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There are times in life when a dispute arises that cannot be settled without assistance. When this is the case, there are three primary avenues to resolve a dispute in the United States: Mediation, arbitration, and litigation are your options to resolve disputes. Which dispute resolution channel you should opt to go...

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) outlines Rule 68, which may grant a stay of proceedings, although used rarely. Under this rule, a federal court defendant of lawsuit can make an Offer of Judgment. An Offer of Judgment is a written proposal submitted to opposing parties to settle...

Tether, a company behind a digital token of the same name, has settled charges with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to the tune of $41 million. The settlement is related to claims that its stablecoin was fully backed by U.S. dollars. The CFTC agreed...

Have you heard about the new California law that requires commercial retailers to provide gender-neutral children's sections? It's the newest progressive bill, and it's set to take effect in January 2024. On October 9, 2021, California governor Gavin Newsom signed it into law. The new regulation, called 

For starter, Ox Labs is a cryptocurrency dealer headquartered in Los Angeles, California. In July, 2015, Ox Labs unintentionally credited BitPay– a popular Bitcoin payment service– with 200 Bitcoins. Without Ox Labs' permission, BitPay quickly sold those bitcoins for a total of $57,000. In 2020, Ox Labs took BitPay...

Businesses face an all-time high of trademark infringement risk because of a complicated and growing trademark landscape worldwide. Trademark searching and clearance is the process of identifying whether your proposed mark is in-use by another owner of a similar or the same mark (i.e., prior rights) and gathering information to assess the...

Thinking about starting your own business but unsure where to begin? Here is a quick tutorial of essential considerations to help set you on the path to successful entrepreneurship. 01 – Form a business entity A business entity is simply a legal vehicle formed to...

As a general rule,  a settlement agreement must have all the essential elements of a legally binding contract to be enforceable.[1] And formal requirements for contract execution are not needed — for example, the settling parties may use counterparts' signature pages to execute the agreement. This post discusses the...

On August 6, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a cease and desist against the DeFi (Decentralized Finance) Money Market. Florida residents Gregory Keough and Derek Acree and their offshore company, Blockchain Credit Partners, were charged with selling “more than $30 million of securities...

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