Can the United States Be a Party to Binding Arbitration - The Constitutional Issues Re-Evaluated - Tenaska Washington Partners II v. The United States

It has long been assumed that the Constitution prohibited the United States government from entering binding arbitration as a party. The Department of Justice recently re-examined the issue and concluded that there is no absolute constitutional bar to government participation in binding arbitration.\u27 Tenaska is the first reported court decision to adopt the Department of Justice\u27s new reasoning. The court in Tenaska Washington Partners II v. The United States held that a dispute between a private party and a governmental agency must be submitted to binding arbitration when the parties\u27 voluntary agreement contains an arbitration clause.\u2

Mandatory Arbitration of Title VII Claims: A New Approach - Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. Lai

Many employees sign arbitration agreements as part of the hiring process. Often, these agreements are standardized forms composed by an employer or industry, and presented to the prospective employee as yet another form essential to employment. When the dispute that arises involves Title VII claims, should the employee be compelled to arbitrate those claims? This note examines one court\u27s approach to safeguarding judicial resolution of Title VII claims, as well as alternative approaches

The UHS Nutrition Initiative: Enhancing the ability of patients, employees and the community to "Eat Smart and Move More"

This journal is a publication of the Pitt Memorial Hospital sharing reserach and other scholarly work of its employeesThis article describes the obesity problem in eastern North Carolina and the responses that the Pitt County Memorial Hospital is taking locally to change policies and environments

The UHS Nutrition Initiative: Enhancing the ability of patients employees and the community to "Eat Smart and Move More"

This article describes the obesity problem in eastern North Carolina and the responses that the Pitt County Memorial Hospital is taking locally to change policies and environments

The UHS Nutrition Initiative: Enhancing the ability of patients, employees and the community to "Eat Smart and Move More"

This article describes the obesity problem in eastern North Carolina and the responses that the Pitt County Memorial Hospital is taking locally to change policies and environments

'Situated events' in fictional worlds: the reader's role in context construction

Focuses on textual strategies which become functionalized for narrative purposes when readers extrapolate contextual readings from them. Discussion on schema theory and the notion of gap-filling in context construction; Definition of text-derived knowledge; Implications for narrative theory