On June 3, 1991, an abandoned car was found on a busy stretch of highway near Newport Beach, California. Its owner, Denise Huber, seemed to have vanished off the face of the earth. For three years, her disappearance remained a mystery, inspiring one of the most intensive missing-persons searches in history. All to no avail. Because the only man who knew what happened to Denise wasn't talking. He wasn't through with her yet. On July 3, 1994, in an affluent suburb of Prescott, Arizona, a...
"Forgive state poet #289-128 / for not scribbling illusions / of trickery as if timeless hell / could be captured by stanzas / alliteration or slant rhyme," remarks the speaker, Maryland Department of Corrections prisoner {#289-128}, early in this haunting collection. Three sections – {#289-128} Property of the State, {#289-128} Poet-in-Residence (Cell 23), and {#289-128} Poet in New York – frame the countless ways in which the narrator's body and life are socially and legally rendered...
Die Rückabwicklung der sog. Bauträger-Altfälle nach dem Urteil des BFH vom 22.08.2013 (Az. V R 37/10) hat in den letzten Jahren sowohl Rechtsprechung als auch Literatur in höchstem Maße beschäftigt. Die entstandenen Problemfelder sind gekennzeichnet durch vielfältige Konflikte zwischen fiskalischen Interessen und dem dringenden Wunsch nach Rechtssicherheit auf Seiten der Baubranche. Trotz hoher praktischer Relevanz erfolgte bislang keine umfassende Aufarbeitung der insolvenzrechtlichen...
