Taxation & Estate Planning

Asset Quality: Have U.S. Banks Turned the Corner
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis publishes a quarterly newsletter, The Central Banker. An article in the Winter 2010 issue suggests that the answer to the question about whether U...

Guidance on Section 877A
Michael A. Spielman (attorney, Cleveland, OH) recently published his article entitled Service Issues Guidance on Section 877A Exit Tax, 29 News Quarterly 11 (Winter 2010). The abstract available on SSRN is below: In June 2008, a new expatriation provision, section...

"The Economists Guide to Crime Busting"
The title of this post comes from the title of this article appearing in the Winter 2011 issue of The Wilson Quarterly. The issue has a series of article on mass incarceration with this lead-in: "Seven million Americans are in...

"Intellectual Property Litigation" - Winter 2008 SBOT Litigation Section "Advocate" magazine
You can tell how far behind I am when I post on issues of a quarterly magazine back to back. The latest Advocate issue, which I just saw yesterday in our Litigation Section meeting, is "Intellectual Property Litigation" and has...

SIGAR Releases January 2011 Quarterly Report to Congress
News release: "Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), Arnold Fields, released SIGAR's January 2011 Quarterly Report to Congress today....

Bank for International Settements Quarterly Review, March 2011
"The BIS Quarterly Review for March 2011, discusses how expectations of higher growth in the advanced economies and surging commodity...

Mr. Brown Instant Coffee
Possible Melamine Contamination Prompts Canadian Agency to Issue Warning

Murphy City, TX
$255,000 settlement in controversial pedophile news program case.

Newspaper Employees
Chinese Daily News must pay $5.19 million class action settlement for failing to pay overtime.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...