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Gun Law in the Supreme Court’s Sights - The Right to Keep and Bear Arms PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jano Hanna   

Right now before the U.S. Supreme Court is the case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Docket No. 07-290.  The Court is being asked to decide whether Washington D.C.’s ban on handgun ownership violates the Constitution’s Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”  The Court hasn't heard a pure Second Amendment case since 1939 when the Justices unanimously ruled that the Constitution did not bar Congress from requiring the registration of sawed-off shotguns (United States vs. Miller 307 U.S. 174 (U.S. SCt. 1939).

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Confidentiality Agreements – A Few Drafting Considerations PDF Print E-mail
Written by Steve Nofar   
Confidentiality Agreements are used in trade and business to protect ideas and trade secrets.  Clients often assume that Confidentiality Agreements are simple boilerplate documents which can be recycled from your last client by simply changing names and dates from its last use.  However, you as the attorney (or future attorney) know that a Confidentiality Agreement needs to be tailor-made and custom fitted for each client in order to protect your client’s property rights.  Below are a few items to consider when drafting a Confidentiality Agreement for your client.    Please Note:  Readers of this article are cautioned not to rely on this article as legal advice as it is no substitution for legal representation with a licensed attorney in your stateAlso see Legalnut’s Terms of Use Page
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Latest Telephone and Email Scams PDF Print E-mail
Written by Steve Nofar   
Scammers are very creative.  They will find just about every way to gain your trust and lure you into a scam to take your identity and your money.  And, if you are not careful, you could become their next victim.  The information in this article is based on information found at IRS.gov.  Specifically, this article is a summary of the latest scams using the IRS name.  For more details, please visit IRS.gov for the article titled IRS Warns of New E-Mail and Telephone Scams Using the IRS Name; Advance Payment Scams Starting.
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Tips and Tactics for Passing the Bar Exam PDF Print E-mail
Written by Norton Gappy   
What can one say about an exam that takes 3 months to study for, 3 months to grade, and practically no believes they passed once leaving the testing hall?  Well, I am sure many reading this article expect to get some insight on a shortcut or some advice that will make the entire process pleasant.  The truth is there is no shortcut and there is no easy way.  The bar exam is essentially the last hurdle to becoming a lawyer, and they don’t make it easy on you.  You simply have to do what the rest of us did to succeed.  The intent of this article is to provide you, the reader, with what you need to do, what you need to think, and a little bit of how to go about passing the bar exam.  And there are no real shortcuts involved.

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RESTORE wire tapping act passed by the house PDF Print E-mail
Written by Norton Gappy   

On November 15, 2007, the House of Representatives passed the RESTORE ACT OF 2007, less commonly referred to at the Responsible Electronic Surveillance That is Overseen, Reviewed, and Effective.  The bill is considered to be an update of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and is being “sold to” lawmakers and citizens as a way to provide meaningful and flexible surveillance tools for the intelligence community, while claiming to protect the constitutional rights of Americans whose communications may be intercepted in the process. 

This bill provides a mechanism, through December 2009, to conduct foreign electronic surveillance for the purpose of defending against terrorism and other national security threats, without the need for individual court orders for overseas targets.

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