In the News Today – June 2, 2016
- ILR “Enforcement Maze” Event Highlighted: “A recent symposium hosted by ILR and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers furthered the national conversation on how over-criminalization threatens economic opportunity—from children with lemonade stands to bankers with a 100-year-old family business, custodians to engineers—and harms, sometimes ruins, innocent people’s lives in the process.” (The Daily Signal)
- SEC In-House Courts Safe, For Now: The Second Circuit ruled that a private equity “magnate” must face the Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house court “before challenging the tribunal’s constitutionality.” (Law360)
- Time to Examine TPLF Regulation in Australia: News reports of billionaire Peter Thiel financing Hulk Hogan’s Gawker lawsuit highlight the fact that it is time “for the Australian Government to look seriously at the topic of third party litigation funding regulation. Many would say it is already well overdue.” So writes Morry Bailes, managing partner at Tindall Gask Bentley and treasurer of the Law Council of Australia. (InDaily)
