Marketplace Fairness Act (Internet Sales Tax)
Pro Con Use Tax Recent Developments Supreme Court Selected Resources The House is considering the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 (S. 336), which the Senate passed with a 69-27 vote. The Act would allow member states to require “remote” sellers of goods exceeding $1 million per year to collect and remit associated sales and/or use taxes, provided …Read the Rest…
Employment and Tobacco Use
As of June, 2013, MetroHealth will refuse to hire tobacco users, joining other local hospitals, such as the Cleveland Clinic (2007) and University Hospitals (2012) that already have such policies. Such a policy is allowed under the employment “at will” legal paradigm in Ohio, combined with the fact that Ohio is one of 21 states that does …Read the Rest…
Book Review: Declining Prospects
Michael H. Trotter. Declining Prospects: How Extraordinary Competition and Compensation are Changing America’s Major Law Firms. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2012. Michael H. Trotter. Profit and the Practice of Law: What’s Happened to the Legal Profession. Athens, GA and London: Univ. of Georgia Press, 1997. (paperback edition, CreateSpace, 2012) Stephen J. Harper. The Lawyer Bubble: …Read the Rest…
Law and the 1960s
JSTOR HeinOnline & ILP Retrospective Books Legislation/Legislative History More Recent and Current Sources and Events This semester, CWRU Law School is offering a seminar on Law and the ’60s. Students are to write papers that likely will be more interdisciplinary than some law school research papers. Most law-student notes focus on current legal topics; offer …Read the Rest…
Fair Use: Quick Guide
Statutes Cases Legal Treatises Legal Journals Other (Secondary) Sources Citators Other, Scholarly Books Effective legal research takes into consideration the amount of time and money you expend, as well as your access to research resources. While CORE II students certainly may lack time and cannot pay for their CORE research, they do have educational use …Read the Rest…
Hate Crimes
Selected Resources Selected Books Selected, Recent Articles On Feb. 8, 2013, Judge Dan Aaron Polster sentenced Samuel Mullet to fifteen years in prison for orchestrating a series of beard- and haircutting incidents among members of his Amish sect in Bergholz, Ohio. Mullet took responsibility for the crimes, and he could have received a sentence of …Read the Rest…