Taxation & Estate Planning

New York's Internet Tax Challenged
Amazon.com is challenging New York's Internet tax. The claim is that this new statute is unconsitutional. As an article in Media Posts Publication provides: The Web retailer argues that New York State can't tax it because Amazon has no physical...

Overstock.com battles New York's 'Amazon tax'
Unwilling to collect the Empire State's new "Amazon Tax," Patrick Byrne and Overstock.com have jettisoned their New York-based affiliate marketers.

WestlawNext Embraces the Kindle Platform
From the first issue of the free monthly WestlawNext email newsletter, NEXT.NOTES: Read WestlawNext documents anywhere?send them to your Amazon Kindle Documents, KeyCite results, and result lists can now be delivered from WestlawNext directly to your Amazon Kindle...

Report: State Budget Shortfalls Impact on Courts
In a 2008 report (Michael Buenger, State Courts and State Legislatures: A Funding Crisis Renewed, 2008), the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) cites to Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) research indicating that 29 states were facing serious operating shortfalls as of 2008...

Zelinsky on the Unconstitutiionality of New York's 'Convenience of the Employer' Rule
Edward Zelinsky (Cardozo) has posted on SSRN his recent piece in State Tax Notes: New York's 'Convenience of the Employer' Rule is Unconstitutional. Here is the abstract: This Article argues that New York's convenience of the employer doctrine is unconstitutional...

Amazon Bullies Back but the Target is Wrong
Earlier this week, Scotland on Sunday reported a story about how Scottish bookshops are being strong armed by Amazon not to undercut prices set on the Amazon Marketplace for their books...

Does Amazon Still Suck
My Amazon Sucks post, written about this time last year, is probably my most frequently hit post of all time. It seems a lot of people think Amazon sucks. I have pretty much boycotted Amazon since last year because they pissed me off--but I found a few good deals there this year and decided to give them another shot...

Amazon.ca
The book is now available on Amazon.ca

New York's judge-picking methods not a federal constitutional violation
It's true, as the plaintiffs say: New York's judicial selection methods are at best opaque and outdated, at worst hackish and corrupt (more). But as the U.S. Supreme Court has now just unanimously confirmed, the way to fix that is...

Dumb New York Laws
Stupid Laws in the Empire State

New York Building Codes
Building and constructions laws in New York

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

New York Employment Law
alleged violations of New York employment law.

Amazon
Facing Class Action over Book Deletions

Amazon Kindle
Class Action Filed over Cracking Defect

Aetna Settles with New York State for $20 Million

Oppenheimer ATM-Free New York Municipals
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Racketeering Class Action Filed on Behalf of Foreclosed New York State Homeowners
Racketeering Class Action Filed on Behalf of Foreclosed New York State Homeowners