/massachusetts?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Massachusetts Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:42:43 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2353333?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2353333 Financial services firm Gotbit Consulting LLC was ordered to forfeit approximately $23 million in seized cryptocurrency and sentenced to a five-year probation term in the government's suit accusing it of market manipulation, while its founder received an eight-month term. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:00:04 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2353507?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2353507 Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP has withdrawn as counsel for the founder of Binance amid an $8.1 million lawsuit against him, telling a Massachusetts federal judge that the cryptocurrency exchange executive has breached an agreement with the law firm and moved for arbitration against it. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:05:45 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2353463?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2353463 A former attorney pled guilty to tax evasion in a Massachusetts federal court Friday after prosecutors accused him of transferring money to his wife to hide his earnings and using his business accounts to pay for guns and jewelry. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:02:05 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2353281?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2353281 Federal prosecutors on Friday revived a $4 million insider trading case against a former Miami asset manager who previously dodged charges after a key witness backed out of testifying against him in 2022. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:29:20 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2351765?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2351765 The Massachusetts high court's decision in Trustees of Boston University v. CHA, holding that a bespoke contractual indemnity provision means that a construction defect claim is not subject to Massachusetts' statute of repose, should spur design and construction professionals to negotiate limited provisions, says Christopher Sweeney at Conn Kavanaugh. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:01:58 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2351121?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2351121 State attorneys general are stepping up to fill the enforcement gap as the Trump administration restructures the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, creating a new regulatory dynamic that companies must closely monitor as oversight shifts toward states, say attorneys at Cozen O’Connor. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:28:19 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2353000?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2353000 In this week's Taxation With Representation, Brown & Brown Inc. buys Accession Risk Management Group Inc., Allison Transmission Holdings Inc. acquires Dana Inc.'s off-highway unit, Qualcomm Inc. buys Alphawave IP, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced it will split into two publicly traded companies. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:34:35 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2353288?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2353288 Labaton Keller Sucharow LLP, Thornton Law Firm LLP and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP will get a total of about $275,000 back after collectively spending more than $5 million on a lengthy investigation into overbilling and other fee improprieties, a Massachusetts federal judge said Friday. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:18:13 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2353108?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2353108 A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday blocked enforcement of what she called a likely unconstitutional Trump administration executive order requiring physical proof of citizenship to vote and invalidating ballots received after Election Day, saying the president lacks authority to override existing voting laws. Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:07:18 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2329140?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2329140 Speaking to elementary school students about the importance of college and other opportunities after high school — especially students who may not see those paths reflected in their daily lives — not only taught me the importance of giving back, but also helped to sharpen several skills essential to a successful legal practice, says Guillermo Escobedo at Constangy. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 23:08:51 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2352687?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2352687 The Trump administration Wednesday urged the First Circuit to lift a district court's block on the federal government from rescinding temporary Biden-era removal protections from more than 500,000 Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan immigrants, saying the U.S. Supreme Court already hinted that the order was a mistake. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:38:55 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2352864?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2352864 Fantasy sports platform PrizePicks is suing its former social media director in Washington federal court over his lateral move to DraftKings, accusing him of taking the company's "most closely guarded" marketing trade secrets to the competitor by downloading those documents to his personal ChatGPT account before his departure. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:05:33 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2352252?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2352252 The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced that the alleged orchestrators of the My Big Coin digital asset fraud scheme that swindled over $6 million from 28 investors will hand over $25.7 million to end claims against them. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:49:35 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2348885?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2348885 Intellectual property powerhouse Fish & Richardson again secured the top spot on a list of firms appearing in the most trials over the past three years in front of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 18:17:10 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2352577?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2352577 The California attorney general and 10 other states sued the Trump administration in federal court Thursday, minutes after President Donald Trump signed resolutions repealing California's Clean Air Act waiver that allowed the state to establish its own vehicle emissions standards, slamming the resolutions as unconstitutional, irrational and "wildly partisan." Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:03:12 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2350652?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2350652 Attacks on judicial independence now run the gamut from gross (bald-faced interference) to systemic (structural changes) to insidious (efforts to undermine public trust), so lawyers, judges and the public must recognize the fateful moment in which we live and defend the rule of law every day, says Jim Moliterno at Washington and Lee University. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 17:00:05 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2352937?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2352937 A Harvard Medical School researcher and Russian national who has been detained by U.S. immigration authorities since February, when frog embryo specimens were found in her luggage at Logan Airport, was released from custody Thursday while she awaits trial on a smuggling charge. Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:34:06 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2352389?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2352389 A Massachusetts judge accused of approving a plan to let a man elude immigration officers by letting him leave the court through a back door seven years ago testified Thursday that was not her intent when she granted a request to let him speak with an attorney in a courthouse lockup. Wed, 11 Jun 2025 23:36:02 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2352422?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2352422 U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal sent a pair of letters this week asking for more information on Meta's renewed plans to launch its own stablecoin as well as details on MGX's decision to use Donald Trump's World Liberty stablecoin to make a $2 billion investment in the cryptocurrency exchange Binance. Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:28:48 +0000 /massachusetts/articles/2352190?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /massachusetts/articles/2352190 Attorneys general from states and territories around the country, as well as the District of Columbia, sent an open letter to Meta Platforms Inc. Wednesday urging the social media giant to help stem the tide of widespread investment scams across Facebook and WhatsApp that they said have caused people to lose "life-changing" amounts of money.