https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/05/a-trap-for-small-business-welcome-baltimore-sun-readers/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 06 Jan 2013 23:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/05/a-trap-for-small-business-welcome-baltimore-sun-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-160102 Thu, 31 May 2012 20:39:39 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=30116#comment-160102 JM, that’s true, but it seems that there needs to be more than a “collateral damage, acceptable losses, break a few eggs” approach to the enforcement. It wasn’t just outright extortion that the Framers had in mind when they wrote the Fourth Amendment.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/05/a-trap-for-small-business-welcome-baltimore-sun-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-160094 Thu, 31 May 2012 19:25:56 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=30116#comment-160094 It’s unfortunate, and the punishment is usually disproportionate, but actually these rules do serve a purpose. Money laundering is a huge problem, and if we want to fight against organized crime, rules to make it more difficult for them to make dirty money clean have to exist.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/05/a-trap-for-small-business-welcome-baltimore-sun-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-160061 Thu, 31 May 2012 16:00:08 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=30116#comment-160061 […] we had no other choice,’ Sowers said.” [Courtney Mabeus, Frederick News-Post; earlier here, etc.] […]

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/05/a-trap-for-small-business-welcome-baltimore-sun-readers/comment-page-1/#comment-159914 Wed, 30 May 2012 15:47:52 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=30116#comment-159914 Structuring laws are for the “little people.”

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