If your spouse cheated on his or her taxes and you had no idea, the IRS has made it a little easier for you to avoid tax liability.
Professional lenders (commonly known as “banks”) have long understood that there can be a wide and deep chasm between being owed money and being paid money owed. They therefore structure loan transactions in many different ways to construct high-speed railroad bridges, if you will, to clear the gorges as quickly and as cheaply as possible […]
An issue of narrow but deep importance (that is, nationwide and for all corporate tax-payers): can the Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.) issue a summons for Wells Fargo’s Tax Accrual Work Papers (TAWs) or is that privileged attorney work product?
Update (July 27, 2011): Chief Technology Officer Mark Lanterman’s declaration in response to the opposition’s claim that discovery responses ordered by the Court would cost $36,000,000 was filed yesterday in this discovery dispute before U.S. Mag. Judge Janie S. Mayeron (D. Minn.). In a nutshell, Lanterman suggests that the opposing tech, Jeff Stoneking, made numerous […]
For obvious efficiency reasons, courts do not like “claim splitting,” where a litigant takes what should be a single lawsuit and “multiplies” it. On the other hand, sometimes a litigants bring more than one lawsuit based on a single incident for good reasons. For example, one suffers property injury in a car accident with minor […]
Update (July 23, 2011): The prices for (pirated) on-line tunes keeps getting better for Jammie Thomas-Rasset. Original Post (September 24, 2010): Veteran ML readers will recall coverage of the Thomas-Rasset file-sharing case in which a jury whacked defendant Jammie Thomas-Rasset for copyright infringement to the tune of $1.9 million. The beat[ing] goes on. Re-trial on […]
The Minnesota Court of Appeals issued an important decision last week clarifying the standard for imposing “aiding and abetting” liability under the Minnesota Human Rights Act. Going forward, a plaintiff will have to prove that a defendant both knew that another person’s conduct constituted a violation of the act and also gave “substantial” assistance or […]
The Anoka-Hennepin School District No. 11 “Sexual Orientation Curriculum Policy” is that “Teaching about sexual orientation is not part of the District adopted curriculum; rather, such matters are best addressed within individual family homes, churches, or community organizations.” To many, such a policy might not seem objectionable but how does this policy of “no comment” […]
In May, 2006, the Wall Street Journal published a news story about alleged “backdating” of executives’ stock options that was explosive for quite a few U.S. corporations and perhaps none moreso than United HealthGroup. Executives lost their jobs, the company and UHG executives paid fines, at least one executive, personally, lost hundreds of millions of […]
On December 12, 2008, Soubin Thao was allegedly injured in “an altercation” with security at Karma Nightclub (“where the grown and sexy play”). Thao brought suit against Karma for its injuries but Karma and its insurer appear to have decided to try to avoid liability on procedural/jurisdictional grounds rather than defending the case on the […]