Taxation & Estate Planning

Grant Competition to Support CC Licensing Adoption in the South Caucasus
We are very honored announced that our close collaborators, the Eurasia Partnership Foundation, has opened a grant competition to support the adoption of Creative Commons Licensing Framework in the countries of the South Caucasus...

Getting inside a killer's head
The Omaha World Herald has a two-day series that looks at Rob Hawkins, the man who killed eight people and injured six others at a Von Maur store late last year. The paper says it isn't trying to popularize Hawkins,...

How Does a Foundation Program Officer Decide How to Make Grants
At the Berkman Center’s lunch speaker series, Gary Kebbel of the Knight Foundation is with us today. I’m not sure that I’ve ever seen such a public, open discussion by a program officer of a foundation about how they do their work in funding great projects...

Foundation Is Questioned After Memoir Is Exposed
March 6, 2008, NY Times Foundation Is Questioned After Memoir Is Exposed By MOTOKO RICH The author who confessed this week to making up her memoir, ?Love and Consequences,? about growing up as a foster child in gang-ridden South-Central Los...

Analyzing the Impact of Antitrust Laws and Enforcement on Small Business
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol According to a study by the Small Business Administration, federal antitrust enforcement has little impact on small firms. ABSTRACT: Looking at two industries (retail grocery and timber), the researchers find that, independent of the type...

An interesting graph...
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy. Basically, over the period studied of the Rehnquist Court, with the exception of Rehnquist himself, the Justices all cast about the same number of votes to strike down laws as unconstitutional...

Dumb New York Laws
Stupid Laws in the Empire State

Dumb Texas Laws
Stupid Laws in the Lone Star State

Dumb California Laws
Stupid Laws in the Sunshine State

Dumb Foreign Laws
Stupid Laws of Other Countries

Cell Phone Use
Can Increase Risk of Brain Cancer 5 Times

California Labor Laws
alleged violations of California labor laws such as overtime pay, discrimination and harassment.

Soliris Patent
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. agrees to pay the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation a $10 million patent infringement settlement.

Negligent Death
Family of New York Times reporter awarded undisclosed settlement for medical malpractice.

Grubb & Ellis
alleging violations of fiduciary duties to shareholders and securities laws.

Hewlett-Packard and Staples
allegedly violated antitrust laws in collaborating on the sale of replacement ink jet printer cartridges.