In The News: William S. Boyd School of Law

Las Vegas Review Journal

Lawyers working to recover money for the victims of disgraced attorney Robert Graham want more than half of the funds the trustee has on hand for legal fees, records show.

Pissed Consumer

Many taxpayers don’t waste time and file income tax returns before the deadline. While doing so, some complain that the filing process gets painful because the IRS is not responsive to their concerns, or they somehow missed the IRS notice and now face penalties. So, how does the IRS work and what should you do when dealing with them?

Pissed Consumer

For millions of US consumers, this tax filing season might bring some hassle. As a taxpayer, you want to save more money on your tax bills while also benefit from your tax returns. PissedConsumer has interviewed tax experts, CPAs, and financial advisors, to get the best answers to the most important questions about tax filing 2021.

American Bar Association

Americans have long suffered decades of increasing income and wealth disparity resulting from failed economic policies and systemic racial discrimination. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed and exacerbated the depth and breadth of these gaps.

Public News Service

Human-rights advocates are applauding a new Biden administration policy to allow children who remain in U.S. custody after being separated from their parents at the border to reunite with them in the U.S. or in their country of origin.

Pissed Consumer

In this video interview with PissedConsumer, professor of law, Francine J. Lipman shares her tips on tax season and talks about the IRS system, how IRS performs audit, gives tips on how to file taxes for free and electronically.

Documented

The Biden administration has filed notice to appeal a Manhattan federal judge’s groundbreaking order that limited immigrant detentions by instructing the government to provide court hearings for immigration detainees within 10 days of their arrest.

Las Vegas Review Journal

When Ronald Sandlin and Nathaniel DeGrave appeared in federal court in Las Vegas last month on charges of participating in the Capitol Hill riot, prosecutors could not link them to any extremist group.

KNPR News

“Dreamers” are undocumented young people looking for a path to citizenship.

Verdict

Whistleblowers do good things. They report illegal conduct to the police in order to protect others from harm. The Illinois Whistleblower Act protects them from retaliation when they report their employer’s or another person’s misconduct to the police.

Bloomberg

Many taxpayers file their tax returns as soon as possible to get a quick refund, but this season it may pay to procrastinate.

Washington Post

Four companies that agreed to pay a combined $26 billion to settle claims about their roles in the opioid crisis plan to deduct some of those costs from their taxes and recoup around $1 billion apiece.