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... Ponzi Fraudster: Ronald Keith Owens, 72, of Mineral Wells, Texas, pled guilty in federal court last week before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. ... caused his investors to send funds by wire transfer, and checks mailed to Mineral Wells, Texas, knowing the funds would not be invested as represented to investors. He used ... investors, through September 2007, that their funds were being deposited with the foreign banks, well knowing that the funds had been depleted in 2003, for purposes other than what he ...

... caught up in the criminal case involving David Stockman, the former head of the OMB under Ronald Reagan, who was C&A's CEO from 2001, when Stockman's private equity fund ... threaten him with financial ruin, and he contends further that the proceeds of the applicable D&O policy "are quickly dwindling." The government opposed Barnaba's motion, ... a high-profile criminal case like this one to be tried piecemeal. The D&O insurance could well be gone long before the case finally goes to trial. ...

Matthew D. Adler (University of Pennsylvania Law School) has posted Well-Being, Inequality and Time: The Time-Slice Problem and its Policy Implications on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Should equality be viewed from ... some time, but the prospective quality of their lives as a whole, from birth to death …."26 It also includes John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin, who believe that distributive justice requires a fair allocation of lifetime shares of "primary goods" or "resources."27 The philosophers Norman ...

We have been following the criminal action filed against David Stockman, the former director of OMB under Ronald Reagan. Most of the parties are mired in discovery, with the Government having produced somewhere around 10 million documents. With one ... rate was higher at the end than at the beginning of this nine-month period. The bottom line? The remainder of the policy may well be exhausted by year's end. This leaves $20 million of coverage remaining, but this amount is for invoices submitted ...

... interview with him -- in which the ex-football star describes how he "might" have killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Hypothetically, mind you. 'Cause he didn't. And he is still searching America, or at least every golf ... murdered his ex-wife. (News flash: Even Rupert Murdoch will only go so far -- or sink so low.) For those of you who are well-versed in the legal issues surrounding publishing contracts, some questions from the Washington Post: Who owns the book now? Will Simpson still ...

... me of being a kid which reminds me of fun. But I get the point. In my case, my client was a well-respected scientist. The notion of this near workaholic scientist needing a permission slip to take time off from work was more ... failure to get a "permission slip" - which no one should need, much less my Ph.D. well respected client - resonated with the jury and may have helped with overall verdict on the final damage award. The point is words matter, metaphors matter and while you can make up your ...

... 2006 American Animal Hospital Association's (AAHA) Canine Vaccine Guidelines, as well as the World Small Animal Veterinary Association's 2007 Vaccine Guidelines, "There ... dogs…," and there are medical conditions for which vaccination can jeopardize the life or well-being of an animal. A medical exemption clause inserted into Title 3 Chapter 7A- ... Terry Slaten, Associate State Veterinarian Dr. W. Jean Dodds Dr. Ronald D. Schultz [1] American Veterinary Medical Association, Veterinary Biologics, June ...

... I penned that The Huffington Post was kind enough to publish this week. Entitled "A Crisis of Character", the editorial touches upon a theme raised in this forum on faith and corporate law: namely, the indispensability of virtue to a well-ordered corporation, economy -- well, just about anything. The editorial makes the point that law, regulation, and markets are all of limited efficicacy in curbing wrongdoing. At the end of the day, our companies -- and our society -- will only be good as its ...

... - which I think can quite fairly be justified as an approach in keeping with the Christian tradition. Under such an approach, I'd like to see considered the following fundamental questions: why do corporations exist? to what end are they created? are corporations necessary to the proper ordering and functioning of society? what characteristics serve the corporation well? what characteristics undermine the corporation? Around answers to these and similar questions is how a natural law theory of ...

... U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, where the case was argued in May. Meanwhile, well out of the public spotlight, state and federal judges have been ruling ... been thrown out in the last seven years. State Supreme Court Justice Ronald D. Castille, who often has voted to uphold death sentences, joined his ... survive "hyper-technical" judicial scrutiny, said Deputy Philadelphia District Attorney Ronald Eisenberg. He added that he also believes courts are "uncomfortable" with the death penalty ...