JURIST

APRIL 5, 2024

New York Supreme Court Judge Kevin Bryant invalidated Thursday the state’s laws regulating the marketing of recreational cannabis, clarifying a ruling that appeared to strike down all cannabis regulations as unconstitutionally vague.

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JURIST

AUGUST 30, 2024

The union representing workers from Canada’s two largest rail companies filed a court challenge against a labour board order requiring them to return to work. The railroads don’t care about farmers, small businesses, supply chains, or their own employees.

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SCOTUSBlog

JUNE 3, 2021

Share A group of Alabama real estate agents asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to block a federal moratorium on evictions that was imposed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit left the stay in place, leading to Thursday’s filing. The case is Alabama Association of Realtors v.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 25, 2011

The recent decision of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals which overturned the FCC's 2007 rulings on newspaper-broadcast cross ownership and on diversity initiatives, took an unexpected turn today. Given the potential for some entities to suffer greatly by this ruling, look for appeals to be filed. Is this really in the public interest?

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

GK: Sticking up for your IP rights can be a challenge for a small business owner. When someone tries to take that away, especially through bad-faith tactics, its not just about business for me. What has driven you to say you need to stand up for your company’s rights? It is about setting a precedent.

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Supreme Court. Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals. . This offers a much better profit for small businesses. I use them as an outlet to spread news and information while getting an incredible amount of new business. She is admitted in all 58 U.S. Being Creative.

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Patently O

MARCH 16, 2025

The Supreme Court has denied BMC Software's petition for writ of certiorari -- formalizing the Fifth Circuit decision that nullified a $1.6 The appellate court had overturned the district court's breach of contract finding and its subsequent large damages award. billion judgment against IBM.

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Parasec

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

District Court for the Eastern District of Texas inSmith, et al. Additionally, FinCEN plans to revise beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting rules this year to reduce compliance burdens for lower-risk entities, including many small businesses. With the February 18, 2025, decision by the U.S. 6:24-cv-00336 (E.D.

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JURIST

JULY 25, 2024

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights previously ruled against Ecuador in Paola Guzmán Albarracín v. He stressed that limited employment options, coupled with poor education, have made young people, “easy recruits for criminal gangs” which subsequently extort small businesses and create fear and despair in the community.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 15, 2021

Another is that it would turn any existing court judgment into a lien on a person’s home, automatically and retroactively. The Phoenix organization predicts a “significant amount of litigation in both Arizona courts and federal courts” and potential “chaos” in Arizona’s bankruptcy system.

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JURIST

MAY 19, 2022

US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Tuesday ordered that Dish Network Corp. The court found that a lower court decision to dismiss the case against Dish was wrong. A lower court found that the action against Dish was barred by a government-action bar. The DC Circuit reversed the lower court.

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Intelligize Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The rule requires businesses to provide additional information that the FTC said is necessary to help it determine which deals will require in-depth antitrust investigations or the issuance of second requests. That kind of alignment indicates the commissioners feel confident the new rules will hold up in court.

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Attorney at Work

JULY 12, 2022

Oddly enough, even those who assist their small business owner clients with their succession planning are as unfamiliar with planning for their own as lawyers in other practice areas. Unfortunately, a court clerk can’t tell you the precise timing of a succession plan. “There’s no hard-and-fast deadline.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Dinner theater company Medieval Times on Wednesday accused the Small Business Administration of stiffing it on tens of millions of dollars in pandemic relief, claiming in several suits filed in D.C. federal court that the agency doled out grants to its direct competitors but refused to help Medieval Times.

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The Estrin Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Supreme Court. Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals. This offers a much better profit for small businesses. I use them as an outlet to spread news and information while getting an incredible amount of new business. She is admitted in all 58 U.S. Being Creative.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

Gibbs — Our last post on small business certification requests described how small medical device manufacturers, defined as those with gross receipts of less than $100 million in gross receipts and sales for the most recent tax year, are eligible for a reduced fee on those medical device submissions that require a user fee.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

And, for small businesses, including small law firms, a traditional office space (including a lease), is largely unnecessary. Even as larger companies begin to prompt their workers to be back in the office for a settled number of days each week, that doesn’t mean they’re not supporting an unnecessary expense.

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JURIST

JANUARY 13, 2021

Chairman and CEO of Visa Al Kelly said that while the company was “confident” it would have prevailed in court because “Plaid’s capabilities are complementary to Visa’s, not competitive,” “protracted and complex litigation” would “likely take substantial time to fully resolve.”

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 23, 2022

The “protector of athletes” represents pro athletes from the NFL, MLS, NBA-G League, Pro-Table Tennis sports, and high net-worth small business owners, creatives and employees. Are you going to take the initiative and schedule your court dates or client meetings? Five Things You Need to Become a Top Lawyer.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 3, 2021

The CARES Act also modified provisions of the Small Business Reorganization Act (SBRA), which became effective in February, 2020 and which enacted a new Chapter 11 Subchapter V that was intended to allow small businesses to reorganize more quickly and less expensively. These changes expire on December 27, 2021.

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Diane Drain

APRIL 16, 2022

When tax refunds are accessed by a bankruptcy trustee, roughly one-third of the money on average will go to pay court administration costs and the rest to reduce debts, he estimated. See the Professional Fee Report from the Bankruptcy Court. Bankruptcy Trustees are fighting hard to kill the bill. Why do they care? Excerpts below).

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Diane Drain

DECEMBER 31, 2020

It is possible that these interpretations of the new Act will change with new legislation or court decisions, so never assume what you read one day will be interpreted the same way the next day. If the debtor fails to modify his plan, the bankruptcy court (on its own motion), the U.S. A brief description of the amendments follows.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

For more on these reforms, see: Breaking: In Historic Vote, Utah Supreme Court Approves Sweeping Changes in Legal Services Regulation and Arizona Is First State To Eliminate Ban On Nonlawyer Ownership Of Law Firms.). Not surprisingly, technology is a critical element in innovation of legal services delivery.

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Law 360

JULY 29, 2024

Several small-business associations in Utah became the latest group to challenge the Corporate Transparency Act's disclosure requirements, telling a federal court Monday the statute violates several constitutional provisions, including the guarantee of due process.

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Mondaq

JUNE 15, 2022

On June 2, the FTC was granted a federal court order permanently barring a merchant cash advance operation and its owner from engaging in further deceptive practices and.

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Law 360

JULY 26, 2024

government has failed to show how the Corporate Transparency Act meets narrow exceptions to the Fourth Amendment's search warrant requirements, a group of small businesses told a Michigan federal court Friday in contending that the statute is unconstitutional.

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Law 360

AUGUST 26, 2024

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau landed an early win Monday in an industry-backed challenge to its reporting requirements for small business lenders, with a Texas federal judge finding the rule "is much more modest than plaintiffs would lead the court to believe."

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Law 360

APRIL 23, 2024

Small Business Administration over a $10 million COVID-19 relief grant, filing a new suit in D.C. federal court accusing the SBA of leaving the team in "bureaucratic hell" rather than forking over the money it's entitled to. The Harlem Globetrotters on Monday renewed their yearslong fight with the U.S.

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Intelligize Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

We’re not talking about the Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created through IVF are children , but another recent decision. This one , by an Alabama federal court, found the Corporate Transparency Act to be unconstitutional. And like other recent legal challenges, it has placed the business community in a state of limbo.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Estimates say some 60 percent of small business owners deal with legal problems without the assistance of a lawyer, and countless middle-income Americans go without legal help. By contrast, at the ITC conference, the attendees come mostly from the ranks of legal aid offices, pro-bono programs, court self-help staff, and the like.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 19, 2023

The FTC also announced that it would issue a 6(b) order to five business credit reporting agencies (Dun & Bradstreet, Experian Information Solutions, Equifax, Ansonia Credit Data, and Creditsafe USA) requesting information on how they collect and report data about small businesses, and how they market their business credit reporting products.

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Law 360

AUGUST 11, 2023

The banking industry's fight against new small business loan reporting requirements issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau expanded on Friday to a second lawsuit, this time brought in Kentucky federal court by banks from the Bluegrass State.

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Law 360

AUGUST 22, 2023

Eight Kentucky-based banks and the Kentucky Bankers Association on Tuesday asked a federal court to block the implementation and enforcement of new small business loan reporting requirements issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, pointing to compliance costs they say are a burden.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JULY 8, 2011

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has once again questioned the FCC's determinations on broadcast ownership issues. In a decision just published, Prometheus Radio Project v FCC , the Court reviewed the FCC's 2007 actions relaxing the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership rules and adopting policies to increase diversity in broadcast ownership.

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2011

As we wrote last month , the Court found that the FCC's goal was to promote minority and female ownership, which was not fostered by its concentration on small businesses.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Employees that work in the Rideau Centre, and nearby small businesses and their employees, have been losing significant income. In response to the ongoing occupation, the City of Ottawa is now petitioning the Ontario Superior Court for its own injunction for repeated violations of its by-laws. on Saturday.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Bankruptcy Court under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code, which provides a way for companies to reorganize and keep their businesses operating while paying off creditors over time. The module adds filters for cases involving business debtors, voluntary petitions and confirmed plans, according to Lex Machina.

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