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Glenn Neasham Case: From Successful Insurance Practice to Food Stamps

John D. Darer
March 16, 2012 19:02

California's insurance department has revoked the insurance license of Glenn Neasham, who was convicted of felony grand theft of an elder for selling an Allianz Masterdex 10 indexed annuity to an... This is a content summary only. Please click on the title for the full content, If you find...

Disobedience of Ohio Court Order Lands LLC's Controller and Single Member in Jail

Doug Batey
March 15, 2012 20:39

Sometimes pushing the envelope is not a good strategy, and that’s clearly the case when your litigation strategy ends you up in jail. In an Ohio case the judge found an after-the-fact excuse for disobedience of the court’s order to be insufficient, held the LLC’s owner and its...

Long TIme in "The Clink" For the Life Settlement Hood-wink

John D. Darer
October 01, 2011 13:43

Two Houston hedge fund slimeballs have been sentenced to REALLY long jail terms for their participation in a $100-million life settlement fraud scheme that victimized 800 people in the U.S. and... This is a content summary only. Please click on the title for the full content, If you find yourself...

Jail or Church, Is This a Choice? Court Dismisses Cases if Church Attended for a Year...

Dax Garvin
September 25, 2011 19:40

 Sentencing Law and Policy, a well-established criminal law blog, reported on a story in Bay Minette, Alabama, deep in the heart of the Bible Belt, where courts in one County are giving criminal defendants who agree to attend church for one year a dismissal of their criminal cases, or the...

Depositions That Are Not Used in a Case - Even Those Held Before a Judge in a Courtroom - Are not Open to the Public

July 14, 2011 22:50

The Washington Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Tacoma News Tribune to see the videotaped deposition of a primary witness against a former Washington State trial judge. Tacoma News Inc. v. Cayce  (July 14, 2011). [Tacoma News, Inc. v. Cayce (Dissent)] The primary witness in the underlying...