... calls for the internationalization of legal systems for the management of sovereign debt, including, for example, the call for the creation of an international bankruptcy mechanism for sovereign debt based in the IMF. (Kreuger 2002, discussed in Backer 1006). Over the course of ... U.S. nationals is protected, and all prior federal regulations involving Cuba are codified. (Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act of 1995). Under regulations implementing the Trading With the Enemy Act, ...
August 8, 2008 03:24 am

New York Law Journal Decisions of Interest June 25, 2008

(New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library Blog)
... First American Title Ins. Co. of NY v. Ankari APPELLATE DIVISION SECOND DEPARTMENT Family Law Father's Stipulation on Children's College Expenses Stands Even Though Child ... 's 'Protrusion' Mazerbo v. Murphy U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, SECOND CIRCUIT Bankruptcy Panel Reverses Approval of Proposed Structure For Ship Line's Payment of Asbestos Claims ... Insurance Law Insurer's Third-Party Suit for Indemnification Under Other Insurer's Business Policies Dismissed Ten Seventy One Home Corp. v. Liberty Mut'l ...
June 25, 2008 08:24 am
... on his bail forms in a subdivision along a golf course. Their attorneys either did not return messages or declined to speak about the case. In a bankruptcy filing last year, the men attached a note to court documents that said they were working to free their clients by "removing the shackles of bondage." "Give us liberty, or give us death; but we shall not sit by, and watch Satans (sic) handiwork, enslave, kill, torture, and spiritually ...
June 23, 2008 04:46 pm

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines June 20, 2008

(New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library Blog)
... Circuit Court of Appeals inquiry in 2007, when he was accused of perjury and false financial disclosures to conceal cash in a bankruptcy case." WEB-ONLY | Lawyer for attorney accused of fraudulent foreclosure transactions criticizes $1.8M settlement "The ... ." WEB-ONLY | Massachusetts ACLU files suit against agencies for keeping voluntary DNA samples "The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts filed suit on behalf of a Cape Code man against several Massachusetts officials and agencies for ...
June 20, 2008 10:08 am
... Law and Constitutional Law. The Supreme Court's decision in Boumediene v. Bush delivered a decisive blow to two central elements of the Bush administration's post-9/11 ... ; and that the remaining 275 foreign nationals there can be indefinitely deprived of their liberty without a meaningful hearing. The third consecutive defeat for the administration in Guantánamo cases, ... long enough to absorb fully Guantánamo's legal and moral bankruptcy. If the last six years at Guantánamo have produced any good, ...
June 16, 2008 08:18 pm

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines June 12, 2008

(New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library Blog)
... a tsunami. Loan terms favorable to borrowers, more secured corporate debt, 2005 bankruptcy law changes and other factors have contributed to a decline in the number of companies seeking ... the U.S. military's 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' law concerning discharge rules for homosexuals. Although the decision noted that the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence v. Texas recognized 'a protected liberty interest for adults to engage in consensual sexual intimacy in the home,' the 1st Circuit denied the ...
June 12, 2008 10:00 am
... 5, 2008 House Committee on the Judiciary (Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law) hearing on H.R. 3652, the Protecting Employees and Retirees in Business Bankruptcies Act of 2007. Senate Committee on Finance hearing on C, K, or ... International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight) and Committee on the Judiciary (Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties) joint hearing on U.S. Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Report OIG-08-18, the Removal ...
June 2, 2008 06:20 pm
This post at Bankruptcy Law Network by Kent Anderson, Oregon bankruptcy attorney, is of special import today. Briefly: April 1, 2008, is the last day for citizen comment on an important regulation! The date may be full of ... . The US Trustee description of the briefing required by Congress is set forth in the definition in §58.12(a)(12). Among other "liberties" taken by the US Trustee in drafting this regulation is the time period required for the credit counseling briefing. By UST definition, the ...
March 31, 2008 02:25 pm

Reading Notes: Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism

(Underbelly: A Journal of Soft Information)
... emphasizing that the authors, in their Economist mode, are very far from exposing themselves as hairy-chested libertarians. They like liberty: they want to lower trade barriers, costs of hiring and firing, costs of registering property, and other such items on the free-market menu. But they're positively hospitable to protection against downside risks: soft bankruptcy laws, safety-net health insurance, etc. And while they seem to oppose high taxes on low and ...
March 24, 2008 12:54 pm

Because of Ashley

(Blawgletter)
... question was already embedded within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time. And yet words on a parchment ... had to miss days of work, she was let go and lost her health care. They had to file for bankruptcy, and that's when Ashley decided that she had to do something to help her mom. She knew that food was one of ...
March 18, 2008 04:16 pm

Only Words?

(Discourse.net)
... question was already embedded within our Constitution - a Constitution that had at is very core the ideal of equal citizenship under the law; a Constitution that promised its people liberty, and justice, and a union that could be and should be perfected over time. And yet words on a parchment ... had to miss days of work, she was let go and lost her health care. They had to file for bankruptcy, and that's when Ashley decided that she had to do something to help her mom. She knew that food was one of ...
March 18, 2008 09:59 am
... offense in one context (child support) while it remains a civil action in most others (e.g., bankruptcy). Although it is obvious through the exaction of burdens that we are often seeking to have family members take special precautionary ... other words, given the disruption the burden promises to wreak on other values (like, say, nondiscrimination, autonomy, liberty, and equality), what are the countervailing benefits promised by its imposition? Finally, and most critically important, we must ask ...
March 11, 2008 07:24 am

Chancery Court at the Casinos: Issue of Indenture Default Addressed

(Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog)
... commercial freedom that issuers otherwise enjoy under default law are traditionally interpreted strictly, precisely because they involve specifically extracted limitations on ordinary economic liberties."27 Even with due respect for the principle ... Let me leave you with one more nugget. Although sympathetic to the consequences that would flow from a default that might then trigger a bankruptcy, the court observed at page 24 that: "...any consequences of a potential bankruptcy, whatever they may ...
March 3, 2008 06:42 am
... below (D.C. Circuit) Petition for certiorari Brief in opposition __________________ Docket: 07-684 Case name: Liberty Electric Power v. National Energy & Gas Transmission, Inc. Issue: Whether, under 502(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code, federal courts may rely on equitable principles to reject claims otherwise valid under state law. Opinion below (4th Circuit) Petition for certiorari Brief in opposition Petitioner's reply __________________ Docket: 07-692 Case ...
February 8, 2008 09:03 am

New York Law Journal Decisions of Interest February 1, 2008

(New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library Blog)
... of New York KINGS COUNTY Criminal Practice Transfer to Civil Status Involves Liberty Interest That Cannot Be Forced on Defendant People v. Mikail Milikov QUEENS COUNTY Contracts ... Kwon v. Yun U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Bankruptcy Dismissal of Claims Against Law Firm Denied in Case Raising Issues as to Integrity of ... v. Rattet) U.S. DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Insurance Law Insurer Granted Judgment on Company's Claim After Compensating Buyer of Contaminated ...
February 1, 2008 12:15 am

LAW.COM Newswire Highlights January 30, 2008

(New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library Blog)
... despite the U.S. trade embargo. Bankruptcy Allegations Move Forward Against N.Y. Law Firm New York Law Journal Stressing that the case raised " ... Diller is chairman and CEO, issued a statement Tuesday saying that Malone's Liberty Media had gone to court to try to take over voting power of the company and ... "preposterous." Enforce Technology-Use Policies to Manage Employees' Privacy Expectations Special to Law.com As employees use laptops, cell phones and handheld devices for personal communications ...
January 30, 2008 12:09 am
Columbia Law Review, Volume 107 Issue 8 (December 2007) Articles Procedures As Politics in Administrative Law Lisa Schultz Bressman Mandating Access to Telecom and the Internet: The Hidden Side of Trinko Daniel F. Spulber & Christopher S. Yoo Notes Opportunistic Informal Bankruptcy: How BAPCPA May Fail to Make Wealthy Debtors Pay Up The Line Between Liberty and Union: Exercising Personal Jurisdiction over Officials from Other States Essay The Paradoxes of Cultural Property Naomi Mezey
January 24, 2008 11:43 am
... , 74 U Chi L Rev 1655 (2007) Adam B. Cox, Deference, Delegation, and Immigration Law, 74 U Chi L Rev 1671 (2007) Richard A. Epstein, Coniston Corp v Village of Hoffman ... , 74 U Chi L Rev 1705 (2007) Bernard E. Harcourt, Judge Richard Posner on Civil Liberties: Pragmatic Authoritarian Libertarian, 74 U Chi L Rev 1723 (2007) M. Todd Henderson, ... 74 U Chi L Rev 1831 (2007) Randal C. Picker, Pulling a Rabbi Out of His Hat: The Bankruptcy Magic of Dick Posner, 74 U Chi L Rev 1845 (2007) Geoffrey R. Stone, ...
January 11, 2008 10:24 am
... filed suit, charging that various wrongful acts by child protective services workers had deprived him of liberty without due process. The district court dismissed the action as time-barred, rejecting plaintiff???s arguments that ... MARCIA PHILLIPS PARSONS, Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Judge. In this pre-BAPCPA preference action, the trustee appeals the bankruptcy court???s ruling that the lien on the debtor???s motor vehicle was protected from avoidance by the enabling loan exception, which excepts ...
December 22, 2007 07:45 am
... filed suit, charging that various wrongful acts by child protective services workers had deprived him of liberty without due process. The district court dismissed the action as time-barred, rejecting plaintiff's arguments that the ... MARCIA PHILLIPS PARSONS, Bankruptcy Appellate Panel Judge. In this pre-BAPCPA preference action, the trustee appeals the bankruptcy court's ruling that the lien on the debtor's motor vehicle was protected from avoidance by the enabling loan exception, which excepts ...
December 22, 2007 07:31 am
 
 
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