by Jack Butt | Oct 29, 2019 | Tax
The Internal Revenue Code has long rewarded whistleblowers who report tax fraud by providing them a percentage of taxes collected as their reward. Such whistleblowers are frequently jilted lovers or disgruntled or fired bookkeepers, administrative assistants, or other...
by Jack Butt | Jun 25, 2019 | Legal World
Anyone who has driven from town to town, county to county, through Arkansas discovers that they need to plan carefully where and how they might have a cocktail. Being six inches to one side or the other of a county or city line can make all the difference. This...
by Jack Butt | Jun 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
A landlord who had no legal obligation to do so, voluntarily fixed a trailer tenant’s refrigerator. Later that day, the tenant blew himself up lighting a cigarette because of a disconnected gas line in the trailer. Though the landlord in the first place had no...
by Jack Butt | Jul 11, 2017 | Legal World
A much disputed election of officers in the Crittenden County, Arkansas, branch of the NAACP occurred in 2010. All of the incumbents were defeated and replaced. The National NAACP organization, backing the local incumbents, claimed in several written and spoken public...
by Jack Butt | Apr 25, 2017 | Contracts
The old adage, “[i]f it seems to be too good to be true, it probably is,” is well worth considering the next time you make a large purchase. That advice would have come in quite handy for a woman and her son who paid an extra $100,000 for a parcel of real...
