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WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Lloyd W. Brown, II, Corporate Community Reinvestment Act officer for Citigroup, has been elected chair of The Executive Leadership Council (ELC), the preeminent global membership organization for Black current and former CEOs, senior executives, and board members of Fortune 1000 and equivalent companies, top-tier entrepreneurs, and global thought leaders. The ELC s purpose is to open pathways of opportunities for senior Black executives to positively impact business and society. The organization works to increase the number of Black corporate CEOs, C-Suite executives, and board members. It is also focused on building the pipeline of the next generation of Black corporate leaders through its formal leadership development programs.
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Late on inauguration day, Jon Ossoff was sworn in as a United States senator for the State of Georgia, holding a worn-out copy of
Pentateuch & Haftorahs, which had been edited in the 1930s by Rabbi Dr. J.H. Hertz, Britain’s Chief Rabbi during the first half of the twentieth century. This “
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In a landmark announcement, the federal government has signalled
the birth of a modern sports betting industry in Canada. New
legislation has the potential to unlock the billions in gaming
revenue currently being generated in the grey
market .
What you need to know
After a decade of calls for gaming law reform, the federal
government has proposed to decriminalize single event sport betting
which, if passed, would permit provinces and territories to
regulate and license single event sport betting in Canada.
The Ontario Government has announced plans to launch a
The Need for Compensable Damage to Prove Standing
The United States Supreme Court has issued a decision in
Spokeo v. Robbins. In this Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) case, the Supreme Court considered whether Congress can confer Article III standing on a plaintiff s right to bring an action based on a violation of a statute where that plaintiff has not otherwise suffered a concrete injury. The Supreme Court concluded that a plaintiff must suffer an injury-in-fact that is concrete and particularized to satisfy Article III standing, but it offered little guidance on what those terms mean.
Courts in the Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits have all weighed-in on the standard. The Ninth Circuit explained that a procedural harm from a letter that allegedly failed to clearly identify the current creditor was insufficient. The Eleventh Circuit explained that a plaintiff lacks standing to bring a Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) case absent a showing of how the plaintiff wa
Meet the A-12 Avenger II a $5 Billion Stealth Project to Nowhere
The goal of a stealth bomber for the Navy did not come to fruition until years later with the F-35.
Imagine what $5 billion could be spent on today fixing America’s roads and other critical infrastructure, funding schools for the inner cities or simply paying down the national debt. Instead, that amount of money was used to fund the McDonnell Douglas/General Dynamics A-12 Avenger, a proposed attack aircraft that never even got off the ground.
Not to be confused with the Lockheed A-12 program from the 1960s, this project was born in the early 1980s as part of the U.S. Navy’s Advanced Tactical Aircraft (ATA) program. The goal was to develop a replacement for the Grumman A-6 Intruder with an aircraft that would utilize stealth technology.