Civil Law

Helpful Tax Tips for Restaurant Owners

If you own or operate a franchised restaurant, or are a franchisor of franchised restaurants, simply keeping your business operating smoothly is a lot of work. Food ordering, managing schedules and greeting guests, just name a few daily tasks, take time and effort. It’s easy for recordkeeping and tax planning to get placed on the metaphorical back burner.

But if you’re not careful, your restaurant or other cash-intensive franchise business could easily end up on the IRS’s hot seat. They’re … Read the rest

Supreme Court

The morning read for Wednesday, Sept. 4

The morning read for Wednesday, Sept. 4

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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Wednesday morning read:

  • Supreme Court allows HHS to divert funds over abortion referrals (Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post)
  • Ginni Thomas Privately Praised Group Working Against Supreme Court Reform: “Thank You So, So, So Much” (Andy Kroll, ProPublica, & Nick Surgey, Documented)
  • Justice Jackson Treads Carefully in Talking About the Supreme Court (Abbie VanSickle, The New York
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Civil Law

Publisher’s Platform: House and Senate should act now on Boar’s Head plant

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The years of inspection reports (Here are the Inspection Reports in PDF.) leave little doubt that the Boar’s Head plant’s food safety plan must have been non-existent. It is hard to wrap your head around how food could be produced in these conditions by this company and under the gaze of the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service inspectors.

It is time for the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate committees use their authority … Read the rest

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Supreme Court temporarily bars latest Biden student debt relief plan

Supreme Court temporarily bars latest Biden student debt relief plan

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The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily barred the Biden administration from implementing one of its latest efforts to provide debt relief to Americans with student loans. In a brief unsigned order, the justices declined to allow the Department of Education to put into effect a July 2023 rule, known as the SAVE Plan, intended to provide debt relief for lower-income borrowers while challenges to the rule continue in the lower courts.

There were no dissents recorded from Wednesday’s order, … Read the rest

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The morning read for Friday, August 30

The morning read for Friday, August 30

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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:

  • Native voters can swing elections, but court ruling suppresses turnout, leaders say (Arlyssa D. Becenti, Arizona Republic)
  • Prisoner With Parkinson’s Is Executed After Supreme Court Paves the Way (Abbie VanSickle, The New York Times)
  • How the Trump election subversion indictment changed after Supreme Court ruling (Peter Charalambous, Alexander Mallin, & Katherine Faulders, ABC News)
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Civil Law

“‘Everything is technology’: examining technology access and use among returning citizens”

The title of this post is the title of this new paper available via SSRN authored by Kaelyn Sanders. Here is its abstract:

Digital exclusion is a barrier for people on parole, herein referred to as returning citizens.  Yet, much remains unknown about the specific issues they encounter. As the world continues to advance technologically, it is important that we understand returning citizens’ access to and use of technology and how it impacts their ability to reintegrate into society. Framed

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The morning read for Thursday, August 29

The morning read for Thursday, August 29

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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:

  • Supreme Court, for Now, Keeps Block on Revamped Biden Student Debt Plan (Adam Liptak & Abbie VanSickle, The New York Times)
  • Justice Sotomayor’s side hustle during a hectic term? A kids’ musical. (Justin Jouvenal, The Washington Post)
  • Judge Releases Jan. 6 Protester Citing Supreme Court Ruling (Aila Slisco, Newsweek)
  • The president’s crimes (Jonathan Sumption,
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