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Developments in offices, AI, and operational real estate are driving expectations for a rebound in commercial real estate. A sense of optimism pervaded the air at Goodwin and Columbia University’s annual Real Estate Capital Markets (RECM) conference on March 27. Attendees discussed a wide array of real estate trends, including investment opportunities in offices, advancements…
WHAT WE’RE READING By Ellena Erskine on Apr 16, 2024 at 9:41 am The court expects to issue one or more opinions this morning in argued cases from the current term. Following the opinion announcements, the court will hear oral arguments in Fischer v. U.S. Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary,…
* Supreme Court authorizes Idaho’s anti-trans care law with Justice Gorsuch writing that the decision might abuse the standard notion of the Court’s shadow docket power, but all the justices who created those precedents are dead now and we have a supermajority so YOLO (you’d be shocked at how lightly paraphrased that is too). [Law360]…
A common point of confusion among law enforcement and the public is about the use of unlabeled pill bottles. Is it legal to possess prescription medicine in a container other than the original bottle with the prescription affixed? Does discovering an unlabeled pill bottle justify seizing and searching it to see if it contains contraband?…
16 April 2024 Steptoe LLP To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Litigation On April 9, the DC Circuit upheld the EPA’s 2022 decision to waive federal preemption with respect to two California regulations under the Clean Air Act. The regulations at issue were (i)…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues to broaden the use of forfeiture of executive compensation as a regulatory tool with an increased emphasis on making employers do the clawing-back themselves. In October 2022, the SEC adopted the new Rule 10D-1, 17 C.F. R. §240.10D-1, or “Listing Standards for Recovery of Erroneously Awarded Compensation,”…
Key Points On Sunday, April 7, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) struck a deal on a comprehensive federal bill, the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA), marking the first such proposal to gain bipartisan, bicameral support with the backing of Chair…
The Cayman Islands’ position as a hub for the establishment of FinTech structures has been enhanced by the introduction in 2021 of the Virtual Asset (Service Providers) Act (VASP Act) as amended, which provides invaluable regulatory oversight for innovative virtual asset business. This article will explore the key features of the VASP legislation and the…
On March 1, 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an amended version of the New York LLC Transparency Act (NYLTA), which was originally signed with provisions for amendments in December 2023.1 The NYLTA will go into effect on January 1, 2026 (Effective Date), and it will impose certain beneficial ownership disclosure requirements for limited…
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Various court decisions have established parameters regarding the withholding of a member’s benefit by a pension fund, under section 37D(1)(b)(ii) of the Pension Funds Act 24, 1956 (“the Act“). In the recent judgment of Gammon v University…