The Sweet Science?
The Journal of Law and Policy at Brooklyn Law School has an interesting student note by Joshua A. Stein, Hitting Below the Belt: Florida's Taxation of Pay-Per-Pay Boxing Programming is a Content-Based...
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TaxProf takes note of two pieces in today's WSJ. One was an interview, on page 1 (i.e., a news page), of this year's winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics, Columbia University professor...
View ArticleTaking Credit Where No Credit's Due
On Monday, Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich's office issued a press release trumpeting "Governor Ehrlich Cuts Unemployment Insurance Taxes by $95 Million--Millions in Reduced Taxes Go to Maryland...
View ArticleFocused Searching
You can now find on the right side of the page a search box below the title "Search Tax & Business Law Commentary Google Co-op Search Engine." This will allow readers to conduct Google searches...
View ArticleFocused Searching Update
I've added several more blogs to the Co-Op Search:California Estate and Business Law BlogBusiness Law ProfDelaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation BlogFlorida Asset Protection BlogandIdeoblog...
View ArticleFocused Searching Update II
Today, I added four sites to the Google Co-Op search engine. Two are tax specific, Tax Playa and Andrew Mitchell International Tax Services. (The Andrew Mitchell site has the incredible collection of...
View ArticleSmoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
At least as long ago as 1947, it was widely known that cigarette smoking was unhealthy, hence the caption on this post from the title of a famous popular song of that year. Apparently, the people at...
View ArticleAn Aside on Employment Numbers
In a recent post, I commented on two articles in the WSJ, one in the news section and one on the Op-Ed page. The employment numbers used in the Op-Ed piece seemed to me not to be credible. After some...
View ArticleKnaves--Airbrush Edition
"As a result of Stalin's purges, and later destalinization, many photographs of officials from the periods show extensive airbrushing, often entire people have been removed. The term 'airbrushed out'...
View ArticleLimited Liability and Its Discontents (Gilbert and Sullivan Edition)
Apparently, critics of limited liability have been around for a long time. From Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia, Limited, the song Limited Liability:MR. GOLDBURY.Some seven men form an Association, (If...
View ArticleComment on the 2006 Elections
There has been a lot of hoo-ha in the media about how the voter shift to the Democrats was not nearly as great as is typically the case in mid-term elections. Just to check, I compared the overall vote...
View ArticleFocused Searching Update, III
The following blogs have been added to the Tax and Business Law Commentary Google Co-Op search engine:Professor Bainbridge's Business Association BlogThe Wilmington North Carolina Business Law and...
View ArticleThe Front (Climate Not Warming Division)
Larry Ribstein has been carrying on a virtual one-man jihad against NYT's Gretchen Morgenson. (Start here and just work back.) I have absolutely no intention of getting caught in that crossfire....
View ArticleHe is the Walrus
The following headnote is from Judge Charles Moylan's opinion in the case of Nils, LLC v. Antezana:Confessed Judgment - Purchase of Residential Property - The Provisions for Payment - Partial Defaults...
View ArticleNew Blog In Town
I am pleased to announce the creation of a new weblog, Maryland Courts Watcher, that I will edit along with a number of other people.Maryland Courts Watcher will post synopses of all formal opinions...
View ArticleWhy Bloggers Are Not Enough
Today, the Baltimore Sun published an article on statutory ground rents, a form of real estate interest little-known outside of the Baltimore area. The thrust of the article was that, as real estate...
View ArticlePresence
The case of Tax Commissioner of West Virginia v. MBNA America Bank, N.A. is a very big deal. In that case, the Supreme Court of West Virginia held that the state could impose a corporate income tax on...
View ArticleAmerica's Pastime
Apparently the Boston Red Sox will, on their own, cause approximately a 0.1% increase in the U.S. trade deficit in the month of December.In October, the U.S. trade deficit was $58.9 billion. The $51.11...
View ArticleNet Neutrality
Net neutrality explained:Misleading mumbo jumbo on net neutrality:If you still can't figure out what net neutrality is all about, follow the Ninja:
View ArticleThe Tax Foundation Can't Win for Losing
Even when I somewhat agree with the Tax Foundation, I am somewhat astonished by their cavalier abuse of the facts. Case in point: The recent post Is Maryland Gambling on Gambling to Balance the...
View ArticleBad News from Finland
The paper, To Have or Not To Have a Pet for Better Health?, in PLoS-One, reached the following conclusion:Pet ownership was very lightly associated with poor health in the general working-aged...
View ArticleRollout for Maryland Courts Watcher
We officially rolled out the Maryland Courts Watcher by posting the following announcement on various Maryland State Bar Association listserves:We are happy to announce the availability of a new free...
View ArticleOriginal Intent on Representing the Unpopular
In 1770, a prominent Boston lawyer represented the Capt. Thomas Preston and the British soldiers after the Boston Massacre. They were immensely unpopular. This account of that lawyer's recollection of...
View ArticleWhips and Chains?
The following question was posed on the Maryland State Bar Association's Small and Solo Practice listserv discussion group:Hello List,First let me start by saying I hope my question doesn't offend...
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