Deaton Prepares to Fight for SEC vs. Ripple Case’s Clarity From Courts

John E Deaton tweeted that the court would bring the SEC-Ripple case clarity. Deaton added that he is prepared to fight for the lawsuit’s clarity in court. The lawyer’s tweet was in response to Terret...

Courts Firefighters’ Union Ahead Of California Fundraising Trip

Topline President Joe Biden courted a firefighters’ union and early 2020 endorser on Monday and plans to fundraise in California next week—the latest signs the president is setting the stage for a re-...

Supreme Court’s Ruling can Favor Ripple against the SEC

Ripple and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have been involved in a legal brawl since December 2020. Ripple says the decision might favor it. The court papers of Friday by Ripple Labs Inc....

Supreme Court’s Conservative Majority Wary Of Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan

Topline The Supreme Court’s conservative justices questioned the legality of President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program Tuesday, as the court heard arguments in two cases from plaintiffs s...

Blockchain Association Rejects Court’s Securities Ruling on Private Blockchains

Following the decision of a federal judge to allow a lawsuit against Dapper Labs’ NBA Top Shot nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to go forward, the chief legal officer of the Blockchain Association stat...

The Supreme Court’s Google Case Has Free Speech On The Line

Seattle, USA – Aug 19, 2019 Getty Key Takeaways Google is being brought before the Supreme Court in a case that could upend Big Tech’s immunity from its content moderation approach There are sup...

China’s Newest Weapon to Nab Western Technology—Its Courts

The growing conflict between China and the U.S. extends from computer-chip factories to a suspected spy balloon over American skies. Running through it all is a struggle for technological superiority....

Wyoming lawmakers pass bill prohibiting courts from forcing disclosure of digital asset

The legislature in Wyoming recently approved a measure that, with one tiny exception, would make it illegal for judges in the state to compel individuals to provide the secret keys to their digital as...

Coinbase will ‘happily defend’ staking in US courts, says CEO

Crypto exchange Coinbase’s executives are standing up for its crypto staking services, claiming it cannot be classified as a security, and threatening to bring the matter to the courts in the Un...

Kyle Davies has time to launch crypto exchange but not to answer courts

Three Arrows Capital founder Kyle Davies made “only piecemeal disclosures” and refused to cooperate with investigations into the now-bankrupt hedge fund, according to a recent court filing.  According...

Anti-Piracy Partners Head To The Courts, As U.S. Businessman Sues Gulf Lawyer

New York County Supreme Court. New York getty A former U.S. Army Special Forces member is suing one of the most high-profile lawyers in the Gulf and seeking $67 million in damages, over allegations th...

Vauld’s Creditor Protection Extended: Singapore Court’s Response to Failed Nexo Deal

Creditor protection is extended for cryptocurrency lender Vauld until February 28. In comparison to the requested April 21, the extension is shorter. The Singapore Court recently extended creditor pro...

Paxos Courts MakerDAO With Paying Yield for Holding Up to $1.5B USDP Stablecoin

USDP is a dollar-pegged stablecoin one-to-one backed by cash and cash-equivalent U.S. government debt instruments, according to independent attestations. Both Paxos and USDP are regulated by the New Y...

Albertsons to finally pay out special dividend, which has been delayed by courts

Shares of Albertsons Companies Inc. ACI, -0.24% jumped 2.0% in premarket trading Thursday, to buck the selloff in the broader market, after the grocery chain, which has agreed to be acquired by Kroger...

Supreme Court’s Probe Into Leaked Roe V. Wade Opinion Narrows To “Small Number”

Topline Supreme Court investigators reportedly narrowed their investigation into the monumental leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft majority opinion in favor of overturning Roe V. Wade last May, whic...

Iran Returns Confiscated Crypto Mining Hardware After Courts Ruling

3 hours ago | 2 mins read Bitcoin News Tavanir, a state-owned utility, has been disconnecting electricity to illicit mining sites. Licenses and import permissions for mining may be obtained from the M...

BlockFi Seeks Court’s Permission to Resume Certain Customer Withdrawals 

BlockFi was among the top crypto lenders before it filed for bankruptcy.  The US bankruptcy court will hold a hearing on the plea on January 6, 2023.  BlockFi has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy prote...

Prosecutors Who Grossly Violate The Constitution Must Be Held Accountable

Attorney Felix Vinluan and the Filipino nurses he provided legal advice to. Institute for Justice When attorney Felix Vinluan heard how a local nursing home provider was treating Filipino nurses, he w...

Courts orders the CFTC to serve lawsuit to Ooki DAO’s original founders

U.S. District Judge William Orrick has ordered the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to serve its Ooki DAO lawsuit to Tom Bean and Kyle Kistner, who were the original founders of the defunct...

NFTs are protected by property laws: Chinese courts rule

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are legally-recognized property, according to one Chinese court. According to a recent local report, the Hangzhou Court of China stated that NFTs feature value, scarcity, co...

Seoul court rejects prosecution’s move to detain Terraform Labs execs: Yonhap

The Seoul Southern District Court has dismissed the prosecutors’ warrants for arrest of several leading figures in Terraform Labs, according to South Korean news outlet Yonhap.  Prosecutor...

Mall Food Courts Are Dying

Photo by David Butow/Corbis SABA (Photo by David Butow/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images The retail industry is changing, and those changes are affecting more than just the traditional ...

Several Kentucky supreme court justices sound skeptical of near-total abortion ban

Several Kentucky supreme court justices on Tuesday sounded skeptical of the state’s abortion ban, one of the most restrictive in the U.S., during oral arguments in a case that will decide whethe...

Recreational marijuana legalization is on the ballot in these states

A recreational marijuana smoker indulges in smoking weed on April 14, 2020 in the Bushwick section of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Bruce Bennett | Getty Images Voters in a handful of states ...

The crypto industry fights regulators in the courts: Law Decoded, Oct. 10–17

Perhaps one of the most captivating signs of the industry’s maturity is the increasing amount of court cases in which crypto companies fight back against perceived regulatory abuses. Last week saw som...

DIFC Courts delivers Tejouri the GDV constructed on Hedera

The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts conducted an exclusive launching exercise at GITEX Global. This was in terms of the deliverance of Tejouri and a Global Digital Vault constructed...

Billy Eichner Courts Controversy On Twitter After ‘Bros’ Box Office Bomb

Billy Eichner attends the premiere of Universal Pictures’s “Bros” at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on … [+] September 20, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Imag...

Supreme Court’s Inaction On Labor-Law Class Actions Instigates Flight Of Airline Attendants’ Base From California

DALLAS, TEXAS – DECEMBER 8, 2018: American Airlines passenger jets parked at their gates on a rainy … [+] morning at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport which serves the Dallas/Fort Wo...

Urbit Courts DAOs, Crypto Teams in Quest to Make Internet P2P Again

The new startups have raised millions of dollars, which again might sound like chump change from a crypto perspective, but was “unthinkable until about a year ago,” said Ted Galebach, founder of Uqbar...

Bankruptcy Courts Are Good At Adjudicating Tort Claims

Economists tend to view tort law differently than lawyers—or state attorney generals—and this difference explains both the advent of bankruptcy trusts in adjudicating class action liability claims and...

SEC Seeks Court’s Permission To Exclude Ripple Expert Testimonies

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a request to submit one lengthy reply for excluding the Defendants’ Expert Witnesses. The watchdog is putting all its efforts to restrict Ri...

Grayscale CLO on taking their bitcoin ETF rejection to the courts

Episode 78 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Aislinn Keely and Craig Salm, Chief Legal Officer at Grayscale. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple, Spot...