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…

A former Coinbase user who last August received the now-infamous Internal Revenue Service (IRS) crypto letter is suing to block the tax agency from unlawfully seizing private financial records. Read the full article   TweetShareShare0 Shares

Governor Charlie Baker and a group of business owners suing to overturn his emergency orders amid the coronavirus pandemic are asking the state’s highest court to hear the lawsuit, arguing it could provide clarity about his authority during this unprecedented time. The petition to the Supreme Judicial Court comes more than a month after the…