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3/21/2011 10:47:26 PM

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"The bill would eliminate one of the two local tax options inserted into the 2007 budget law — an extra quarter-penny on the sales tax, or raising the last transfer tax from 0.2 percent of a real estate transaction sales price to 0.6 percent. The land transfer tax increase would generate up to an additional $800 on a $200,000 piece of property. "What we're trying to do is to eliminate a bill that's a potential (obstacle) to affordable housing," Sen. Bob Rucho, R-Mecklenburg, said during the brief debate."

http://www.wral.com/news/state/story/9305697/

3/21/2011 11:39:38 PM

shrooms

3/21/2011 11:52:09 PM

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"Does $75 trillion even exist? The thirteen record companies that are suing file-sharing company Lime Wire for copyright infringement certainly thought so. When they won a summary judgment ruling last May they demanded damages that could reach this mind-boggling amount, which is more than five times the national debt. Manhattan federal district court judge Kimba Wood, however, saw things differently. She labeled the record companies' damages request "absurd" and contrary to copyright laws in a 14-page opinion. The record companies, which had demanded damages ranging from $400 billion to $75 trillion, had argued that Section 504(c)(1) of the Copyright Act provided for damages for each instance of infringement where two or more parties were liable. For a popular site like Lime Wire, which had thousands of users and millions of downloads, Wood held that the damage award would be staggering under this interpretation. "If plaintiffs were able to pursue a statutory damage theory predicated on the number of direct infringers per work, defendants' damages could reach into the trillions," she wrote. "As defendants note, plaintiffs are suggesting an award that is 'more money than the entire music recording industry has made since Edison's invention of the phonograph in 1877.'""

http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202486102650

3/22/2011 6:56:32 PM

frivolous lawsuits ftl

3/22/2011 7:30:02 PM

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"Police officers responded to a family's complaint that their diabetic son may have been in danger from driving without taking his medicine by running him off the road into an interstate highway median and shooting him to death, the family says. Joey Tucker's father, Perry Tucker, and his fiancée Brieanne Matson say they were "concerned about his health" when they called Salt Lake City Police. Joey Tucker had not taken his diabetes medication and "had possibly taken a sleeping pill," according to the federal complaint. The family claims a Highway Patrol trooper rammed Tucker's pickup into a concrete barrier as Tucker drove on Interstate 80, then Salt Lake Police Officer Louis "Law" Jones shot him to death while he "was simply sitting," all of which was recorded on officers' dashboard cameras."

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/03/21/35070.htm

3/22/2011 9:02:17 PM