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FMLC response
On 27 July 2026, the Financial Markets Law Committee published: Correspondence on the Call for Input on the Future of Tokenisation in UK Wholesale Financial Markets. Correspondence on the draft Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) (Amendment)...
The Growing Business of Sports: A Tax Playbook Review
Source: YouTubeSummaryGet your popcorn ready because there is nothing more exciting than the intersection of sports and tax! As a former Division II athlete, the current state of college sports and Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) deals is fascinating. ...
Pump-and-Dump Securities Suit Adds to Growing Market Manipulation Litigation Trend
D&O Diary readers are aware of a growing trend over the past year: an increasing number of securities class actions arising from alleged market manipulation involving low-float public companies. These cases, ranging from pump-and-dump and spoofing schemes to stock...
Contract’s Silence on the Southwest Bank Sinks Differing Site Condition Claim
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently affirmed a decision of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals (ASBCA) denying a contractor’s differing site condition claim on a flood control project along the Trapp Canal in Jefferson Parish,...
Consumer-Packaged Goods Companies Gain Ground Against State Labeling Mandates
Within the last few months, two federal courts in Texas and California have blocked separate state product-labeling laws. In February, a court halted a Texas requirement that certain foods must carry a government-scripted health warning. And earlier this month, a...
Banning Technology: A Balk That Should Be Called
Major League Baseball (MLB) just signed with the Flat Earth Society. It recently moved to ensure less use of technology in the dugout and game decisions. Essentially, it wants to preclude managers and coaches from using AI during games. So while the league has allowed...
Law And Chaos + Heritage Foundation?!?!
Last year when our podcast Law and Chaos filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Justice Department, we knew things might get weird. And they did! What we didn’t expect is that we’d be making common cause with the conservative Heritage Foundation as it seeks to embarrass Joe...
Legal Ethics Roundup: ABA Opines Gov Lawyers Must Report Unlawful Conduct, Toronto Lawyer Suspended Over AI, Senate Bills On Judges’ Finances/FOIA & More
Ed. note: Please welcome Renee Knake Jefferson back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, Legal Ethics Roundup, here. Welcome to what captivates, haunts, inspires, and surprises me every week in the world of legal ethics. Happy Monday! The...
‘Black Panther’ star Chadwick Boseman’s brothers ask court to take control of his estate from widow
{mag_summary}The brothers of Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman have taken his widow to court over her handling of his multimillion-dollar estate. Derrick Boseman and Kevin…