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Braumiller Law Group & Braumiller Consulting Group February 2024 newsletter

Last June (2023), in response to a ruling request from Your Special Delivery Services Specialty Logistics (YSDS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued HQ H324098, clarifying what it means to be an “owner or purchaser”...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Akin Intelligence - November 2023

Welcome to the November edition of Akin Intelligence. Looking back, October 2023 may be remembered as the month when the U.S. government tried to assume the mantle of global leadership on responsible artificial intelligence...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

New Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Petitions on Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Ecuador, India, Indonesia and Vietnam

Introduction - On October 25, 2023, the American Shrimp Processors Association (ASPA) filed petitions with the United States Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Financial Markets and Funds Quick Take | Issue 18

Katten's Financial Markets and Funds Quick Take is a monthly newsletter highlighting key noteworthy developments potentially affecting financial markets and funds....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

A Divided Congress Will Have an Active Investigations Agenda Over the Next Two Years

Democrats, having maintained narrow control of the upper chamber in the midterm elections, likely will remain focused on the issues and industries they prioritized in 2022....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Bribes, Bitcoin and Obstruction: DOJ Announces Charges Against Chinese Agents for Trying to Impede Investigation of Huawei

On Monday, October 24, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced charges against two alleged Chinese intelligence officers for bribing and stealing documents to obstruct the criminal investigation of, reportedly, Huawei...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Peloton Founder Foley Steps Aside as CEO, Company to Restructure

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Not that far removed from a gangbusters pandemic performance by his company driven by exercise-crazed consumer panic-buying its bikes and treadmills, Peloton founder John Foley has stepped down as company CEO and announced...more

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Strong Q4 Boosts Annual U.S. GDP to Highest Mark Since 1984

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Stronger-than-expected GDP figures for the 4th Quarter and 2021 on the whole was welcome good economic news for the U.S. on Thursday after weeks of volatility and renewed supply-chain issues. Q4 growth clocked in at 1.7%,...more

Perkins Coie

Blockchain Legal Report: December 2021

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Senate Holds Hearing on Stablecoins - The United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing on stablecoins on Tuesday, December 14, 2021, featuring testimony from a cross section of law,...more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.6.2021 - Cryptos Crash as Mixed Jobs Report Pushes Investors to Safety

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Markets fell again on Friday after the November jobs report failed to hit predicted marks. Still, the news wasn’t all bad, as the numbers also showed that the country’s unemployment rate dropped and “the overall participation...more

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China Bans Crypto Currencies and Related Services

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The People’s Bank of China (“PBOC”) announced this morning that it is banning crypto currencies and related services, including “trading, order matching, token issuance and derivatives for virtual currencies are strictly...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.7.2021 | Top Story: El Salvador Adopts Bitcoin as National Currency

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Welcome to B-Day, the beginning of the grand cryptocurrency experiment for El Salvador, which “became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender on Tuesday.” Predictably, “the launch got off to a bumpy...more

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Blockchain Week in Review - August 2021

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U.S. Developments - 1. Unamended Infrastructure Bill with “Broker” Reporting Requirements Set for Vote in September - The U.S. House of Representatives locked in a date of September 27, 2021, for the vote on a $1...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 2, Issue 17

China Passes Major Data Protection Law as Regulatory Scrutiny on Tech Sector Intensifies - A final version of the law has not been published but a previous draft included rules around requiring consent for data protection...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights, Volume 2, Issue 15

Bye-Bye, Bitcoin: It's Time to Ban Cryptocurrencies - "International banking officials say cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin are speculative assets, not sustainable, usable money." Why this is important: This opinion piece...more

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Financial Daily Dose 6.15.2021 | Top Story: Troubled E-Truck Start-up Lordstown Motors’ CEO and CFO Resign After Board...

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Ailing e-truck startup Lordstown Motors found itself facing more challenges on Monday, as founder & CEO Steve Burns and CFO Julio Rodriguez resigned “after an investigation by the company’s board,” just weeks after the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 4.26.2021 | Top Story: Bitcoin Bounces Back Over 50k

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Bitcoin’s back (and no, it never really left), thanks to a rally this morning that pushed its value up as much as 10% at one point in early trading today. Elon Musk’s weekend tweeting and news that presumptive top NFL draft...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.2.2021 | Top Story: U.S. Markets Bounce Back as Bonds Settle

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A quieter bond market was music to the markets’ ears on Monday, and they responded with their best day since last June...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.9.2021 | Top Story: Tesla Pours $1.5B into Bitcoin, Prompts Crypto Surge

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Tesla dropped an incredible $1.5 billion on bitcoin on Monday “and signaled its intent to begin accepting the cryptocurrency as a form of payment, sending prices to a record after the vote of confidence from the EV leader and...more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.11.2021 | Top Story: U.S. loses 140k jobs in December as virus surge hampers recovery

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Aaaand we’re back. Hope all have stayed safe and healthy. Let’s get to business. Friday’s Jobs Report saw the U.S. recovery thrown in reverse, with employers cutting 140,000 jobs in December amidst “rising coronavirus cases...more

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Blockchain Week in Review - December 2020

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U.S. Developments - Legislation - Congress Members Introduce Stablecoin Legislation - On December 2, 2020, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-13), Congressmen Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04) and Chairman of Task Force on...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.23.2020 | Top Story: Pandemic and Global Economy Dominate Virtual G-20 Meeting

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The G-20 held a virtual summit this weekend, and discussions about taming the pandemic and addressing “the global economic damage it has wrought dominated” the meeting....more

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Financial Daily Dose 8.27.2020 | Top Story: TikTok CEO Resigns After Just 4 Months on Job

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Still-new TIkTok CEO Kevin Mayer has stepped down, “just months after taking the helm of the viral short video app.” ByteDance had appointed Mayer in May in an effort “to make the case that TikTok operates as a separate...more

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Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 4, August 2020

Crosmun v. The Trustees of Fayetteville Technical Community College Provides Much Needed Guidance to NC Courts on How to Properly Craft eDiscovery Protocols - The Court of Appeals decision in Crosmun is important because...more

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What Recent Developments in the Fintech Space Mean for Our Future

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The fintech industry has been changing rapidly. Digital assets, distributed ledger technology and central bank digital currencies are gaining momentum. Multi-trillion-dollar United States Federal Reserve System money creation...more

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