The Justice Department wants to convince a federal appeals court in Washington that the accounting firm Deloitte should be forced to give up tax documents stemming from auditing services provided to Dow Chemical Company. Judge Richard Leon of the U.S....

Since the advent of iPhone applications in July, 2008 over 134,000 iPhone applications have become available at the Apple App Store. Over 3 billion of such applications for news, information, entertainment, and more have been downloaded by iPhone users. With ESPN, The New York Times, Facebook, Li ...

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 ...

Perhaps I should address Paul Ryan's shadow budget, proposed on behalf of the House Republicans (although in public they are keeping as far away from it as they can).To see the details, check out the first 4 pages of this CBO letter scoring it.Key features, with my reaction to them, are as follows:1 ...

Com. v. D.G.R. 2009-CA-00745-ME Issue:; Termination of Parental Rights Published:;; Reversing County: Caldwell Cabinet appealed trial court order denying its petition to terminate the parental rights of D.G.R. and T.B.H. to their minor child. FACTS: A.T.H was twelve at the time of the t ...

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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): ...

Tomorrow, Senator Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund is launching a money bomb for Marco Rubio. You need to understand specifically why it is important that this be a success. DeMint is under massive and sustained attacks from establishment Republicans for daring to challenge the hand pi ...

The Huffington Post reports that Congressman Darrell Issa sent a statement to reporters headlined: "First Question for President Obama: Did You Lie About Moving Forward on Malpractice Reform?" All of which begs the question: who is Darrell Issa? Honestly, he sounds made up. On a multiple choice qu ...

Although Marta Perez and Rosie Landeros recently received a record, multi-million dollar, verdict in a lawsuit against Gustavo Davalos Torres, the two Bakersfield, CA sisters will never have the lives they did before June 15, 2007. Ms. Perez and Ms. Landeros, 16 and 25 respectively at the time of ...