Taxation & Estate Planning

"Judge Dismisses Connecticut's Challenge to Education Law"
"Judge Dismisses Connecticut's Challenge to Education Law": The New York Times today contains an article that begins, "A federal judge has dismissed a closely watched challenge to President Bush's signature education law, ruling that the State of Connecticut failed to prove that federal officials had forced it to spend its own money to comply with the law’s requirements...

Joint Bidding By Private Equity Firms: Federal Court Dismisses Private Antitrust Challenge
Joint Bidding By Private Equity Firms: Federal Court Dismisses Private Antitrust Challenge A few months ago, in the wake of the Department of Justice's inquiry into alleged anti-competitive behavior among private equity firms, a handful of class actions have been...

"US court again dismisses challenge to military ban on gays"
"US court again dismisses challenge to military ban on gays": Agence France-Presse provides this report on today's First Circuit ruling, which I first reported on in the post immediately below...

Get Your Tax Refund In Record Time!
It’s February 23, and my 2007 federal tax refund is already in the bank. Where’s yours? Tax refund options I already wrote about tax deductions, so now it’s time to look at the best way to get your tax refund...

District Court Dismisses Group Libel Case Against NBC Universal
The U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has granted the defendant's motion to dismiss in the case of Diaz v...

Federal court dismisses challenge to 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' US military policy
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit [official website] Monday dismissed [ruling, PDF] a challenge to the US military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy [statute text; HRC backgrounder] which provides for the discharge of openly gay service members...

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Unwed Fathers' Rights in Adoption
Landmark Cases in Adoption Law Shape Law with respect to Unwed Fathers

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 ...

Is a child fathered out of wedlock by an American diplomat to a foreign women on foreign soil entitled to US Citizenship by jus sanguinis?
This is a very tough situation your friend is in. It is difficult to know the ex...

Did I harass someone?
Oh, yes. This can be taken in as so many things, especially since you had testif...

How can I get my parents away from my bulling brother?
First of all, if you are paying your lawyer, you should not be on the back burne...

I was fired on June 3, 2002 in Massachusetts because I reported discriminatory behavior by the employer towards a particular nationality. In July I filed a discrimination/retaliation complaint against the employer with t
It seem sin your case that the fact you filed the complaint prior to being dissa...

Rutland School District
Double pay offered as part of class action wage dispute settlement, pending court approval.

Evenflo
Recalls Telephone Toys Due to Choking Hazard

Qiao Xing Universal Telephone
settles class action for $2.4 million

Billing Overcharges
T-Mobile USA agrees to refund customers $2.2 million in class action settlement.

Impounded Vehicles
City of Miami may have to refund $12 million in collected fees in class action settlement.

Property Tax
City of Midland agrees to refund Midland Cogeneration Venture $36.2 million for over assessing land.