Even minor errors in a mortgage can result in avoiding the mortgage in a bankruptcy.

In response to taxpayer concerns about the practicality of meeting certain FATCA compliance timeline dates, the IRS has extended some of those dates and made certain conforming changes.

On January 10, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a final rule, as mandated by provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

On September 17, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced enforcement actions against 23 investment firms for violations of Rule 105 of SEC Regulation M.

On December 12, 2012, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia released its decision in Investment Company Institute v. U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, rebuffing the Investment Company Institute (ICI)’s and U.S. Chamber of Commerce (Chamber)’s efforts to overturn recently adopted Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) amendments to CFTC Rules 4.5 (exclusion from definition of commodity pool operator) (CPO) and 4.27 (CPO and CTA reporting requirements) (the Amended Rul

The U.S. DOJ announced its first-ever successfully litigated extradition of a foreign citizen to the United States in a federal criminal antitrust case.

The Chief of the IRS’s Employment Tax Policy section, John Tuzynski, told lawyers on May 10, 2013 at an American Bar Association’s meeting of tax lawyers in Washington, D.C. that the IRS will soon be pursuing more cases involving independent contractor misclassification through its Questionable Employment Tax Practices program.

The Superior Court of New Jersey ruled that an employee is bound by his agreement to a six-month limitation period to file any suit against his employer.

A discussion on a recent case, where the bankruptcy court held that a totally underwater junior lien on a residential property could be "stripped off" in a Chapter 7 case, thus choosing to follow a Second Circuit case that addressed the issue in a Chapter 13 case.

After substantially all of the debtors’ assets were sold in a bankruptcy sale, a secured lender and a state tax authority made competing claims for turnover of sale proceeds.

In a recent decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed an Oregon district court judgment in Hedlund v. Educational Resources Institute, No. 12-35258, D.C. No. 6:11- cv-6281-AA, finding that court's de novo review of a Section 523(a)(8) proceeding to be improper and holding that the bankruptcy court's good-faith finding should be reviewed solely for clear error.

On October 2, 2012, a class action lawsuit was filed against MHN Government Services and its parent, Managed Health Network (MHN), claiming that the government contractor misclassified over 1,200 employees as independent contractors and, as a result, failed to pay massive amounts of overtime pay required under the federal wage and hour law.

One of the "funding highlights" listed in the section of the Budget covering the Department of Labor is to "Maintain support for agencies that protect workers' wages, benefits, health and safety, and invest in preventing and detecting the misclassification of employees as independent contractors."

This action arose from a payment dispute between a general contractor, Catamount Constructors, Inc., and one of its subcontractors, Steelwood Construction, Inc.

On November 13, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) voted unanimously to advance its report entitled "Proposed Recommendations Regarding Money Market Mutual Fund Reform."

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently entered into a memorandum of understanding with various member states of the European Union and European Economic Area formalizing an agreement that facilitates the sharing of information and other assistance between the regulators in relation to private fund managers.

Petitioner Kevin Loughrin stole checks that he altered and used to purchase goods from Target, which he then returned to Target for $1,184.

A discussion on the impact of Superstorm Sandy on New Jersey's real-estate sector.

On March 10, the IRS released Revenue Procedure 2014-24, establishing the rules for when the IRS will automatically determine that a subsidiary corporation that had failed to file a properly and timely executed Form 1122, Authorization and Consent of Subsidiary Corporation To Be Included in a Consolidated Income Tax Return, will nonetheless be included in the affiliated group.

Most recently, the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California denied a retailer’s motion to dismiss vertical price fixing claims filed under the state’s Cartwright Act and Unfair Competition Law.