May 9, 2024
Property

Can Private Property Be Taken Over By Authorities For Common Good? Supreme Court Says…

Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said we regard property as something of holding in trust New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Constitution intended to bring about a “sense of social transformation” and it would be “dangerous” to say that the private property of an individual cannot be regarded as material resources of community

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Property

SCOTUS Rules Impact Fees Can Violate Your Property Rights Too

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s stories include: Minnesota’s zoning reform bills stall in the Legislature. New York’s housing deal does little for new supply and leaves everyone unhappy. Colorado bans laws regulating how many unrelated people can live together. But first, we have this week’s lead item about

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Loans

Biden Administration forgives $7.5B in student loans, criticism ensues | News

For the second time this week, the Biden Administration announced it’s wiping out more student loans. More than a quarter million borrowers will get an email from the White House Friday telling them their debt is canceled, totaling $7.5 billion. But critics say the handout is unfair to those who paid off their loans and

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Loans

Republican-led states file lawsuit to block Biden’s massive new student loan bailout plan

Politics By Victor Nava Published March 29, 2024, 6:12 p.m. ET Eleven Republican-led states have filed a lawsuit against President Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in an attempt to block the administration’s latest student loan debt cancellation plan.  The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Kansas federal court by the state’s Attorney General Kris Kobach, is

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Finance

How changes to an abortion pill could lead to an impact ‘bigger than Dobbs’

A surge in telemedicine helped to lessen at least some of the impacts of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and remove a constitutional right to abortion. But the effects could be more widely felt, some economists and healthcare experts say, if an upcoming high court debate about a mail-order abortion

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Crypto

Do Kwon: From Terraform Crypto King to South Korea Extradition Case

South Korean Do Kwon presided over one of the biggest busts ever in the volatile crypto sector. His Terraform Labs Pte created the TerraUSD stablecoin, which was meant to have a constant $1 value via a complex mix of algorithms and trader incentives involving a sister token, Luna. Their combined value soared past $60 billion

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Banking

Supreme Court Dismisses MMT’s Challenge Against Delhi HC Interim Order Allowing Booking.com To Use ‘Make My Trip’ As Google Adword

The Supreme Court on Thursday (March 7) refused to entertain MakeMyTrip’s challenge against the Delhi High Court order which had lifted the interim restraining orders against Google and Booking.com from using the ‘MakeMyTrip’ (MMT)mark, with or without spaces, as a keyword on the Google Ads Program. The Court noted the lack of any premised confusion

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Funds

Legislature would limit governor’s power over federal funds

Wisconsin voters could decide in August if the Legislature should have final say over how the governor spends federal funds allocated to the state. The Assembly voted along party lines Thursday, with all Democratic lawmakers opposed, to advance a proposed constitutional amendment that seeks to limit the governor’s authority over how some federal funds are

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Loans

White House approves student loan forgiveness for 153,000 SAVE borrowers

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said the White House sought to send a “clear message” that SAVE borrowers who have been paying off student debt for more than 10 years “deserve relief” as the administration approved forgiveness for 153,000 people Wednesday. File Photo by Ting Shen/UPI | License Photo Feb. 21 (UPI) — The Biden administration

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