In this first of a series of podcast episodes about blockchain and privacy, we turn our spotlight on the first use of U.S. Government sanctions against a cryptocurrency mining company.

The Utah legislature recently passed the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA). UCPA is a comprehensive privacy bill that shares similarities to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

Last week, California residents voted against the expansion of local rent control measures. According to votes tallied as of the date of this post, more than 60% of voters voted against Proposition 33...

In Cantero v. Bank of America, the U.S. Supreme Court held that state laws are preempted by the National Bank Act only under certain conditions.

Tennessee is the next state to follow a national trend and enact its own state low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program. The Tennessee General Assembly recently created a state housing tax credit designed...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently overturned a 40-year-old precedent commonly referred to as "Chevron Deference" increasing the probability of successful challenges to regulatory agency actions across all industries.

Urban Artifacts, a successful and growing micro-brewery in Cincinnati, OH, known for its innovative styles of fruited beers, recently filed suit against the Pennsylvania...

The CFPB has also issued a helpful Prepaid Account Coverage Chart, consisting of a flow chart to help analyze whether the Prepaid Rules apply to a particular product.

Businesses across all industries routinely have key employees leave and start competing businesses. This is particularly common in the multifamily housing industry on both the developer and investor side.

On February 27, 2017, The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") fined Merchants Bank of California ("Merchants") $7 million for what it called "egregious" violations of the Bank Secrecy Act ("BSA").

In Moody v. Netchoice, LLC, the U.S. Supreme Court held that private social media platforms are protected by the First Amendment when they publish third-party content...

On Friday, February 7, California Attorney General Becerra released proposed modifications to the draft regulations of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The proposed modifications were made in response to ...

Recent posts on our Multifamily Matters Blog examined several states' responses to address the unprecedented affordable housing crisis, including in California and Colorado.

On December 29, 2020, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill 39, creating a new tax credit applicable to insurance premium taxes as a means to provide funding for...

Many are aware that the antitrust laws prohibit companies in horizontal relationships (i.e., direct competitors) from sharing with each other nearly all competitively sensitive types of information.

In a hotly contested 5-4 opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned 40 years of bankruptcy precedent and disallowed the issuance of non-consensual third-party releases under Section 1123(b) of the Bankruptcy Code.

In a move toward developing a final COVID-19 standard for healthcare settings, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced that it was accepting additional comments...

Over the last 6-7 years in the emerging "PFAS world," most sewer authorities did not sample wastewater or biosolids for PFAS due to (1) no requirement to do so, (2) no U.S. EPA-approved analytical test method...

The relationship between available transportation and the success of multifamily developments is nothing new for developers and property owners. It has historically been tied to convenient proximity...

Owners of federally subsidized multifamily properties ("Subsidized Properties") should be aware of favorable new guidelines going into effect on October 24, 2024...