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The American bankruptcy system exists for the "honest but unfortunate" debtor, not for those who would use bankruptcy strategically to rewrite obligations just to get a better deal than they could outside bankruptcy. Indeed, just a few years ago, Congress passed bipartisan bankruptcy reform legislation that tightened the bankruptcy laws to crack down on fraud and abuse. Yet loopholes remain. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit is primed to rule any day on one of the biggest potential loopholes - the ongoing Bleak House-style efforts of the late Anna Nicole Smith to obtain the fortune of deceased Texas oilman J. Howard Marshall. Although the specific facts are unique, the 9th Circuit's ruling could impact the finality of every trust or will in America by providing disgruntled c...
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The Congressional Budget Office recently updated its estimates of the fiscal impact of the Obama administration's proposals. The results are breathtaking, and show that the federal government is making a great leap forward into the red. While there is still time, taxpayers should be asking some tough questions. The CBO is intended to be a non-partisan referee that analyzes the fiscal impact of proposed legislation. In its March 5 assessment of the White House's budget request for 2011, the CBO painted a disturbing picture of the indebtedness that Obama proposes.
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Prison "was never a tool to fight crime. It is an instrument to manage deprived and dishonored populations, which is quite a different task," says Loic Wacquant, a renowned ethnographer and social theorist who teaches at the University of California at Berkeley. Still, speaking by e-mail, Wacquant warns that the journey between slavery and mass incarceration must include two other "peculiar" institutions created to define and confine Blacks; "Jim Crow and the urban ghetto." Now, he says, "in the post-civil rights era, the penal system has gradually been recast to mean Black-and increasingly, Latino. The explosive prison growth of the past 30 years didn't happen by accident, and it wasn't driven primarily by crime rates or broad social and economic forces beyond the reach of state gove...
In the past, the cooperative association at Greenbelt Homes has taken action against residents for noise complaints, barking dogs and hording. The association drew the line, though, when David S. Schuman wanted to confine his next-door neighbor's smoking to a common area a few minutes' walk down the road.
Legislators are prioritizing efforts to confine dangerous sexual predators for treatment after they have completed their prison sentences. In Kansas vs. Hendricks, for example, the US Supreme Court upheld an earlier court decision to invoke involuntary commitment statutes upon evidence that the sexual offender's uncontrolled behavior poses a threat to the public. The first civil commitment law was enacted by the state of Washington. Other states have followed while still other states are considering such laws.
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