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US Supreme Court revives Corporate Transparency Act to regulate money-laundering

JURIST

The US Supreme Court issued a temporary nationwide stay Thursday that revived the Corporate Transparency Act , which regulates money laundering by requiring small businesses to register with the United States Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

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US Supreme Court rules that federal government can be liable under Fair Credit Reporting Act

JURIST

Credit reports and scores can determine everything from where a person lives to where she works to whether her small business survives. Congress enacted FCRA out of a recognition that the health of the national economy depends on fair and accurate credit reporting.

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Can I Register a Disparaging Trademark?

L4SB

appeared first on Law 4 Small Business, P.C. The post Can I Register a Disparaging Trademark?

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A Letter of Closure for All the Right Reasons

Attorney at Work

Among those who don’t use them, the excuses I hear include, “We do a lot of flat-fee, in-and-out kinds of things (simple wills or small business formations) and the effort simply isn’t worth it.” The doctrine of continuous representation and its tolling of the statute of limitations in malpractice cases can also be a problem.

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California Statutes Authorizing Public-Private Partnership Contracting

Gravel2Gavel

With apologies to Small Business Administration practitioners, we use “PPP” in this article to refer to the infrastructure tool.). They can be challenging arrangements to structure. (As As a result of the pandemic, they have even suffered the indignity of having their “PPP” acronym coopted by the Paycheck Protection Program.

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Pandemic Fraud Cases So Far Top $1B

The Crime Report

About 50 agents in a Small Business Administration office are sorting through two million potentially fraudulent loan applications. The federal government has already charged 1,500 people with defrauding pandemic-aid programs, and more than 450 people have been convicted so far.

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Justices to consider tribal immunity from bankruptcy process

SCOTUSBlog

Second, courts will read federal statutes to abrogate that immunity only when they speak to the point “unequivocal[ly].” The Band’s argument is simple: the statute never mentions Indian tribes. Because it doesn’t mention Indian tribes, the Band contends that the statute does not unequivocally extend to them.

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