Welcome to the binary edition, where you have a choice: An informative and engaging stroll through the history of the oil and gas business in Texas, or a wonkish and also informative legal analysis. First, at the recent summer meeting of the Texas Independent Producers and...
President Trump’s third attempt at a travel ban has met the same fate as the previous two: blocked by a federal judge, Politico reports. In an attempt to salvage the policy in the face of a legal onslaught, White House and Justice Department lawyers refined...
Yesterday the court removed securities-fraud case Leidos, Inc. v. Indiana Public Retirement System from the November argument calendar. At Bloomberg, Greg Stohr reports that the move came “after the two sides told the justices they are near a settlement,” and that the case had “asked...
Jay Knight Will Lay In March 2015, the SEC released its final rules implementing the provision of the JOBS Act to try to facilitate small companies’ access to capital and to provide new investors with new investment choices, in the form of Regulation A+. In the following...
The petition of the day is: Dawson v. Steager 17-419 Issue: Whether the Supreme Court’s precedent and the doctrine of intergovernmental tax immunity bar states from exempting groups of state retirees from state income tax while discriminating against similarly situated federal retirees based on the source of their...
The arrest of Michael Christopher Estes, the man accused of planting a homemade bomb at the Asheville, N.C., Regional Airport this month, was quick. The news media weren’t so quick to report on it, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. Authorities found what appeared to...