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Mootness, maps, and motor vehicles
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here.After two weeks without a conference, the justices return Friday to a relist lineup with a distinctly...
Justices to consider compensation standard for eminent domain on interstate pipelines
The argument next week in Hoffman v WBI Energy Transmission, Inc. should give the justices a break from the back-and-forth sniping in high-profile stay applications of the last several weeks as they consider a lower-stakes problem of statutory interpretation under the...
FCA PS26/22 ‘ESG ratings: final regime’
On 3 November 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Policy Statement 26/22 ‘ESG ratings: final regime’ (PS26/22).BackgroundOn 1 December 2025, the FCA published Consultation Paper 25/34 (CP25/34) on its proposed approach to Environmental,...
FCA PS26/21 ‘Streamlining the UK EMIR Intragroup Regime’
On 3 November 2026, the FCA published Policy Statement 26/21 ‘‘Streamlining the UK EMIR Intragroup Regime’ (PS26/21).BackgroundOn 5 November 2026, HM Treasury published a draft statutory instrument for technical comment, which set out proposals to...
PSD3 and PSR – Council of EU adopts texts at first reading
On 29 October 2026, the Council of the EU published statements on both the proposed Directive on payment services and electronic money services in the internal market (PSD3) and the proposed Regulation on payment services in the internal market (PSR) confirming that...
Landlord with Knowledge of Tenant’s Alleged Infringement Faces Contributory Trademark Liability
Toulabi v. Siddiqui, et al., No. 25 CV 9228, (N.D. Ill. Aug. 24, 2026) (Daniel, J.).Judge Daniel granted-in-part and denied-in-part defendants Siddiqui’s and TLC Consultants’ (“TLC”) Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss in this Lanham...
Contracts Blogs and Podcasts Update
From time to time, I like to catch up with the other contracts blogs and podcasts. There aren’t that many, and recently, worlds have collided, as Dave Hoffman, of Contracts Empire fame appeared on Kim Krawiec‘s Taboo Trades Podcast. That makes life a bit...
Okinawa, Tokyo to restart US military policy talks dormant since 2013
The recent indictment of a U.S. Marine in the killing of an Okinawan woman has helped revive high-level talks between Japan’s central government and Okinawa prefecture that have been dormant for more than a decade.
Taxing Teaching in India: Tax Considerations for Foreign Universities Operating in India
Summary: As foreign universities expand their presence in India through executive education, professional certifications and corporate learning programmes, the tax treatment of such receipts has become a critical issue. In this blog, we examine the Mumbai ITAT’s...