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Zappers & Employment Tax Fraud, Richard Thompson Ainsworth

Faculty Scholarship

Beyond the grey area of worker misclassifications and general employment tax irregularities there are darker employment relationships where workers are intentionally paid in cash “off-the-books” or “under-the-table.” Grey employment relationships present civil enforcement issues that may become criminal; darker-relationships are criminal from the beginning. Zappers are found on the dark side.

Zappers are fraud-technologies that automatically (and remotely) skim cash from electronic cash registers (ECRs) or back room point of sales (POS) systems. Globally, tax auditors are finding that Zappers frequently provide the cash that is used to compensate “under-the-table” workers. In fact, a Zapper appears to be at the …

The Not-So-Golden Years: The Legal Response To Elder Abuse, David P. Mathews

Pepperdine Law Review

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Boiler Room Fraud: An Operational Plan Utilizing The Injunction Against Fraud Pursuant To 18 U.S.C. §1345 , Robert M. Twiss

Pepperdine Law Review

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Mandatory Disclosure: California Bar Refuses To Adopt Proposed Rule To Confront Client Perjury , David B. Wasson

Pepperdine Law Review

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Avoiding The Insanity Defense Strait Jacket: The Mens Rea Route, Harlow M. Huckabee

Pepperdine Law Review

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Thompson V. Oklahoma: Debating The Constitutionality Of Juvenile Executions, Susan M. Simmons

Pepperdine Law Review

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Coy V. Iowa: A Constitutional Right Of Intimidation, John A. Mayers

Pepperdine Law Review

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Judicial Sentencing Error: Thomas V. Morris And The Double Jeopardy Clause , Paul G. Flynn

Pepperdine Law Review

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Evidence Of Mental Disorder On Mens Rea: Constitutionality Of Drawing The Line At The Insanity Defense , Harlow M. Huckabee

Pepperdine Law Review

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Summary Of In Re Woods V. State, 129 Nev. Adv. Op. 1, Benjamin K. Reitz

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

An appeal addressing whether the State’s failure to oppose a defendant’s motion to dismiss constitutes a conscious indifference to a defendant’s procedural right to defend the charge in a timely manner.

Thornburgh V. Abbott: Slamming The Prison Gates On Constitutional Rights, Megan M. Mcdonald

Pepperdine Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Constitutionality Of The Federal Sentencing Reform Act After Mistretta V. United States, Charles R. Eskridge Iii

Pepperdine Law Review

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Please Leave Your Shotguns At Home: Chapter 700 Prohibits Openly Carrying Long Guns On California Streets, Roman Edwards

McGeorge Law Review

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Canines (And Cats!) In Correctional Institutions: Legal And Ethical Issues Relating To Companion Animal Programs, Rebecca Huss

Law Faculty Publications

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Sentencing The Why Of White Collar Crime, Todd Haugh

All Faculty Scholarship

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Obligation To Proceed To The Second Trial And The Potential Defense Argument, Kyunghwa Kim

War Crimes Memoranda

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Political Pressure And Political Interference In The Function Of The Judiciary, Nathaniel T. Dreyfuss

War Crimes Memoranda

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Plea Bargaining After Frye And Lafler, A Real Problem In Search Of A Reasonable And Practical Solution (Meeting The Challenges Of Frye And Lafler) [Keynote Address], W. Louis Sands

Duquesne Law Review

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Plea Bargaining Is A Shadow Market [Introduction], Frank H. Easterbrook

Duquesne Law Review

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The Indirect Potential Of Lafler And Frye, Wesley Macneil Oliver

Duquesne Law Review

There are a range of opinions about the potential impact of the Supreme Court's latest opinions. My view of the potential of these cases to create some meaningful limit on the presently unregulated world of plea bargaining is probably the most optimistic, or radical, of anyone who participated in this conference. Missouri v. Frye and Lafler v. Cooper, in my view, hold the potential to improve the quality of representation defendants receive in the negotiation process and may lead judges to create a set of advisory guidelines for the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. The direct impact of these opinions …