"The move is a total and complete capitulation by the SEC in suing companies for unregistered offers of investment contracts that happen to trade on blockchain," said Amanda Fischer, the policy director for Better Markets and former chief of staff at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

       

The state provided a pathway for non-lawyer ownership of law firms before neighboring Arizona, but regulators have gone in a different direction.

       

Many international students and scholars are reporting “significant emotional distress that is affecting their mental health and making it difficult to focus on their studies, Maureen Martin wrote, adding that some are afraid to attend their graduation ceremonies this week, fearing that some immigration-related action might take place.

       

Florida appellate judges denied a stay in a lawsuit involving President Donald Trump as plaintiff, ruling that the defendants cannot invoke presidential privileges to pause the proceedings.

       

Kieran Gostin, a Wilkinson Stekloff partner who handled oral arguments for Visa, argued that there was “tension in the DOJ's alleged market, which Visa maintains omitted key participants. But U.S. District Judge John Koeltl for the Southern District of New York expressed doubts that the market definition issue could be resolved on a motion to dismiss.        

“Harvard is one of our nation's most important institutions, and when an institution has problems, I believe the solution is to work constructively to fix the problems, while holding true to its foundational commitment to academic excellence, Shanmugam said.

       

In a brief order that lacked a legal explanation, the circuit paused the U.S. Court of International Trade's late Wednesday decision rebuking a series of presidential orders that collectively instituted a baseline 10% duty rate on imports from nearly all countries, as well as higher duties for dozens of U.S. trading partners.

       

"There's a tendency to get caught up in, I've got a really great discount, so it's all good,'” said Chris Ochs, vice president of legal operations for UnitedLex.

       

Elected judges could be loyal to political parties, or even criminal groups, as the country scraps merit-based appointments in the judicial system.

       

Plaintiff T. Craig Travis is asking the court to consider setting aside a judge's order dismissing his defamation suit, claiming the judge did not follow judicial ethics and failed disclose his conflict of interest with the case or his association with two North Carolina politicians.

       

The lawyer scored a victory, clearing the billionaire's name and paving the way for "many millions of dollars" in attorney fees.

       

But rather than fully retire, 84-year-old Andrew Hedden is transitioning to senior counselor.

       

The justices said a federal appeals court erroneously blocked the approval of a railroad line from Utah's Uinta Basin to the national freight rail network, overriding concerns that a federal environmental review was inadequate.

       

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More than half a dozen federal judges in California and Illinois, where most of the cases have been filed, have dismissed microplastics lawsuits outright.

       

The U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump's “unbounded tariffs on virtually all global imports.

       

Many hailed the case as potentially precedent-setting and important for content creators and copyright law.

       

Shira Perlmutter has filed suit seeking to reverse her termination as head of the U.S. Copyright Office, arguing the position falls under the legislative branch of government, not the executive.

       

Former Paul Hastings CIO Allan Lamkin said he hopes to collaborate with other organizations and improve client interactions as Harbor's new CTO.

       

TaskUs was accused by plaintiff Nelson Estrada of failing to protect the personally identifying information of Coinbase users, and of failing to immediately inform account holders of the breach, which Estrada alleged was known to TaskUs and Coinbase as early as January 2025.