Legal Commentary

Lending Tree A Little Late In Cutting Off Network Access
Luke Mullins, associate editor at US News & World Report and author of the blog "The Collar," had a post Thursday about a disturbing letter that former Lending Tree mortgage customers received this week...

Pro Wrestler Kurt Angle Arrested at Home For DUI
Pro wrestler Kurt Angle was charged with driving under the influence and careless driving in Pittsburgh based on a witness? statement. One witness claimed Angle almost hit a car with his white Cadillac Escalade...

Tax Angle in Charlie Bartlett
There is a tax angle in the movie Charlie Bartlett: the main character's father is in jail for tax evasion, but the principal tries to reassure him by saying "there are worse crimes than tax evasion...

Tax Angle in Smart People
The movie Smart People has a tax angle: the daughter (Ellen Page) of the main character (Dennis Quaid) wants to donate the clothes of her deceased mother to charity for the tax deduction...

Tax Angle in National Treasure: Book of Secrets
There is a tax angle to the current hit movie, National Treasure: Book of Secrets. Supporting character Riley Poole (played by Justin Bartha) did not pay taxes on his share of the Declaration of Indepence he helped find in the...

Texas Water Safari 2008: Luling to Palmetto
Immediately after leaving the Luling Dam area we came to a slight bend in the river where the current was running into and under a downed tree. There was a crook in the trunk of the tree over the rushing...

Falling Tree
City of Anaheim pays $700,000 wrongful death settlement after tree crushes a man to death while in his van.

Dollar Tree Stores Hourly Employees Bring Class Action
Dollar Tree Stores Hourly Employees Bring Class Action

Tree Stands
Ardisam Inc. pays $420,000 settlement for failing to report defective product to government officials.

Injured Immigrant Worker
Owner of Billy G’s Tree Care pays former employee $30,000 settlement after sustaining a severe chainsaw facial laceration.