Thomas W. Mitchell (Wisconsin), Stephen Malpezzi (Wisconsin), and Richard Green (USC) have posted Forced Sale Risk: Class, Race, and The 'Double Discount' on SSRN. Here's the abstract: What impact does a forced sale have upon a property owner's wealth? And...

This story is one of the more scary items I've seen reported by the media. The New York Times ran a story about a nurse (Anne Mitchell) in Texas who informed state regulators that a doctor (Rolando G. Arafiles Jr., MD) at her rural hospital was practicing bad medicine. What did she get in return? H ...

This story is one of the more scary items I've seen reported by the media. The New York Times ran a story about a nurse (Anne Mitchell) in Texas who informed state regulators that a doctor (Rolando G. Arafiles Jr., MD) at her rural hospital was practicing bad medicine. What did she get in return? H ...

This post quotes in full a response by the Office of the Advocate General to a recent freedom of information request by Alan Caskie, an advocate specialising in judicial review and particularly asylum and immigration. This response shows that the success rate for petitions in this area is high, and ...

That question is now on trial in a small west Texas town, where a nurse stands accused of a felony for reporting a doctor whom she thought was guilty of malpractice on patients. Even if the nurse is acquitted, the case could have a chilling effect on nurses' willingness to act as whistle blowers wh ...

The title of this post is the headline of , which effectively reviews the robust legal and policy debates over whether restitution orders should be a big part of federal child porn sentencing proceedings.  Here are excerpts: this new AP piece The issue of criminal restitution in child porn ...

Not many law students would feel comfortable publishing an article accusing the Supreme Court of biased, results-oriented judging. But University of Akron School of Law student Maria C. Klutinoty has no such qualms. She has written an article blasting the Supreme Court for its decision last year two ...

By THE CANADIAN PRESS STRATFORD, Ont. – Police in Stratford are trying to identify two suspects from the Toronto area wanted in an ongoing fraud investigation. Police say a woman has opened up bank accounts in Stratford and Woodstock by using fake identification in the name of ‘Mari ...

Los Angeles Tax Attorney: Last year IRS filed tax lien against California Governator. The IRS tax lien against Schwarznegger sought $79,000 for taxes or penalties related to informational tax returns pursuant to IRC 6721. Almost a year later, Schwarznegger got his IRS tax lien released ...

Four attorneys previously with Clarke, Thomas & Winters have joined the Austin office of Gardere Wynne Sewell. They are Mark T. Mitchell, Mark Mayfield, Fred Sultan and Leslie Robnett. The quartet joins Ed Burbach, formerly Texas deputy attorney general, in the Austin office. Mitchell brings 30 ...