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.
Posted on: August 13, 2016
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Tag: Commerce, Commercial Transactions, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property, Law & Economics, Legal Theory, Technology & Law
Posted on: August 8, 2016
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.
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Tag: Corporations, Partnerships, Taxation
Posted on: August 6, 2016
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.
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Tag: Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Labor and Employment
Posted on: July 29, 2016
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.
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Tag: Agency, Constitutional Law, Labor and Employment, Legal Industry
Posted on: July 28, 2016
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).
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Tag: Alternative Business Entities, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business Ethics, Civil Litigation / Civil Procedure, Commercial Litigation, Commercial Transactions, Comparative Law, Contracts, Corporations, Courts, Equity / Chancery, Fiduciary Duties, Legal Industry, Legal Theory, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers and Acquisitions, Partnerships
Posted on: July 22, 2016
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:
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Tag: Alternative Dispute Resolution, Consumer Protection, Contracts, Premises Liability, Social Media, Technology & Law, Torts