Notices by Ann Lipton (annmlipton@esq.social)

There are a lot of objections to the NYT's house style but sometimes it produces literature

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/business/media/trump-parade-tv-coverage.html

I suppose this was obvious to others but I'm noticing how the combination of "filibuster everything," and reconciliation rules that suspend the filibuster only for budget bills results in weird substantive lawmaking thru tax/spending

https://news.bgov.com/business-and-practice/litigation-finance-tax-sought-by-tillis-spurs-industry-pushback

I agree but one suspects he's knocking out the competition

"Dimon also said that the US should increase tax on carried interest, a provision in the tax code that benefits private equity executives."

https://www.ft.com/content/8c3628f3-477f-4124-8b3f-2bb76bf567cd

"The strength of the US dollar comes partly from its institutional integrity: the rule of law, independence of central banking and policy that’s predictable. These are the components that create the dollar as the reserve currency. The last three months have called that into question."
https://www.ft.com/content/9ca05517-b3fb-46f1-9cde-866061e816a7

"Canada ordered the birds to be culled after the avian virus spread through Universal Ostrich Farms ...Dr. Oz, who oversees Medicare and Medicaid for the Trump administration, offered to relocate the doomed birds to his 900-acre ranch in Florida."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/world/canada/ostriches-avian-flu-rfk-jr-dr-oz.html

No kidding

https://www.law360.com/corporate/articles/2339455

will it involve bribes

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0136

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/10/oil-price-energy-tariffs-trump/

Shot:

https://www.ft.com/content/cb3eb78e-8412-4af3-a29e-2200f9816ae5

"As is often the case with Mr. Trump’s declarations on social media, it was not entirely clear what he was talking about. "

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/business/trump-tariffs-movies.html

of course

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/15/canadian-universities-us-applications-trump

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