THE PUBLIC INTEREST: LEGAL NEWS
• New Border ID Rules Take Effect
• Foreclosures Up 75 Percent in 2007
• Poll: Big Expectations for New President
• E-File Tips from the IRS
• Cold Meds Send 7,000 Kids to Hospitals
• Calif. Court: Employees Can Be Fired for Medical Marijuana Use
• Judges: Wash. Breathalyzer Tests Flimsy
• FDA Investigators May Be Subpoenaed
• L'Oreal Lipstick Laden with Lead, Suit Says
• Cash-Strapped States Resort to Odd Taxes
PUBLIC ACCESS: RESOURCE CENTER
• Small Business Center
• Civil Rights: Basics and Background
DISCLAIMER
You May FREELY Redistribute This E-Mail in Whole
THE PUBLIC INTEREST: LEGAL NEWS
NEW BORDER ID RULES TAKE EFFECT
(FindLaw's Common Law Blog) Beginning today, American citizens entering the U.S. by land or sea are required to present a valid U.S. passport or similar proof of both identity and citizenship. Read more...
Related Resources
• New Passport and Border Entry Rules
FORECLOSURES UP 75 PERCENT IN 2007
(FindLaw's Common Law Blog) Foreclosure filings in the United States increased 75 percent in 2007 when compared with data from 2006. Foreclosure filings nationwide totaled 2,203,295 in 2007, with more than 1 percent of all households in the U.S. in some stage of the foreclosure process during the year. Read more...
Related Resources
• FBI Launches Mortgage Fraud Investigation (FindLaw's Common Law Blog)
• Real Estate Center: Foreclosure
POLL: BIG EXPECTATIONS FOR NEW PRESIDENT
(AP) Americans have a decidedly dour view of how things are going in the country and an outsized view of what one person - the president - can do about it. In a year when talk of change is all the rage in the presidential campaign, people have great expectations for the next president's ability to get things done, according to an extensive Associated Press-Yahoo News survey released Thursday. Read more...
Related Resources
• See the Full Poll Results [PDF file]
• The Presidency: Myth and Reality Combine (AP)
E-FILE TIPS FROM THE IRS
(FindLaw's Common Law Blog) As W-2s arrive in the mail and individuals get ready to file their income tax returns, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reminds taxpayers of the benefits of filing their returns electronically ("e-filing"). Read more...
Related Resources
• IRS Warns of Rebate Scams (AP)
COLD MEDS SEND 7,000 KIDS TO HOSPITALS
(AP) Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the U.S. government said Monday in its first national estimate. Two-thirds of the cases were children who took the medicines unsupervised, and most of the others were because parents gave doses that were too large, the study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. Read more...
Related Resources
• FDA Warns on Risk of Giving Cold Meds to Kids (FindLaw's Common Law Blog)
CALIF. COURT: EMPLOYEES CAN BE FIRED FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA USE
(FindLaw's Common Law Blog) California workers may be fired for medical marijuana use, under a ruling issued by the California Supreme Court. In a 5-2 decision, the court held that California's Compassionate Use Act of 1996 -- which gives authorized medical marijuana users defenses to certain state criminal charges related to marijuana -- does not protect workers who test positive for marijuana use. Read more...
Related Resources
• When You Must Submit to Workplace Testing
JUDGES: WASH. BREATHALYZER TESTS FLIMSY
(AP) The [Washington] State Patrol's toxicology lab has had so many ethical lapses and made so many scientific mistakes in recent years that alcohol breath test results should not be admitted at trial, a court ruled Wednesday. The ruling by a three-member panel of King County District Court will likely make it easier for defendants in pending county cases to beat drunken driving charges and for those previously convicted on breath test evidence to appeal. Read more...
Related Resources
• State-by-State DUI Laws
FDA INVESTIGATORS MAY BE SUBPOENAED
(AP) A congressional subcommittee wants to subpoena criminal investigators at the Food and Drug Administration about their own probe concerning the antibiotic Ketek, which has been linked to liver failure. For months, subcommittee leaders have alleged that the FDA approved Ketek even though the agency knew the large safety study it required before approval was fraught with data problems. Read more...
Related Resources
• Ketek: Health and Legal Information
L'OREAL LIPSTICK LADEN WITH LEAD, SUIT SAYS
(Andrews Publications) An Illinois woman has filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that two brands of L'Oreal lipstick contain dangerous amounts of lead. . . The levels should mirror the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's maximum safe lead level of .1 ppm for candy, according to the complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Read more...
Related Resources
• Lead Poisoning and the Law
CASH-STRAPPED STATES RESORT TO ODD TAXES
(AP) It's the perfect tax: Government exacts a big payment without having to fend off lobbyists or wage a political fight. And in most cases, the taxpayer doesn't even have a say. That's the allure of New York's proposal to tax illegal drugs, just one of the innovative - and sometimes odd - ways states are trying to raise revenue in these increasingly gloomy economic times. Read more...
Related Resources
• New Tax Laws and Tips for 2008
PUBLIC ACCESS: RESOURCE CENTER
SMALL BUSINESS CENTER
(FindLaw for Small Business) Whether you are thinking about starting a small business, or have been running your own enterprise for years, FindLaw's Small Business Center can help -- with information and resources on incorporation, employment law, business operations, and much more. Read more...
CIVIL RIGHTS: BASICS AND BACKGROUND
(FindLaw for the Public) What is the "civil rights movement"? What is the difference between civil rights and "civil liberties"? What is discrimination? The "Civil Rights: Basics and Background" section in FindLaw for the Public's new Civil Rights Center provides answers to these questions and much more -- including a timeline of events in the civil rights movement, links to civil rights laws, and a list of U.S. Supreme Court cases on civil rights. Read more...
Related Resources
• Browse the Civil Rights Center
DISCLAIMER:
The information contained in this newsletter and the FindLaw web site is provided as a service to the Internet community, and does not constitute legal advice. We try to provide quality information, but we make no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained in or linked to this web site and its associated sites. As legal advice must be tailored to the specific circumstances of each case, and laws are constantly changing, nothing provided herein should be used as a substitute for the advice of competent counsel.
Back to newsletter list
