Pittsburgh Legal Newslog: Suspended Attorney Disbarred After Serving Prison Sentence.

A suspended attorney from Monroe County was formally disbarred after being released from prison following conviction for crimes involving multiple counts of rape and sexual assault. The attorney had been under suspension from practice during the prison term.

Pittsburgh Legal Newslog: Marcellus Shale Gas Play Raises Legal Issues.

Clean and Green tax preferences, intended to keep agricultural lands agricultural, are subject to “rollback taxes” when land is developed. Two House Bills are trying to change the game. Hearings were held in Williamsport on the subject.

Pittsburgh Legal Newslog: Greg Fajt Appointed Head of PA Gaming Board.

By his appointment of Mr. Fajt, Governor Rendell strikes a blow for professionalism and against political influence in the Pennsylvania gaming oversight.

Meet the Subprime 25.

Posted by Cliff Tuttle Who caused the economic meltdown? Who were the first in line to be bailed out by the US Government? Were they the same perpetrators? Were they really too big to fail? Meet the Subprime 25. CLT

What Free Credit Report Dot Com Doesn’t Report to You.

But the commercial also doesn’t tell you that bad credit of one spouse need not be fatal to your joint dream of home ownership. Under federal Regulation B, both parties have a right to make an individual application for credit without relying on the income (or credit history) of the other. And contrary to what you might think, jointly held property can be used as collateral.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Tut’s Courthouse.

Posted by Cliff Tuttle If you liked the Nutmeg Lawyer recently posted in the blogroll, you may wish to read his email in the comment section after the post on the subject, below. Apologies to Mark Twain for the title of this post. Thanks to AVVO for the introduction to Nutmeg Lawyer. CLT

Nutmeg Lawyer Joins PLBT Blogroll

The author is Adrian Baron, a Connecticut lawyer who claims the distinction of being able to conduct a client interview entirely in Polish. As you browse through his posts, though, you may notice that he is pretty good at pulling the reader’s leg. Notwithstanding, the claim to Polish fluency appears to be serious. I think. Well, semi-serious. If he ever comes to Pittsburgh, I’ll take him down to the Falcons Club and evaluate his Polish fluency.

Pittsburgh Legal Newslog: State Property Tax Relief.

Posted by Cliff Tuttle The 2009-2010 Pennsylvania Property Tax Relief figures for 2009- 2010 are posted. Click here. Comments and Blogs. Citizens Voice.com, May 4, 2009 This post will be updated if additional news articles or blog comments appear in the next few days.

Pittsburgh Legal Newslog: Chief Justice Cappy

Articles reacting to the sudden and unexpected death of former Chief Justice Ralph Cappy are appearing throughout the Commonwealth. Ralph Cappy was well-known in Pittsburgh legal circles as an Allegheny County public defender and Common Pleas Court judge before he was elected to the high court.

Pittsburgh Legal Newslog: Gas Drilling under Parks Proceeds When Gas is Privately Owned

Posted by Cliff Tuttle Conservationists are alarmed by the prospect of large scale gas drilling in the Allegheny National Forest and Pennsylvania State Parks. Severences of oil and gas, a common practice for over a century when selling rural land in Western Pennsylvania, were ignored by the federal and state governments when park land was […]

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