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1 week ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Brian Flood
A Cheesecake Factory Inc. restaurant in Pennsylvania turned into a “cottage industry” of fraud that mistreated its immigrant employees after saddling them with fraudulent work authorization papers, a new lawsuit alleges.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Laura D. Francis |Brian Flood
The US Supreme Court ruling that Wisconsin’s preference for religious groups that only serve followers of their own faith is unconstitutional has opened new pathways for state tax and other exemptions. The unanimous decision reversed the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s holding that Catholic Charities Bureau Inc. was rightfully denied an exemption from unemployment taxes because it provides services indistinguishable from those offered by secular organizations.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Andrew Harris |Brian Flood
Shaquille O’Neal has agreed to pay victims of the FTX collapse $1.8 million to settle claims that he promoted the now-collapsed cryptocurrency exchange, according to a federal court filing. The classwide settlement is fair and should be given preliminary approval, investors who bought crypto assets through FTX told the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida on Monday.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Mallory Culhane |Brian Flood
A coalition of state attorneys general succeeded in their bid to halt the Trump administration from effectively dismantling AmeriCorps, a federal judge ruled Thursday. AmeriCorps likely violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it failed to provide notice and solicit public comment “before making significant changes to service delivery,” Judge Deborah L.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Brian Flood
The Public Broadcasting Service said President Donald Trump’s executive order directing the end of its taxpayer subsidies violates the First Amendment and federal law, according to a new lawsuit Friday. Trump’s May 1 executive order violates its constitutional protections for freedom of speech and freedom of the press as well as the Administrative Procedure Act, PBS says in its complaint in the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Jacklyn Wille |Brian Flood
A federal judge slapped a $6,000 sanction on an attorney who filed briefs that included citations to nonexistent cases that were generated using artificial intelligence. The lawyer, who’s representing an Indiana excavation company in a dispute with a multiemployer benefit fund, admitting to using generative AI to draft briefs that included “hallucination cites” to fictitious cases.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Daniel Seiden |Carmen Castro-Pagan |Brian Flood
National Public Radio Inc. and others are challenging President Donald Trump‘s executive order that seeks to cut off funding, according to a federal court complaint filed Tuesday. The Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media order, which directs federal agencies to stop NPR from receiving any federal funding, violates the US Constitution and must be permanently enjoined, NPR told the US District Court for the District of Columbia.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Daniel Seiden |Laura Francis |Brian Flood
A Venezuelan national convinced a federal district court to certify a class of noncitizens in custody in her challenge to the US government’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged members of the Tren de Aragua criminal organization.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Brian Flood |Nicholas Datlowe
The US Supreme Court left in place a state contractor’s wire fraud convictions in a Thursday ruling, rejecting arguments challenging the government’s “fraudulent inducement” theory. The government doesn’t need to prove that a defendant who uses falsehoods to induce someone to enter into a transaction intended or caused economic harm, the court held in an opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
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1 month ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Brian Flood |Nicholas Datlowe
The US Supreme Court left in place a state contractor’s wire fraud convictions in a Thursday ruling, rejecting arguments challenging the government’s “fraudulent inducement” theory. The government doesn’t need to prove that a defendant who uses falsehoods to induce someone to enter into a transaction intended or caused economic harm, the court held in an opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
