Law 360

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Virgin Islands mortgage company sued the territorial government for nearly $28 million in tax refunds, saying the government's offer to pay the money back over potentially eight years is unfair and would cost the public too much in interest.

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Mondaq

JULY 7, 2022

When the Legal Practitioners Act, 2015 (the "LPA") came into force in the British Virgin Islands (the "BVI"), it rewrote the rules governing the legal costs that parties to BVI court proceedings can recover.

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JURIST

JUNE 30, 2024

This exposure prompted international discussions on financial transparency and offshore banking regulations, highlighting the role of tax havens such as Panama and the British Virgin Islands. As the investigation deepened, it became clear that the corruption extended far beyond Brazil’s borders.

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Diane Drain

JANUARY 1, 2021

They are also part of a larger government effort, which also includes assistance from the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) and the United States Trustee Program, to address Nationstar’s alleged unlawful mortgage loan servicing practices. It also requires Nationstar to pay a $1.5

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Broadcast Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

The affiliates are concerned that the new rules might be read to apply to common forms of broadcast advertising and asked the FCC to clarify that these rules do not apply when a station sells time to advertisers in the normal course of business, no matter the duration of the advertisement.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

LT is a company incorporated in the Virgin Islands and registered in Australia as a foreign company. Governing Law. The contract was signed in Australia. Its Clause 10 provides. “

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Broadcast Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2014

We recently wrote about the Media Bureau’s release of a proposed form to be completed by television broadcasters to obtain government reimbursement for any fees spent changing a television channel as a result of the repacking of the television spectrum due to the incentive auction. Comments on that form are due on October 29. .

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Conflict of Laws

AUGUST 6, 2024

Virgin Islands. Because the enforcement of foreign money judgments has been governed by state law in the United States since 1938, and because the ULC has promulgated widely adopted uniform state legislation on this topic, the ULC argued that COCA should be implemented—at least in part—through state law.

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Fordham Law News

MARCH 24, 2021

Furthermore, as recently pointed out by a scholar, Delaware’s competition in the ‘incorporation’ business could come from offshore jurisdictions such as Bermuda, Cayman Islands, and British Virgin Islands, where shareholders’ rights are deteriorated to a level at which even derivative suits are constricted. [10].

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Conflict of Laws

MARCH 12, 2024

Just last December, Google reached a settlement in a multidistrict litigation involving all 50 states of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The settlement addressed issues very similar to those raised in this case, as explicitly outlined in the agreement.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. United States Virgin Islands Office of the Attorney General v.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 13, 2023

Below is my column in The Hill on continued scorched earth tactics of Democrats in attacking any witnesses raising free speech concerns over government censorship. For several years now, many Democratic members have embraced censorship on social media and resisted efforts to uncover government efforts to silence citizens.

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Conflict of Laws

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Meanwhile the Fifth Circuit enforced a forum selection clause in an insurance contract choosing British Virgin Island courts despite evidence that the claims stood little chance in those courts. Extraterritoriality The Supreme Court decided two important extraterritoriality cases. In Yegiazaryan v. In Bartlett v.

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Conflict of Laws

APRIL 25, 2024

5] In Three Arrows , the first defendant (‘defendant’) was a British Virgin Islands incorporated company (BVI) which was an investment fund trading and dealing in cryptocurrency. It was under liquidation proceedings in the BVI; its two liquidators were the second and third defendants in the Singapore proceedings.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 12, 2025

Government regulation of speech is content-based if a law applies to a particular type of speech because of the topic discussed or the idea or message expressed. ” Content-based restrictions must be narrowly tailored to serve a compelling government interest. ” We disagree. .”

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JonathanTurley

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Dan Goldman, a member of the House Weaponization of Government committee, caused yet another firestorm of controversy in declaring that the Hunter laptop may be a fake. As in past hearings, the Democrats opposed witnesses who tried to detail the growing evidence of a government-directed censorship system. Democrat Rep.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

JPMorgan Chase said Tuesday it will pay $75 million to settle a federal suit brought by the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands that alleged the bank processed over $1 billion for Jeffrey Epstein related to his sex trafficking activity between 2003 and 2019.

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Law 360

MAY 24, 2023

Former JPMorgan executive James "Jes" Staley can't shed the bank's accusations that he bears some responsibility for its relationship with the late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, a Manhattan federal judge decided one day after the bank laid blame for Epstein's crimes on the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Law 360

MARCH 9, 2023

JPMorgan Chase Bank NA must hand over documents from CEO Jamie Dimon in the lawsuit brought by the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands accusing the bank of aiding the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's decadeslong sex trafficking scheme, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled Thursday.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The Limetree Bay refinery, located on the US Virgin Island of St. The US Virgin Islands sued Hess in 2015 for “conspir[ing] to strip the facility’s assets in order to leave the government with claims against a broke, polluted and inoperable refinery.” Croix, has a history of harmful environmental practices.

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JonathanTurley

AUGUST 12, 2024

The administration also created offices like the Disinformation Governance Board before it was shut down after public outcry. Stacey Plaskett (D-Virgin Islands), declared , “I hope that [all members] recognize that there is speech that is not constitutionally protected,” and then referenced hate speech as an example.

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JonathanTurley

JULY 6, 2023

Every authoritarian government in history has justified censoring citizens because their views are harmful or false. Judge Doughty found that the two states “are likely to succeed on the merits in establishing that the government has used its power to silence the opposition.” Doughty was previously rebuked by the U.S.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 22, 2023

In my testimony, I warned that the government’s support of blacklists and censorship was reminiscent of the McCarthy period where the FBI targeted socialists, communists, and others. Virgin Islands Democrat Del. I encouraged Congress not to repeat its failures from the 1950s by turning a blind eye to such abuse.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 3, 2025

gave his infamous speech denouncing disloyal Americans working at the highest levels of our government. It was the defining moment for what became known as McCarthyism, which attacked citizens as dangerous and disloyal influences in government. Stacey Plaskett, the Democratic delegate representing the Virgin Islands in the U.S.

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