Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: President Trump announced new tariffs Thursday in two separate proclamations, one for imports of steel and one for aluminum . The Florida House of Representatives on Wednesday...
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A group of private cryptocurrency traders on Thursday filed a class action lawsuit alleging that employees of the San Francisco based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase engaged in insider trading of Bitcoin Cash. The class action lawsuit was...
Federal judge rules cryptocurrency can be regulated as commodity
Virtual currency, also known as cryptocurrency, can be regulated by federal agencies just like other commodities, according to a federal court order issued Tuesday. Jack Weinstein, Senior US District Judge for the Eastern District of New York [official...
Mexico Congress approves bill regulating cryptocurrency and crowdfunding
Mexico's Lower House of Congress approved a bill Thursday that would place regulations on crowdfunding and cryptocurrency firms. The bill previously passed the senate and still...
Belarus' Cryptocurrency Experiment: Why the World Should Take Notice
JURIST Guest Columnist Iryna Chelyshava of Vlasova Mikhel & Partners, a Belarusian law firm, discusses a recent decree by the Belarusian government drastically expanding the use of cryptocurrency... On December 21, 2017, Alexander Lukashenko, the President of the Republic of...
Security researchers: North Korea possible source of WannaCry cyber attack
Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday said they have found evidence that could link North Korea to the recent cyberattack that affected 300,000 computers in 150 countries over the weekend. The so-called WannaCry ransomware has lines of code that...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday announced its decision to reject an application to create an exchange-traded fund (ETF) tied to the value of Bitcoin , a virtually currency. The fund, proposed by...
Federal judge orders Coinbase to release customer information to IRS
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Wednesday that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) can serve a "John Doe" summons to digital-currency-services company Coinbase ...
Federal prosecutors announce criminal charges against JP Morgan hackers
Federal prosecutors in New York announced Tuesday that they are expanding criminal charges against the three individuals responsible for orchestrating a massive computer hack against financial institutions, brokerage firms and financial news publishers. Gery Shalon, Joshua...
EU court rules conversion to Bitcoin not subject to sales tax
The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled Thursday that converting cash into Bitcoin , a virtual currency that is used online and over the Internet, should be exempt from value added tax (VAT) [Swedish...