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新法案如果通过会让洲规定网路销售商收销售税       April 22, 2013 Internet Sales Tax Bill Gains Ground in Senate By JONATHAN WEISMAN WASHINGTON — It has been labeled a tax grab and a bureaucratic nightmare by conservative antitax activists, an infringement on states’ rights and a federal encroachment on the almost-sacred ground of Internet commerce. Yet legislation to help states force online retailers to collect sales taxes easily cleared its first procedural hurdle on Monday evening, and even its fiercest opponents are looking to the House for a last stand. The Senate voted 74-20 to take up the legislation for debate and amendment. “I’m not above believing in miracles,” said Dan Holler, a spokesman for Heritage Action, the activist arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation, which has made opposition to

加洲新法关于设么是电子票 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL   MEDIA & MARKETING Updated April 23, 2013, 7:30 p.m. ET Scalpers Beware: New Laws Redefine What Is a Ticket Article Stock Quotes Comments (4) MORE IN MEDIA & MARKETING » smaller Larger facebook twitter google plus linked in Email Print Save↓ More     By HANNAH KARP Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Is a ticket a ‘license’ or ‘property’? Two companies do battle. In the battle between the scalpers and concert promoters, chalk one up for the promoters. California lawmakers on Tuesday voted to preserve one of the live-music industry’s most divisive technologies: paperless tickets—which can be redeemed only at the venue, only by the purchaser. The preliminary vote is seen a blow to StubHub, a ticket reseller owned by eBay Inc.,EBAY +0.78% which has been locked

8位议员将提出移民改革法案，以下是一些基本内容。     SOURCE: U.S. Senate staff and staff reports. GRAPHIC: The Washington Post. Published April 16, 2013.   Key provisions expected in immigration legislation proposal Published: April 15, 2013 A bipartisan group of eight Senators is expected to unveil legislation that would represent the most sweeping overhaul the nation’s immigration laws in nearly three decades. Here is a look at the key provisions likely to be included in the bill. Read related article. Path to Citizenship Border Control Visas Guest worker program Farm worker program Family visa program Path to Citizenship Most of the 11 million people who are in the country illegally could apply for a green card after 10 years and citizenship three years after that. Applicants must pay a $1,000 fine, pay

刑事案子拖九可能对被告有利 April 14, 2013 Courts in Slow Motion, Aided by the Defense   By WILLIAM GLABERSON     The grand exhibition hall of dawdlers that is the Bronx courthouse features procrastinating prosecutors, sluggish jailers and unhurried judges. But the true masters of delay are the defense lawyers. For them, muddled memories and lost witnesses — the passage of time itself — are the ingredients for getting clients off. So there was barely a raised eyebrow among those waiting in a Bronx courtroom in June when one gum-chewing, pocket-hankie-wearing lawyer strolled in late for the start of a trial over a grisly stabbing in Co-op City, saying his return flight from a weekend getaway to Puerto Rico had been delayed. Cheerful, with his rolling lawyer’s bag in

  因在2006年被22名西班牙非法移民搞因为闯入民在， 海关和移民执法局要赔$1,000,000而改变搜查家里的规定 Settlement Includes Guidelines for ICE Raids Mark Hamblett New York Law Journal 04-08-2013 Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has agreed to make changes in how its agents conduct raids and enter private homes when seeking alien fugitives. Settling a class action with eight Latino families in Westchester County and on Long Island who claim ICE agents illegally entered their homes, the agency also has agreed to pay $1 million in damages, with $36,000 to each of the 22 individual plaintiffs in those families and the rest for attorney fees. Plaintiffs alleged that ICE agents overstepped their bounds while trying to meet new quotas for arrests of immigrant fugitives under the 2006 “Operation Return to Sender” operation. The settlement in Aguilar v. Immigration

新的法律在纽约限制移民机构合作但有递解令的人不受保护   http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/03/today_mayor_blo.php Published in Village Voice Bloomberg to Pass New Law to Keep NYC the Most “Immigrant-Friendly” City in the U.S. By Emily Gogolak Published Mon., Mar. 18 2013 at 2:00 PM   Today Mayor Bloomberg will sign off on two hefty pieces of immigration legislation that will maintain New York’s reputation as one of the most immigrant-friendly cities in the nation.The two laws, which passed 40-7 in City Council at the end of February, are a reaction to Secure Communities, the highly controversial federal solution to immigration-enforcement that expanded to New York last May. Under that plan, the fingerprints of anybody passing through local or state jails are sent to the Department of Homeland Security and run through its database. If a match