The SEC filed securities fraud and other charges against Quest Holdings, Inc. and its principal, Craig T. Jolly, of Spokane, Washington, for operating an internet-based Ponzi scheme promising monthly returns of up to 19.5 percent. According to the complaint,
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call for proposals
By legalwriting
Call for Presentations: Summer Conference of the Institute for Law Teaching and Learning"Implementing Best Practices and Educating Lawyers: Teaching Skills and Professionalism Across the Curriculum"June 23-24, 2009; Spokane, WashingtonThe Institute for Law Teaching and Learning invites proposals for conference workshops…
Ninth Circuit: City’s (Alleged) Failure to Enforce the Zoning Code Is Not A Substantive Due Process Violation (Oh, And Armendariz is Still Overruled)
In Shanks v. Byrd, No. 06-35665 (Aug. 27, 2008), the Ninth Circuit held that a municipality’s alleged failure to enforce its zoning laws was not a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.Developers who convert homes into student residents apparently did…
Terms of Hospitals’ Sale Gives Liabilities to Charitable Foundation
In Spokane, WA, the establishment of a new charitable foundation set to receive the liabilities and proceeds of a hospital system sale is being scrutinized by Protect Our Hospitals Coalition. Original projections of Empire’s, a corporate entity, sale of Deaconess…
IRS Settles Dispute Over $31 Million Tax-Exempt Bond Issuance
The IRS announced on December 6, 2007, in IR-2007-197, that it has agreed to settle a dispute involving a $31 million tax-exempt municipal bond issuance in Spokane, Washington in 1998. As a result of the bond issuance, the IRS’s…
Institute for Law School Teaching conference, part one
By legalwriting
Gonzaga’s Institute for Law School Teaching has just concluded its 13th annual conference on teaching and learning. Friday’s talks included Justine Dunlap, Southern New England, who spoke about incorporating humanizing principles into law school teaching. David Thomson, Denver, and Syd…
Health officials confirm norovirus outbreak at Sacred Heart
By Bill Marler
KXLY.com
Friday, July 14th, 2006
News4 Staff
SPOKANE — Health officials at Sacred Heart Medical Center confirm that 37 people have contracted norovirus in the adult psych department at the hospital.
Officials say the norovirus outbreak has been confined to…
Investigation of Former Spokane Mayor Closed
By Ellen Podgor
The federal investigation of former Spokane Mayor Jim West ended with the FBI determining that there was no evidence that he intended to engage in honest services fraud related to offering jobs to men he met through internet chat rooms. …
Got Cow? Raw Milk Restrictions Considered
Correspondent Elizabeth Wynne Johnson reported for KWSU-FM radio about the current debate over raw milk.
She interviewed George Calvert, a dairy farmer who operated a cow-share dairy outside of Spokane, Washington, until recently. He said that in his cow-share program,…
Bank Manager’s Age Discrimination Claim Was Not Preempted By The National Bank Act
By Tony Oncidi
Kroske v. U.S. Bank Corp., 432 F.3d 976 (9th Cir. 2005)
Kathy Kroske, a former bank manager of U.S. Bank Corp. in Spokane, Washington, alleged her employment was terminated after 25 years based upon her age (51 years old). The…