PETITION OF EMPLOYER FOR INJUNCTION PROHIBITING VIOLENCE ... an employer with standing to bring this action under Code of Civil Procedure section 527.8. ... and is filing this suit on behalf of the employee identified in item 2. .... threatened violence against an employee of the plaintiff, or stalked the employee, ...

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team is equipped and trained to respond to any tactical situation, including barricaded suspects, hostage situations, terrorist events and incidents involving weapons of mass destruction. JSO SWAT has undertaken on the enormous task of equipping, training and preparing its personnel to respond to all chemical, biological, nuclear, radioactive and explosives (CBNRE) related incidents in the region.

SWAT is staffed by employees from all areas of JSO. The members are sub-divided into several teams, each supervised by a sergeant. Each team member undergoes a variety of specialized training including: breaching, less-lethal munitions, chemical munitions and precision marksman operations.

http://www.threatcom.net/

Regional Domestic Security Task Force

After the terrorist events of September 11, 2001, and the national focus on homeland security, specific responsibility for the identification of Florida's domestic security issues and the coordination of State responses was tasked to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. While foreign and domestic terrorism remains a critical concern of the federal government, state and local governments clearly have an essential role safeguarding citizens, preventing domestic terrorism, and responding to any domestic security event or incident should one occur.

http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/content/getdoc/595aab23-67a2-4dd8-9bdb-e0dac2f25559/OSI-Home.aspx

FINANCIAL CRIMES ANALYSIS CENTER (FCAC)
The Financial Crime Analysis Center (FCAC) was created by the 2000 Florida Legislature, as directed by Florida Statute 943.032, and is housed within the Office of Statewide Intelligence. The FCAC assists law enforcement agencies and prosecutors investigating ongoing, organized drug trafficking, money laundering, terrorist financing, and investigations of other financial transactions suggestive of criminal activity. The information compiled by the FCAC is analyzed to reveal patterns, trends and correlations that are indicative of money laundering or other criminal activity. This information is made available to law enforcement agencies and prosecutors through tactical assistance requests and proactive research.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/money/onyourside/amarosarmy/news-article.aspx?storyid=153628&catid=3

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) -- When an aircraft carrier returns to the world's largest naval base, it doesn't take long for businessman Jake Cobb to know thousands of sailors are back from a deployment.

Many head to Cobb's spa and hair salon for a "high and tight" military cut, a massage or even a pedicure. Cobb offers a 10 percent discount to military customers and it pays off: they represent at least 30 percent of his business, located 6 miles from the base.

The community is tightly tied to the Navy by history, culture and economics. So a proposal to move one of the five nuclear-powered carriers from Naval Station Norfolk to Florida is making waves.

Business owners in particular are jittery about the prospect of Norfolk losing its exclusive claim as the East Coast's homeport for the Navy's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier fleet -- and the business impact of losing a carrier crew of more than 3,000 sailors. But the threat cuts deeper than dollars and cents in this town where a century ago Richard Ely became the first person to fly a plane from a ship.

Other links and excerpts to review for educational and research purposes and for case studies:

www.nasa.gov

With billions of dollars and thousands of jobs at stake, the tug-of-war over one the planet's most fearsome war ships is setting the stage for a political battle from governors' offices in Richmond and Tallahassee, Fla., to Capitol Hill and ultimately the White House.

The prospect of Norfolk losing a carrier has been kicking around for years. Then, in February, the Navy cemented the idea in its Quadrennial Defense Review Report when it suggested a carrier be transferred to Naval Station Mayport, north of Jacksonville, Fla.

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/23542509/MARINE-CORPS-OFFICER-MOS-CHART/

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
Posted on September 16, 2009, Printed

A Recipe for Disaster: School Cops Are Being Armed with 50,000-Volt Tasers

Tasers aren't 'non-lethal'; they've killed hundreds. With younger people being especially vulnerable to the taser's shock, the risks could be very deadly.

One spring day this April, at the Franklin Correctional Institution on Florida's Highway 67, Sgt. Walter Schmidt pulled out his Electronic Immobilization Device -- EID in officer parlance -- and zapped two people, who immediately "yelped in pain, fell to the ground and grabbed red burn marks on their arms," according to the St. Petersburg Times.

The two were not inmates at the prison, however. They were students visiting the facility as part of "Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day."

The move cost Sgt. Schmidt his job, despite his claim that he merely intended to demonstrate how the devices worked. He even asked the children's parents (who were also employees at the prison) permission first. "When they said 'sure,' I went ahead and did it," he told the Times.

The bizarre rash of student electrocutions might have been an aberration on Florida prison grounds, but the guards -- three of whom were fired and two of who resigned -- might be forgiven for assuming that such devices are somehow safe for kids. Even as news outlets across the country report episode after episode where police officers tase and use stun guns on unlikely people -- take the pregnant woman tased at a baptism in Virginia or the 72-year-old woman tased in a Texas traffic stop -- more and more police officers are being given tasers to carry into schools.

A "Non-Lethal" Weapon That Has Killed Hundreds

In December 2008, Amnesty International released a 130-page report titled "Less Than Lethal? The Use of Stun Weapons in U.S. Law Enforcement," which found that 334 people had died after being tased since 2001. (This figure is already obsolete.) The vast majority of these deaths were due to cardiac or respiratory arrest. Of the 334 victims, 299 of them were unarmed.

NAS Cecil Field is comprised of four separate facilities, the Cecil Field Complex (Cecil Field), the Outlying Field ("OLF") Whitehouse, the Yellow Water Weapons Department and the Pinecastle [Pine Castle] Electronic Warfare Target Area / Warfare Range.

Cecil Field was named in honor of Commander Henry Barton Cecil. Shortly before World War II, a 2,600 acre tract of land was purchased in Duval County and construction began on the "U.S. Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Cecil Field." The base got its start in June 1941, and operations were jump-started just 11 days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Cecil Field was commissioned as a Naval Auxiliary Air Station (NAAS) in February 1943. VF and VSB units of Advanced Carrier Group, Atlantic arrived at Cecil Field in late 1942 to commence replacement pilot combat training. In March 1943, the fighter training unit moved to nearby Lee Field, in Green Cove Springs, and NAS Cecil Field became the principal war-at-sea and dive- bombing training center for the Navy. From 1943 until the war ended, Cecil Field was a pilot's last stop before assignment to combat in either the Atlantic or Pacific fleet.

Cecil Field
13365 Aeronautical Circle
Jacksonville, FL 32221

Tel: (904) 573-1611

What was really behind the sudden untimely death of Michael Jackson at age fifty?

Looking at Michael's life history and the news media, it could be explained by drugs or stress, and it appears he did not have his health, but did The King of Pop know he was going to die?
stand by the claim that Michael Jackson was in fact intentionally murdered, only days away from embarking on, what looked like would be his last show in an overseas residency.

There are clear indicators that the perpetrators belong to an organized gangstalking group, and I believe the sole, or primary, murder weapon was directed energy weapons technology.

Throughout his entire public and personal life Michael was a target of this hidden evil called gangstalking, which is particularly crawling and prevalent

The international covert gangstalking system needs to be collapsed and I wish, along with many other target's, to expose this injustice because knowledge is key.

http://www.china-labour.org.hk/en/node/100362

Local government pressures dying miner to drop lawsuit against coalmine boss | CLB

retired coalminer with third-stage pneumoconiosis and living in poverty in rural Sichuan is being pressured by local officials to withdraw his work-related illness lawsuit against local coal baron, Liao Xing’an, one of the most powerful men in eastern Sichuan’s Qu county.

Xiao Huazhong, a 61 year-old miner from Longtan village in Qu county, brings up blood, has trouble eating and cannot walk even short distances without coughing and panting. He cannot work, has no medical insurance and has received no compensation from Liao Xing’an, a deputy to the Qu county people’s congress and deputy head of the county federation of industry.

With the help of China Labour Bulletin, Xiao filed a civil lawsuit against Liao for work-related illness compensation and continuing medical treatment costs. The case was heard in the Qu County People’s Court on 11 September 2008. Xiao lost the case in the first instance but filed an appeal with the Dazhou Municipal Intermediate People’s Court, which was heard on the afternoon of 24 December 2008.

However, five days before the appeal hearing, on 19 December, Xiao was ordered by the Longtan village government to attend a "mediation meeting" chaired by the county court and attended by the mine management bureau head, deputy head of the village government, and deputy head of the county labour bureau, Chen Yue. The defendant, Liao Xing’an, did not attend.

Xiao’s family and supporters believe the meeting was a trap set by the local authorities to make Xiao withdraw his lawsuit. During the meeting, deputy village head Li allegedly said: "Don’t sue; you are poor and sick, the government issues annual hardship allowances. As last year, it will provide 300-400 yuan to tide you over the New Year Festival. And next year you will get a basic subsistence allowance. But if you still want to sue, we will charge you with making malicious accusations and lock you up!"

http://publications.iowa.gov/1646/1/GRAYsc.html

WCC No. 9411-7186

vs.

ORDER AND JUDGMENT DISMISSING PETITION

This action for declaratory judgment was commenced by CNA Insurance Companies on November 22, 1994. The petition seeks a determination that CNA provide workers' compensation insurance coverage with respect to an August 17, 1993 industrial injury suffered by Kenneth R. Dunn (Dunn) while working for Big Truck Productions (Big Truck). Dunn, as well as Big Truck and the Uninsured Employers' Fund (UEF), are named as respondents.

According to the petition, Dunn claims to have suffered an industrial injury on or about August 17, 1993, while working for Big Truck. (Petition for Declaratory Judgment, at 1, ¶ 4.) The petition further alleges that at the time of the alleged injury, Big Truck was insured by CNA. (Id. at 1, ¶ 5.) The first prayer for relief requests that the Court find and order that "[i]nsurance coverage for workers' compensation benefits existed and is available to Respondent Dunn under the policy issued by CNA Insurance Company." (Id. at 3.)

On its face, the request for declaratory judgment is odd. An insurer is free to admit liability without permission or order of the Court. It is not harmed if the injured worker refuses to accept benefits.

The response filed by Dunn, however, provides additional information illuminating the real nature of the dispute. In that response, Dunn alleges that he indeed suffered a work-related injury August 17, 1993. (Respondent Dunn's Response to Petition for Hearing, Contentions 1-3. ) However, Big Truck informed him that workers' compensation insurance was provided through its payroll company, Axium. (Id. Contention 4.) When he checked with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI), Dunn learned that there was no record of insurance coverage for Big Truck. (Id., Contention 6-7.) Concluding that Axium's policy did not provide coverage and that Big Truck was otherwise uninsured, on February 16, 1994, Dunn commenced district court action directly against Big Truck. (Id., Contention 9.) In Count 1, the complaint invoked the court's jurisdiction under section 39-71-515, MCA, alleging that Big Truck was an uninsured employer. (Id., Contention 11.) The complaint also set forth two separate counts for negligence: one count of negligence for the injury itself and the other for the employer's failure to maintain workers' compensation coverage. (Id.)

On March 25, 1994, which was over a month after the filing of the action and more than seven months after the alleged injury, Big Truck for the first time asserted that it had workers' compensation insurance coverage under the CNA policy which is the subject of the present petition. (Id., Contention 12.) Despite the emergence of the CNA policy, Dunn persists in his claim that Big Truck was uninsured, alleging that the CNA policy was not properly registered with the DLI and that it does not properly provide coverage with respect to his injuries. (Id., Contentions 13-14.) He also alleges that Big Truck is estopped from arguing that it is insured. (Id., Second Affirmative Defense.)

http://z-c-s.com/Documents/Supreme%20Court%20Denies%20Review%20in%20Seven%20Labor,%20Employment%20Cases%20Jan.%2021,%202009.pdf

court exercising diversity jurisdiction in removed civil action for employment ... for having filed lawsuit? Petition for certiorari filed 10/8/08, ... reasonable inference that employer retaliated against employee for activity that is ...

No. 09-530

In the Supreme Court of the United States

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION, ET AL., PETITIONERS

v.

ROBERT M. NELSON, ET AL.

ON PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI
TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI

ELENA KAGAN
Solicitor General
Counsel of Record
TONY WEST
Assistant Attorney General
EDWIN S. KNEEDLER
Deputy Solicitor General
NICOLE A. SAHARSKY
Assistant to the Solicitor
General
MARK B. STERN
MELISSA N. PATTERSON
Attorneys
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. 20530-0001
(202) 514-2217

QUESTIONS PRESENTED

1. Whether the government violates a federal con tract employee's constitutional right to informational privacy when it asks in the course of a background in vestigation whether the employee has received coun seling or treatment for illegal drug use that has oc curred within the past year, and the employee's re sponse is used only for employment purposes and is pro tected under the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a.

2. Whether the government violates a federal con tract employee's constitutional right to informational privacy when it asks the employee's designated refer ences for any adverse information that may have a bearing on the employee's suitability for employment at a federal facility, the reference's response is used only for employment purposes, and the information obtained is protected under the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a.

PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDING

Petitioners are the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Ad ministrator of NASA, in his official capacity; the Depart ment of Commerce; and Gary Locke, Secretary of Com merce, in his official capacity.

Respondents are the California Institute of Tech nology, a defendant below, and 28 contract employees at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who were plaintiffs below: Robert M. Nelson, William Bruce Banerdt, Julia Bell, Josette Bellan, Dennis V. Byrnes, George Carlisle, Kent Robert Crossin, Larry R. D'Addario, Riley M. Duren, Peter R. Eisenhardt, Susan D.J. Foster, Matthew P. Golombek, Varoujan Gorjian, Zareh Gorjian, Robert J. Haw, James Kulleck, Sharon L. Laubach, Christian A. Lindensmith, Amanda Mainzer, Scott Max well, Timothy P. McElrath, Susan Paradise, Konstantin Penanen, Celeste M. Satter, Peter M.B. Shames, Amy Snyder Hale, William John Walker, and Paul R. Weissman.

The complaint named Does 1-100 as defendants but they were not identified as parties in the court of appeals.

http://myrick.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=52&sectiontree=13,52

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