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Accounting for Obamacare

Lawrence L. Bell

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, created the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP), a part of each state's Health Insurance Marketplace, where small businesses with under 50 full-time equivalent employees can purchase group health plans. The small business owner is continually being placed in an untenable position without the ability to do any planning.

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A Dangerous Undertaking

Rachel S. Faulkner

Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote that "it would be a dangerous undertaking for persons trained only to the law to constitute themselves final judges of the worth of pictorial illustrations." If Holmes didn't think he could do it, which of us thinks we're up to the task? Nonetheless, this was just the challenge taken up by Judge Block of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in <i>Cohen v. G&amp;M Realty L.P.</i>

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Lawsuits over Unpaid Internships Took Root in 2013

Claire Zillman

Eric Glatt was in the library at Georgetown Law Center when he got the call last summer. On the other end of the line was his lawyer, Juno Turner, an associate at New York's Outten &amp; Golden. "We won," she said. With those two words, Glatt, who holds an MBA from Case Western University and is now working toward a law degree, became the unconventional hero for unpaid interns everywhere.

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Quarterly State Compliance Review

Sandra Feldman

This edition of the Quarterly State Compliance Review looks at some legislation of interest to corporate lawyers that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2014. It also looks at four recent decisions of interest from the Delaware courts.

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Supreme Court Leaves NY Online Sales Tax Law In Place

Tony Mauro

December 2 was an extraordinary day for Amazon.com Inc., the mammoth online retailer: Cyber Monday sales reached new heights, its fanciful plan to use drones to make deliveries was creating buzz ' and then the U.S. Supreme Court spoiled it all by turning down Amazon's challenge to online sales taxes.

Columns & Departments

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Cooperatives & Condominiums

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

Penthouse Owner Can't Stop Roof Garden <BR>Co-Op Board Cannot Reallocate Shares

Columns & Departments

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Practice Tip: Predictability and Consistency in Alimony Awards Within States

Eliana Baer

Much like laws concerning marriage and divorce, alimony laws vary among states. However, lack of predictability and consistency in alimony awards within states have put alimony reform in the forefront of political, judicial and social arenas in several states, including New Jersey, Florida and Massachusetts.

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Verdicts

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

NY Court Won't Use 'Long Arm' to Reach Florida Med Center <br>Judge Went Too Far By Striking Defense's Answer<br>Informed Consent Irrelevant To Malpractice Question

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Honesty Issues and Imputed Income

Marcy L. Wachtel & Lori Meyer

In Part One of this article, we looked at some of the factors courts use in determining whether to impute income to a divorcing spouse, and how much. But one of the most powerful influences on a court's decision to impute income may be its suspicion that a party simply is not being as forthcoming with the truth as he or she should be.

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New Jersey's Offer of Judgment Rule

Gary L. Riveles & Cyndee L. Allert

The New Jersey Supreme Court has vigorously defended its supremacy with respect to the administration of the courts from intrusion by other branches of government. The Separation of Powers Doctrine is premised on the theory that government works most efficiently when each of the three branches of government acts independently within its designated sphere.

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