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Ok, I admit it.  This blog post began purely out of selfishness. I read about the Government’s seizure early this month of $1 billion worth of bitcoin, which the Government justified on the grounds that the bitcoin bore a relationship to a now-shut-down website called…
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When higher-ups in the Department of Justice intervened in the sentencing phase of the criminal case against Trump campaign worker Roger Stone, the reactions of most Americans depended, at least in part, upon their personal political views. As a white-collar criminal defense lawyer, I viewed…
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In one of our prior blogs, we predicted the first round of COVID-19 business interruption coverage litigation would battle over the issue of whether closure orders result in “physical loss or damage” sufficient to trigger coverage. Indeed, one of the first courts to have considered…
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On Monday, September 1, members of the House of Representatives’ Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis (the “Subcommittee”), tasked with overseeing the implementation and effectiveness of the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), issued a memo reporting a lack of oversight, leading to “billions of dollars being…
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Rocker Neil Young has re-invented himself many times throughout his long and illustrious career – from his earliest days as a solo artist in Canada and Los Angeles, to his time with super groups Buffalo Springfield and CSNY, many years of rocking on and off…
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On August 4, 2020, the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) released a new set of Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) addressing forgiveness of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loans.  These FAQs supplement the 49 FAQs previously published by the SBA and Treasury addressing the PPP generally. The 23…
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These have been strange times for all of us, and uniquely strange to those toiling in the field of trademark law. And for us it’s getting stranger every day. It began in 2017 with that mysterious 7-letter typo in one of Donald Trump’s wee-hours tweets…
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