Legal Headlines
Stricter IRS Form 990 to be More Revealing, Costly, Denver Business Journal
The IRS has issued a new Form 990 (the tax form for charitable organizations) for use beginning in 2009 (for the 2008 tax year) which is more expansive and requires more information than previoiusly requested. The new form seeks more information about the governance of the organization in an apparent attempt to check for insider deals and transactions.
The IRS Gets Less Charitable, ABA Journal
The IRS has issued additional regulations regarding charitable contribution. This article in the ABA Journal highlights some of the issues the IRS is looking at give an overview of the current landscape.
Changes in Foreclosure Law in Colorado, Denver Business Journal
The foreclosure laws in Colorado changed this new year changing the way the foreclosures are processed including some of the deadlines.
(19 Jun) Cornell's Legal Information Institute (www.law.cornell.edu) founder and director Tom Bruce will give a brief talk at the Philadelphia Association of Paralegals luncheon on Tuesday, July 8th...
(20 Jun) I've been following developments regarding a relatively new legal information product called Bloomberg Law. While on the one hand it seems to be a product with...
(Jun 2008) Christine Hamilton-Pennell, whose company provides training, consulting and research to communities developing local entrepreneurship support initiatives, outlines the competitive research needs of small business owners. She...
(17 Jun) Karen Blakeman shares the top search tips of attendees at her advanced workshop, Google and Beyond...
(17 Jun) How do we bridge the gap between students' research competence and what's required of a modern college graduate? "In an effort to nudge curriculums in the...
(24 Jun) Have you ever wanted to browse books at Amazon? For instance, view a shelf of all available books on history, or some other topic? A Canadian...
(17 Jun) BRB Publications announces the availability of a new handbook, The Safe Hiring Audit. Written by Les Rosen and Michael Sankey, the handbook provides a blueprint to...
(16 Jun) The University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication has suspended publication of OJR (Online Journalism Review)...
(24 Jun) We added 2 resources to the Database of Sources. They are JURIS Database and LexMonitor.
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[JURIST] A US district court judge Thursday released two US Marines who had previously been jailed for refusing to testify about the deaths of Iraqi detainees during the November 2004 offensive [GlobalSecurity backgrounder] in Fallujah [USMC timeline; JURIST news archive]. Marine Corps Sgt. Ryan G. Weemer [JURIST news archive] and Sgt. Jermaine Nelson were held in contempt of court [JURIST news
[JURIST] White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said [press briefing transcript] Thursday that the administration is still working to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center [JURIST news archive], but suggested that a recent US Supreme Court decision could lead to the release of "dangerous detainees" into the US. The Court ruled [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] in Boumediene v. Bush last month
[JURIST] The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) [advocacy website] Thursday blasted [press release] a proposed plan that would allow Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) [official website] agents to consider a person's race, religion, or ethnicity in deciding whether to open a terrorism investigation. CAIR decried the plan as "unconstitutional and un-American," saying that it could
[JURIST] Yemeni officials met with a visiting US delegation Thursday to discuss the possible transfer of Yemeni detainees still held at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. A major impediment to the negotiated release and repatriation of Yemeni detainees - who make up the largest single group of nationals at the prison - has been concern that they might be freed on their return to their home
[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] Wednesday chose [resolution, PDF; press release, PDF] Judge Thomas Hogan [official profile] to preside over the habeas corpus appeals of Guantanamo Bay detainees seeking to challenge their detention in federal court under the Supreme Court's recent ruling [opinion, PDF; JURIST report] in Boumediene v. Bush. Hogan will
[JURIST] Pakistani Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan [profile; JURIST news archive] strongly criticized the Bush administration's Pakistan policy during a visit to the US this past week, arguing that its refusal to condemn President Pervez Musharraf's November 2007 declaration of emergency law [text, PDF; JURIST report] and his concomitant ouster of superior court judges is
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York [official website] Tuesday ordered [PDF text] Google to turn over databases containing logs of every time any IP address has accessed any YouTube [corporate websites] video. Viacom [corporate website] had requested access to the databases in a lawsuit [case materials] brought for copyright infringement, arguing that
[JURIST] Disagreements between the United States and Iraq are still blocking a permanent Status of Forces Agreement [CFR materials; JURIST op-ed] regarding the role of American troops in Iraq [JURIST news archive] and could delay a deal past the expiration of the UN mandate for coalition forces in Iraq at the end of the year, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari [BBC profile] indicated Wednesday
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California [official website] Wednesday dismissed [opinion, PDF] a lawsuit brought by an Islamic charity that alleged it was the subject of an illegal wiretap by the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website]. The government argued that the NSA did not need to obtain a court order before eavesdropping on the
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled [opinion, PDF] Wednesday that the First Amendment protected an anti-abortion group's right to display graphic pictures of early-term aborted fetuses outside of a California middle school. The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform (CBER) [advocacy website], a pro-life advocacy group, filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] in federal court in 2003