Entries from April 2007
Lawyers Cope With Bankruptcy Law Online - washingtonpost.com
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Categories: Internet Laws
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Categories: Blogroll
Mortgage insurance gaining steam
By Amy Hoak, MarketWatch
Last Update: 7:26 PM ET Apr 17, 2007
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) — This time next year, some homeowners who pay mortgage insurance will have an extra deduction on their federal income tax returns.
Under a new law, certain borrowers who take out a mortgage for purchase or refinance in 2007 are eligible to write off […]
Categories: General
Illinois government has big decisions to make by end of May
By Mike Riopell
mike.riopell@lee.net
SPRINGFIELD - When lawmakers head back to Springfield this week, they’ll have some big decisions to make.
Raise taxes on businesses? Ban smoking statewide? Roll back electric rates?
Lawmakers are scheduled to wrap up their spring legislative session May 31.
If the General Assembly doesn’t get done by then, Democrats will need at least some votes […]
Categories: Uncategorized
6-year-old safe-delivery law saves newborns’ lives
April 11, 2007
BY JACK KRESNAK
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
At least 44 newborns have survived abandonment thanks to a 6-year-old Michigan law, state and local health officials announced Tuesday.
“The first 24 hours of a child’s life is the most dangerous, the most vulnerable time,” said Dr. Phyllis Meadows, health officer for the Detroit Health Department, during a […]
Categories: Law article
Sentencing law OKd by governor
Responding to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent finding that California’s criminal sentencing scheme is unconstitutional, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday signed a bill into law that gives judges discretion on handing out prison terms.
The 1977 California law that the Supreme Court struck down in January was intended to create more consistency in sentencing by giving […]
Categories: News Articles