beldar.blogs.com - 7/8/2009
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(2) ech made the following comment | Jul 8, 2009 12:26:23 PM | Permalink Note: IANAL, IANA Accountant! I have however, done the taxes for my wife's unincorporated medical practice for many years. The only potential problem is whether she properly disclosed and limited the work she was doing to ...
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Sotomayor & Associates
Patterico's Pontifications —
... and thus not readily enforceable.”
Apparently this story was first noticed by Eric Turkewitz, a NY attorney and blogger, and he followed up with a post that suggests why the White House response focused on advisory vs mandatory actions: Because there is a 1973 New York ethics advisory opinion that says it’s misleading for a lawyer to use “& Associates” in a business name unless s/he has 2 or more associates.
Like Beldar, Turkewitz thinks this was a minor mistake but he offers some good advice that I doubt ...
Blawg Review #220
Overlawyered —
... shoddy reflection of its journalistic integrity. Don’t ask the blawgosphere to love you when you won’t love us back, boys.” But Windy Pundit defended the Times. Turkewitz found the Administration’s explanations and justifications of Sotomayor’s choice to be unpersuasive; some members of the Senate Judiciary Committee may as well, and they’ve been in contact with Turkewitz. Beldar’s reaction to the Associates flap: Meh. The WSJ Law Blog looks at the “meticulousness” characterization of ...
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Meh
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More Sotomayor Stonewalling
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Sotomayor!
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 7/13/2009 — So . . . Sotomayor hearings start today. Summer news is always hard to come by but I, personally, am going to try to resist the temptation to over-hype this. I don’t think anybody thinks that replacing Souter with Sotomayor will substantially ...
First thoughts: Sotomayor, Day 2
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 7/14/2009 — From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg*** Sotomayor, Day 2: Yesterday was all about the opening statements in Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Today, beginning at 9:30 am ET, ...
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"GOP Senators now say their best bet for breaking into the public consciousness with their complaints about Sotomayor’s record may be during next week’s confirmation hearings -- although privately, many said it may be too late to have any impact ...
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