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Oct 4, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jonathan Becker |Kimberly Hamm
On September 25, the US Senate held a corporate CEO in criminal contempt of Congress after he refused to comply with a subpoena to appear at a congressional hearing. Three days later, the company announced his resignation. This is the Senate’s first criminal contempt resolution in over 50 years and serves as a stark reminder of the perils facing companies, and their executives, that are entangled in a congressional investigation.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Kimberly Hamm |Jonathan Becker
On September 25, the US Senate held a corporate CEO in criminal
contempt of Congress after he refused to comply with a subpoena to
appear at a congressional hearing. Three days later, the company
announced his resignation.
This is the Senate's first criminal contempt resolution in
over 50 years and serves as a stark reminder of the perils facing
companies, and their executives, that are entangled in a
congressional investigation.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Jonathan Becker |Warren Payne |Howard W. Waltzman
As we await the outcome of the upcoming US elections, we know
that whoever controls the White House and Congress will confront
one of the biggest tax debates in US history in 2025.
It is possible that one party wins full control of the White
House and both Houses of Congress.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Jonathan Becker |Warren Payne |Howard W. Waltzman
As we await the outcome of the upcoming US elections, we know that whoever controls the White House and Congress will confront one of the biggest tax debates in US history in 2025. It is possible that one party wins full control of the White House and both Houses of Congress.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jonathan Becker |Kimberly Hamm |Andrew Olmem
Two developments last week threaten to weaken Republican control over the investigative agenda of the US House of Representatives. First, House Republicans’ narrow majority continues to shrink, with Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP, announcing he will leave Congress in mid-April. Second, a Republican member threatened to use a procedural tactic to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Kimberly Hamm |Andrew Olmem |Howard W. Waltzman |Jonathan Becker |Warren Payne
Two developments last week threaten to weaken Republican control over the investigative agenda of the US House of Representatives. First, House Republicans’ narrow majority continues to shrink, with Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP, announcing he will leave Congress in mid-April. Second, a Republican member threatened to use a procedural tactic to remove Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
timesunion.com | Jonathan Becker
In 2022, Gov. Kathy Hochul passed legislation designed to address low youth voter turnout and decades of discrimination against college students by mandating polling places on college campuses with 300 or more registered voters. With the March 15 deadline for poll site assignments for this fall’s national election, the time is now to make the law’s promise a reality.
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Feb 23, 2024 | 
infobae.com | Rebecca Zucker |Jonathan Becker
Muchas personas saben por dolorosa experiencia personal que las asociaciones comerciales, por muy prometedoras que sean, pueden llegar a un punto de conflicto e incluso de acritud. De hecho, entre el 50 y el 80% de las asociaciones fracasan en los primeros años.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
hbr.org | Rebecca Zucker |Jonathan Becker
Many people know from painful personal experience that business partnerships, however promising they may start, can come to a place of conflict and even acrimony. In fact, some 50 to 80% of partnerships fail in the first few years. Many partners fail to address these problems constructively, either due to plain old conflict avoidance or hoping the problems will go away, or they prepare to go to battle. Either of these extremes have significant risk and could make things worse.
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jonathan Becker |Adam Hickey |Timothy J. Keeler
With recent high-profile prosecutions continuing to draw attention to the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) and related political laws, and a number of notable announcements by Department of Justice (DOJ) officials at a recent conference for practitioners,1 we anticipate continued focus on this enforcement area in 2024. This Legal Update details several issues to watch for. 1.
