Issues
Cash for clunkers, part 2: more questions and answers
June 22, 2009
Q: I own and drive two 1979 Fords — a customized van and a Lincoln Continental. Both are in good shape and I keep them maintained. However, since the clunker rule only allows vehicles made no earlier than 1984, I am barred from participating. Isn’t this age discrimination?
Open Mic in The Arena
June 20-21, 2009
Question(s) of the day: Cash for clunkers
June 19, 2009
Congress only provided $1 billion for the program, but everyone figures that’s just a down payment. "The industry is going to come racing back for more money," says Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign.
Honda shows off its ‘green halo’
June 8, 2009
"In contrast to General Motors saying the world will end if you pass this, Honda was saying we can live with it," said Dan Becker, director of the Safe Climate Campaign, an environmental lobby in Washington. "It was fairly earth-shattering — or earth-mending."
Phillips v. General Motors Corporation
289 F3d 1117 Phillips v. General Motors Corporation Los Angeles Times
289 F.3d 1117
Alvin K. PHILLIPS, as Personal Representative of the Estates of Timothy Byrd, Darrell L. Byrd, and Angela Byrd, deceased, and as Guardian of Samuel Byrd, minor child, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellant,
with LOS ANGELES TIMES, Intervenor-Appellee.