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Ariana Grande, the pop music singer, has sued retailer Forever 21 for $10 Million, accusing the founders’ daughters of piggybacking off of her fame and influence to sell their merchandise. In the complaint filed on September 2, 2019, Grande accused Forever 21 and Riley Rose of misappropriating her name, image, likeness, and music. She claims Forever 21 and Rose employed a “strikingly similar” looking model in a website and social media campaign earlier this year.

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Bankruptcy trustee Gregory Messer is suing Models Kendall Jenner and Emily Ratajkowski and performers Migos, Pusha T, and Lil Yachty in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for New York. Messer has been investigating who was paid in the lead-up to the 2017 event, Fyre Festival, that was supposed to take place over two weekends in the Bahamas. The lawsuits seek to recover money paid to talent agencies, performers they represent, and some vendors that were paid to charter musicians to the festival on private jets and yachts. William “Billy” McFarland and his company, Fyre Media Inc., were also sued for over $14 million allegedly transferred to him or to Fyre Media from its bankrupt subsidiary formed to promote the festival. McFarland is currently serving a six-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to fraud charges.

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Patricia Currie, a 78-year-old woman from Mandeville, Louisiana, was found guilty on August 14, 2019 of attempted second-degree murder for attempting to kill her former bankruptcy attorney. On October 27, 2016, Attorney Keith Couture was alone at his law firm when he heard the door open. At the front of his office, Currie was sitting in a chair with latex gloves on, plastic grocery bags on her feet, and a white towel in her lap covering a gun. After Currie raised the gun at Couture, he was able to wrestle it away from her. Couture testified that when asked why she was there, Curie said she was there to kill him. Testifying in her own defense, Currie said she intended to only scare her former attorney. Currie appears for sentencing on September 30, 2019 where she faces 10 to 50 years in prison.

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Deborah Sell, the former treasurer of Fontana, Kansas, was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison. Sell pled guilty to lying on her income tax returns and stealing money from taxpayers. In February 2017, Sell used a city debit card to withdraw $400 from an ATM at a casino in Riverside, Missouri, which stemmed the wire fraud charge. Sell admitted to embezzling more than $174,000 from the City of Fontana while she was the city treasurer.

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An order was issued permanently barring Jeffrey Cadet, Kersh Tax Service, LLC, and Kersha Lewis from preparing federal tax returns for others or owning or operating a tax preparation business. The compliant filed by the government alleged that the defendants prepared tax returns that contained fictitious itemized deductions and/or business expenses. The complaint also alleged that the returns contained fictitious and/or inflated education expenses to improperly claim the American Opportunity Tax Credit and Lifetime Learning Credit.

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Ashraf Eldeknaway, a tax preparer in Portland, Maine, pled guilty to one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return. To claim the Earned Income Tax Credit and a fraudulently increased refund, Eldeknawey admitted to willfully preparing a false 2015 tax return for two clients that intentionally included overstated self-employment. The preparation of the false returns caused a loss between $40,000 and $100,000 to the government.

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For more than 400,000 eligible taxpayers who already filed their 2018 tax returns, the Internal Revenue Service will automatically be waiving the estimated tax penalty. For taxpayers who have already paid the penalty will receive a refund check. For taxpayers who have yet to file, the IRS urges eligible taxpayers to claim the waiver on their return.

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Plaintiffs Jungers sued Defendant Webster for damages allegedly caused by the negligent installation of a transformer in the Jungers’ home. Webster paid for the damage to be repaired. At the time of the alleged damage, the Jungers were in the process of selling their home under contract for deed, but the buyers backed out. The Jungers sought damages from Webster because of the lost sale. The court decided that the Jungers were barred from recovering the additional damages they sought. The Jungers were not entitled to seek additional damages either in the form of diminution of fair market value or for the loss of the benefit of bargain from the contract for deed.

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In Hogenmiller v. Mississippi Lime Co, David Hogenmiller was awarded workers’ compensation benefits based on a finding that he sustained a five-percent partial disability because of work-related tinnitus. An audiologist with a Ph.D. in hearing science was qualified to testify regarding the nature, extent, and cause of Mr. Hogenmiller’s tinnitus.

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On August 28, 2017, the Palmers were served with a summons and petition. The Palmers were being sued by the Irvins, who were seeking to void a quit claim deed that asserted to convey ownership of a parcel of land from the Irvin Trust to the Palmers. On September 14, 2017, the Palmers’ attorney filed an entry of appearance and requested an additional 30 days to respond to the petition. On October 23, 2017, the trial court entered a default judgment in favor of the Irvins because a responsive pleading had not been entered on behalf of the Palmers.

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