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Court Decisions Further Complicates Crypto Regulation

Intelligize Blog

The Securities and Exchange Commission has suffered yet another loss on a cryptocurrency issue in court, adding more upheaval to the messy process of building a new regulatory regime from scratch. The latest legal setback came in the form of a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Would-be reformers such as Sen.

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Resignations, Refusals Mount as Cops Resist Vaccine Mandates

The Crime Report

In response to Massachusetts Gov. The report from Massachusetts is the latest troubling development in the growing opposition from law enforcement and other first responders to required vaccinations. COVID-19 is now the leading killer of law enforcement officers in the U.S.,

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Questions Remain After Mass. Adverse Possession Case

Law 360

A recent Massachusetts Land Court decision, concerning an adverse possession claim on a family company-owned property, leaves open questions about potential applicability to closely held corporations and other ownership types going forward, says Brad Hickey at DarrowEverett.

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JetBlue-Spirit Ruling Casts Uncertainty Over Airline Deals

Law 360

A Massachusetts federal court decision blocking JetBlue and Spirit Airlines' proposed merger sends a chilling message to dealmakers contemplating airline combinations, joint ventures or code-share agreements, raising questions about what airline industry growth strategies wouldn't trigger antitrust enforcers' alarm bells, experts say.

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Event Tomorrow Marks the End of Commercial Restrictions on the Caselaw Access Project that Digitized All U.S. Case Law

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court decisions freely available to the public in a standardized digital format. Green of the Massachusetts Court of Appeals. The project initially received financial support from legal research startup Ravel Law. After LexisNexis acquired Ravel in 2017, it continued that support. The goal was to make all published U.S.

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Justices will weigh district courts’ discretion under major 2018 sentencing-reform law

SCOTUSBlog

Last year, the Supreme Court trimmed the scope of that law, unanimously ruling that one of its reforms does not apply to certain low-level crack-cocaine offenders. Some courts look solely at the revised statutory penalties for crack cocaine to decide whether a new sentence is warranted. The justices will now decide which factors count.

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Feds Say High Court Ruling Can't Nix Russian's Hack Verdict

Law 360

Federal prosecutors have told a Massachusetts federal court that a Russian national convicted of orchestrating a $90 million hack-and-trade scheme can't use a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to show that his case should have been brought in a different venue.