Real Estate & Property Law

Community Benefits Agreements Gaining in Popularity
Beginning in the late 1990s as a mechanism for community groups to organize and work collaboratively to communicate and negotiate directly with developers for the purposes of addressing a host of community impacts, community benefits agreements (CBAs) were developed...

Berg on the Community Benefit Standard for Tax Exempt Hospitals
Jessica Wilen Berg (Case Western Reserve University - School of Law) has posted Population Health and Tax-Exempt Hospitals: Putting the Community Back into the 'Community Benefit' Standard on SSRN...

Tax-exempt hospitals and "community benefit"
This is a bit tardy but well worth noting here and reading the underlying documents as time permits. In July the IRS issued an interim report on community benefit in the hospital industry (news release), based upon responses to its 2006 questionnaire to 500 hospitals...

Alleghany County, PA Considering Community Benefits Agreement Local Laws
As first reported on the Community Benefits Agreement Blog, two proposals dealing with community benefits agreements (CBAs) were the subject of a public hearing a few weeks ago in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania...

EDNY Judge Rules Defendant's Proffer Statements Inadmissible at Trial
?Queen for a day? (proffer) agreements ? bare your soul to prosecutors in exchange for some limited protections ? usually benefit the government more than the defendant.  For one thing, in these agreements, the defendant gives up any additional protections...

Hello world! Watch the development of our Mu-based community
Posted to PTP development blogI?m going to use this blog as a place to document the technical development of the Promote the Progress site. I realize the patent community might not find my notes on PHP, MySQL and WordPress Mu to be particularly interesting, but figure the developer community might benefit from our adventures here...

Military Veterans Benefits, Part 3
Other Benefits

Pre-paid Leagal Services
What are Prepaid Legal Benefit Plans

VA Sets New Benefit Rules for Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses
Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses VA Sets New Benefit Rules

Lipitor
Review of Studies Show No Significant Benefit in Women

Unclaimed $14 Million Settlement
Ohio Charities to Benefit