A Florida federal jury on Friday largely rejected the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s allegations that Spartan Securities Group Ltd. was complicit in a scheme to create sham companies and fraudulently sell their stock on over-the-counter markets. Published in Law360

An effort by a national landlord group to strike down the federal directive halting residential evictions during the Covid-19 pandemic was rebuffed Wednesday by a divided 11th Circuit panel, which ruled that the landlords failed to show they would suffer irreparable harm if they remained unable to evict delinquent tenants. Read the full article

A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a bid by a group of landlords seeking to overturn the Centers for Disease Control’s nationwide freeze on many residential evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the full article

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday the federal government’s ban on evicting tenants can remain in place over protest from mom-and-pop landlords. A group of landlords had asked the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to halt the eviction moratorium, saying it is unconstitutional and an overreach by the federal government. Read…

Keep living in an apartment without paying rent? In the “before times,” it would have been unthinkable — at least without a concerted legal battle with an angry landlord. During the COVID-19 pandemic, though, all that went out the window. Congress first put an eviction moratorium into place from March 27 to July 24, 2020,…

A New Hampshire federal court wrongly found that a man’s efforts to block the Internal Revenue Service from obtaining his records from cryptocurrency platforms would unlawfully restrain the collection of tax, he told the First Circuit. James Harper’s suit requesting the IRS expunge his financial records that it obtained from unknown cryptocurrency exchanges violates neither…