine Zeitung. Andreas Veerpalu. Source: ERR Kazakh sports and culture minister Serik Sapijev had expressed on Thursday certainty that Poltoranin was clean of any doping offences, daily Postimees reports. However, Poltoranin does have a strong connection with the other skiers, in particular the two Estonians, as we will see. Doctor Schmidt At the heart of the scandal, as reported by ERR's Tarmo Tiisler on the … [Read more...] about Ski doping allegations reveal web of interests, links to earlier cases