Earlier this month, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (Commission) released a proposed rule, 1 TAC § 354.1452 that prohibits certain marketing activity by Medicaid and CHIP providers. The proposed rule has been created to enforce the...
Police can search a shared home without a warrant as long as an occupant who is present consents to the search, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday. In a 6-3 decision, the High Court affirmed that police don't need the permission of all occupants in a shared residence, as long......
Traditionally, a website’s homepage has been treated like a book’s cover. When designing a website, marketers imagine that most of a website’s visitors will pass through the homepage en route to their destination. This is bedrock conventional wisdom...
Concerned about the risk of accidents, a number of bicyclists in the Chicago area have begun wearing helmet-mounted cameras to record potential evidence for a criminal or civil case. That may be a good idea, lawyers tell the Chicago Tribune, but they offer several caveats.
In This Issue: - What You Need to Know - Background ..Notice 2014-2 ..Notice 2014-3 - Correction of a Failure ..Proper Disclosure of Failure ..What You Should Do Now - Excerpt from Background: Section 501(r) was created as...
On December 3, 2013, the United States Supreme Court in U.S. v. Woods, 112 AFTR 2d 2013-6974, resolved a split in the circuits when it held that the § 6662(h) valuation misstatement penalty applies when deductions are denied because a transaction...
Except for the booming payout of $104 million to UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld, most of the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Whistleblower Program's claims have not elicited any rewards. Senate Finance Committee Senior Member...
The new minimum wage for employees of federal contractors will be adjusted for inflation each year, according to an executive order signed by President Obama on February 12.... By: XpertHR - Partnered with LexisNexis
For our March legal-themed Cartoon Caption Contest, cartoonist Rina Piccolo came up with this curious scene: Submit the caption you think best fits the above cartoon by sending an email to captions[at]abajournal[dot]com with "March Caption Contest" in the subject…
On January 10, 2014 Ganz USA LLC (“Ganz”) of Marietta, Georgia and Noelle LLC (“Noelle”) of Cannon Falls, Minnesota (collectively, "plaintiffs") filed a complaint against Transpac Imports, Inc. (“Transpac”) of Vacaville, California, alleging...
