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13y ago
For incentive stock options, at least, you can't make an 83(b) election.
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Nice--as the above poster notes, linking statutes and their interpreting rules and regs. in a sensible way could be a nice differentiator. E.g. if a regulation or another code section gives a special definition for a term used in the statut
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Nice implementation!
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Also, justification might look more "legal" in that it's a closer match for typeset cases but I would be curious whether your users might prefer ragged right.
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J/J: I'm a deal lawyer, so I rarely look at caselaw. But regs. and statutes are my bread and butter. Any thoughts about how you would approach annotating these kinds of materials? There's of course an interesting version cont
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I see one every few days here in Atlanta. Of course I see about twenty times as many Nissan Leafs.
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Agreed. It's worth noting that the the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is different than the usual "Article III" courts in that it is created by federal statute. Though its judges are drawn from the judicial branch, i
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14y ago
Another hook might be a violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) which has been interpreted to prohibit automatically sending text messages without the recipient's consent. The statutory damages are $500 per incident.
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That's precisely the intent and effect of the JOBS Act: to open opportunities like these to unaccredited investors.
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https://twitter.com/reederapp/status/311995748482945025 Silvio posted "Don't worry, Reeder won't die with Google Reader." Presumably, he's going to add support for some other feed management and syncing platform.
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Couldn't agree more. As a working transactional attorney and hobbyist coder, I will say that the obstacle to better workflows is not (in most cases) deliberate inefficiency. Rather, the compensation and billing scheme at nearly all firms st
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"There is no ethical argument for taking money from billionaires in higher share than anyone else that doesn't come down to envy. " What about diminishing marginal utility? The ethical argument would be that tax burden should be greater on