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...Republicans counter that Democratic concerns are ridiculous because no lawful voter should be intimidated. But voters can be confused or frightened. New citizens, voters who don?t speak English, elderly voters or people who don?t understand all the legalities of their rights, can be intimidated by a lawyer or volunteer challenging their right to vote. Many older black voters were alive before Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in 1965, and remember that there were often literacy tests and poll taxes barring their way to the ballot...
...again, not in one, but in multiple states. Battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida (again) are likely settings for post-election litigation. These states have large numbers of Electoral College votes, making small numbers of disputed ballots worth fighting for. According to Bobby Burchfield, a Republican election lawyer who represented President Bush in the 2000 election recall, “There’s no perfect process, and there are always creative lawyers who can come up with something to complain about if the election is close...
...again, not in one, but in multiple states. Battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida (again) are likely settings for post-election litigation. These states have large numbers of Electoral College votes, making small numbers of disputed ballots worth fighting for. According to Bobby Burchfield, a Republican election lawyer who represented President Bush in the 2000 election recall, “There’s no perfect process, and there are always creative lawyers who can come up with something to complain about if the election is close...
...about 60% of Yukos' output - has been valued by Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein at between $14.7 and $17.3 billion. Reports last week suggested the Kremlin might hand it to a Russian rival, Gazprom, for a fraction of that price. "It's robbery in broad daylight," complains Robert Amsterdam, a lawyer for Khodorkovsky, who says the Kremlin has no right to proceed with what he terms "the world's largest hostile takeover." So far the firm isn't saying whether it will mount...
...self-employed man who hired a lawyer to sort out a blunder by tax authorities has been left facing a €2.2 million bill in legal fees. The man had received a €290 million tax bill on his €17,000 annual salary - a mix-up that took the attorney just an hour to resolve. But under German law, the lawyer is entitled to a fixed percentage of the reduction in tax obtained. Of course, it's nice for the tax man to know that, for once, there is someone less popular than...