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10 May 2016, 3:35 pm by Immigration Prof
Think Progress reports that private prison corporations have reaped profits from the return of family detention. [read post]
29 Apr 2016, 12:27 pm by Ettinger Law Firm
 A recent Chief Counsel Advisory (CCA) opinion by the IRS called into question one specific means to calculate risk for a self cancelling installment note but did not question the overall appropriateness of the use of a self cancelling installment note. [read post]
18 Apr 2016, 8:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Alcala is pretty clearly reacting to economic anti-taxation arguments she's hearing in conference, which don't actually have much to do with the merits of the case.Judge Keller believes the CCA grants habeas writs sufficiently often to prove IAC claims are being adequately vetted, offering these data regarding the CCA's habeas docket: "in fiscal year 2015, we remanded 388 habeas cases to the trial court for hearings or affidavits addressing the claims. [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 4:56 am
Bondo, 2015 CCA Lexis 89 (Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals 18 March 2015) for the same proposition. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 6:31 am by Immigration Prof
Photo courtesy of CCA This Los Angeles Times story tells about a therapist who spent was interned in a camp for persons of Japanese ancestry during World War and visited the family immigrant detention facility in Dilley, Texas. [read post]
9 Apr 2016, 7:58 am by Gritsforbreakfast
As justice systems state by state grapple with the myriad issues raised by flawed forensics, which are only beginning to dawn on front-line practitioners, one strongly suspects Texas and California won't be the last to expand habeas corpus in this fashion.See prior, related Grits posts on Texas' junk science writ:Court of Criminal Appeals judges call out colleagues for judicial activism on TX junk science writ Abbott signs bill codifying broad reading of Texas' junk science writ… [read post]
12 Mar 2016, 8:50 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A number of related, recent stories caught Grits' eye and merit readers' attention:Lurching toward precedentThe indefatigable Brandi Grissom reported in the Dallas News this week (March 10) that the CCA agreed to let a case go forward which challenges "shaken baby syndrome" type evidence and may be the one that gets the Court of Criminal Appeals to finally interpret CCP 11.073, Texas new "junk science writ," as amended by the 2015 Legislature. [read post]
11 Mar 2016, 9:30 am by Paul Caron
BEPs, Transfer Pricing for Intangibles, and CCAS Karen Burke (Florida) & Grayson McCouch (Florida), Codifying Castle Harbour, 150 Tax Notes 109 (Jan. 4, 2016) William Byrnes (Texas A&M) & Robert Munro... [read post]
8 Mar 2016, 8:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The bond hearings are held over video linkup during which few questions are asked and defendants have no attorneys.MSM notices CCA racesAfter Grits lamented (the other) Scott Walker's plurality victory over Sid Harle for the Court of Criminal Appeals, where he will face a candidate who ran on a Second Amendment and anti-abortion platform unrelated to the CCA, the Houston Chronicle editorial board and SA Express-News columnist Gilbert Garcia picked up on the same themes. [read post]
3 Mar 2016, 6:48 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Keel and Oldner have disparaged Wheless, whose background is mostly in civil law, as unqualified, although Rick Perry appointed him to a district court seat.Voters in the GOP primary clearly didn't have a clue about these CCA races. [read post]
25 Feb 2016, 10:59 am by Joe Consumer
As journalist Antony Loewenstein (author of “Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe”) notes in a New York Times op ed today,  CCA, “America’s largest private prison and detention company," has a “long history of ignoring detainee safety and federal laws. [read post]
24 Feb 2016, 11:17 am by Michael Lowe
So, the CCA orders an evidentiary hearing and the result is the Dallas judge telling the CCA that’s there’s no problem here. [read post]
22 Feb 2016, 7:49 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But the likelihood that all will result in habeas writs, much less that those writs would ever make it past the trial-court level to the CCA, is another matter entirely.Over the next few months we'll begin to see re-evaluations of DNA mixture analyses and learn what proportion of those 50,000 cases may have been so far off as to constitute grounds for relief. [read post]