It was part of my black 1993 Eagle Talon’s cassette player’s (and later my 2005 Chevy Cobalt’s CD player’s) rotation for well over a decade. It also introduced me to a new and dangerous vocabulary. Growing up in the somewhat sheltered confines of Wichita, I’d never heard of nor seen a “Gat” a “tech 9 tronic”, a “Six-Fo”, “hollow …
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The Statute of Frauds ‘One-Year Rule’ (IL Law Basics)
The Statute of Frauds (SOF) requires certain contracts to be in writing to be enforceable. (See earlier post here). 740 ILCS 80/1; 810 ILCS 5/2-201 (UCC analog). The SOF’s “one-year rule” posits that any contract that can’t possibly be performed within the span of one year from the date of making must be in writing. The purpose of the one-year …
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Student Loan Discharge In Bankruptcy: How Hard Is It?
In Steven Harper’s The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession In Crisis, the author (quoting a newspaper article) describes Federally guaranteed student loans as the closest thing to a debtor prison in existence. Lawyer Bubble, p. 11. This statement, while jarring, has some empirical support. In the book, Harper cites bankruptcy code changes that have made it virtually impossible to get student …
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