WITHOUT ALL the high school players I had never seen, I figured this NBA draft would be much more enjoyable to watch. And it was. Opinions are what make this fun, and it is nice to have opinions again. And I have opinions. I am not sure what...
In deciding the two University of Michigan cases on Monday, the Supreme Court erupted with 13 separate opinions that covered 151 pages. The fallout included two majority opinions, six concurring opinions and five dissenting opinions. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor spoke for the court in a 5-4 decision upholding...
It's not hard to gather opinions from America's sommeliers; in fact, just try to stop them from rhapsodizing about their latest favorite. Sometimes, it seems, there are way too many opinions in the wine business.
Council on Ethical and judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association. 1994 ed. Chicago, Ill.: American Medical Association, 1994.This publication includes the Current Opinions with Annotations of the Council on Ethical and judicial Affairs, the Principles of Medical Ethics, and the Fundamental Elements of the Patient-physician Relationship. This edition of...
A federal district judge ruled that the changes and additions to federal appeals court and Supreme Court opinions by West Publishing Co did not constitute original work and therefore could not be copyrighted. The case involved Hyperlaw Inc, a New York legal publisher that was compiling some of the opinions...
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General OIG has released five new advisory opinions on the Federal Medicare/Medicaid Anti-Kickback statute. These are the first five Advisory Opinions this year. Advisory Opinion No. 02-1 concerns a non-profit, tax-exempt, charitable corporation funded largely by drug companies...
Loislaw will add Federal Circuit Court unpublished opinions. Loislaw has also created a dedicated FRAP Federal Rule of Appellate Procedure 32.1 page on its Web site. Access to the unpublished opinions will be offered at no additional charge (www.loislaw.com).
Mainly as a result of the actions of the IRS against a number of large CPA and law firms regarding tax shelters, Circular 230 was most recently amended, effective June 21, 2005, to cover the issuance of tax opinions and to establish an "aspirational" set of "best...
In the U.S. Treasury Department's continuing effort to stop abusive tax shelters and restore integrity to the tax system, the 1RS announced earlier this year three provisions that make it more difficult for tax advisors to issue tax opinions and for taxpayers to avoid the imposition of the tax accuracy-related...
Loislaw.com (Van Buren, AR) has released LOIS Federal District Court Opinions and LOIS Bankruptcy Court Collection via the Internet. The new products are compilations of selected U.S. District Court and U.S. Bankruptcy Court opinions and reference materials. The former product offers federal district court cases that...
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- AdSouth Partners, Inc. (OTC BB: ASPR) today announced that it has been advised by Gateway Reports, an independent securities analyst, that Gateway Reports is commencing coverage of AdSouth and that any reports that it issues will be available on its website (www.gatewayreports.com). Any statements, estimates or...
Like the barge and a gate on a Mississippi River lock that prompted them, judicial opinions collided in a decision handed down Wednesday by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
IRVINE, Calif. -- Allergan, Inc. (NYSE:AGN) today announced that it received positive opinions for COMBIGANTM, Allergan's ALPHAGANR/timolol combination product for glaucoma (brimonidine tartrate/timolol ophthalmic solution), from all twenty-one Concerned Member States included in the COMBIGANTM Mutual Recognition Procedure MRP for the European Union. Allergan received notification of the positive opinions...
YPSILANTI, Mich. AP -- A disc jockey at Eastern Michigan University's public radio station was fired after giving on-air opinions in favor of war in Iraq and refusing to air National Public Radio news. Terry Hughes was fired Wednesday by WEMU-FM station manager Art Timko. Hughes...
With manually compiled data on a large sample of deals announced between 1994 and 2003, one empirically examines the role and effects of fairness opinions in mergers and acquisitions. Approximately 95% of deals have at least one fairness opinion on the target side, while 70% of deals have one or...
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE SHOWS IS GUARANTEED UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS. MAYBE A group of media buyers at the broadcast networks' upfront parties last week were taking bets on which new primetime show would be the first to get the ax. Cruel, perhaps, especially since their opinions were based on...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Market Leading Technology Group Launches Nationwide Online Survey to Solicit Views and Opinions for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Differing opinions is what makes a horse race, they say, and so it is with stock prices, too. Early this month, two leading analysts issued dramatically different opinions on the value of Harley-Davidson HDI common stock. However, the sellers seeme Differing opinions is what makes a...
A Fourth Amendment seizure case resulted in three written opinions from a three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - one charging that the line of cases relied on by the appellate court are themselves inconsistent.