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Cabinet to discuss bankruptcy law changes – RTE Online
The Cabinet is to discuss proposals tomorrow to introduce a speedier bankruptcy regime along with introducing debt settlement arrangements to help those struggling with loans. But the Central Bank is cautioning against including mortgage debt, as it says …
Google: Microsoft wields patents when its products fail – Electronista
Porter said that current patent law allows Microsoft to use the large patent portfolio it has acquired over the years to get revenue from other companies “when their products stop succeeding in the marketplace, when they get marginalized, as is … Continue reading
Slain Marine’s kids get education bonds – Times-News
The Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation will present the $30,000 bonds to each of Dudley’s three children. The 29-year-old Marine from Tega Cay, S.C., died July 7. He was a MV-22B Osprey crew chief. Dudley died near the end of … Continue reading
Criminal penalties for council leaks off the table – WTVF
Now, a new proposal that has no criminal penalties is being circulated. Mayor Chris Wiest said the new proposal is a modification of the city’s ethics ordinance. Kentucky state law requires that government bodies hold meetings that are open to … Continue reading
The Unfinished Business of Law Firm Collapses – Wall Street Journal
The firm’s lawyers took positions in several dozen other law firms, some of which are being asked to pay for Heller Ehrman’s old debts, under the so-called unfinished business doctrine. It says that a bankruptcy trustee has the right to sue … Continue reading
GBS Enterprises and IBM Partner to Offer Law Firm Social Software and Analytics Capabilities – msnbc.com
GBS Enterprises has created a comprehensive and easy to use social business solution for the law firm that gives them access to instant messaging, email, collaboration tools and a free desktop productivity suite for word processing, spreadsheets …
Retired Guatemalan General Leads Race For Pres – NPR News
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A former general promising law and order had a wide lead over a tycoon … to elect someone with “blood on his hands” for Perez’s involvement the military during the country’s 36-year civil war. Current President … Continue reading
Standing in the Schoolhouse Door – New York Times
Surely no law-enforcement official of his stature would have responded to a fact-gathering request by challenging the federal government’s “legal authority” to investigate reports of civil rights abuses. Could there be an attorney general …
Kemp: Immigration Law Could Delay Licenses – 13 WMAZ
Secretary of State Brian Kemp announces border decision. ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s secretary of state says the state’s new law targeting illegal immigration could delay professional licenses. A provision of the law that takes effect Jan. 1 requires people …
Elder abuse and neglect laws may be tightened in Florida – New Haven Register
MIAMI — When a mentally ill resident of the Hillandale assisted living facility left the home before dawn in August 2007, administrator John Ross instructed a caregiver not to search for him until the next day’s staff arrived. By then … Continue reading
