Taxation on Carbonation? A state tax on soda could soon hit the shelves. But would you still buy your favorite bubbly beverage if the tax popped and fizzled a few cents more? Or is this potential soda tax, just what the doctor ordered to fight the nationwide obesity epidemic? It's a very ...

What happens when: (a) a state attorney general charges that the officers of a financial institution are garden variety fraudsters, while (b) a federal agency whose avowed purpose is to protect the investing public decides that insufficient evidence exists to prove that said officers v ...

For publication opinions today (2): In Roger L. Morris v. State of Indiana , a 9-page opinion, Judge Crone writes:Roger...

Wired Magazine is reporting that the Judicial Conference of the United States, the body that develops policy for federal courts in that country, has proposed new model jury instructions that explicitly ban the use of applications like Facebook and Twitter: “U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson o ...

Now, having gotten that out of the way (unbidden), on to a few brief, and probably socially unacceptable, words about a Congressman and Ex-Marine who passed away yesterday: John Murtha. In the interest of time, space, and not prolonging nausea, I won’t delve into this corrupt late Congressman& ...

The following article was published Monday, February 8th in the Palm Beach Post News, and was written by Susan Spencer-Wendel. It refers to one of my recent cases.   IQ tests key in Palm Beach County trial that is longest delayed death penalty case in state WEST PALM BEACH — His is on ...

EON Corp. IP Holdings, LLC v. Sensus USA Inc., 2010 WL 346218(E.D.Tex. Jan 21, 2010) (NO. 6:09-CV-116) Judge: John Love Holding: Motion to Compel Testimony/Strike Infringement Contentions DENIED without prejudice; Motion for Protective Order DENIED; Infringement contentions ordered supplemented. Thi ...

First the White House National Security Advisor, John Brennan, said Republicans were briefed on the FBI detainment of the Christmas Day panty-bomber, including that the terrorist had been mirandized. In fact, that was not true. Now John Brennan says critics of the White House are serving ‘th ...

Clients, you can skip this one; it's just an observation on the reasons that there are too few decent jobs to go around in the United States.And this isn't a blog about macro-economics, because I'm just a bankruptcy lawyer, and I'm not smart enough for all that theory.But my understanding is that th ...

Under New Jersey’s heightened standard of exigency for an automobile search (tied with a preference for telephonic warrants where exigency is lacking), the state showed exigency because of actions of confederates or potential interlopers. State v. Lewis, 2010 N.J. Super. LEXIS 21 (February 8, 2010): ...