Paul Daugerdas, a former lawyer at the defunct law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist, and three other defendants convicted in a 10-year tax shelter scheme have asked a judge for a new trial, saying a juror had lied about her background.
Kafka could indeed have invented the indeterminate sentence for public protection (IPP), but it is even more iniquitous than described in your article (Defunct law that keeps thousands in jail is branded absurd by Clarke, 31 May).
Last week, a federal judge in Manhattan, in a case involving the defunct law firm Coudert Brothers, ruled that proceeds from cases that had started at Coudert belonged to the Coudert bankruptcy estate, not to the firms where Coudert's former partners had landed.
Mr. Daugerdas, 58, of Wilmette, Ill., was a former partner at the defunct law firm of Jenkens & Gilchrist until late 2006 and counted among his wealthy tax shelter clients a string of prominent names from Silicon Valley to Wall Street, according to recent civil complaints.
He claimed that Satanism encourages adultery and that the defunct law had a "chilling effect" on his relationships.
The Dayton Daily News reported that 21 union members -- including one Republican -- have decided to run for office in order to oust legislators who supported the now defunct law.
In addition, the company allegedly stated that loan modification services would be performed by lawyers, when its only staff attorney was a disbarred Tennessee lawyer who claimed to have partners at "Smith Harris PLLC," an already defunct law firm.
A recent Wall Street Journal article entitled, "Debts of Defunct Law Firms Haunt Partners in Next Job" noted that the "unfinished business doctrine" allows the possibility of obtaining the profits for business started at an old law firm in bankruptcy and taken to a new firm.
How did the state's defense of the law defining marriage differ from the way it might have once defended now-defunct laws barring interracial marriage?
