Law & Ethics - September 2006

What are your views on the current progressive tax system and how would you feel if a negative flat tax system was implemented?

2006-09-30 15:29:34 · 3 answers · asked by Zack 3

2006-09-30 15:28:37 · 18 answers · asked by Lisa 2

Thank you Andy for your answers to Shays questions and also for pointing out that we may need legal counsel but do not want to seem totally ignorant when we have a short consultation.

I have been doing some self help research on this type of case and have not come up with any solid answers to my questions.
My x-husband owes me $60,000.00 in back child support, he had 40 percent ownership of 3 houses left to him by his grandmother. He had an active lien on him and still does. However he quitclaimed the property over to his father to a family trust. The father turned around and sold the houses. I just learned this and it has been one year. The liens have been in place well before any quit claim deed was signed.

His father knew of the liens. I am trying to do any research I can to see if I even have a case before consulting an attorney.

If anyone has any information on this subject I would be grateful.

Thank you

2006-09-30 15:25:06 · 3 answers · asked by Lisa L 1

Is there an unbiased site out there about the Stem Cell and Cures Initiative that will be on the Nov. ballot in Missouri. Being a Catholic and being exposed to the media, I go from one extreme to the other about hearing about it. the Catholic Church says it's completely bad because it destroys life (since the Church believes that life starts at conception). the media says it's only good and the like. I just want to get my facts straights even though I won't be voting either way on it (for one thing, I'm not a registered voter).

2006-09-30 15:15:16 · 5 answers · asked by liz_enator 2

I am a district campaign manager for a democrat running for congress. In my district we have a racist area. Kind of like where they had the Rodney King trial. A lot believe me.
Anyway an eighty five year old African American female wants to do precinct walks there. It is like sending Rosa Parks to do precinct walks at a Klan Rally.
I am scared the walk might not be good for her health; mentally or physically. What do I do?

2006-09-30 15:07:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've had a court order in the state of Ohio for the last nine years to pay child support. I am current with my payments. Two years ago, my ex moved to Kentucky. I recently recieved a letter from the state of Kentucky asking that I start making child support payments to thier child support collection agency. I sent them a copy of my court order from here in Ohio along with proof that I've been making payments here. I then contacted them a week later by phone to ask about my case. They said they were looking into it. I just recieved another letter today demanding $3,400 within the next 30 days or they're going to garnish my wadges. I don't understand how they can make a judgement against me, when I was never in court there. Also, according to the child support angency I am currently making payments to (here in Ohio), my ex is recieving those payments. I have little money and cannot afford a laywer, any advice?

2006-09-30 14:29:25 · 17 answers · asked by jedi1josh 5

2006-09-30 14:23:52 · 15 answers · asked by northwoodseaglev 1

2006-09-30 14:23:18 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

because wal-mart is playing a movie their not suppose to. it comes out on the 3rd. I konw that it's like only five days away, but they are not suppose to be playing it or anything. they can get in BIG trouble. what should I do?

2006-09-30 14:12:12 · 24 answers · asked by ceriseypoo 2

Is there somewhere online you can check this?

2006-09-30 14:08:47 · 9 answers · asked by John G 5

do you think that it is wrong to say the pledge to another country's flag on their independence day in America? If so why?

2006-09-30 13:55:22 · 12 answers · asked by mallory elizabeth t 1

Last year, I was it by a car when I was on a bike (not motorbike). I don't remember the actual incident, but do remember waiting at the corner for the light to change. Assuming (since I don't remember) that there was a 50/50 split with negligence, why would a lawyer not want to move forward with this case? I've gone through 2 attorneys. The first one dropped it after several months following an unsuccessful mediation, and the second dropped it within a week. Neither firm could give me any explanation why. I was told they are not required to, but couldn't they at least give a simple sentence or two telling me what's wrong. By the way, the person who hit me was driving a rental and it was just after 9pm and dark and I didn't have a light on my bike. It happened in Florida and I was over 18 yrs. old.

2006-09-30 13:47:26 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-30 13:35:54 · 10 answers · asked by rebel==gurl 1

I have read this law like 10 times and I kind of understand it but it sounds wroung to me. Does it sound wrong to you? this is a Florida law.
The age of sexual consent is 16 for adults who are under 24 years of age,
or if the adult that is 24 years of age or older is married to the minor

2006-09-30 13:22:39 · 20 answers · asked by TOM 1

I am trying to locate a copy of a will. If the lawyer is out of business, where else could I find a copy of it.

2006-09-30 13:10:36 · 5 answers · asked by PUDDIN 3

Please only answer if you really know. Sorry but Im not looking for opinions, I want facts. Thanks :)

2006-09-30 12:57:58 · 9 answers · asked by bitterswt02 1

This is just a hypothetical so dont get all weird with your answers.

And yes, it might kill your spouse, its a pretty nasty fight.

2006-09-30 12:57:51 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-30 12:57:33 · 1 answers · asked by Lleh 6

However I did fight back yet confessed only defence. I got a fine a nd notice. If the cctv footage shows me fighting back, will I then be sent to court? Or is it over with.

2006-09-30 12:53:31 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-30 12:41:46 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Our neighbors dog was out in the street unattended, causing my husband to crash our Harley. Are the dog owners responsible for the damages to my husband and our property? It was a fairly signifigant amount of injury and property damage.

2006-09-30 12:40:49 · 10 answers · asked by 2ndchhapteracts 5

It is against the law to date and have sex with a minor in the US? I only ask because I know this girl who is 17 and she is dating a 19 year old.

2006-09-30 12:35:01 · 7 answers · asked by TOM 1

2006-09-30 12:30:23 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Until your term is up right? Then can't your family request you coffin or body or whatever? And what happens to all your stuff when you get sentanced to a long jail term?

2006-09-30 12:24:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Bush Given Authority To Sexually Torture American Children
The "horror of the shrieking boys" gets a rubber stamp from the boot-licking U.S. Congress & Senate as America officially becomes a dictatorship

Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | September 29 2006

Slamming the final nail in the coffin of everything America used to stand for, the boot-licking U.S. Senate last night gave President Bush the legal authority to abduct and sexually mutilate American citizens and American children in the name of the war on terror.

There is nothing in the "detainee" legislation that protects American citizens from being kidnapped by their own government and tortured.

Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman states in the L.A. Times, "The compromise legislation....authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights."

Similarly, law Professor Marty Lederman explains: "this [subsection (ii) of the definition of 'unlawful enemy combatant'] means that if the Pentagon says you're an unlawful enemy combatant -- using whatever criteria they wish -- then as far as Congress, and U.S. law, is concerned, you are one, whether or not you have had any connection to 'hostilities' at all."

We have established that the bill allows the President to define American citizens as enemy combatants. Now let's take it one step further.

Before this article is dismissed as another extremist hyperbolic rant, please take a few minutes out of your day to check for yourself the claim that Bush now has not only the legal authority but the active blessings of his own advisors to torture American children.

The backdrop of the Bush administration's push to obliterate the Geneva Conventions was encapsulated b y John “torture” Yoo, professor of law at Berkeley, co-author of the PATRIOT Act, author of torture memos and White House advisor.

During a December 1st debate in Chicago with Notre Dame professor and international human rights scholar Doug Cassel, John Yoo gave the green light for the scope of torture to legally include sexual torture of infants.

Cassel: If the president deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person's child, there is no law that can stop him?

Yoo: No treaty.

Cassel: Also no law by Congress — that is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo…

Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.

Click here for the audio.

So if the President thinks he needs to order children's penises to be put in vices, there is no law that can stop him and after last night's vote, the Senate and Congress, exemplified by sicko 16-year-old boy groomer Mark Foley (R-FL) , has graciously provided Bush its full support for kids around the world to be molested in the name of stopping terror.

Yoo's comments were made before the passage of the torture legislation last night. Up until that point Bush had merely cited his role as dictator-in-chief as carte-blanche excuse for ordering torture - now his regime have the audacity to openly put it in writing - going one step further than even the Nazis did.

Again, for those who are still deluded into thinking the extent of the "pressure" is loud music and cold water being thrown over Johnny Jihad in Ragheadistan, consider for a moment the fact that your own Congress and President who, according to the Constitution, are mandated to serve you, have just legalized abducting your kids from your home and electric shocking their genitals.

Now that the criminals have declared themselves outside of the law does that mean we'll see Bush barbecuing babies on the White House lawn? Of course not, but the policy of torturing children in front of their parents has already been signed off on by the Pentagon and enacted under the Copper Green program and it happened at Abu Ghraib .

Women who were arrested with their children were forced to watch their boys being sodomized with chemical glow sticks as the cameras rolled. Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says that the U.S. government is still withholding the tapes because of the horror of the "soundtrack of the shrieking boys" and their mothers begging to be killed in favor of seeing their children raped and tortured.

Your government has just lobbied for and Congress has passed legislation to discard the Geneva Conventions and mandate all this.

Pedophiles nationwide should rejoice - they can comfortably take a stroll down to the local swimming pool, grab whoever they like, drag them home, rape and torture them, and then in their defense cite the U.S. government as an example of how one should conduct themselves.



The bill also retroactively gives Bush, the Neo-Cons or any of their henchmen immunity from war crimes charges dating back to September 11 . Ask yourself why they would be so careful to protect themselves from accusations of war crimes.

Could that possibly be because they are knowingly committing war crimes?

The legislating of torture itself should be a criminal act. All laws that contradict the U.S. Constitution are null and void. It was once a law that black people were slaves.

Only by engaging in civil disobedience and refusing to tolerate or acknowledge the laws of a criminal regime that has greased the skids for sexually torturing kids can we ever have a hope of returning America to its past glory.

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2006-09-30 12:13:22 · 9 answers · asked by rc 3

If the stock market falls today,
the overnment will take over for 6 months,
Marshall law will come into effect.
The ID cards for the military,
get this is gold strip on the back,
the name of the card is Mark

(If you know someone who is in the Government office
, or service, check it out for yourself).
So we have been under the Mark for some time.
The pre order for the Government when they take over,

Government Soldiers will be
looking for guns in the home,
look for teariest and will remove all Bibles
look for the occult (anyone who is born again)

Offer the card,
you can not buy or sale with out it.
Arrest or kill anyone who resist the card.
This is our Government now,,,

Our Government has already Made
thorough out the USA,
Prisons from Old Army Base's.
Just for this.

So,,
Look out for the CARD with the Gold,
because its the ONE that can
be planted into the skin without any problems.
Our Government has this figured out Already.

How SAFE do you

2006-09-30 12:12:59 · 13 answers · asked by ? 4

If you consider the special rights the media has relative to other businesses should they be held criminally and financially accountable for what they produce?

If I just plain made up a story and told it to the world, and this story destroyed a person or an enterprise, and then I used the “unnamed source” to cover my BS would I get a free pass like the media does?

If that is so then I need to get my attorney to work me up an LLC that is a news media outlet so I can say whatever I want, true or not, and get a free pass.

Seriously, the continuing leaks and stories in the NYT are hurting our national security and costing us money. I would like to get together with some like minded people to see if we can get another class action suit going against them. Their stock has tanked in the past five years and I cannot believe their board has not fired everyone. Most likely it is a closely held public company. Is Fidelity dumping NYT stock due to complaints from fund owners?

2006-09-30 12:04:35 · 12 answers · asked by rmagedon 6

I live in ohio and have been searching for a legal reference on this question but I have not found anything. Please help!!!!

2006-09-30 11:55:20 · 3 answers · asked by kahlimarie 1

2006-09-30 11:36:50 · 5 answers · asked by studentcounselor 1

i rent a house from my grandparents, and i have a roommate living with me. she has not paid me any rent or money for bills and i want her to move out, but am afraid she'll take things of mine. i have found items belonging to me in her room so i know she would try.i want to change the locks so she can't take anything out of the house without me knowing. she is not on my lease and we have no written agreement of any kind. can i change the locks and not be in any legal trouble?

2006-09-30 11:26:26 · 18 answers · asked by Lacey H 1