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The Lemon Law - Taking The Law Into Your Own Hands

The automobile lemon laws were designed to protect car buyers from irreparable manufacturers’ defects in automobiles that should be ordinarily be covered under warranty.
So How Did The Lemon Laws Come About?
Consumer demand for lemon law protection started to swell from around 1972, when more than one million people were found to have paid for vehicles […]

22 Facts, Every Plaintiff Should Know About Lawsuit Funding - Lawsuit Loan

Most of the plaintiffs involved in lawsuits do not realize they can get cash advance before their case settles. It is called as lawsuit funding and often referred as lawsuit loan, legal finance, lawsuit cash advance, litigation financing, legal financing, pre-settlement loan and plaintiff cash advance.
The following 22 facts, every plaintiff must know about lawsuit […]

Advantages of Commercial Lawsuit Loan - Business Lawsuit Funding

Business or commercial world is not a perfect one. There can be a dispute or controversy in day to day business transactions. Commercial transactions can give rise to commercial disputes. Every business dispute, however minor it may look like, has the potential to become an expensive lawsuit.
Commercial disputes often turn into litigation, and the victim […]

20 Basic Facets to Money Laundering Law

“Money laundering” as it is commonly called, involves the transfer of monies that are a product of criminal activity - whether that activity is drug trafficking related or white collar crime related. Although there is a fairly broad definition of money laundering, the federal money laundering laws were enacted to attempt to take the profit […]

10 Mail & Wire Fraud Statute Facets

Fraudulent misrepresentations and schemes to defraud which use the United States mail to further that fraudulent conduct, can be prosecuted as mail fraud. Also, another commonly used federal law to prosecute misrepresentations and frauds is the statute known as “wire fraud.”
The United States Attorney Office will seek an Indictment (a […]

5 Legal Points Concerning Bank Fraud Crime

Violations of law at a bank or by using accounts of a financial institution are commonly prosecuted in federal court as “bank fraud.”
The United States Attorney Office will seek an Indictment (a charging document formally charging the person with a crime) for bank fraud based upon a relatively non-complex […]

On-line Solicitation of a Minor For Sexual Purposes: The Legality Behind The Charge

On-line solicitation of a minor for a sexual purpose, that is, with intent to commit a sexual activity with that minor, is one of the most investigated and targeted activities by both federal and state law enforcement in this day and age. The on-line solicitation as it is known as, is usually in the form […]

Possession of Child Pornography & Trafficking –What the Law States

Possessions of child pornography, and the distribution of it, are some of the most targeted activities for investigation by both federal and state law enforcement agencies. Of course, a person has to knowingly possess pornographic images of children to be guilty of possession, and the images have to be real (non-computer generated) images of underage […]

Selecting a Mesothelioma Lawyer

Asbestos has been proven to cause a number of health conditions, including a disease called mesothelioma. While companies that make products using asbestos have known about the negative health effects of their products for as long as 60 years, many of those who worked in their factories were in the dark.
Mesothelioma lawsuits […]

How to Pay Less Tax on the Sale of Real Estate!

“It’s not how much you make that counts,” my father told me many years ago, “but how much you keep of what you make.” I did not really understand that old adage at the time, but he was passing on some wisdom that his father had given him. It’s just common sense, but it […]