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David A. Domina to Participate in the Department of Justice Agriculture/Antitrust Enforcement Public Workshops
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 The Antitrust Division and the Department of Agriculture issued a call for public comments when they announced their plan to hold a number of workshops on competition issues in agriculture. Over 15,000 comments from farmers, consumers, academics, elected officials, and industry organizations were submitted. | Full Story 
Click here to read David Domina's comments to the DOJ on Market Transparency
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David A. Domina interviewed on Posner's Conversion to Antitrust
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 In the ever-expanding galaxy of American jurisprudence, few stars shine as brilliantly as Richard A. Posner, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. Everything about Posner screams the best: Yale undergrad, Harvard Law, Supreme Court clerk, Stanford law professor, federal judge since 1981, author of more than 20 books, and, as John Cassidy notes in a Jan. 11 New Yorker story, "for decades... a leading figure in the conservative Chicago School of economics." | Full Story |
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Domina, Taylor Issue Strong Response to American Meat Institute
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 David Domina and Dr. C. Robert Taylor filed a strongly worded response to the American Meat Institute's year end comments on the US Department of Justice plan to study antitrust and concentration issues in US agricultural markets. The filing was made February 11th. Domina and Taylor wrote for the Organization for Competitive Market, a nonprofit national group committed to restoring competition in ag markets. | Full Story Full Paper |
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DOMINA LAW Group pc llo Files Complex Accounting Malpractice Claim
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 DOMINA LAW Group pc llo’s clients, a husband, wife and their closely held companies, filed suit in state court against a Nebraska accountant and accounting firm, alleging negligence and other matters. | Full Story
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Nebraska Supreme Court Will Hear Douglas County Landfill Case- Review of Court of Appeals Ruling Granted
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 Waste Management’s purchase of a Douglas County farm property in 1989, for use as the Douglas County Landfill, proved to be a problematic transaction. Phases of the transaction, or matters related to it, have appeared in Nebraska’s appellate courts previously. | Full Story |
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DOMINA LAW Group pc llo Client, Stormy Dean, sues Infogroup
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 Former Infogroup executive and gubernatorial candidate Stormy Dean is suing his former employer for about $1.15 million for severance and bonuses he says the company refuses to pay him, according to a lawsuit filed by DOMINA LAW Group pc llo in Douglas County District Court. | Full Story
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DOMINA LAW Group pc llo files lawsuit over 'misleading' investment advice
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 Lincoln doctor and his wife have sued an accounting firm they say gave them improper tax advice and misled them into investing in a real estate development venture in Montana. Dr. Geoffrey Basler and Rebecca Basler say they lost at least $4.6 million as a result of the actions of David Ellingson and Dana F. Cole & Co. | Full Story
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LRNRD sends new water plan to attorney general
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 ALMA - A draft 2010 integrated water management plan for the Lower Republican Natural Resources District, including an alternative for Republican River Compact compliance in water-short years, will be delivered to the Nebraska Attorney General's Office today. | Full Story
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Settling Cases Confidentially
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 DOMINA LAW Group pc llo’s clients need regress in court for different reasons. Often severe financial distress, a monetary loss, or harm caused by the behavior of another person requires litigation. | Full Story |
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Be Alert! Criminal Tax Fraud is the IRS Focus for 2010
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 The IRS is focused sharply on tax fraud. It is making a concerted effort to flush out tax frauds and to collect unpaid taxes. This is serious business. Now is not the time to take shortcuts with taxes. Now is the time to amend returns, no matter how painful, and pay what should have been paid, and fix what was reported incorrectly, before the IRS grabs the initiative. The Service has identified tax fraud, including aggressive criminal prosecution of it, as its initiative for 2010. The Internal Revenue Service has a law enforcement arm of sworn IRS Criminal Investigation Agents. These Agents have investigation and arrest powers, and carry firearms, like the FBI! | Full Story
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Nebraska Supreme Court Clarifies Lawyers’ Duties to Statutory Beneficiaries in Wrongful Death Cases
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 A personal representative’s failure to prosecute an action for wrongful death led to professional negligence litigation. The PR’s lawyer did not undertake the prosecution, permitted the statute of limitations to expire, and the statutory beneficiaries, who could not bring the claim on their own but were the beneficiaries of it, lost the right to sue. | Full Story |
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DOMINA LAW Group pc llo Sues Governor and Others in Two New Beatrice
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 After two former Beatrice State Home residents died when they were abruptly transported out of the Beatrice State Home, family members sued Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman and others in District Court, Gage County, Nebraska, on January 4, 2010. | Full Story
Omaha World Herald story: 2 more suits over Beatrice center |
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DOMINA LAW Group pc llo Client’s Lawsuit Challenges Nebraska’s Initiative & Referendum Statutory Blocks
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 A Stanton Nebraska family, the Bernbecks, want City government to put a slide in the municipal swimming pool. The Bernbecks are long-time Stantonians. They acquired an extensive, dynamically sound, and useful piece of recreational equipment with the intention of donating it to the City. They offered installation costs. | Full Story |
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Jury’s Verdicts Mean $2+ Million Benefit for DOMINA LAW Group pc llo Client
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 When the Morrill County, Nebraska, jury returned its verdicts on November 20, the jury corrected improper acts committed by a business seller against a buyer nearly a decade ago. Gary’s Implement, Inc., sold its widely-known tractor parts and salvage business to Bridgeport Tractor Parts, Inc., a subsidiary of Allstate Ag Parts, Inc., in mid-1998. | Full Story |
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Domina – Taylor Report on Market Concentration Released to Public Officials, Public at Large
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 An in-depth Special Report entitled, The Debilitating Effects of Concentration in Markets Affecting Agriculture, proves that market concentration for major raw food products hurts both producers and consumers. The report was written for the Organization for Competitive Markets, a national think tank devoted to the study of markets and restoration of competition to markets for agricultural products and supplies. | Full Story Full Report
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Domina Speaks at the AALA 30th Annual Ag. Law Symposium
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 David A. Domina speaks at the Americal Agricultural Law Association (AALA) 30th Annual Ag. Law Symposium in Williamsburg, Virginia. Domina's speech, "Litigation of Antitrust Claims for Farmers, Ranchers, & Other Food Producers", can be read here.
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DOMINA LAW Group pc llo Explains the Steps in a Civil Lawsuit
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 The fascination that goes with courtroom drama is undeniable. And, no wonder. The most sensitive of emotional matters, and the most touching of human experiences, often play out in court. This is not new. From the ancient Greek plays by Aeschylus’ tragic Oresteia, which was literature’s first known courtroom drama, to modern successes, the process of courtroom presentation, and the ultimate rendition of judgment, provide an intersection for collisions of high principles, and basic human emotions. | Full Story |
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Warning: Crop Farmers, Municipalities, Consumers- Atrazine May Pose Huge Risk
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 Atrazine may pose a significant health risk to people. And, it may hurt them by something as simple as drinking a glass of tap water. Farmers, the weeds you kill with atrazine may cost you more than the weeds that would have survived cultivation without it. | Full Story
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Small Farmers See Promise in Obama's Plans (www.npr.org)
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 Since the 1980s, American agriculture has become increasingly concentrated. Today, less than 2 percent of farms account for half of all agricultural sales. The new antitrust division of President Obama's Justice Department has said that scrutinizing monopolies in agriculture is a top priority. | Full Story |
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Monsanto: Did it Overreach? Is it a Monopolist?
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 Growing sentiment makes it seem plausible that Monsanto is likely to engender more and more antitrust scrutiny because of its stranglehold on the seed industry. Click here to check out this remarkable piece of news and opinion from CNBC's popular Cramer on investing.
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