Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker applied the wrong law and illegally picked “winners and losers” when he shut down certain businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state’s top court was told Tuesday by a group seeking to invalidate the emergency orders. The New Civil Liberties Alliance — suing on behalf of two hair salons, a tanning salon…

A Bitcoin investor in New Hampshire has filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service after he received a letter from the IRS inquiring about his digital currency holdings. The IRS has been cracking down on cryptocurrency holders, receiving the names of approximately 13,000 customers of the Coinbase exchange after issuing John Doe summonses in…

The state’s highest court will hear arguments in September in a lawsuit brought against Gov. Charlie Baker challenging his authority to declare a COVID-19 state of emergency and to issue the emergency orders that have shaped life in Massachusetts for the last four months. Justice Barbara Lenk, sitting as part of a single-justice session, ordered…

Kelli Fallon, owner of Bare Bottom Tanning Salon in Burlington and Susan and Nazareth Kapelian, owners of Naz Kupelian Salon in Lexington, are among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit challening Gov. Charlie Baker’s authority to declare a COVID-19 state of emergency and to issue the emergency orders that have shaped life in Massachusetts for the…

Bitcoin investor Jim Harper has sued the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), its commissioner, and a number of federal agents. He alleged that they unlawfully seized his private financial information from three cryptocurrency exchanges. Bitcoin investor Jim Harper has filed a lawsuit against IRS Commissioner Charles P. Rettig, the IRS, and “John Doe IRS Agents…

A New York law firm under investigation by the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau into its debt collection practices has urged a judge to quash the probe as unconstitutional. The Law Offices of Crystal Moroney in Rockland County, represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group, said in a filing Wednesday in…