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February 4, 2012, 3:45 pm, 948257
Watch What Do Tax Rates' Ups and Downs Mean for Economic Growth? on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
February 4, 2012, 1:44 pm, 948249
Marcy Karin (ASU) and Katie Onachila have just posted on SSRN their article (American U. LEL Forum, 2012) The Military's Workplace Flexibility Framework. Here's the abstract: The return of combat troops from Iraq provides a valuable catalyst to take stock...
February 4, 2012, 11:44 am, 948241
d Under the U.S. Supreme Court's separability doctrine, it's not enough to argue that a contract containing an arbitration clause is unconscionable or was procurred by fraud or duress. To have the arbitration clause found unenforceable, the allegation of fraud...
February 4, 2012, 9:45 am, 948231
ABA Journal, Law School Offers Free 7th Semester of Study to Some Students, If They Postpone Taking July Bar Exam: One might think that a New York law school's offer to cover the cost of a seventh semester of legal education for struggling third-year students would be seen as a...
February 4, 2012, 3:43 am, 948221
The
map of the College is now up. Not nearly as nice as the
map for Harald, which was done for me by a generous professional, but at least it shows where everything is.
February 4, 2012, 1:45 am, 948218
National Law Journal, Part-Time Law School Losing Allure: [E]nrollment in, and applications to, part-time programs has declined, but law schools themselves have played a role in that dropoff. Enrollment in part-time day programs fell dramatically in 2009 — the first year U.S. News & World Report began weighing the Law...
February 4, 2012, 1:45 am, 948219
Amy B. Monahan (Minnesota), Fairness Versus Welfare in Health Insurance Content Regulation, 2012 U. Ill. L. Rev. 139: Regulating the content of health insurance contracts, where the government determines which medical treatments and services must be covered, creates tension between principles of fairness and principles of welfare economics. Principles of...
February 3, 2012, 9:44 pm, 948212
by Joseph Leonoro, Esq.
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
The National Labor Relations Board is no stranger to headlines, and it is once again at the center of a political and constitutional showdown in Washington.
At the end of 2011, with ...
February 3, 2012, 5:45 pm, 948192
Itai Grinberg (Georgetown), Beyond FATCA: An Evolutionary Moment for the International Tax System: The international tax system is in the midst of a novel contest between information reporting and anonymous withholding models for ensuring that states have the ability to tax offshore accounts. What is at stake is the extent...
February 3, 2012, 3:45 pm, 948170
John T. Plecnik (Cleveland State), Abolish the Inflation Tax on the Poor & Middle Class, 29 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 925 (2011). Inflation erodes the purchasing power of money and distorts some income tax liabilities upward, which in turn discourages savings and investment. When inflation is caused by the central bank...
February 3, 2012, 3:45 pm, 948169
Following up on my prior posts (here and here): Jim Maule (Villanova), The Frequent Flyer Flap: Is a taxpayer required to include in gross income the value of frequent flyer miles received from a bank for opening an account? The story triggering the question broke last week. Citibank, which transfers...
February 3, 2012, 3:45 pm, 948168
Wall Street Journal, With Tax Break, Corporate Rate Is Lowest in Decades: U.S. companies are booking higher profits than ever. But the number crunchers in Washington are puzzling over a phenomenon that has just come into view: Corporate tax receipts as a share of profits are at their lowest level...
February 3, 2012, 1:45 pm, 948145
Victoria J. Haneman (La Verne), Changing the Estate Planning Malpractice Landscape: Applying the Constructive Trust to Cure Testamentary Mistake, 80 UMKC L. Rev. 91 (2011): A statistical compilation of malpractice claims released by the ABA in 2008 demonstrates that estate planning cases constitute almost 10% of all actions filed. An...
February 3, 2012, 1:45 pm, 948144
I spent most of this week at Legal Tech New York. E-discovery dominated and is amply covered elsewhere. I’ll report here on a few products that caught my eye. Plus the most important legal news of the week had little to do with LTNY.
Contract Management. Corporations continue ...
February 3, 2012, 1:44 pm, 948142
Friend of the blog Marcy Karin (Arizona State) writes to let us know that the Department of Labor has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Implement Statutory Amendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act...
February 3, 2012, 1:44 pm, 948143
On Monday, February 13, Rick Garnett (Notre Dame) and our own Paul Secunda will debate the recent Hosanna-Tabor decision and the ministerial exception at Loyola University Chicago Law School as part of its Law and Religion program. The debate will...
February 3, 2012, 1:43 pm, 948141
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Marcelo Calliari (TozziniFreire) and Joana Cianfarani (TozziniFreire) describe A New Competition Law in Brazil: Definitely Maybe. ABSTRACT: As Brasil has become a major economic player, the need to have a fully modernized competition law is...
February 3, 2012, 11:44 am, 948111
by Joseph Leonoro, Esq.
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
The National Labor Relations Board is no stranger to headlines, and it is once again at the center of a political and constitutional showdown in Washington.
At the end of 2011, with ...
February 3, 2012, 9:44 am, 948068
Human resource managers and the legal counsel working with them likely know who the worst performers are at the company.
[via: Labor: Managing a down economy: Individual terminations at InsideCounsel]
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February 3, 2012, 9:44 am, 948069
In-house lawyers represent the entity that issues their paychecks, not the executives and staff. But as seen in testimony from two Penn State officials, a company’s lawyers and constituents can understand the relationship differently.
[via: Was Penn State's GC Counsel for University Officials? ...
February 3, 2012, 9:43 am, 948067
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Oliver Budzinski (University of Southern Denmark in Esbjerg, Department of Environmental and Business Economics) and Jesper Fredborg Huric Larsen (University of Southern Denmark in Esbjerg, Centre for Rural Research, Department of Environmental and Business Economics)...
February 3, 2012, 7:45 am, 948046
The Tax Policy Center and UCLA host a tax policy conference today at UCLA on Federal Tax Reform Beyond the Beltway: How Federal Tax Reform and Tax Policy Will Affect State and Local Governments (live webcast here): Families, businesses, and policymakers are increasingly frustrated by the complexity, inefficiency, and inequity...
February 3, 2012, 5:44 am, 948034
Human resource managers and the legal counsel working with them likely know who the worst performers are at the company.
[via: Labor: Managing a down economy: Individual terminations at InsideCounsel]
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February 3, 2012, 5:44 am, 948035
In-house lawyers represent the entity that issues their paychecks, not the executives and staff. But as seen in testimony from two Penn State officials, a company’s lawyers and constituents can understand the relationship differently.
[via: Was Penn State's GC Counsel for University Officials? ...
February 3, 2012, 3:43 am, 948028
The central planning fallacy is the plausible, but mistaken, idea that if only all the resources of a society were under the control of some sensible person, wonderful things could be done. It is mistaken for at least three reasons:
February 3, 2012, 3:43 am, 948027
Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Chih-Liang Yeh, Graduate School of Social Informatics, Yuan Ze University has posted Does the Net Neutrality Really Preserve the Open Internet?: A Critique From the Implications of Broadband Policy. ABSTRACT: This article aims to query...
February 3, 2012, 1:45 am, 948024
The Justice Department yesterday indicted Swiss bank Wegelin on tax charges: DOJ Press Release Bloomberg Reuters Wall Street Journal
February 3, 2012, 1:45 am, 948023
Leandra Lederman (Indiana-Bloomington) presents Measured Tax Enforcement (with Ted Sichelman (San Diego)) at Florida as part of its Tax Policy Colloquium series hosted by Yariv Brauner: Governments rely largely on tax revenues. Traditional economic models of tax compliance typically assume that it is in the government’s best interest to maximize...
February 3, 2012, 1:45 am, 948022
The 22d Annual Conference for Law School Computing will be held Thursday, June 21 through Saturday June 23 in San Diego at Thomas Jefferson School of Law (and its fabulous new building). The theme of this year's conference is "Some Assembly Required": We are constructing our future, here in the...
February 3, 2012, 1:44 am, 948021
Chicago-Kent's Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal has just published the papers presented at last year's (2011) AALS Labor Relations and Employment Law Program. As many of you will remember, the panel focused on the particularly timely topic of Julius...
