Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker applied the wrong law and illegally picked "winners and losers" when he shut down certain businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state's top court was told Tuesday by a group seeking to invalidate the emergency orders....

A Bitcoin investor in New Hampshire has filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service after he received a letter from the IRS inquiring about his digital currency holdings. The IRS has been cracking down on cryptocurrency holders, receiving the names of...

The state’s highest court will hear arguments in September in a lawsuit brought against Gov. Charlie Baker challenging his authority to declare a COVID-19 state of emergency and to issue the emergency orders that have shaped life in Massachusetts for the last four...

Kelli Fallon, owner of Bare Bottom Tanning Salon in Burlington and Susan and Nazareth Kapelian, owners of Naz Kupelian Salon in Lexington, are among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit challening Gov. Charlie Baker’s authority to declare a COVID-19 state of emergency and to...

Bitcoin investor Jim Harper has sued the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), its commissioner, and a number of federal agents. He alleged that they unlawfully seized his private financial information from three cryptocurrency exchanges. Bitcoin investor Jim Harper...

A New York law firm under investigation by the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau into its debt collection practices has urged a judge to quash the probe as unconstitutional. The Law Offices of Crystal Moroney in Rockland County, represented by the New Civil...

A former Coinbase user who last August received the now-infamous Internal Revenue Service (IRS) crypto letter is suing to block the tax agency from unlawfully seizing private financial records. Read the full article  

Governor Charlie Baker and a group of business owners suing to overturn his emergency orders amid the coronavirus pandemic are asking the state’s highest court to hear the lawsuit, arguing it could provide clarity about his authority during this unprecedented time....

Feel like taking a chance? Or taking in an art show? Or taking up a set of weights? Well, good news. Gov. Charlie Baker announced Thursday that casinos, museums, movie theaters and fitness centers, among other venues, can open Monday under Phase 3 of his lifting of...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker and a group of business owners suing him for closing them down during the COVID-19 pandemic have asked the state's top court to weigh in on whether the governor overstepped his authority during the crisis. In a joint petition to...

On Monday, June 29, the Supreme Court ruled the structure of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to be unconstitutional. In the 5-4 ruling, Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the majority opinion, arguing that “the structure of the CFPB violates the...

Lee County is expanding the ability of law enforcement to use license plate readers along local roadways. The Lee County Board of County Commissioners this week OK'd allowing the Cape Coral and Fort Myers police departments to use poles along county roads for the...

Several small businesses will get more time to apply for Paycheck Protection Program loans after a Maryland district court partially granted a preliminary injunction against the Small Business Administration. The businesses were originally restricted from applying for...

More reaction rolled in stemming from Monday’s Supreme Court decision involving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. While some legal experts are pondering long-term ramifications of the decision, nearly half of the attorneys general in the U.S. celebrated...

A Maryland convenience store who sued the U.S. Small Business Administration over its rule prohibiting businesses owned by people with criminal histories from applying for COVID-19 relief loans on Friday urged a court to keep the case alive despite an “11th hour”...

Altimont Mark Wilks, a small business owner from Hagerstown, Md., who was unlawfully barred from applying for a much-needed Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loan, can finally breathe a sigh of relief. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil...

Lee County is expanding the ability of law enforcement to use license plate readers along local roadways. The Lee County Board of County Commissioners this week OK'd allowing the Cape Coral and Fort Myers police departments to use poles along county roads for the...

Police in Cape Coral and Fort Myers are keeping an electronic eye on motorists and have been for quite some time, but now they are adding even more recording devices. The readers allow police to check traffic for stolen vehicles, Silver and Amber alerts and wanted...

Four industry groups have filed another petition before the SEC accusing the regulator of using “backdoor regulation" of 12b-1 fees. “This petition is about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s thirty-year effort to effectively outlaw Rule 12b-1 fees, and the...

Recent guidance concerning a federal pandemic relief program undercuts lawsuits against the Small Business Administration for barring loan seekers with criminal records, the Trump administration said in a court filing. The memo, filed in the U.S. District Court for...

Lee County is expanding the ability of law enforcement to use license plate readers along local roadways. The Lee County Board of County Commissioners this week OK'd allowing the Cape Coral and Fort Myers police departments to use poles along county roads for the...

Plaintiff Robert Walker comments on the Dawn Desrosiers, et al. v. Governor Charles D. Baker case.    

Dismantling regulations has been a top priority of President Donald Trump since he came to office. To that end, his 50-plus appointees to the U.S. circuit courts are fast at work. The White House has made opposition to the "administrative state," or public...

Broker-dealers, whose trade groups are petitioning the Securities and Exchange Commission to halt the crackdown on 12b-1 fees, show sufficient disregard for their duty to investors that they should be subject to “special scrutiny” from regulators when Regulation Best...

The U.S. Department of Labor urged a D.C. federal judge Friday to toss Oracle's bid to defang the DOL's enforcement unit that sues federal contractors over alleged job bias, arguing that Oracle can't dismantle the enforcement regime, which it agreed to when it became...