03/01/21
WorkersCompensation.com
Raleigh, NC (WorkersCompensation.com) - Governor Roy Cooper has appointed Wanda Blanche Taylor and Adrian A. Phillips to serve as Commissioners on the North Carolina Industrial Commission for six-year terms, subject to confirmation by the North Carolina General Assembly.
Taylor is a native of Plymouth, North Carolina. She is a Fellow of the College of Workers Compensation Lawyers and received her Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law and her undergraduate degree at Duke University. Currently, Taylor is the Director of Litigation/Counsel at Key Risk Insurance (a Berkley Company), and she also serves as a member of the North Carolina Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners. Previously, Taylor served as a Deputy Commissioner at the Industrial Commission for twenty years, including as Chief Deputy Commissioner. She has also represented both employees and employers/insurers in private practice.
sips the 1970s. they chose not to challenge that in court. we also explained the problem that they didn t allow agency counsel to be present at depositions. they chose not to challenge that in court. these were specific legal reasons, not blanket defiance, right? that s just a misrepresentation of the record. and there was no attempt to have that adjudicated in court, and the reason that there was no attempt is that the house democrats were just in a hurry. they had a timetable. one of the house managers said on the floor here, they had no time for courts. they had to impeach the president before the election so they had to have that done by christmas. that s why the proper process wasn t followed here because it was a partisan and political impeachment that they wanted to get done all around timing for the election. thank you. thank you, counsel. senator from vermont.
charge of obstruction into the senate where all they can present is, well, we issued a subpoena, and there were legal grounds asserted for the invalidity of the subpoena, and there were different grounds as i ve gone through. i won t repeat them all in detail here, but some were because the subpoenas were just invalid when issued because there was no vote. some is that the subpoenas for witnesses were invalid because senior advisers to the president had absolute immunity from compulsion. some were that they were forcing executive branch officials to testify without the benefit of agency counsel and executive branch counsel with them. so various reasons asserted for the invalidity and the defects in various subpoenas, and then no attempt to enforce them, no attempt to litigate out what the validity or invalidity might be but just bring it here as an obstruction charge is unprecedented. and i ll note the house managers have said and i m sure that they will say again today
years here. we pulled our hair out with this. we had everything else and we were constantly being stonewalled and stopped, had to actually issue subpoenas which finally the courts did rule, ask you ll think this is your problem. the courts ruled many years later that attorney general holder did violate not giving the information out, and that was actually done. it was many years later, and again, your clock can cand cale is a terrible master, but you promised it. the other thing is we talk about fairness here. my friend said, oh, this has been completely fair. nobody is questioning the fact that our folks got to question the witness. nobody is questioning that fact. but what about the fact of the majority preventing witnesses under rules from using agency counsel even under the auspices of an impeachment process. how about cutting off questions and authorizing someone from answering questions, you