Supreme Court Tackles Fraud Among Business Partners, Not Spouses
In upholding the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit opinion, the high court said that liability can be held against a partner of a wrongdoer. The justices said they wanted to clear up lower court “confusion” on the meaning of the bankruptcy code’s exception to discharging debts obtained by actual fraud.
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Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today.
A case coming before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, Gonzalez v. Google, challenges this law—namely whether tech companies are liable for the material posted on their platforms.
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U.S. Supreme Court snubs Wikipedia bid to challenge NSA surveillance
Turning away the Wikimedia Foundation's appeal, the justices left in place a lower court's dismissal of the lawsuit based on the government's assertion of what is called the state secrets privilege, a legal doctrine that can shut down litigation if disclosure of certain information would damage U.S. national security.
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The Biggest Mistakes People Make With Their Wills
Everybody knows they should have a will, and not having one can leave heirs with a big mess. But just having a will isn’t enough. Big mistakes are common
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FTX Customers Sue Financiers for Giving Bankrupt Crypto Exchange an 'Air of Legitimacy'
The customers said the defendants lent FTX an "air of legitimacy" by vouching that they had examined its operations--with a Sequoia executive once saying "we did our homework"--and found them "safe and secure" for cryptocurrency investors.
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The spy who wasn’t? New York police officer wants badge back
Angwang, a former U.S. Marine, spent six months in a federal detention center before he was freed on bail while awaiting trial on charges that he fed information about New York’s Tibetan community to officials at the Chinese consulate in New York.
Then, just as suddenly, it was over. Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn dropped the charges Jan. 19, saying only that they were acting “in the interest of justice.” They didn’t explain further.
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NFTs and Intellectual Property: What Do You Actually Own?
Copyright law does not give an NFT owner any rights unless the creator takes affirmative steps to make sure that it does.
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Michigan Updates Information on Income Tax Treatment of Retirement and Pension Benefits for Tax Year 2022
It's that time of year.
The Michigan Department of Treasury has issued a release that summarizes the Michigan income tax treatment of retirement and pension benefits effective for tax year 2022.
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Johnson & Johnson faces about 40,000 cancer lawsuits that allege tainted talc in the company's baby powder formula caused cancer for its users. The company has already been forced to pay billions of dollars in damages.
Read more at Yahoo News
