McCaskill, who is the state auditor, ran and lost a race for governor a couple of years back, and her loss was attributed to the fact that she didn't do that well in the rural out-state Missouri.
In states like Mississippi, which respondents to ATRA's survey described as particularly hostile to class-action defendants, local business defendants often have a home-field advantage, whereas other states like New Jersey--home to many of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, and highlighted as a bad place for them to get sued--treat in-state defendants as roughly as out-of-state defendants.
Monday the Court considers whether to treat in-state and out-of-state municipal bonds differently for income tax purposes.
We continually hear of superior resident students being rejected by in-State universities and being forced to attend out-of-State schools.
If you have children in college, do you pay in-state or out-of-state tuition?
One of best-kept secrets in college admissions this coming year is that many top state universities will be admitting more out-of-state applicants than they ever have.
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The subject of Egan's rant is a bill the Senate is considering that would require online retailers to collect state sales taxes on out-of-state purchases.
The effort irritates out-of-state dealers who point out (rightly), that lobsters caught in New Hampshire or Nova Scotia are indistinguishable from ones trapped in Maine.
"There are at least two types of problematic local-lawsuit cultures, the ones where the lawsuits mostly target in-state defendants like doctors and local governments, and the ones where it's mostly out-of-state defendants, " says Olson.
Possible trial venues could be in the western part of the state, in Worcester or Springfield, or possibly out-of-state in neighboring Rhode Island or New Hampshire.
It is designed in part to promote fairness between in-state retailers who are required to report and remit tax, and some out-of-state retailers who are not.
The bills primarily differ in what a state would have to do to be allowed to collect sales tax from out-of-state vendors and the size of the de minimus rule to exempt small vendors from collection.
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While both candidates are relying heavily on in-state volunteers, the Democratic efforts seem to have attracted a larger number of out-of-state workers as well.
And when a fellow black Democrat, state court judge Denise Majette, jumped into the 2002 race, Majette got a lot of out-of-state money, much of it from the Jewish community.
The estimated total cost of attendance for out-of-state students living on campus in 2011-2012.
For example, at the University of Illinois last year, fully 27% of its freshman came from out-of-state.
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In one of its current spots a haggard-looking single mom argues with a deadbeat dad who's moving out-of-state.
Schrader also ran attack ads linking Fitzpatrick to a trash-hauling company that dumped out-of-state garbage in Bucks County.
The DMA plans to take its message--that sales tax reporting and collection is still too complicated for out-of-state firms--to Capitol Hill.
Many California businesses have argued that forcing reductions in carbon emissions through a cap-and-trade platform will cause industry to move out-of-state.
And if they did, this hair-brained idea might actually encourage Marylanders to spend more of their money out-of-state rather than at home.
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But some governors and state legislators don't like this system because many states don't bother imposing any tax on sales to out-of-state consumers.
Previously, wineries such as Californian firm Lucas Winery - which was among those to challenge the law - could not sell direct to out-of-state consumers from 24 states.
To lessen the burden--and strengthen their argument for out-of-state collections--last November representatives of 31 states endorsed a compact to simplify and standardize their sales tax systems.
In the 1980s, the New York revenue officers raided a high-end jewelry store that was enabling customers with out-of-state addresses to avoid state sales tax on big-ticket items.
Your list can include community colleges, state universities, institutions offering two-year degree programs, private colleges (regardless of sticker price), colleges close to home and colleges away from home, even out-of-state.
Ms. BIONDOLILLO: I guess it was around November, we got a call from - and it was actually an insurance company out-of-state, they wanted to know if this individual was really injured or not.
When you enter the state via the interstate highway, the signs that usually announce road conditions now flash thank-yous to the out-of-state power crews that came to the rescue of Maine and other New England states.
Mitt Romney, the slash-and-burn governor of Massachusetts, has raised hackles in academia by proposing to privatise, in large part, three campuses at the University of Massachusetts, to revamp its Amherst flagship campus with money from more out-of-state students and most heretically to do away with the office of the university president (currently occupied by one of his political foes).
The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board, a self-regulatory body that reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission, has proposed rules that would require brokers to ask clients about the importance of state tax benefits, explain a client's direct-sold in-state plan for comparison purposes, and determine what is most suitable for the client--instead of just pushing broker-sold out-of-state plans that might carry higher commissions for them.
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