Taxation & Estate Planning

Contemplating Alternatives To Incarceration
In an article for the ABA Journal, Ben Trachtenberg, a visiting law professor at Brooklyn Law School, writes that the nation’s incarceration rate continues “top the world in per capita imprisonment” and that it is long past time for policymakers to revisit the subject...

Peggy Noonan on GOP Leaders:
Peggy Noonan has a powerful essay in the Wall Street Journal on how Republican politicos in DC lost their way in the years of the Bush Presidency:...

CA1: who determines whether a termination is for cause (and defamation)
Noonan v. Staples, Inc., No. 07-2159 (8/21/08) affirms a grant of summary judgment to Staples. Noonan was fired. Staples says he was fired ?for cause? and therefore it doesn?t have to treat him like a man: he can?t exercise his...

One (of many) brewing Heller test cases
The New York Sun has this interesting report on what could be an interesting Heller test case: In a sign that federal courts here in New York will defend New York City's restrictive gun regulations, a judge is allowing the...

Meet the Sexism
Guests on today’s “Meet the Press With Tim Russert” were historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jon Meacham (Newsweek), Peggy Noonan (Wall Street Journal), Tom Brokaw (NBC) and Michele Norris (NPR) (L to R, above)...

Refusing Temporary Accommodation
Once someone is in temporary accommodation, following an acceptance of the full housing duty to a homeless person by the local authority, what happens when that temporary accommodation becomes unreasonable for the household to continue to occupy, but alternative temporary accommodation is refused by the tenant? Muse v London Borough of Brent [2008] EWCA Civ 1447 [...

Noonan on Palin: The rest of what was said, and what she thinks
You can rely on remarks wrenched badly out of context from a recording made of her unguarded remarks on an open microphone. Or you can read the rest of what Peggy Noonan said, and what she really thinks, about Sarah Palin's nomination...

Cancer Test for Women Raises Hope, and Concern
The New York Times reports that the FDA is concerned about a new blood test aimed at detecting ovarian cancer at its earliest stage, saying that the data appears insufficient to back the company's claims about the test...

How to Stop Home Foreclosure
Bankruptcy can Stop Foreclosure

Dumb New York Laws
Stupid Laws in the Empire State

Child Support
Disputing Paternity

Language Requirements for Citizenship
Naturalization without an English language test

New York Building Codes
Building and constructions laws in New York

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

Medical Records
To Stay out of Pharma's Hands

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

Water Samples
Govert Well & Pump agrees to $100,000 settlement after failing to test for coliform bacteria.

Canadian Government
allegedly used Canadian soldier as test subjects for nuclear explosion radiation exposure.

Aetna Settles with New York State for $20 Million

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