On January 3, 2011, the Tax Court in Historic Boardwalk Hall, LLC, et al. v. Comm’r, 136 T.C. No. 1, disagreed with the IRS and held that The limited liability […]
On January 26, 2011, Judge Evans in writing for the 7th Circuit held that an overstatement of basis is an omission of income under Internal Revenue Code section 6501(e) thereby […]
On February 4, 2011, United States District Court Judge William J. Zloch sentenced Mauricio Cohen Assor, 77, and his son Leon Cohen-Levy, 46 each to 120 months, with additional orders […]
Reaffirming its commitment to keeping counterfeit merchandise from reaching consumers, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has been busy in recent months. Recently, CBP announced that its officers at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport seized 192 separate shipments of fake merchandise between November 1, 2010 and January 17, 2011.
On January 21, 2011, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed a decision of the District Court of Maryland dismissing a consolidated case challenging the federal […]
A recent ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa casts doubt on the position that a deposition under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 30(b)(6) […]
The GAO, an independent agency that investigates the efficacy of federal programs for Congress, recently issued a report recommending that the FDA reform the way it handles claims made in […]
Shortly before a trial that was to begin in Mobile, Alabama, two executives from an Arizona based seafood wholesaler, Consolidated Seafood Enterprises, pled guilty to a scheme to defraud the […]
A recent decision in ongoing DuPont Benlate pesticide litigation in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court demonstrates the serious consequences that can arise from a partys deliberate attempt to conceal discoverable information. […]
Neubauer Hyperbaric Neurologic Center, a controversial clinic, reopened last week after spending nearly two years closed due to an accident involving two of its patients. The accident, which killed a […]
