Legal Research

Fleischer on Taxing Sovereign Wealth Funds
Vic Fleischer has a very interesting post entitled Taxing Sovereign Wealth Funds. Here's a tiny taste: The big worry is that these sovereign wealth funds are Trojan horses which will allow foreign governments to shape and influence American enterprise in...

Sovereign Wealth and Sovereign Power - The Strategic Consequences of American Indebtedness
Sovereign Wealth and Sovereign Power - The Strategic Consequences of American Indebtedness, Brad W. Setser, Fellow for Geoeconomics, Council on...

Senate Finance on Taxing Sovereign Wealth
The Senate Finance Committee is interested in taxing sovereign wealth funds. Or at least they want to learn more: Baucus...

Fleischer: A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth
Victor Fleischer (Illinois) has posted A Theory of Taxing Sovereign Wealth, 84 N.Y.U. L. Rev. ___ (2009), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Sovereign wealth funds enjoy an exemption from tax under section 892 of the tax code...

The SEC doesn't like Sovereign Wealth Funds Either
You'd think that most countries would be happy to get fresh billions in foreign investments.  But that hasn't been the reaction to sovereign wealth funds, the hot topic at Davos and in a series of law review articles coming your way...

Sovereign Wealth Funds and Activism
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Activism In this podcast, Ron Orol, Senior Writer for The Daily Deal, The Deal and TheDeal.com and author of "Extreme Value Hedging: How Activist Hedge Fund Managers Are Taking on the World,"discusses sovereign wealth funds, including:...

Dumb Foreign Laws
Stupid Laws of Other Countries

Foreign Investment and National Security Act of 2007
Strengthens examination requirements of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States

Power of Attorney and Living Wills for the aged
Options for caring for aging parents

Estate Planning
Documents: durable power of attorney, living will, letter of instruction, and insurance trust

Grandparents Visitation Rights
Every state lets elderly grandparents petition to visit grandchildren

Living Wills and Powers of Attorney
Laws effecting the elderly

MRI Health Risks
alleging gadolinium based contrast agents pose health risks.

Schwan's Frozen Chicken
Recalled for Foreign Materials

Repossessed car wins $700,000 Settlement
A class action lawsuit that was brought against Virginia Beach-based Tidewater Finance Co., alleging that the company had questionable repossession practices, has been settled.

Signal International
allegedly lured foreign workers to US shipyards with false promises of permanent resident status.

Asbestos-like Nanotubes
Pose Serious Health Risks

Black Henna Tattoos with PPD
Pose Serious Health Risks