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Proposed Delivery Taxes Could Cost Restaurants Millions: 3/28/2025 10:35:23 AM; Platforms like Grubhub play a vital role for small and medium-sized restaurants, helping them reach customers they otherwise wouldn’t be able to reach.
InvestmentContracts.com Challenges Ripple on $125 Million Wager: “We’ll Help You End the SEC Case – Now”: 3/27/2025 1:30:00 AM; In a daring and remarkable move, Justin W. Keener and InvestmentContracts.com, the authority on investment contracts and the Howey Test, has publicly announced a friendly (yet critical) challenge to Ripple Labs.
KHA chooses Thomson Reuters for automated tools that drive audit efficiency: 3/26/2025 10:36:03 AM; Thomson Reuters (TSX/Nasdaq: TRI), a global content and technology company, today announced it has signed KHA as a new customer of Cloud Audit Suite.
New York Cabbies Win $140 Million Settlement After 18-Year Lawsuit: 3/17/2025 1:47:31 PM; The City of New York has agreed to pay some 19,000 taxi drivers as much as $140 million in settlement of an 18-year-long civil rights lawsuit. The cabbies proved that the City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) had for years summarily suspended the drivers’ licenses, solely because of the drivers’ arrests—not convictions, just arrests—usually on misdemeanor charges.
Federal Judiciary Awards Multi-Year Contract to LexisNexis: 3/13/2025 3:15:20 PM; LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of AI-powered analytics and decision tools, announced that the Federal Judiciary has chosen to award LexisNexis with a 7-year contract as an information provider to the United States Federal Judiciary to provide every federal judge, their support staff, and other federal judiciary employees with full …
Testing Begins for Community Notes on Facebook, Instagram and Threads: 3/13/2025 2:12:16 PM; Takeaways • We will shortly begin testing Community Notes across Facebook, Instagram and Threads in the United States. • We expect Community Notes to be less biased than the third party fact checking program it replaces because it allows more people with more perspectives to add context to posts.
NWC to Host Special Presentation at Hague Humanities Hub: “Responses to the Crisis in Anti-Corruption Enforcement: A View from the United States”: 3/13/2025 3:00:00 AM; At 3:00PM on March 19th, National Whistleblower Center ’s Chairman of the Board Stephen M. Kohn will host a special presentation at the Hague Humanities Hub focusing on recent developments in the United States’s anti-corruption enforcement and new tactics needed to respond to the current crisis.
SEC Whistleblower: TheWhistleIsBlown.com Hosting the Freeing Howey Investment Contract Summit in Miami Friday and Saturday (3/14-3/15), Revealing Newfound Data and Documents: 3/12/2025 4:02:53 PM; SECwhistleblown.com and TheWhistleIsBlown.com announced today the second Freeing Howey Investment Contract Summit will be held in Miami this weekend and will feature newfound documents dating back nearly 100 years.
The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation PPWR: 3/10/2025 11:59:13 AM; The EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR for short) is intended to replace and repeal the current EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste).
Leading Whistleblower Rights Organizations File Amicus Brief in Support of Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger: 3/5/2025 7:27:28 PM; On March 5th 2025, six respected public interest organizations representing whistleblowers filed a joint Amicus Curiae brief (“Friend of the court”) in the U.S Court of Appeals for the D.C.
LexisNexis and OpenAI Announce Plan to Deliver Custom AI Technology for Legal Professionals: 2/27/2025 9:29:16 AM; LexisNexis® Legal & Professional, a leading global provider of AI-powered analytics and decision tools, and OpenAI, today announced their plan to deploy OpenAI’s APIs and fine-tuned models across the LexisNexis ecosystem of products like the Lexis+ AI® legal workflow solution and LexisNexis Protégé™ personalized AI assistant that intelligently powers productivity, …