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09/04/2019

https://tomeilawfirm.com/2019/09/04/top-10-real-estate-attorney-tips-for-selling-a-home/

Thinking of selling your home? Click to check out this article on the top ten tips you need to know before selling your home from a lawyer’s perspective

08/13/2018

Bankruptcy rates among older Americans increasing drastically. More below.

A perfect economic storm has been brewing for quite some time for a certain segment of our population: the senior class. As it turns out, since 1991, that storm has precipitated a 204% increase in bankruptcy filings among Americans between the ages of 65 to 74. Yes, that’s right, a 204% increase i...

09/20/2017

Everything you need to know to properly protect yourself from the recent Equifax data breach, courtesy of the National Consumer Law Center. It's a relatively short article, please give it a read if you are unsure on how to proceed.

Determining Whether the Client Has Been Affected It is very likely that any client with a credit history is one of the 143 million adult Americans whose personal information was exposed in a data breach at Equifax, one of the three major nationwide credit reporting agencies. Equifax has stated that…

09/08/2017

Some of you may have seen something in news about one of the three major credit reporting agencies suffering a catastrophic security breach in which potentially hundreds of millions of consumers' personally identifying information, including dates of birth and social security numbers, has been compromised. Thanks, Equifax. Now, in an attempt to address the issue, Equifax has gratuitously agreed to remediate any potential blow back from this event by offering free credit and identity theft monitoring. What Equifax is not telling you, is that in the fine print, if you agree to this service, you are waiving your right to sue Equifax individually or join in on a class action suit (one has already been filed in Federal Court in Oregon). A dear friend and mentor of mine once admonished me and my colleagues to always exercise "close and careful reading." When it comes to your consumer rights, a very complicated area of law, this could not be more true. Stay vigilant, my friends and always remember, when it comes to consumer rights, I am always here to help.

Equifax may be steering consumers into agreeing not to sue it after a massive cybersecurity breach on September 7th.

06/28/2016

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04/19/2016

Moving violation recently? Check this out -
http://www.tomeilawfirm.com/blog/the-unintended-and-often-overlooked-negative-consequences-of-moving-traffic-violations.aspx

In the very near future, perhaps even on your commute home from work this evening, when you find yourself nonchalantly rolling through a stop sign, or going 4

02/19/2016

New Blog on Bankruptcy Protection is up!

http://www.tomeilawfirm.com/blog/the-bankruptcy-automatic-stay-injunction--a-powerful-tool-for-the-honest-but-unfortunate-debtor.aspx

If you are being hounded by creditors with incessant telephone calls, you are seeing collection letters piling up, and you are having trouble seeing light at th

03/21/2013

I wonder how Anita felt about this, not only did she lose this argument, but she ended up costing Crook, oh excuse me, Cook County over $600,000 attempting to advocate her inexcusably myopic position on this issue as well. For an in depth analysis of the Illinois Eavesdropping Act, please review my article:http://www.niu.edu/law/organizations/law_review/pdfs/full_issues/32_2/Tomei%20final%206.pdf

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-cook-county-aclu-settlement-0321-20130321,0,2402817.story

The Cook County Board on Wednesday agreed to pay $646,000 to cover the legal tab incurred by the American Civil Liberties Union in fighting a state law banning people from audio-recording police on the job, a ban defended all the way to the nation's top court by State's Attorney Anita Alvarez.

03/17/2013

Federal Agents actually have to seek Judicial approval in order to force telecommunication providers to release information about their customers. And they can't administer gag orders prohibiting the providers from notifying the public and or their customers about the release of information. Who would have thought?

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/national-security-letters-are-unconstitutional-federal-judge-rules

San Francisco - A federal district court judge in San Francisco has ruled that National Security Letter (NSL) provisions in federal law violate the Constitution. The decision came in a lawsuit challenging a NSL on behalf of an unnamed telecommunications company represented by the Electronic Frontier...

03/05/2013

IMPORTANT INFORMATION CONCERNING YOUR RIGHTS:

DID YOU KNOW that if a debt collector violates certain federal and state consumer protection laws, you can turn the tables and file a lawsuit against them!! Examples of illegal actions can include harassment, calling a neighbor or relative and discussing the debt with them, contacting your employer, threatening jail time and threatening wage garnishment, among other things.

In fact, to make it even better, these state and federal consumer protection laws allow for recovery of reasonable attorney fees. This means that you can file a suit against a creditor for violating your rights without spending a dime on attorney's fees!Think about that, you end up with a free attorney if you have a consumer rights violation claim. The debt collector pays my fee, or I simply do not get paid.

Please contact me if you have been suffering from creditor harassment to explore whether or not you have a viable cause of action. http://tomeilawfirm.com/Contact_Us.html

Tomei Law is based in Gurnee, Illinois. Tomei Law helps individuals, families and businesses obtain affordable Foreclosure and Bankruptcy relief under current state law and Federal Law, serving Lake County Illinois and the communities of Antioch, Beach Park, Gages Lake, Grayslake, Gurnee, Fox Lake,...

03/04/2013

If you are in need of legal representation, my office may be of some assistance. The following is a list of practice areas I am currently engaged in: (1) Foreclosure Defense; (2) Bankruptcy and Creditor Harassment Protection, (3) Real Estate Closings, (4) Real Estate Tax Appeals, (5) Estate Planning, (6) Traffic Ticket Representation, and (7) Personal Injury. Please visit my "practice areas" page, linked below, for further information.
http://tomeilawfirm.com/practice-areas.html

Tomei Law is based in Gurnee, Illinois. Tomei Law helps individuals, families and businesses obtain affordable Foreclosure and Bankruptcy relief under current state law and Federal Law, serving Lake County Illinois and the communities of Antioch, Beach Park, Gages Lake, Grayslake, Gurnee, Fox Lake,...

02/20/2013

In a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the Court carried on a long standing federal government tradition of shearing away at the individual protections granted under the Fourth Amendment. In Florida v. Harris, at issue was whether or not the State was required to abide by a checklist of evidentiary requirements in order to establish probable cause for a vehicle search, as the Florida Supreme Court had held. In Florida, the State must document each drug sniffing dog’s success rate in order to establish probable cause for a Fourth Amendment search.

In a not so surprising, but nevertheless alarming unanimous decision, the Court overruled the Florida Supreme Court’s decision. Citing the importance of flexibility in “probable cause” analyses, Justice Kagan opined “We have rejected rigid rules, bright-line tests, and mechanistic inquiries in favor of a more flexible, all-things-considered approach.” She went on to state that Florida’s “strict evidentiary checklist” is “the antithesis of a totality-of-the-circumstances analysis.”

“Totality of the circumstances” tests are appropriate in many areas of the law, e.g., in the family law context, when a court must determine which parent to grant custody to, it is best to consider all facts a given situation. When it comes to Fourth Amendment individual liberties however, a “totality of the circumstances” analysis serves as little more than a fig leaf. Such “flexible, all-things-considered approaches” to Fourth Amendment inquiries are designed to make you think there is oversight for government overstepping when there is really nothing more there than a rubber stamp.

The “war on drugs,” much like the “war on terror”, are the exceptions to the Constitution. As one officer stated to me not so long ago, with a supercilious grin I might add, “There is always probable cause.” Are the means and methods utilized to address the drug problem, i.e., the militarization of police forces, the death blow to Fourth Amendment protections, truly justified? When the very fabric of our Constitutional Republic is compromised, maybe not.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-817_5if6.pdf