In a cross-post on the Foundation for Economic Education and Cato Institute websites, Larry White briefly analyzes bitcoin’s recent victory in court, when Miami-Dade Florida circuit judge Teresa Pooler dismissed money-laundering charges against Michell Espinoza, a local bitcoin seller.
At the Journal of Accountancy, Sally P. Schreiber reports:
The IRS issued temporary regulations intended to halt the practice some partnerships have adopted of treating partners as employees of a disregarded entity owned by the partnership so they can be included in employee benefit plans and receive other benefits. However, the IRS is also asking for comments on when it might be appropriate to allow partners to also be employees of a partnership.
Maybe, according to Shelton D. [pseudonym] v. Brennan, 2016 WL 3361228, a case recently decided by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Eugene Volokh analyzes the case on the Volokh Conspiracy.
In a podcast available on the Federalist Society website, Scott Kronland and William Messinger discuss the future of mandatory union dues after the 4-4 split per curiam decision in the US Supreme Court case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association.
Our fellow law blogger Peter Mahler (Farrell Fritz) hosts a round-table discussion on a wide array of issues relating to business divorce with panel members Kurt Heyman (Proctor Heyman Enerio) and Pete Ladig (Morris James).
In an article on TechPolicyDaily.com—the voice of American Enterprise Institute’s Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy—Professor Babette Boliek discusses legal issues related to Pokémon GO: