Notices by Ann Lipton (annmlipton@esq.social)

New blog post! A collection of random things, including the Nano case, the case against GM/Cruise, Saba's latest attack on closed end funds, and another Vista acquisition is accused of proxy fraud

https://www.businesslawprofessors.com/2025/04/stuff-and-nonsense/

Vista's really racking up the securities fraud allegations.

Vista is a PE firm that apparently engages in some fairly aggressive acquisitions. The Mindbody acquisition was the subject of successful state law and federal law SH claims - on the fed side, plaintiffs were able to successfully plead -

Well, she's unbothered, at least.

"He asked to remain anonymous because he receives a scholarship that is restrictive on what he can say. ...WOUB reached out to other students in affected scholarship programs but was told they had been informed not to talk to the media about the funding situation."

https://woub.org/2025/03/07/fulbright-scholars-feel-stranded-trump-administration-suspends-funding/

What a lede:

"The new head of sustainability at HSBC Holdings Plc says the time has come for banks to stop penalizing clients that have a large carbon footprint."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-26/hsbc-says-it-s-time-to-end-negative-bias-toward-fossil-fuels

been thinking a lot about this quote lately

“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

It's here:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=5120765

Taking this opportunity to point out - I wrote a whole paper:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/business/dealbook/delaware-law-has-entered-the-culture-war.html

"Trump has actually created the first functional use case for cryptocurrency: the facilitation of frictionless bribery."

to be fair, i'm pretty sure that was already established, along with extortion and money laundering

https://defector.com/donald-trump-has-finally-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-crypto

7.5 inches in New Orleans as of early afternoon; snow projected to continue to fall until night.

Record was 10 inches in 1895.

eep

https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=373440

oof
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm

Well done, Quartz

This is what it looks like when a prosecutor actually thinks it has a case in an ongoing manipulation scheme. Notice the claim here isn't vote tampering - it's running an illegal lottery

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/30/elon-musk-ordered-to-attend-1-million-voter-lottery-suit-hearing-in-philadelphia.html

of course

https://www.dominionvoting.com/setting-the-record-straight/

this is a fairly direct attack by a member of louisiana's congressional delegation on louisiana's largest city, new orleans, which has a heavy haitian influence

i'm no political strategist but if i were a dem i'd be including this in campaign ads

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/03/private-equity-pac-republicans-democrats

OH MY FREAKING GOD

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/02/elon-musk-pac-voter-data-trump-harris.html

IN ADDITION TO HOW HORRIBLE THIS IS ON EVERY OTHER LEVEL, DID THEY THINK A DISEASE SPREADING IN ONE PART OF THE WORLD WOULD HAVE NO IMPACT ON AMERICANS?

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-covid-propaganda/

are you fucking kidding me?

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/travel/frontier-ceo-urges-crackdown-abuse-airport-wheelchairs-rcna153830