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...think the carryback extension is a good idea," says Mark Silverman, a prominent tax lawyer at Steptoe & Johnson. "It's been done in the past, and it ought to be done again...
...campaign contribution from one of its executives. Blagojevich, who came into office in 2002 with promises to clean up the state's culture of graft, made no comment Tuesday during a bail hearing after which he was released on his own recognizance. But late in the day, his lawyer Sheldon Sorosky told reporters the governor "is very surprised and certainly feels that he did not do anything wrong ... a lot of this is just politics." (See pictures of who will be in Obama's White House...
...China reported that on Monday night, the evening before the document was published, Beijing police raided the houses of two signers, activists Liu Xiaobo and Zhang Zhuhua, and took them into custody. Zhang was released after 12 hours, the group said, but Liu remains in detention. Pu, the lawyer, said Beijing police followed him on Dec. 9 and asked him to report his whereabouts on Dec. 10. That day marks the anniversary of the 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the U.N. General Assembly...
...exceptions to that general rule; rules creating privileges deny the parties access to certain kinds of evidence. The legal theory is that the public's interest in protecting the privilege outweighs the public's interest in having all the evidence for a fair trial. Some are obviously necessary (e.g. lawyer-client), some are more historical than practical (e.g. priest-penitent), and some are quite questionable (e.g. spousal privilege). The theory underlying the psychotherapist-patient privilege is that it is more important for the patient to have unfettered access to mental health care than it is for the government to have...
...term genocide is young in the context of human conflict. It was coined in 1944 by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin, who combined the Greek genos (race) with the Latin cide (to kill). Despite its murderous implications, the word, as defined by the CPPCG, does not necessarily always involve the killing of individuals. Genocide denotes crimes committed "with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." Forced sterilization or other measures designed to prevent births, the removal of children from a group, or conditions of life inflicted on a group to bring about...