Legal Headlines
Stricter IRS Form 990 to be More Revealing, Costly, Denver Business Journal
The IRS has issued a new Form 990 (the tax form for charitable organizations) for use beginning in 2009 (for the 2008 tax year) which is more expansive and requires more information than previoiusly requested. The new form seeks more information about the governance of the organization in an apparent attempt to check for insider deals and transactions.
The IRS Gets Less Charitable, ABA Journal
The IRS has issued additional regulations regarding charitable contribution. This article in the ABA Journal highlights some of the issues the IRS is looking at give an overview of the current landscape.
Changes in Foreclosure Law in Colorado, Denver Business Journal
The foreclosure laws in Colorado changed this new year changing the way the foreclosures are processed including some of the deadlines.
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[JURIST] Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan [official website] on Friday filed a motion [motion, PDF; brief, PDF; supporting record, PDF] with the Illinois Supreme Court [official website] to have Governor Rod Blagojevich [official website] declared unfit and removed temporarily from office. Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested [JURIST report] Tuesday by federal agents
[JURIST] US senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) [official websites] on Thursday released the executive summary [text, PDF; press release] of a Senate Armed Services Committee [official website] report that says senior US officials are to blame for the use of abusive interrogation techniques against detainees held in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay. The report cites a February
[JURIST] Former NASDAQ [official website] stock market chairman Bernard Madoff was arrested [DOJ press release, PDF] Thursday by federal agents on charges of securities fraud. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) [official website] charged [SEC press release] Madoff and his investment firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC [corporate website], on Thursday with engaging in a
[JURIST] Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan [official website] told CNN [transcript text] Thursday that she would go before the Illinois Supreme Court [official website] to have Governor Rod Blagojevich [official website] declared unfit to hold office if he did not resign or get impeached by the state legislature. Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested [JURIST report]
[JURIST] Portuguese Minister of State and Foreign Affairs Luis Amado [official profile] on Wednesday sent a letter [text] to European Union [official website] (EU) foreign ministers urging EU members to take in any detainees released from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. Amado said that Portugal would be willing to take in detainees, and that other EU member states
[JURIST] Executions in the US are at a 14-year low and the number of death sentences has dropped 60 percent since the 1990s, according to a report [text, PDF; DPIC press release, PDF] released Thursday by the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) [advocacy website], a non-profit organization that opposes the death penalty. There were 37 executions in 2008 with no more expected this year, down
[JURIST] The Guantanamo military commission trial of Afghan detainee Mohammed Jawad [JURIST news archive] that had been scheduled to start in early January was delayed indefinitely Wednesday by order of a military judge. US Army Col. Stephen Henley postponed the proceeding [Reuters report] to give prosecutors more time to appeal a ruling denying admissibility of evidence Henley had previously
[JURIST] Spanish National Court Judge Ismael Moreno Wednesday asked the Spanish Foreign Ministry for a certified copy of a 2002 internal government memorandum [PDF text, in Spanish] detailing a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) [official website] request to use Spanish resources [JURIST report] in aiding CIA extraordinary rendition [JURIST news archive] flights. Moreno said that after
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] heard oral arguments [day call, PDF; briefs] Wednesday in two cases. In Ashcroft v. Iqbal [oral arguments transcript, PDF], the Court heard arguments on whether high-ranking US officials are protected by qualified immunity from suit for alleged religious and ethnic discrimination by their subordinates. Javaid Iqbal, a
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit [official website] heard oral arguments Tuesday in an en banc rehearing of Arar v. Ashcroft [CCR backgrounder]. Canadian citizen Maher Arar [advocacy website; JURIST news archive] is seeking a declaratory judgment against US government officials for having deported him to Syria [JURIST news archive] in 2002, where he was tortured despite