The acting police chief of Seattle (acting because the black female chief resigned rather face a punitive pay decrease among other things) said today that they will start arresting rioters who destroy property or assault people.
He said the SPD has the support of the city attorney. The Seattle city attorney, Pete Holmes, is mostly famous for not prosecuting anyone.
The chief said it had nothing to do with who occupies the whitehouse.
I took a technical writing course in engineering school and much later a legal writing course in law school.
After LS when I started writing stuff that mattered, I studied Bryan Garner's Lawprose work. At one law firm they invited him in to give a class. I really learned a lot from his books.
One thing I hold on to closely is to respect the time of your reader. (Especially busy people like judges.)
President Obama's DOJ broke the asylum system by allowing local non-state crime or poverty to be grounds for claiming asylum. This change triggered the family/children caravans and general flooding of the border with women and children.
When I used to do employee-side employment law, the story of almost every client or potential client included a visit to HR that preceded workplace retaliation and/or termination.
Back in the day my first tech job was at a startup. The VP of Engineering was the first person to tell me to never be loyal to a company. This came up in a one-on-one meeting where we were discussing a pending merger with a larger corp. I began to mumble something about wanting to be loyal to the company and he immediately cut me off to tell me to never be loyal to a company, including the one we both were in at the time.
In McGirt v OK, the SCOTUS held that Congress did not take the necessary action to rollback/modify the prior treaty as it applied to criminal jurisdiction.
Ambiguities result in increased litigation expense. Each argument over what a term means or how it should be interpreted is very expensive. These kinds of disagreements often need to be resolved early in the case by expensive motion practice.
It is much cheaper if both sides are willing to stipulate that they are in agreement with what the terms mean. Then you can get to fact finding and settlement talks with less upfront cost.
While severance benefits may help with company goodwill or assuage the feelings of the survivors, I believe the real reason is mostly number 2.
Exit aggreements almost always come with liability/discrimination disclaimers and usually new or updated language related to disclosures, company equipment, digital access, IP rights, non-compete language, and so on. Tying the exit agreement to new money provides the necessary consideration to establish a valid contract.