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Immigrant Crime Victims Struggle as Special Visa Delays Mount
A method that offers distinctive visas to immigrant criminal offense victims who cooperate with law enforcement is getting undermined by lengthy wait around times, trying to keep applicants from accessing protections from deportation and lawful work authorization. Delays in issuing U visas—or even adding candidates to a wait around checklist that arrives with people interim benefits—leave victims susceptible to deportation and office exploitation even though they wait around. By the finish of December, the backlog of programs surpassed extra than 189,000 petitions for criminal offense victims by itself, not counting their dependents, according to the most up-to-date knowledge introduced by US Citizenship and Immigration Companies. That amount has much more…
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Lawsuit: NYPD routinely delays requests for public records
The NYPD is routinely delaying requests for public records, such as human body digital camera footage, incident stories and officers’ disciplinary information, creating it tougher for New Yorkers to reality-check out their promises and maintain them accountable, according to a new lawsuit. The suit, filed this week in state court docket in Manhattan, argues the NYPD has a sample of slow-strolling requests for facts that must be conveniently available, “obstructing New Yorkers’ lawful suitable to see how our tax dollars are expended and how our rules are enforced.” It phone calls on the NYPD to speed up its course of action — or for a court docket keep track of…
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IRS delays implementing the 1099-K $600 reporting threshold until 2023, to the relief of tax pros
Tax pros, third-party settlement companies, e-commerce platforms (such as eBay, PayPal, Etsy, CashApp, and Venmo), and individuals and compact organizations that use individuals platforms to offer their items and services celebrated now. The Inner Earnings Support (IRS) declared a delay in the new 1099-K reporting threshold enacted by Congress as aspect of the American Rescue Prepare of 2021 (ARPA). As part of the act, the 1099-K reporting threshold was lowered from $20,000 to $600. This improve was at first scheduled to take effect in 2022 and would have afflicted platforms, companies, and persons this coming tax season. In what is now predicted to be a complicated tax season, this is…
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U-M business law scholar: Allegations in NY civil suit against Trump detailed, though delays likely
FACULTY Q&A Will Thomas White-collar crime expert Will Thomas says the lawsuit filed Wednesday by New York’s attorney general against former President Donald Trump, his family and their various business organizations contains allegations that are “detailed and factually specific.” Still, the assistant professor of business law at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business says starting from a “very strong legal position” may not be enough to overcome Trump’s history of “delaying and deflecting legal proceedings for as long as possible.” Thomas, a lawyer who once focused on securities litigation and white-collar enforcement matters in private practice, discusses where things stand with the lawsuit and where they might—or might…
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Semi crash to create major delays on interstate
UPDATE 10:30 a.m. 9/1/2022 BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. (WSAZ) — 1 westbound lane in a development zone together I-64 is closed Thursday as highway crews assess damage to a barrier wall soon after an accident involving a tractor-trailer. The tractor-trailer obtained stuck Wednesday night on I-64 in the vicinity of the Huntington Mall exit. Tractor-trailer crash closes I-64 lane The incident occurred at about 8 p.m. as the semi truck carrying an oversize load tried to negotiate the contraflow lane. The truck was hauling a massive machine when it strike the barrier wall. “His permit didn’t allow for him to be traveling there,” explained District 1 Engineer Rob Pennington, P.E. Wrecker crews…
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