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But the parties involved, he added, “are not free to negotiate a resolution that would be contrary to international law.”

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Leo Wise urged Scarsi to reject the Alford plea, stating that doing so would be “contrary to the rule of law” and “an injustice.”

If true, the company’s conduct “would be contrary to what was reflected in our contract. There is specific language in the contract that would not allow for some of those shortcuts being made. That is one of the areas that the task force will be looking into.”

“But we’ve seen a trend across the United States of forcing faculty, in order to remain employed, to formally endorse a set of beliefs that may be contrary to their own, all in violation of the First Amendment.”

District Court Judge J. Campbell Barker concluded that the NLRB’s new rule would be “contrary to law” and that it was “arbitrary and capricious” in regard to how it would change the existing rule.

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