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9th Circuit: County Can't Use RICO
Headline Court News | 2008/03/25 09:14
pAn anti-illegal immigration lawsuit turned out to be much better as a metaphor than as a lawsuit./ppWhen a former leader of Canyon County, Idaho, invoked civil RICO lawsto sue four corporations for hiring illegal immigrants, the move madeheadlines all the way up to emThe New York Times/em: The newspaper viewed it as a prism to understand how the immigration issue split the Republican Party./ppBut an ideologically balanced panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals disposed of the complaint last week.Canyon County didn't have standing to argue that the companies' allegedhiring of illegal immigrants unfairly upped the cost of providingpublic services, Senior Judge A. Wallace Tashima ruled./ppWe find it particularly inappropriate to label a governmental entity'injured in its property' when it spends money on the provision ofadditional public services, Tashima wrote, given that those servicesare based on legislative mandates and are intended to further thepublic interest./ppSenior Judge William Canby Jr. and Judge Consuelo Callahan joined Tashima. /p


Is Schwarzenegger Serious About Taxing Lawyers?
Legal Business | 2008/03/25 09:08
!-- insert images --!--www.law.com--!--www.law.com--!-- imagesDisplay --!-- article inline-- pCalifornia Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has a $16 billion budget deficitdilemma on his hands. He insists he doesn't want to cut education. Buthe proclaims with equal fervor that he won't raise taxes. /ppSo what's a post-partisan governor to do? Close tax loopholes, of course. /ppNow one governor's loophole may be another politician's tax increase.But according to two media outlets, Schwarzenegger told the audience ata Pleasant Hill, Calif., budget forum last Wednesday that the state should consider closing tax loop-holes and in his mind that includes the lack of a sales tax on professional services -- including legal services. /ppWe have to look at the way we are taxing, Schwarzenegger is reportedas saying. There's whole new economies that are developing,service-oriented economies. /ppAsked about the comments on Thursday, finance department spokesman H.D.Palmer said the governor was just explaining that there are a lot ofdeficit-eliminating ideas out there. /ppBasically, it was in the context of we ought to have everything on thetable as we ought to be having discussions about them sooner ratherthan later, Palmer said. But we're not carrying a bill in our backpocket, if that's what you're asking. /p


Attorney Is Disbarred for the Second Time
Legal Business | 2008/03/24 14:16
pA one-time law firm associate, disbarred in 1988 for insider trading, then re-admitted in 2003, has been disbarred again for misrepresenting his past in applications both for reinstatement and for non-legal licenses to work as an insurance agent and a stock broker. /ppIsrael G. Grossman committed his insider trading offenses while working as an associate at the firm now known as Kramer Levin Naftalis amp; Frankel. The confidential information he passed to friends and family about transactions the firm was working on netted them $1.5 million in trading profits. /ppArrested and convicted in 1987, the then-34-year-old Grossman was sentenced to two years in prison. He was also later found jointly and severally liable to the Securities and Exchange Commission for $2.5 million. The case attracted considerable attention at the time, coming soon after prosecutors ensnared the much larger insider trading ring led by investment banker Dennis Levine. /ppBut the Appellate Division, 1st Department, ruled last week that the now 55-year-old Grossman had consistently denied having a prior conviction on professional licensing applications to the state insurance department and the National Association of Securities Dealers. He failed to disclose these applications in his successful quest for reinstatement to the bar in 2003, even though he was facing criminal prosecution at the time for allegedly lying to the NASD about his past. /p


Brits vs. Americans: Who Can Better Weather a Recession?
Law Opinions | 2008/03/24 14:14
When a downturn hits the economy, elite U.S. firms are better hedged than the U.K.'s -- or so says conventional wisdom. In the past New York's rainmakers haven't felt the effects as sharply as the London locals. But today, with financial markets in crisis and recession looming, how will American firms, with their diversity of practices, stack up against Brits and their superior geographic reach? I would rather be a lawyer in a U.S. firm in a downturn, says David Lakhdir, a London partner at Paul Weiss.


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