The Peculiar, Mo., Board of Aldermen is facing accusations that it violated Missouri’s Sunshine Law after the board allegedly talked in a closed session about an across-the-board pay cut for city workers.According to the Cass County Democrat Missourian, Peculiar City Attorney Reid Holbrook thinks the board was on solid ground.“First of all, we went into [...]
Walter Olson of PointofLaw.Com writes about a tax break that is in the works for trial lawyers: [T]he litigation lobby is quietly preparing to push through a $1.6 billion (with a “b”) tax break for contingent-fee lawyers that would let them deduct expenses as made, rather than in the year [...]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Regulators shut down four regional banks Friday, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said, bringing the total number of banks to fail in the United States to 68 this year. Friday’s bank closures will cost the FDIC fund $215.7 million, bringing the total cost for failed banks [...]
EVER since the restoration of the Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary, incidents of lawyers’ scuffle with the staff of other departments have increased. There was a scene with the staff of the Revenue department Mianwali and then a similar incident at Faisalabad, soon it was followed by the scene with the Police at Sargodha when [...]
Associated Press Writer= WASHINGTON (AP) â?” A former U.S. attorney for Nevada who was forced to resign during the Bush administration could soon be getting his old job back. President Barack Obama nominated Daniel G. Bogden on Friday to serve as the United States attorney for Nevada. Bogden was one [...]
After two years of negotiations, New York State and two unions have worked out a two-year contract that will provide health insurance and set payment rates for the 54,000 home-based child care providers whose services for low-income families are subsidized by the government.Under the contract, health insurance will be phased in over time through Family [...]
As the debate over healthcare reform really gets going, DrRich would like to put to bed, once and for all, one minor point that keeps being raised by supporters of the Obama plan. Namely, that it’s ethically reprehensible for HMOs to take profits out of the healthcare system. This point, of course, is [...]
PhD student Joel Tenenbaum was fined $675,000 after admitting to illegally downloading and distributing 30 songs using the file-sharing software KaZaA. Tenenbaum’s attorney and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson stated that the figure was “bankrupting”. Tenenbaum… read more
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Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has sent a bouquet of flowers and a note to the woman whose 911 call led to his arrest earlier this month. Wendy Murphy, attorney and spokeswoman for Lucia Whalen, said today that Gates had sent her client a bouquet of flowers [...]
Have you or anyone you know found yourself the victim of medical malpractice? If so, you are one of thousands of people who have been injured due to the negligence of a health care professional. Philadelphia malpractice attorneys are there to help you file a malpractice claim and seek the financial compensation that can help [...]
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