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Weekly Trade Update: August 24-28, 2026
OFAC Makes Iran-related Updates to SDN ListThe Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) took additional actions as part of “Operation Economic Outcast”, the Administration’s sanctions campaign against Iran. OFAC announced the...
Join Jeff Birdsong at the FTA Motor Fuels Annual Meeting in Washington, DC
Join Jeff Birdsong, a partner on the state and local tax team in the New Orleans office, at the Federation of Tax Administrators (FTA) Motor Fuels Annual Meeting on September 4, 2026, at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC.Jeff’s presentation will focus...
Ninth Circuit Affirms Reclamation’s Central Valley Project Contract Conversions under the Water Infrastructure Investment for the Nation Act
On August 17, 2026, a unanimous panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a years-long challenge to the United States Bureau of Reclamation’s (“Reclamation”) conversion of certain federal water service contracts, granting a significant win...
Online bill payment company Doxo settles FTC complaint
Online bill payment company Doxo will pay $2.1 million to settle an FTC complaint that alleged that the firm and two of its co-founders used misleading search advertising to impersonate consumers’ billers and misled consumers about junk fees they added to their...
The Briefing: Who Owns the Photo? Moore v. Daily Mail and the Limits of Copyright
Source: YouTubeSummaryIn this episode of The Briefing, Weintraub Tobin partners Scott Hervey and Richard D. Buckley, Jr. break down Moore v. Daily Mail, a new class action alleging the publication copied photos from social media without permission and falsely credited...
Law Department 2.0
Last year, Law Firm 2.0, or the reimagined law firm, was a big topic at the TLTF Summit. Now, even AI-native law firms are part of the vernacular, designed from scratch around AI technology. Venture capital is flowing into firms built from the ground up, and existing...
Teenage Law Grad Thinks Getting A Tax LLM Will Be A ‘Little Vacation’
Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. I think it’ll be fun. I like tax, so I think it’s going to be like a little vacation. — Jimmy Chilimigras, who recently graduated from Loyola University New Orleans College of Law at the age of 18, in...
Trump Trollsuit Against New York Times Damages Trollsuit Against IRS
Donald Trump has amended his defamation trollsuit against the New York Times. Now instead of being 40 pages of incoherent gobbledygook, it’s 62 pages of incoherent gobbledygook. But don’t worry, he’s still seeking just $15 billion in damages. No...
Oracle Helped Kneecap Section 230, Then Bought 15% Of A Company That Needs It.
Six years ago, when Trump first tried to force ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations to his billionaire buddy Larry Ellison at Oracle, we wondered if this would finally get Oracle to change its tune on Section 230. While not as widely known outside...