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Fifth Amendment Tax Returns: How Al Capone Could Have Avoided Alcatraz

In this week's edition of the Kentucky Law Journal Blog, Staff Editor Katelyn Brown describes the historical implications of a recent unpublished Tax Court opinion finding that a filer could validly plead the Fifth Amendment to withhold the source of illegal income reported in his tax returns.

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A Salman Swimming Downstream: Salman v. United States and Remote Tippee Liability

In today's edition of the Kentucky Law Journal Online, KLJ Articles Editor Cody S. Barnett describes the history of the Supreme Court's interpretation of the infamous SEC Rule 10b-5 in light of the upcoming insider trading case, Salmon v. United States.

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Ex Parte Communications with Treating Physicians and Caldwell v. Chauvin

In this week's edition of the Kentucky Law Journal Online, staff editor Benjamin Harris discusses a recent Kentucky Supreme Court decision allowing counsel in a medical malpractice suit to initiate ex parte contact with physicians who are treating the opposition.

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No WASPs Allowed: The Strict Regulations of Arlington National Cemetery

In this week’s KLJ Online Blog, newly-elected Notes Editor Olivia Keller discusses a family's fight to inter a female WWII veteran in Arlington National Cemetery.

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Miss Kentucky USA v. The Madam

In this March Madness edition of the KLJ Online Blog, Legal News Editor Colton Givens dissects the lawsuit between University of Louisville student Kyle Hornback and Katina Powell, the person at the center of the Louisville basketball recruiting scandal.

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Jiggery Pokery: What the Constitution Says about Selecting Justice Scalia’s Replacement, and What Republicans and Democrats Should be Saying Instead

In this special edition of the KLJ Online Blog, Senior Staff Editor Nate Fowler discusses the constitutional issues surrounding the death and replacement of Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia.

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