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A Johnson County, Kansas jury found that a developer breached an indemnity agreement with Surety Company. The indemnity agreement was required to obtain a performance bond from Surety to ensure the payment of excise tax to the

The United States Supreme Court recently decided a case about the limits of a State’s power to tax a trust. In North Carolina v. Kaestner, Justice Sotomayor and a majority

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed Assembly Bill 5, which restricts businesses’ use of independent contractors in the state. The law was signed into law last week. The bill amends

Several new Missouri laws that were signed by Governor Mike Parson went into effect on August 28. The changes to state law include legislation concerning jail debt, vehicle inspections, and

“You have an LLM, and you’re doing this?” That’s what an attorney once said to Union Legal Research’s Kurt Mattson while he was conducting a Westlaw training. Mattson had just

A man was shot and killed when a U.S. Marshal attempted to arrest him at a house in Detroit in 2015. The man’s estate and his relatives filed this action, asserting multiple claims against several Defendants. In the end,

The Connecticut General Assembly has passed significant trust legislation including the Uniform Trust Code and Directed Trust Act, and extended the rule against perpetuities to allow 800-year dynasty trusts. Public

New York state saw more than 400 lawsuits filed in on the first day of a one-year “look-back” window in the statute of limitations that permits abuse survivors to bring

The North Carolina Rules of Practice were amended this week to permit parental leave for attorneys. The announcement was made by Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley who said that

You read that correctly: attorneys can ask for fees for the time they took asking for fees. That’s according to the Pennsylvania Superior Court decision, Richards v. Ameriprise Fin., Inc.,