Coruscation

In the past, Igor Kenk has said that he was accumulating bicycles in preparation for a severe oil shortage. But in a somewhat disjointed interview in July for a radio documentary, portions of which were published by The Globe and Mail, a Toronto daily newspaper, Mr. Kenk portrayed himself as a crusader against theft and a protector of cast-off bicycles.

Mr. Kenk holds a passport from Slovenia and has claimed he was a police officer and a former K.G.B. agent. He has shed little light since his arrest. After one court session, he told reporters, "I'm a dead man."

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One of this country's greatest achievements is its separation
of legality from morality, so that individuals can hold themselves
to a higher standard, as they see it, without forcing it on
everyone else.

-- Slate's William Saletan sets the bar higher than the NYT's 'ethicist'.

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What do you want out of law school ? Lawyers !
When do we want them ? Now !

A more refective take on the attorney factory.
[Via lawandletters]

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In 1970, Laud Humphreys published the groundbreaking dissertation
he wrote as a doctoral candidate at Washington University called
“Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places.” Because of his
unorthodox methods — he did not get his subjects’ consent, he
tracked down names and addresses through license plate numbers,
he interviewed the men in their homes in disguise and under false
pretenses — “Tearoom Trade” is now taught as a primary example
of unethical social research.

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temporaryattorney: life after graduating from a tier III law school.
Document Review rate sheet.

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Amazon Prime automatically charged customers $79
for Amazon Prime Club free shipping.

Stay tuned for the AMZ*Prime Club $79 Refund class action suit.

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Shareholders lack most of the incidents of ownership, which we might
define as the rights to possess, use, and manage corporate assets, and
the rights to corporate income and assets.

Stephen Bainbridge

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Freeper's homosexualagenda is a (inadvertently) great source for queer news.

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Many of the immigrants surveyed said they lacked the
identification papers needed to open bank accounts,
while others said they shunned banks because of
hidden fees and the large penalties for bounced
checks. Some immigrants said that banks’ hours
and locations were inconvenient and some said
they could not wait for a week for their paychecks
to clear.

...

Since November, New Labor has provided cards to
200 immigrant members, including some who are
here illegally. Three other centers — in Hempstead,
N.Y., Chicago and Los Angeles — have begun
offering the cards as well, and organizers say they
hope to make them available to tens of thousands
of immigrants at 140 worker centers nationwide
within the next few years.

-- STEVEN GREENHOUSE, NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.

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I was not speeding: traffic lawyers and ticket fixers in NY and NJ:

The National Motorists' Association NY referrals.
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Frank Desousa at ticketproblems.com
516-505-7715
also
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NotSpeeding.com
fax (877) 742-2268
ph (877)965-3237
Fax them your ticket, they phone back with a free consultation.
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NYTraffic Lawyer
A former NYC Traffic Court Judge
NYC speeding tickets a specialty
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traffic-summons.com aka Michael Spevack
recommended at SQC
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Speedlaw.net
Casey W. Raskob: has personally lobbied for the 65 mph limit in Albany
and at numerous Traffic Safety Conferences in New York State and
elsewhere. With the National Motorist’s Association he has testified
before the New Jersey State Senate and NY/NJ Port Authority on
motorist’s issues. Self-description; recommended on NE Mini.

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Before 1990, the court had generally held that any
government restriction on religion must serve a
compelling public interest in the least burdensome
way — a standard known as the “strict scrutiny” test.

But in one Oregon case dealing with two Native Americans’
sacramental use of peyote, an illegal drug, the majority
concluded that there was nothing unconstitutional
about states expecting citizens to comply with valid,
neutral and generally applicable laws — like those
criminalizing peyote — even if compliance conflicted
with religious beliefs.

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Driving Under the Influence or Driving While Intoxicated
criminal charges ?

Attorney fees or driver's wages ?
A lawyer or a cab.

A wonder that people of means drive themselves.
Latest example: Pete Coors.

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Chicago Law faculty finds a link between executive compensation,
performance, governance and tax law.

The purported goal of section 162(m) of the IRC (the provision
that limits deductibility) was to reduce total amounts of
executive compensation.

The problem cases involve the managers deceiving the board,
not the company deceiving the government.

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Corporate law and governance are topics of Ideoblog Ribstein. Examples:
Gretchen Morgenson on corporate governance, the state's role in changing corporate contracts.

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Chicago personal injury lawyer or New York lasik laser eye surgery are
valuable search words.

So hire a Chicago personal injury lawyer if your New York lasik fails.

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And if illegal aliens were jailed ...

Representative Dana Rohrabacher, Republican of California, dismissed
arguments made by President Bush and business leaders who say the
United States needs a pool of foreign workers. He said businesses
should be more creative in their efforts to find help and suggested
that employers turn to the prison population to fill jobs in agriculture
and elsewhere.

"Let the prisoners pick the fruits," Mr. Rohrabacher said. "We can do
it without bringing in millions of foreigners."

via Reason Hit and Run.

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Defence attorney team for Scooter Libby has impressive advisors.

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Ranked by tax attorney or tax CPA ? No.
State by state federal taxing and spending ranked.

Income of out-of-state workers who work via email and
telephone and often have little or no physical contact
with the state.

“The growing practice of multiple states taxing the income
of telecommuters acts as a direct financial disincentive for
employers and employees to use telecommuting.”
-- Tax Attorney

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Undocumented physician, Stephen Brian Turner, doctors immigrants in California.

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it is now time for us as a nation to shift the emphasis away from
equality and toward liberty in our debates about identity politics.

Only through such freedom can we live our lives as works in
progress, which is to say, as the complex, changeful and
contradictory creatures that we are.

-- Kenji Yoshino.

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New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has been compared to Tony
Soprano in that, as Stephen W. Stanton has put it, "He breaks the law.
He lies. He intimidates. He makes his own rules, and he gets what
he wants. And yet he remains a very popular guy. "

Houston's Tom Kirkendall and Tech Central Station 1 2.

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New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law is previewed
(links to chapter PDFs) at the New Economist.

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* Any judicial ruling overturning a law is in wrong, that judges
can only decide what a law means not whether or not it is
Constitutional, so that any ruling overturning a previous ruling
that made new law is simply restoring order to the land. That
negating something doesn't bring anything else into existence.

* State legislatures and Congress are the only ones with the
authority to intepret the Constitution and that they also have the
power to change it whenever they choose, without having to resort
to a Constitutional amedment.

[*]

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Dahlia Lithwick, Slate-based legal commentator, has her fans and
her detractors.

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Beldar's legal review.

On Dahlia Lithwick.

On Eliot Spitzer:
Whose job, as he views it, is to use the power of the State of New
York to enforce not "the law per se," but ... well, whatever he
damn well pleases whatever he thinks will get him elected to his next
target office whatever his keen insight perceives as being
within that broader, unwritten social compact. (Or maybe its
penumbras and eminations.)

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Roberts purports to rock: offers lawyer jokes
and doubts Michael Jackson.

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findarticles is the poor man's Lexis/Nexis.
Can't find it there ? Try MozBot instead.

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June was Lane Courtesy month.
Keep right except to pass.
Slower traffic keep right.

It's the law.

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Eminent domain, condemnation, expropriation:

“Nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.”
U.S. Constitution, Amendment V

Castle Coalition opposes taking, even with just compensation.

Peter Sprigg thinks marriage if more for public purpose than private purpose.
(Family Research Council at panel discussion at the University of Pennsylvania,
February 12, 2004).

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Vancouver police and the RCMP are not rushing to enforce B.C.'s new
law outlawing aggressive panhandling and squeegeeing, saying it will
take them some time to figure out exactly how they're going to use
it.

"Will there likely be any tickets issued today? Probably not,"
Vancouver police spokesman Const. Howard Chow said Friday. "And it's
not because we don't like the act -- but it's growing pains with any
new legislation coming out. It was just released yesterday."

Chow said the department still needs time to get details about the
Safe Streets Act and its penalties out to its officers on the beat
and to resolve enforcement issues, such as how to issue tickets to
people without a fixed address.

Chad Skelton and Krisendra Bisetty
Vancouver Sun

2005 January 29

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Law professors' white collar crime covers the legal issues in business crime.

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Overlawyered chronicles the excesses of litigation, lawsuits,
and regulation. By Walter Olson, intellectual guru of tort reform,
and Ted Frank.

The ethics sections includes an even handed look at pro bono work.
Good to know, even if you don't need a lawyer.

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Talkleft / Jeralyn Merritt thoughtful leftish blog, sometimes about crime.

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