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| Live Free or At Least Try PLYMOUTH, N.H.—A monumental battle over federal power, state sovereignty, and individual liberty played out on Thursday in a small courtroom filled with law enforcement officers and casual marijuana users. On one side: Customs and Border Patrol, the federal agency that helps enforce immigration ...
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| Can social media become less hateful by law? Germany is trying it — and failing, critics say. BERLIN — When 32-year-old German teacher and academic book author Bahar Aslan took to Twitter this week to accuse authorities of not doing enough to investigate several alleged xenophobic crimes, she hardly assumed that in doing so she would soon be accused of having broken the law, too.
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| Bank Execs Sing Praises of New Tax Law as Windfall Looms The comments came as the two companies reported their quarterly results, which were both heavily impacted by the change in tax laws, but in different ways. JPMorgan Chase took ... But before JPMorgan can benefit from the new tax law, it had to take a significant one-time charge. Like many banks after ...
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| Court Kills Most of Idaho's Law Against Secret Farm Recordings Ag gag laws are on the books in seven states. As the Ninth Circuit explains, these laws "target[] undercover investigation of agricultural operations [and] broadly criminalize[] making misrepresentations to access an agricultural production facility as well as making audio and video recordings of the facility ...
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| Tennessee Might Also Recognize Blockchain Data Through Proposed Law The move highlights the growing interest among state lawmakers in the concept, with Arizona's government finalizing a similar law last spring. Indeed, it points to a push to harmonize state laws around electronic records with blockchain-based data. But as with the efforts in Florida and Nebraska, ...
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Trump administration may have violated federal law by exempting Florida from offshore drilling plan WASHINGTON — The Trump administration may have violated federal law by exempting Florida from a national plan to expand offshore drilling, a Democratic senator charged Thursday. Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington state said Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's decision to give Florida a last-minute ...
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| The Law Firm Disrupted: PwC Will Take Your Client's Call Now Hello, and welcome to another edition of The Law Firm Disrupted. I'm Law.com reporter Roy Strom, and this weekly email briefing attempts to make sense of the biggest challenges and opportunities facing law firms today. Let me know what you think at rstrom@alm.com. Declining productivity costs law firms an average of more than $74K per lawyer, report says - ABA Journal
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| Litigation is pointless — propose a bill to change federal marijuana law The federal law making marijuana use illegal is the issue, and our U.S. legislators should act promptly to change the law that creates the conflict with states.
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| The new US tax law, explained with cereal There's a new tax law in town. It passed without a single vote from Democrats in the House or the Senate, and it's a huge windfall for the richest Americans, including President Donald Trump. Forbes crunched the numbers and found Trump could save about $11 million a year from just one of the new ...
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| Indonesia's 'Anti-Communism' Law Used Against Environmental Activist Beyond this one case is the lingering peril posed by dangerously ambiguous laws, Dutch colonial legacies appropriated during the three-decade Suharto dictatorship, which give prosecutors wide latitude to prosecute public expressions of support for communism and display of communist symbols.
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| Maryland Dems ask Hogan about response to tax law The new tax law limits the state and local tax deduction to $10,000, which could be an issue for residents of high-tax areas. According to the letter, IRS data found that Maryland is the state with the greatest percentage of its households taking the deduction, with an average deduction amount of nearly ... Maryland Senate overrides Hogan's paid sick leave veto; changes to become law - Baltimore Business Journal
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| Wal-Mart Says It Will Boost Wages, Give Bonuses With New Savings From Tax Law Wal-Mart Says It Will Boost Wages, Give Bonuses With New Savings From Tax Law ... Wal-Mart plans to share part of its savings under the new tax law with its employees. The giant retailer announced today it is ... The new tax law slashes the top corporate rate from 35 to 21 percent. That will save ...
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| Analysis: For Mass. High-Earners, Tax Law's Cuts Will More Than Make Up For New SALT Cap For Massachusetts' highest-income households, tax cuts in the recent Republican overhaul will more than make up for the plan's new cap on state and local tax deductions, according to an analysis out Thursday. Among its provisions, the law signed by President Trump late last year established a ...
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A Rekindled Interest in Law Kellye Testy, president and chief executive of the Law School Admission Council, has an inside view of the struggles that law schools are going through as they try to recover from a long decline in applications and enrollment. In a visit to The Chronicle in December, she described signs that the outlook ...
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| To buy or not to buy? New tax law creates uncertainty for some homebuyers But in December, just as Congress was voting to pass a new tax law limiting real estate-related deductions, the Jenners backed out and renewed their lease instead. They may not be able to afford to buy a home under the new tax law, Jenner said. "The deduction on your taxes won't be there anymore," ...
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| Japanese Cops Say Logan Paul Videos Broke the Law—and They'd Just Love to Nail Him Logan Paul, YouTuber and professional troll, may have raised awareness of Japan's suicide problem during his stay in our country unintentionally, but he seems to have broken several criminal laws intentionally. Or so the police see it. And if he returns to Japan, he won't be welcome; he may even end ...
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| Not Sure When I'll Be Done, Judge Tells Parties Waiting 500 Days for Rulings A judge who has failed to rule on dispositive motions for more than 500 days in a family law case has apologized for the delay, but won't be pinned down on when a decision will be issued. Mercer County Assignment Judge Mary Jacobson expressed regret for not completing her review of the pending ...
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| My in-laws won't babysit our children I would like some advice on how best to initiate a conversation with my in-laws about their approach to being grandparents. They recently retired, are in good health and financially comfortable. They live not far from us in a large house with a garden, and have the space to look after the grandchildren (we ...
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| From Big Law to Fake Lashes, Ex-Kirkland Partner Tries Hand at New Biz While he holds a fondness for his former firm and time in Big Law, Duffy said his new endeavors have presented him with a unique challenge that have allowed him to be a bit more creative, strategic and sensitive to how he spends his time. That has also caused him to reflect on the culture that Big Law ...
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| New Partners Grab Their Brass Rings at Atlanta Law Firms Dozens of Atlanta lawyers crossed the partnership finish line at their law firms in the New Year, including those at Atlanta's largest firms—Alston & Bird, King & Spalding, Eversheds Sutherland, Troutman Sanders, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, Morris Manning & Martin and Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, ...
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| Rescission of Cannabis Protection Law Creates Confusion for Banks and Investors Rescission of Cannabis Protection Law Creates Confusion for Banks and Investors. Until now ... "There has been no indication for a widespread directive to cease and desist in state regulated cannabis markets, and we expect law enforcement priorities to remain status quo," Karnes says, noting that ...
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| New Tax Law Lets Billionaire Team Owners Keep Building Stadiums With Your Money Under the law as it still stands, cities and states can issue tax-exempt bonds to build stadiums where enormously profitable major league sports teams play. The bonds issued since 2000 alone will ultimately cost the federal government about $3.2 billion over their terms, according to the Brookings ...
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| Experts: Servicemembers should start navigating new tax law now WASHINGTON — The new U.S. tax law is not even a month old, but financial experts say it's not too soon for military servicemembers, veterans and retirees to dig into how the massive policy change will impact their pocketbooks for years to come. The $1.5 trillion plan installed new tax brackets, ...
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| 4 Changes that Made it Into the Tax Reform Law Now that the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has been formalized into law, it's time to look at which tax code changes made the final cut. Wendy Connick. (imwconn). Jan 13, 2018 at 7:18AM. Given the number of updates, compromises, and ping-pongs between House and Senate that the tax reform bill endured, ...
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| Tax law: Everything advisers need to know about the pass-through provision The Republican tax bill, which President Donald J. Trump signed into law Dec. 22, created a new section in the tax code — Section 199A — that provides a 20% tax break to some pass-through business entities. These businesses pass their income through to their owners' tax returns, and is taxed at the ...
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| Did San Antonio Police Break The State's New Immigration Law? This time there were no deaths. The driver of the truck was charged under a state human smuggling law, and the 12 people in the trailer were questioned and released. Now Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has asked Attorney General Ken Paxton to investigate whether San Antonio police may have violated Texas ...
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| 'How much do you earn?' New law tackles gender pay gap "Other people's salaries are still a taboo subject and a black box in Germany," said acting Women's Affairs Minister Katarina Barley whose Social Democratic Party championed the law. The hope is that more transparency will reveal whether women are paid less than male peers -- and bolster their ...
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| Utah law enforcement finds Jeep in Juab County but no sign of missing teens Searchers found a Jeep belonging to two missing teens in Juab County on Thursday, but said there was "no sign" of the teens. Riley Powell, 18, and Brelynne "Breezy" Otteson, 17, left Tooele in the Jeep about 9:30 a.m. Dec. 30. They two had been dating about four months, Otteson's aunt Amanda Hunt ...
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| North Carolina proposes law requiring data breaches to be reported in 15 days The proposed legislation is a direct response to the massive increase in consumers impacted by data breaches in the state. More than 5.3 million North Carolina consumers were impacted by 1,022 data breaches in 2017, Stein said. "This number is staggering and unacceptable. North Carolina's laws on ...
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| Federal judge dismisses challenge to New York's pistol permit law In Edward Garrett's eyes, the time, energy and money it took for him to get a pistol permit, were reasons enough to challenge the state law. The former chairman of the Erie County Libertarian Party got his answer this week: the 106-year old law stands. A federal judge dismissed the Libertarians' legal ...
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| Fifth Circuit: State, not Maritime, Law Applies in Well Services Injury Case The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has reversed the previous findings of its own panel and a lower court, ruling that state, not maritime, law applies in a case involving a worker injury at an oil and gas production site in navigable waters off the coast of Louisiana. In In re: Larry Doiron, Inc., ...
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| Changing The Face Of Law Turner has garnered press attention in recent months for being among the first African-American leaders of a major law firm in the United States. But the significance of Turner's ascension goes far beyond race. I recently interviewed him at Irell's headquarters in Los Angeles, and I met a man with a wealth ...
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| A Tiny Tax Hike On People Who Bike To Work Helps Explain The Whole GOP Tax Law The bike policy is one of several changes to employee fringe benefits in the new tax law, which offsets the revenue lost in corporate and individual tax cuts with an assortment of revenue increases. Tens of billions of dollars will be raised by disallowing employers from deducting the full value of worker ...
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Court ruling on Idaho 'ag gag' law could have ramifications in Iowa A federal appeals court ruling that struck down part of an Idaho law outlawing undercover investigations of meatpacking plants and livestock facilities could have ramifications in Iowa. The U.S. 9th District Court of Appeals this month said parts of Idaho's "ag gag" law violate the U.S. Constitution's First ...
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| Citing new tax law, National Grid seeks lower rate increase BOSTON -- National Grid will seek a smaller rate hike in Massachusetts than it originally requested, the utility company said Thursday, citing the benefit of the recent federal tax reform bill. The company announced that it will reduce its proposed rate hike for Bay Staters by $36 million -- from a total ...
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| Controversial spy law passes House after shots from Trump, who then supported it A controversial spying law survived in the House after a kerfuffle on Thursday in which President Trump took aim at the bill despite his administration's formal support for it. The House voted to reauthorize snooping provisions known by the Capitol Hill shorthand as "Section 702," which are due to expire ...
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| BlackRock hits record $6 trillion, helped by Trump tax law NEW YORK (Reuters) - BlackRock Inc (BLK.N) charged past a record $6 trillion in assets, its profit beating Wall Street forecasts, as investors flooded into the relatively low-cost funds of the world's largest asset manager. FILE PHOTO: The BlackRock logo is seen outside of its offices in New York City, U.S. ...
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| Mnuchin expects 'significant' hiring at IRS to implement tax law The Trump Treasury will recommend that Congress provide hiring a "significant" number of new IRS employees to help implement the tax law, Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday. "We are speaking with Congress about getting additional funding for the implementation," Mnuchin said at an ...
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| Vt. May See New Public Records Law Vermont lawmakers and the Secretary of State's Office say they plan to introduce legislation next week proposing changes to state records and open meeting laws, including the possible hiring of an ombudsman who could handle disputes over the release of government information. State officials said ...
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| County to draft backup plan for Law and Justice Center The city and county honed in on an estimated $28.5 million proposal for the construction of a new law enforcement building. That figure was given to the city and the county at a meeting earlier this month, along with a layout of what the campus would look like. The proposal also included a floor plan of ...
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| A look at the impact of new tax law on education in Nevada Ultimately the tax bill signed into law by President Donald Trump in December spared the deduction. But there's more to the new tax code that impacts education — both the good and the bad. For one, families can now use 529 plans to pay for private K-12 tuition. Those plans, originally only for college ...
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| Editor's Note: Why We Created the Business of Law Forum I have spent a lot of time meeting with law firms in the last year and there are often two camps—with a murky third somewhere in the middle—when it comes to innovation. We have the 1) "things aren't changing, at least not for me" camp; 2) the camp of "I know things are changing but I don't have a clue ...
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| Seattle law firm sues El Toro following Tacoma-area norovirus outbreak Seattle law firm Marler Clark filed a complaint for personal injuries against El Toro Mexican restaurants in Pierce County Superior Court Friday on behalf of Ericka Cecchi. Cecchi is a Tacoma resident who is one of about 400 diners who reported becoming ill after eating at two El Toro restaurants in the ...
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| Dublin eyes plan to be EU law hub Dublin is bidding to be a new European hub for international commercial law if a "hard Brexit" undermines the status of Britain's courts and English law. The Bar of Ireland, the professional body for barristers, is promoting itself as a rival centre to do some of the work now handled by the commercial courts ...
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| State analysis: fed tax law change means Arizonans pay more to state State government stands to gain — and Arizona taxpayers stand to lose — more than $200 million because of the federal tax law changes approved by Congress and signed by President Trump. And Gov. Doug Ducey has not decided whether he wants to keep the windfall. A new report by the ...
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| GOP tax law a one-two punch to charities — and American giving Back in 2011, when Republicans still talked about deficits, a bipartisan budget commission proposed to save tens of billions a year by revamping the charitable deduction for federal income taxes. The plan was to substitute a 12 percent tax credit available only to those who gave more than 2 percent of ...
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| National Grid Reduces Rate Hike Request, Cites Tax Law National Grid will seek a smaller rate hike in Massachusetts than it originally requested, the utility company said Thursday, citing the benefit of the recent federal tax reform bill. The company announced that it will reduce its proposed rate hike for Bay Staters by $36 million — from a total increase of $87 ...
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| How the New Tax Law Affects Retirees and Retirement Planning Tax lawyers, accountants and financial planners are burning the midnight oil trying to figure out all the ins and outs of the new tax law. The men and women of the IRS, given less than two weeks between the day President Trump signed the law and the time most of the new provisions went into effect ...
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| PNC Profit Boosted by Tax Law PNC Financial Services Group Inc. PNC 0.23% said Friday that fourth-quarter earnings doubled compared with a year ago, boosted by a one-time gain from the recently passed tax overhaul. Profit at the Pittsburgh-based bank rose to $2.08 billion, from $1.03 billion a year ago. Created with Highstock ...
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| To buy or not to buy? New tax law creates uncertainty for some California homebuyers Steve Jenner and his wife were planning to buy a home near the house they're renting in Dana Point, where properties typically sell in the $1.2 million to $1.5 million range. But in December, just as Congress was voting to pass a new tax law limiting real estate-related deductions, the Jenners backed out ...
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| Henry's law constants for a diverse set of organic chemicals The Henry's law constant (HLC) or air/water partition coefficient is a key property in the process of describing a chemical's environmental fate. Compared to its significance, experimentally determined HLCs are known for a relatively small number of organic chemicals. We have measured HLCs for seven ...
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| 'Law and Order' Party's Embrace of Criminals The "law and order" party seems to be attracting candidates who don't demonstrate a lot of respect for the law. The slate of candidates running in the 2018 midterms is still taking shape, but Paul Blumenthal reports that there are already four Republican candidates who are convicted criminals. When Joe ...
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| Law Profs: Beware The Perils Of Twitter With more law professors using Twitter to weigh in on the issues of the day—and sometimes veering into the platform's culture of snark and incivility—it's time for law professors to have a conversation about how best to use the medium, Hessick argues in her draft article, Towards a Series of Academic ...
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| PM offers law lesson to model's lawyer Prime Minister and Minister of Legal Affairs, Ralph Gonsalves, on Thursday, offered to give law lessons to the lawyer representing the model at the heart of an ongoing scandal said to also include the family of his son, Minister of Finance, Camillo Gonsalves. Lawyer Grant Connell acted pro bono for the ...
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