By Lloyd Dunkelberger | July 17, 2017
Meeting with college students and recent graduates dealing with the burden of student debt, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson outlined legislation that would cap rates on federal undergraduate loans at 4 percent and allow the refinancing of older loans at lower rates.
By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | July 17, 2017
A report on recent action in Trenton of interest to NJSBA members
By Michael Booth | July 14, 2017
New Jersey lawmakers have introduced bills that would prohibit the state from providing the Trump administration's "Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity" with any information about the state's voters that is not already publicly available.
By Sue Reisinger | July 14, 2017
The Canadian division of Transparency International wants the country to start using deferred prosecution agreements to deal with corporate crime.
By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 13, 2017
Following is a listing of executive and legislative action for the week of July 10. At press time members of the General Assembly were in recess subject to the call of the president of the Senate and speaker of the House.
By Victoria Hudgins | July 13, 2017
Sens. John DiSanto, Joseph B. Scarnati III and John H. Eichelberger Jr. published a memo announcing their plan to create education savings accounts to help students attending low-achieving schools obtain nonpublic schooling.
By Victoria Hudgins | July 13, 2017
State Rep. Russ Diamond, R-Annville, issued a memorandum declaring his intention to introduce a package of bills lowering Pennsylvania's sales and use tax to 1.9 percent, and to decrease Philadelphia and Allegheny counties' local sales and use taxes as well.
By Todd Cunningham | July 11, 2017
U.S. newspaper publishers, who say they are chafing under the market power of Google and Facebook, are calling on Congress to allow them to negotiate collectively with the online giants. They want an antitrust exemption so they can compete more effectively with what they term a de facto "digital duopoly," which now dominates online advertising.
By Peter Fisch and Mitchell Berg | July 11, 2017
Peter Fisch and Mitchell Berg write: The EB-5 visa program has become a major source of real estate financing nationwide, and in particular for large real estate development projects in New York City such as Hudson Yards in Manhattan, the New York Wheel on Staten Island, and the Pacific Park development in Brooklyn. While the real estate industry has to date been the primary beneficiary of investment dollars generated by the EB-5 program, proposed changes to the program's rules could imperil what has been a reliable source of funding for new development projects.
By C. Ryan Barber | July 10, 2017
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday finalized a sweeping new rule banning arbitration agreements that prevent class actions against banks and other financial institutions, setting the stage for parallel legal and political fights over a regulation that Republican lawmakers will seek to overturn before it sees the light of day.
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