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U.S. Supreme Court to Decide Whether the Palestinian Authority Can Be Sued In the United States for Terror Attacks in Israel

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The United States Supreme Court may soon decide whether U.S. victims of terrorist attacks in Israel may sue the Palestinian Authority (“PA”) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (“PLO)” for damages in U.S. courts. In...more

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The Tornado Cash Delisting And Sanctions Compliance Implications For Crypto

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On 21 March 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) removed Tornado Cash, a virtual currency mixer, from its list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List),...more

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Planning for Travel Ban 2025 – Leaked Draft Includes 43 countries

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An article published by The New York Times on March 14, 2025, details a travel ban proposal under review by the Trump administration affecting 43 countries, categorized using a color-coded triage system (the “Article”). The...more

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Year In Review and Developments to Watch in Foreign Sovereign Litigation in U.S. Courts

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In 2024, U.S. courts issued consequential decisions in cases brought against foreign states and their agencies and instrumentalities under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”). This alert summarizes key decisions in...more

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White Collar and Enforcement Outlook 2025

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With 2025 underway, the ArentFox Schiff White Collar team highlights the US Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new enforcement priorities and two cases pending before the US Supreme Court that could have sweeping implications for...more

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Potential Reinstatement of the 2017 Travel Ban: The 2025 Executive Order and Its Implications

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On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) titled “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats.” This order launched a 60-day...more

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CTA Litigation Updates: Federal Judge in Maine Rules CTA is Justified, While Texas Judge Allows CTA Enforcement; FinCEN Announces...

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Developments concerning the enforceability and enforcement of the CTA came at a rapid clip last week. As things stand, the government may enforce the CTA pending a Texas court appeal in Smith v. U.S. Department of the...more

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Corporate Transparency Act Revived After Last Remaining Nationwide Preliminary Injunction is Lifted - Reporting Deadlines Extended

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On February 18, 2025, the U.S. Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas lifted the last remaining nationwide preliminary injunction of the CTA in the Smith case. This follows a decision on January 23, 2025, by...more

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Supreme Court Upholds Law Restricting TikTok’s Operations in the U.S.

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On January 17, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its decision in TikTok Inc. v. Garland, affirming the constitutionality of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the Act), which restricts...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Overview of Trump’s Executive Actions and Considerations for Potential Litigation

The Trump administration has taken, and continues to take, executive actions that have the potential to significantly affect the public and private sectors alike. The result is an ever-changing legal environment presenting...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

The TikTok Ban Saga: SCOTUS, Trump’s Executive Order, and the Implications for Digital Marketing and Emerging Platforms

From expedited Constitutional challenges to an exodus of self-proclaimed “TikTok Refugees” to new foreign-owned social media platforms, the past week leading up to the Jan. 19, 2025, deadline for the TikTok Ban has been a...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

After Supreme Court Upholds Ban, Trump Issues EO Giving TikTok an Extension

Despite bipartisan support for banning TikTok – essentially spyware presenting a national security threat from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) – in the United States (as done by India) and the Supreme Court’s upholding...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

How Will Limiting the Scope of the 14th Amendment Impact the EB-5 Financing Market?

As anticipated, the 47th president issued a series of Executive Orders on his first day in office, one of which has caught significant attention within the EB-5 industry. The order, titled "Protecting the Meaning and Value of...more

Freeman Law

Posts, Profits, & Penalties | Tax Law & Social Media | Part 1

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A popular social media platform has been a hot topic for lawmakers, the media, and its users recently, and what a better way to kick off this series than to provide a summary and update of its status in the United States....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Social Links: TikTok’s Wild Ride

In a rare unanimous decision, on January 17, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law that bans TikTok in the United States on national security grounds so long as it has its current ownership structure. TikTok chose to make the...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Sale-or-Ban Law

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In a much-anticipated decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 17, 2025, rejected TikTok's appeal and upheld the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (Act). The act, which was signed into...more

Cranfill Sumner LLP

Why the Supreme Court Tolerated the TikTok Ban (And What That May Teach Us About Deference)

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Today the Supreme Court of the United States declined to block Congress’s TikTok ban, clearing the way for the ban to take effect on January 19, 2025. On a quick look, banning an online forum where millions of Americans...more

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The Supreme Court Update - January 17, 2025

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued one decision today: TikTok Inc. v. Garland, Firebaugh v. Garland, Nos. 24-656, 24-657: The Supreme Court upheld a federal law that would make it unlawful for companies in the...more

DarrowEverett LLP

Vibe Check on TikTok: Legal Changes May Force App to Take the L

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The future of TikTok is on the table in the United States. As has been widely covered, in April 2024, Congress passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the “Act”), which...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Supreme Court to Hear TikTok Case

The United States Supreme Court announced on December 18, 2024, that it will hear the TikTok ban case and has scheduled oral arguments to be held on January 10, 2025, before the ban’s effective date of January 19, 2025....more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: DC Circuit Upholds Bar on Retroactive Registration for Former Foreign Agents

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On June 14, 2024, in Attorney General of the United States v. Stephen A. Wynn, a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit held that the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) cannot civilly compel an individual to...more

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Government Contracts Legal Round-Up - June 2023 Issue 11

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Welcome to Jenner & Block’s Government Contracts Legal Round‑Up, a biweekly update on important government contracts developments. This update offers brief summaries of key developments for government contracts legal,...more

White and Williams LLP

Supreme Court Rules For Taxpayers On Non-Willful FBAR Penalties

Taxpayers who hold foreign accounts finally received clarity as the Supreme Court ruled that the $10,000 non-willful penalty for failure to file a FinCEN Form 114, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) applies...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Supreme Court Decides United States v. Zubaydah

On March 3, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court decided United States v. Zubaydah, No. 20-827, holding that the state secrets privilege allows the Government to prevent the disclosure of information that could confirm or deny the...more

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Broad Majority Decisions in Terrorist Torture and Abortion Law Cases Resolve Important State Secrets and Intervention Procedural...

The Court has decided two important cases today, United States v. Zubaydah, upholding the government’s assertion of the state secrets privilege and rejecting the al Qaeda terrorist leader’s discovery request for information...more

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