Posts from ‘October, 2008’

In a closely watched immigration law case, a lawyer for Hazleton, Pa., on Thursday urged the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to revive a city ordinance that would have barred employers and landlords from hiring or renting to illegal aliens. But two ACLU lawyers, warning of the possible “Balkanization” of the country into “immigrant-friendly communities and immigrant-hostile communities,” urged the three-judge panel to uphold a lower court decision that struck down the ordinance.

Eversheds has suspended two quarterly profit distributions to partners as more evidence emerges of law firms battening down the hatches for a full-blown recession. The U.K. firm’s equity partners will miss out on two quarterly payments due in November and February 2009. The decision to defer the payments, which was taken by Eversheds’ senior management, will be reviewed in March when the firm looks at capital requirements for next year.