One of the things I’ve enjoyed about Perez v. Commissioner is Judge Holmes’s “bedside manner” for lack of a better term. For example, I really like the way he takes…
Below is an excellent follow-up from Lisa Milot, responding to some of the questions I posed to the tax gurus earlier today. Lisa’s first post can be found here. ************************************************************************************************ I…
On the Perez case and the tax treatment of gamete transfers, Kim Krawiec asks (here, in Taxing Eggs: What Have We Learned?) an important question about the characterization of the…
Many, many thanks to our fabulous tax bloggers Bridget Crawford, Lisa Milot, Paul Stephan, and Larry Zelenak for joining in the discussion of Perez v. Commissioner yesterday. I wanted to…
Pace University School of Law has named David Yassky its new dean. Yassky, in addition to having lead New York's Taxi and Limo Commission and served as a city councilman,…
Tulsa University law school has announced an automatic $18,000 scholarship for all applicants from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming. Since…
In reading the transcript in the Perez case, Judge Mark Holmes specifically contemplated that the blogosphere would become interested in the case, or at least that one particular blog (not…
Helen J. Knowles of Skidmore College and Julianne A. Toia of Grinnell College have posted "Defining 'Popular Constitutionalism: The Kramer versus Kramer Problem" on ssrn. Cribbing now from their abstract: Scholars…
Federal District Judge Orlando Garcia struck down the ban, but stayed the decision. Read his opinion here. This will clearly be an issue in the gubernatorial race, but I…
I've spent some time with the transcript in the Perez v. Commissioner case. As tax trials go, this case does not seem particularly complicated. The parties have stipulated to almost…