A discussion of the always enlightening “technical corrections” process:
Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr contends the need for modifying the tax statutes never ends, largely because lawyers and accountants employed by businesses are skilled in finding new ways to legally avoid taxes.
The Bredesen administration’s annual “technical corrections” bills - typically running [...]
Phil Williams looks into the process:
The Court of the Judiciary is composed of 16 people — all but three of them lawyers and judges — who sit in judgment of the ethical conduct of other judges.
“When you decide between a public reprimand or a private reprimand, you’re going down [...]
From the Chicago Sun-Times:
Rod Blagojevich’s lawyers want the FBI to give up details of interviews conducted last year of President Obama, his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and others as part of the investigation into the former governor.
In a Friday filing, Blagojevich attorneys also [...]
Fred Thompson has written a memoir:
The 67-year-old former politician, actor and avuncular radio host who graduated from the University of Memphis titled his book “Notes from a Country Lawyer.” It’s scheduled for release in May.
Amazon.com already is selling pre-orders of the book, the cover of which shows a [...]
Adam Haynes tweets the news.
Garrison is a lawyer at Barrett, Johnston & Parsley and has been very active in Democratic politics serving as Assistant Policy Coordinator for the Gore-Lieberman presidential campaign as well as an alternate At-Large Barack Obama Delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
The state [...]
From Andy Sere, National Republican Campaign Committee spokesman:
“Lawyer-politician-professor Roy Herron’s 23-year Nashville record is a veritable smorgasbord of Obama-style liberalism. Herron has championed a state income tax, a disastrous government healthcare system, card check and the ‘stimulus’ that failed struggling Tennesseans. With his gubernatorial bid circling the drain, he’s [...]
The lawyer/preacher/politician decides he has a better shot at going to DC than taking a shot at the executive residence:
Democratic state Sen. Roy Herron tells The Associated Press he is dropping his gubernatorial bid to instead seek the northwest Tennessee congressional seat being vacated by Rep. John Tanner.
Herron, a [...]
I admit that I have not had a chance to read the entire idiotic ruling from Chancellor Bonnyman, but this is an interesting take on the situation, from someone who has more experience in the process than I do (and someone who is a lawyer, to boot):
It [...]
Lawyer: 9/11 Defendants Want Platform for Views
The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused [...]
The backlog in Memphis to get a hearing for Social Security disability benefits increased by three months last year, to 538 days, and is worsening, a lawyer who practices in Memphis told a House Ways and Means subcommittee Thursday.
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