From 1999 to 2004, the actor Wesley Snipes earned $38 million appearing in more than half a dozen movies, including two sequels to his popular vampire thriller “Blade.” The taxes he paid in the same period? Zero. But unlike other celebrities who find themselves on the wrong side of the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Snipes […]
The problems are mounting for Powell Goldstein. Last week the Atlanta-based firm lost a big chunk of its health care practice group in Washington — and today, two partners and two counsel will leave the firm’s tax and business and finance practices. Those are just the latest in a long list of departures from the
O.J. Simpson was taken into custody in Florida on allegations that he violated terms of his bail by trying to talk a co-defendant out of cooperating in a Las Vegas armed robbery case, court documents say. Simpson, 60, is to go before a Nevada judge on Wednesday at the request of Clark County District Attorney
It was Ron Williamson’s obituary in the Dec. 9, 2004, issue of The New York Times that caught attorney and author John Grisham’s eye. “It had all the elements of a novel,” Grisham said in an interview with the Jackson Free Press. “The small town Southern feel to it; the small town sport hero going
Arizona students at universities and community colleges were denied in-state tuition this year because 4000 of them were not able to prove they were legal residents. The Arizona Republic reports that Arizona universities and colleges recently began requiring students to prove their citizenship after state voters passed Proposition 300, a ballot initiative that prevents undocumented
McNamee’s legal team say they will fight back after Roger Clemens played a taped personal phone call betweent he pitcher and his former trainer. The National Post report that McNamee’s attorneys told the New York Daily News the conversation – recorded Friday night – was supposed to be a “man-to-man talk”, but instead Clemens used
Everyday habits could become illegal under plans to modernize copyright laws in Canada. The National Post reports that taping a favourite show on television, using a personal cellphone overseas or listening to music on a newly-purchased CD. But industry officials and observers say that each activity is being threatened by existing copyright regulations and the
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Some experienced solicitors are shunning legal aid work as pay rates fall, a recent survey shows. The Guardian reports that solicitors are deserting legal aid work amid a shake-up of the scheme which will see their pay rates drop further. The exodus is particularly acute among expert lawyers who represent children and parents in cases
A woman in China is making legal history by suing authorities who forced her to have an abortion despite being nine months pregnant. The Telegraph reports that Jin Yani’s waters had already broken when China’s abortion police came for her. They took her to a nearby abortion centre, injected her unborn baby girl and removed
The legal battle over lethal injection, which comes before the Supreme Court on Monday, has been conducted in unusual secrecy, with courts permitting states across the country to keep from lawyers and the public precisely how death row inmates are executed. In state after state, defense lawyers contending that the execution method inflicts unnecessary pain
