Watch out Tampa, Florida, the stripper mobile is coming back. A strip club called Déjà Vu got some heat a while back when it unleashed a mobile strip show on wheels. After working with authorities, the club thinks it has made adjustments that will allow the club to hit the road again in the stripper mobile.
IR-2010-32, March 16, 2010
The Internal Revenue Service today issued its 2010 “dirty dozen” list of tax scams, including schemes involving return preparer fraud, hiding income offshore and phishing. “Taxpayers should be wary of anyone peddling scams that seem too good to be true,” IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said. “The IRS fights fraud by pursuing taxpayers who hide income abroad and by ensuring taxpayers get competent, ethical service from qualified professionals at home in the U.S.”
Tax schemes are illegal and can lead to imprisonment and fines for both scam artists and taxpayers. Taxpayers pulled into these schemes must repay unpaid taxes plus interest and penalties. The IRS pursues and shuts down promoters of these and numerous other scams. The IRS urges taxpayers to avoid these common schemes:
Are law professors over-paid and under-worked? The National Jurist published an article called “Law school faculties 40% larger than 10 years ago,” which summarizes the results of a study that found the following astounding facts:
After reading the National Jurist article, you will understand why Law Professor Adolf Hitler became so upset when he learned that he must teach a law school class on Fridays.
Can you say bad publicity is better than no publicity? Former actress and paparazzi favorite party-girl Lindsay Lohan filed a lawsuit that should be a lot of fun to follow. She sued E-Trade over a commercial in which a baby had the audacity to say “Lindsay” without LiLo’s written permission. Everybody knows that when anybody says “Lindsay” they are referring to the one, the only Lindsay Lohan who must be properly compensated before her name can be used in vain in any commercial way.
See “Lindsay Lohan wants $100M over E-Trade ad” and “Lindsay Lohan sues over ;milkaholic’ E*Trade ad.” Here’s the complaint.
Tomorrow the citizens of Switzerland will vote on whether to give all Swiss animals increased legal rights, including the right to be represented by an attorney. I’m not kidding! Switzerland currently gives its animals more protections that perhaps any other country in the world. If the referendum passes, all of Switzerland’s cantons (territorial divisions of the country similar to a city or county) will be required to pay for lawyers to represent animals. Proponents of the new law say that if a person who has been accused of mistreating an animal is able to hire an attorney then the abused animal (the victim) should also be represented by a lawyer. Does that mean that if a Swiss dog bites and injures a person, can the injured victim sue the dog who would have a court appointed lawyer and if the victim prevails in court, would the dog be liable for damages that would then be paid by the Swiss government?
Here are some eye-popping current requirements of Swiss animal law:
Let’s hope that Congress and the U.S. trial lawyers don’t hear about the Swiss animal laws because if they do, we’ll have similar laws here. Giving U.S. animals a right to a lawyer will put dollar signs in the eyes of the trial lawyers and give a lot of currently unemployed lawyers a job as animal rights specialists. I can also see a boom in much needed animal rights seminars, books, tapes and law blogs.
Update: By a huge margin, the Swiss voters rejected the animal rights law.