The government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Canadian Media Guild agreed to a broad contract settlement, ending a lockout of most of the network's English-language employees in time for the lucrative hockey season.
In addition to offering new protections for transgender federal employees, the executive order covers the broad federal contracting community -- some 24,000 companies employing 28 million workers, or about one-fifth of the nation's workforce.
On Monday, the court took away the automatic part, saying that the state's labor commissioner could "sever" the illegal action from the broader employment contract.
The debt ceiling "deal" might postpone the next budget confrontation past the 2012 elections, but it will shred social programs that serve working people and are vital to key Democratic constituencies, while tearing apart the broader social contract between the government and its citizens.
Although most of Live Nation's business is in concerts and ticketing, it already has some interests in recorded music through broad contracts with a handful of superstar acts like Jay-Z and Shakira.
The suit says that the Broad Collection's contract with Seele called for the engineering company to be paid $29.3 million, with no additional compensation if the work proved more costly or time-consuming than Seeele had anticipated in signing the deal.
Last year, Accel raised $2.8 billion in fresh capital, while the broader industry contracted.
On each accusation of corruption raised by Mr. Hevesi -- as well as on objections to the broader accelerated contracting process -- Justice Davis sided with the comptroller.
That touched off the broad investigation in contracts at the department, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in cooperation with the federal Labor Department and the city's Investigation Department.
"We have had preliminary discussions with the Broncos and with other teams as well, just on the broad outlines of a contract," Reale said.
