| Volume 26 Number 8 |
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The People’s Lawyer’s Tip of the Day
As a general rule an employer may not require an employee to take a lie detector test. The employee may be required to submit to a test, however, if the employer is investigating a theft and has a reasonable suspicion that the employee may have been involved.
Know Your Lease, Or Lose Your Dollars
If I could give a renter one piece of advice, it would be this: Any time you're even thinking about moving, read your lease. It's as boring as the back of a shampoo bottle, but this could save you a lot of money -- say, some or all of your security deposit, or an entire extra month's rent. Click here for more.
Risks of ID Theft in a Lifetime
Identity thieves discriminate to some degree. Anyone -- young or old, rich or poor -- can be a victim, but fraudsters generally prefer the easiest targets. Click here for more.
Don't Drag That Mortgage With You Into Old Age
For those seniors, wealthy or not, who are inclined to believe it's a good financial move to drag a mortgage into their old age, I've got two words for you: Ed McMahon. Click here for more.
Power Firms' Treatment Angers Texans
Prices aren't the only thing skyrocketing in the state's deregulated electricity market. Amid continuing company failures and the resulting forced transfer of tens of thousands of ratepayers to default electric companies, Texans in growing numbers are griping about their ill treatment by power companies. Click here for more.
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For the Lawyers
Court upholds sanctions against attorney and client. A federal district court has upheld sanctions against a client and attorney based on conduct during a deposition Click here for more.