By Adam D. Schmaelzle, Esq. How can you represent a person like that? How do you sleep at night, knowing you kept a criminal out of jail, and put him or her back on the streets? These are the types of questions criminal defense attorneys get all the time. But if you ask a [...]
By Adam D. Schmaelzle, Esq. What if your marriage came with the same security as your new car, with its 10-year/100,000 mile warranty? Marriage is defined as the legal union of a couple as spouses. There are three basic elements: (1) the parties legal ability to marry each other, (2) mutual consent of [...]
By Christopher Ray From the American employee's perspective, the state of our wage and hour laws is grim and getting worse all the time. Earlier this week, Martha Neil, of the American Bar Association Journal, joined a growing outcry over seemingly pandemic levels of wage and hour violations by American businesses. (See link below). [...]
By Robert A. Linch In the recent ruling US v. Quality Stores, Inc., the Supreme Court declared that severance packages paid to employees are subject to the FICA tax (a 15.3% tax imposed on all income, paid in equal parts by employers and employees, that funds Social Security and Medicare). While severance packages (or supplemental [...]
By Adam D. Schmaelzle, Esq. First off, this is obviously a very hot-button issue right now, so I just want to start out by saying these two things: Number one: Parents have an absolute constitutional right to parent their children; Number two: The Commonwealth’s greatest concern regarding custody issues is the “best [...]
By Robert A. Linch Yesterday it was announced by US Attorney General Eric Holder that the US would be seeking the death penalty against Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Holder cited, “[t]he nature of the conduct at issue and the resultant harm…” as the justification to seek the death penalty against Tsarnaev in a [...]
By Adam D. Schmaelzle, Esq. Robert Carr, a resident of Ohio has recently come into the limelight with his mischievous attempts to file a quiet title action on the properties of homeowners who have been away from their houses. Supposedly, Mr. Carr put together a team of individuals that would roam around the city [...]
