‘Keep Pushing’: Momentum Grows Behind Effort to Ban Stock Trading
Will Congress move to ban its members from trading shares of stock while they’re in office?
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News Flash: CalPERS Invents Time Machine! Not News: CalPERS Again Lies in Suit Over Illegal Secret Board Meeting and Smears Former Board Member Margaret Brown as Diversion
CalPERS digs its hole even deeper in its effort to keep parts of a board transcript secret. What dirt does it contain?
Read more...What Happens If a Cryptocurrency Exchange Files for Bankruptcy?
Law professor Adam Levitin explains why cyptocurrency exchange customers face a world of hurt if their exchange fails.
Read more...The UK’s Post-Brexit Review of ‘Retained EU Law’ Risks Undermining Democracy
Brexit requires the Government to disentangle domestic law from EU law. The preferred plan is to hand more power to unaccountable ministers
Read more...CalPERS Continues to Grossly Misrepresent Facts and Law to Avoid Disclosing Full Transcript of Improper Board Meeting After CIO Ben Meng Quit; Will Judge Markman Buy It?
True to form, CalPERS general counsel Matt Jacobs is playing fast and loose with the law and facts. Will Judge Markman let him get away with it?
Read more...Nothing Fundamental Has Changed: Biden Administration Greenlights More Fossil Fuel Drilling Permits in 2021 for Public Lands and Waters than Did Trump in 2017
A coalition of climate groups calls on the Biden administration to use existing statutory authority as a basis for executive action to phase out fossil fuel extraction on public lands.
Read more...Appeals Court Revives Case Against McKinsey for Widespread Bankruptcy Court Fraud
McKinsey is again in hot water, now for an appellate court reviving a case that McKinsey lied in bankruptcy court for fun and big profits.
Read more...The Biden Employer Vaccine Mandate: In Defense of National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor
A refreshingly balanced take on why the Supreme Court was correct in shooting down the Biden employer vaccine mandate.
Read more...Airlines Threaten to Ground Many Passenger and Cargo Flights Over Cell Operators’ Refusal to Change 5G Plans
Airlines and cargo carriers threaten to throw down the guantlet if Verizon and AT&T don’t back off from their Wednesday 5G rollout.
Read more...Unredacted Antitrust Complaint Shows Google’s Ad Business Even Scummier than Many Imagined
Even more ugly details about Google misbehavior in the online ad market.
Read more...U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Biden Vaccine Mandate for Private Businesses, Upholds for Most Health Workers
The Supreme Court fillets Biden’s private sector vaccine mandate, leaving it to employers and states to act, unless Congress opts to step in and craft a nationwide policy.
Read more...Federal Judge Denies Facebook’s Motion to Dismiss, Allowing FTC Antitrust Lawsuit to Proceed and Discovery to Commence
Judge James Boasberg denies Facebook’s motion to dismiss the FTC’s antitrust action, thus allowing the lawsuit to proceed and discovery to commence.
Read more...20 Years and 4 Presidents Later and Gitmo Still Not Closed
Human rights groups call on Biden to keep his campaign promise to close the Guantánamo Bay detention center.
Read more...Some Quick Thoughts About the Conviction of Elizabeth Holmes on Four Counts of Fraud
The successful prosecution of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes shows that there’s a limit to Silicon Valley con-artistry.
Read more...Plastics Packaging: Yet Another Reason to Loathe Amazon
India has forced Amazon to eschew plastics packaging. Rolling out its Indian practices world-wide would in a single step drastically reduce Amazon’s plastics footprint.
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