Taxation & Estate Planning

New IRS Whistleblower Rules Are Issued by U.S. Tax Court
One of the most meaningful improvements of the new IRS Whistleblower Program authorized by Congress in December 2006 is that IRS Whistleblowers have an enforceable right to a reward when they report significant tax violations...

Oregon trial courts prepare for electronic filing
Oregon's move to "electronic courthouses" (a goal of the 2006 State of the Courts report) continues, with a series of proposed Uniform Trial Court Rules allowing electronic filing and service of circuit court documents...

Washington DC: National Park Service issues new rules on inaugural demonstrations
A Washington Post report begins: The National Park Service yesterday proposed rules that would expand the space for the public and protesters along Pennsylvania Avenue during inaugurations...

A Whistleblower Wins! A Whistleblower Wins!
In an unsual case (as far as the success rates of these cases (and here)), and one that might still be overturned by an appellate court, the DOL's Administrative Review Board (ARB) finds in favor of a mine cleanup whistleblower...

Trials of a prison whistleblower
Trials of a prison whistleblowerThree years ago, the director general of the Prison Service vowed the "indefensible" way one of its prison officers was treated for whistleblowing would never happen again...

IRS Tax Whistleblower Program Update: IRS Authorizes Contingent Fee Arrangements for Retaining Lawyers in Tax Whistleblower Cases
The new IRS Whistleblower Program authorized by Congress in December 2006 continued its progress this week, with the IRS's announcement yesterday approving the use of contingent fee arrangements in retaining tax whistleblower attorneys...

Discouraging Union Organizers
Strict work place rules

DC Madame Phone List
Telephone Records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey's Escort Service (Pamela Martin and Associates)

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

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

Baxter Electronic Infusion Pumps
FDA Issues Urgent Class I Recall

VA Sets New Benefit Rules for Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses
Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses VA Sets New Benefit Rules

Qui Tam Whistleblower - Government Fraud - Qui Tam Lawsuit
Qui Tam Whistleblower alleging fraud against the government reported by an individual acting as a government whistleblower.

Police Whistleblower
Officer awarded $980,000 for whistleblower violations and retaliation.

City and Mayor Whistleblower
Two officers awarded part of $8 million whistleblower settlement.

MEMC Electronic Materials Inc
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud