Taxation & Estate Planning

Is California Going Bankrupt?
John Chiang, the chief financial official in California, has recently announced that California may not be able to pay billions of dollars in income tax refunds...

STIMULUS AS PAYOFF: Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in ?08. ?Billions of dollars in ?
STIMULUS AS PAYOFF: Billions in aid go to areas that backed Obama in ‘08. “Billions of dollars in federal aid delivered directly to the local level to help revive the economy have gone overwhelmingly to places that supported President Obama in last year’s presidential election...

Bailout priorities
The logic seems to be that hundreds of billions of federal dollars can fly out the door to prop up financial institutions, often with relatively little oversight, so long as tough limits are imposed on the (sometimes trivial) share of...

TORTS: South Carolina Opens Door to Negligent Hiring Claim
John Day at Day on Torts Blog posts on a South Carolina decision - South Carolina Opens Door to Negligent Hiring Claim...

Citi, UBS AG Agree to Buy Back Billions in Auction-Rate Bonds
Citi and UBS AG, two of the world's largest banks, have agreed to buy back billions of dollars worth of auction-rate securities sold to their customers -- and to pay hundreds of million dollars in penalties -- in two separate...

Chapter 7 Trustee Goes After 2009 Prospective Tax Refunds
Bankruptcy trustees may be more aggressively seeking your income tax refunds. Tax refunds are non-exempt money in most bankruptcy cases...

How do i go bout geting a free laywer to sue the durham police department for drug raids and nothing is found?they have been in my house 4 or 5 times seems like every 4 months or so and breaking down my door tearing up m
They need a warrant to get into your house...if they never showed you one...you ...

Does a lawyer have the right to ask what your religion is when it has nothing to do with the situation?
In divorce issues and the children's well being religion doesn't matte...

Bar issues include constant trash in front of my business, left over open containers of alcohol and broken beer bottles in parking lot. Overnight parking in front of my business from bar customers who drank too much and
Find out about city ordinances. Talk to them and see how they can help; be court...

Can a creditor/collection agency call other employees at your place of work AND call your adult children who live in another state?
A creditor can call you at home, several times a day if you aren't answerin...

I am being accused of hitting a 7 yr old child with my car, but I honestly don't think I hit the child. The Child was never knocked down, ran around my car to go back to ball practice, and was walking around with the par
You are in a serious situation. Get a lawyer immediately. Make no statements to ...

Specialty Lamp International
Recalls Counterfeit Circuit Breakers

Evenflo
Recalls Telephone Toys Due to Choking Hazard

Qiao Xing Universal Telephone
settles class action for $2.4 million

Canadian Government
former RCMP officer claims thousands of disability dollars clawed back.

Ford Focus
Consumer Class Action Settles for Cash Refunds

Frank Bluestein, The Maximum Financial Group, Inc., Questar Capital Corporation, and Gunnallen Financial, Inc.
alleging schemed investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.