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Atrios Goes PUMA (Snark)
I kid, but I wonder if he will now be under attack for this post: Hopey Changey Ah well. The Obama administration is engineering its new bailout initiatives in a way that it believes will allow firms benefiting from the programs to avoid restrictions imposed by Congress, including limits on lavish executive pay, according to government officials...

Bowman on the state of criminal justice policy
Frank O. Bowman III (University of Missouri School of Law) has posted Prolegomenon on the Status of the Hopey, Changey Thing in American Criminal Justice (Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol...

Palin Ready to Run Against Hopey, Changey Policies With Combination of Oil and God
Like many bloggers, I find Palin irresistible to watch like a primate without an opposable thumb: a reverse evolutionary wonder that is able to function despite the obvious advantages of other competing mammals...

Chapter 7 Trustee Goes After 2009 Prospective Tax Refunds
Bankruptcy trustees may be more aggressively seeking your income tax refunds. Tax refunds are non-exempt money in most bankruptcy cases. If you file bankruptcy during the first four or five months of the calendar year, and you are due or...

Chapter 13 Debtors' Tax Refunds: Spend Or Turn Over To Trustee
Many taxpayer rely on their tax refunds to pay certain expenses they cannot afford on their normal salary. People who have filed Chapter 13 bankruptcy sometimes ask me what happens to their tax refunds during their bankruptcy...

Funniest thing I've heard this month
Fox News reports that lots of blog posters on my-obama-dot-whatever have written there that, based on Obama's policy reversals on such things as FISA telecom immunity, they've been calling his party headquarters demanding refunds of their campaign contributions...

Ford Focus
Consumer Class Action Settles for Cash Refunds

Oxford Health Insurance
$50 million refunds offered in overcharged insurance suit.

Energy Price Gouging
Inergy Propane announces refunds to customers as part of lawsuit settlement.

Elderly Annuities
American Equity Investment Life Insurance Co. allots $125 million in insurance malpractice refunds.