On June 5th and 6th, 2023 the SEC filed complaints against Binance and Coinbase, respectively, for acting as an exchange, broker, and a clearing agency without registering accordingly as a result of offering tokens and...more
DOJ Obtains Restraining Order to Stop Oklahoma Company From Selling Purported COVID-19 Treatment - An Oklahoma federal court issued a temporary restraining order against Xephyr LLC d/b/a N-Ergetics and its owners ordering...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes each month in 2017. October was no...more
Competition from Chinese companies shows no signs of slowing. Likewise, allegations of trade secret theft against Chinese companies are increasingly common. In this case, the U.S. Department of Justice linked allegations of...more
On March 6, 2017, President Donald Trump signed a new “Travel Ban” Executive Order with an effective date of March 16, 2017. The order revoked a previous executive order signed on January 27, 2017, which was blocked by the...more
Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a district court’s issuance of a temporary restraining order prohibiting the enforcement of Executive Order 13769 – “Protecting The Nation From...more
In Depth - In the last year, the US antitrust regulators successfully challenged multiple transactions in court and forced companies to abandon several other transactions as a result of threatened enforcement actions....more