Laura D. Francis
Team Leader at Bloomberg Law
Team Leader at Bloomberg Industry Group
Team Lead @BBGIndustry/@BLaw focused on litigation coverage. Disney-obsessed swim and soccer mom. Tweets my own, RTs ≠ endorsements.
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2 weeks ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Tristan Navera |Laura D. Francis |Brian Flood
The IRS’ agreement to share undocumented immigrants’ data with the Department of Homeland Security has the potential to broaden an exception to a ban on disclosing taxpayers’ sensitive personal information.
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3 weeks ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Laura D. Francis |Brian Flood
The US Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Mar. 31 in a case attorneys and legal scholars say could dramatically expand eligibility for religious tax exemptions and create an uneven playing field for charitable organizations. Catholic Charities Bureau Inc. is challenging a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that the group doesn’t qualify for an exemption from state unemployment taxes.
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1 month ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | John Woolley |Laura D. Francis
A New York-based federal appeals court panel on Thursday honed in on whether the IRS has the power to block states from adopting programs to bypass the $10,000 federal limit on state and local tax deductions. New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut challenged a Treasury Department rule that curbs the available federal deduction for charitable giving where the donor earned equivalent SALT credits for that donation—in effect, recreating the once-unlimited SALT deduction.
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1 month ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Laura D. Francis
SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein is asking the government to turn over grand jury testimony related to its claim that he “offered to pay a potential witness cryptocurrency.”Usually, the government can rely on evidence without actually producing it in proceedings related to release conditions. But Goldstein’s lawyers say they’ve cast enough doubt on that claim to warrant compelling the government to produce its evidence.
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1 month ago |
news.bloomberglaw.com | Daniel Seiden |Laura D. Francis
The Trump administration unlawfully ended temporary protected status for thousands of Haitian and Venezuelan nationals living in the United States, according to a new complaint filed Monday. TPS is a humanitarian program that gives a “critical lifeline” to immigrants who fled their homes as a result of a natural disaster or violence and political upheaval, the complaint says.
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The new #SCOTUS test for 10(j) injunctions doesn't just make it harder for the NLRB to get them--it also opens the door for employers to access evidence they can use to defend themselves in the underlying administrative proceedings. From @robertiafolla: https://t.co/cvuQVhhHhK
Legislation that would bar student athletes from being considered employees by virtue of their participation in college sports advanced in a House committee yesterday on a party-line vote. Read more from @lilah_burke and @parker_purifoy: https://t.co/kW07tKF1UT
RT @MrSethHarris: I had a fascinating conversation with @jacobin's @alexnpress and @BLaw's @robertiafolla in a brand-new @PowerAtWorkBlog b…