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WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Horizon Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: HBNC) resulting from allegations that Horizon Bank may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public.

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Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday signed an executive order designed to strengthen background checks, and called on the state Legislature to pass the equivalent of a red flag law.

During a news conference, Lee said the executive order would ensure that information-sharing “more closely guarantees the safe, lawful purchase of firearms in Tennessee.”

He also said legislation was needed to address deficiencies in existing gun laws.

“Our current law is proven and effective in many circumstances and many circumstances, especially with regard to domestic violence, but this new stronger order protection law will provide the broader population cover,

(Updates with comments from Microsoft)

By Mike Scarcella

April 11 (Reuters) – A group of video gamers on Monday filed a new legal challenge to Microsoft Corp’s $69 billion bid to buy “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard Inc , after a US judge last month rejected an earlier version of the antitrust lawsuit .

US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley dismissed the plaintiffs’ first complaint in March after finding it failed to present enough information to back claims the acquisition would harm industry competition.

The judge said at the time the plaintiffs could refile a new suit, which challenges

Some of the problems that commonly arise relating to finances upon separation include:

• Hiding of assets
• Bank accounts being drained
• Selling off property
• Bills not being paid (eg mortgages, loans, credit cards)
• Lack of access to financial resources; or
• Lack of knowledge about current financial position

When it comes time to finalize how you are going to divide your assets (referred to as a financial or property settlement), it is what is remaining that is shared. So, if money is moved, spent or wasted, what is left over is what can be divided in that settlement. There is no opportunity

On appeal from: [2021] CSHI 29

This appeal concerns whether the appellant (trading as Moulsdale Properties) should have charged value added tax (“VAT”) on the sale price of a property which he sold to a purchaser who had no connection to him in September 2014.

Sales of land and buildings are generally exempt from VAT in accordance with Schedule 9 Group 1 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (“VATA”). However, paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to VATA gives a taxable person an option to tax transactions relating to a particular parcel of land. Where the option to tax is

In this post, Grant Arnold, a paralegal in the litigation team at CMS, previews the decision awaited from the Supreme Court in The Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd v United Utilities Water Ltd No 2.

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The appeal stems from a long-standing dispute between The Manchester Ship Canal Company Ltd (“MSCC”) and United Utilities Water Ltd (“UU”), regarding unauthorized discharges by sewers operated by UU into the Manchester Ship Canal. MSCC is the owner of this canal, whilst UU is the sewerage undertaker for the North West of England, following the privatization and reform of the sector in 1991.

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A district attorney in Santa Fe fought back Monday against efforts to disqualify the special prosecutor pursuing manslaughter charges against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set.

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Baldwin’s legal team in February sought to disqualify special prosecutor and Republican state Rep. Andrea Reeb of Clovis based on constitutional provisions that safeguard the separation of powers between distinct branches of government.

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Defense attorneys argued that Reeb’s role as a state lawmaker and prosecutor are incompatible and could distort legislative and judicial actions, including state spending on the

Author: Dr Peter Coe

On the 16th of February Impress, the Press Recognition Panel approved regulator of the UK press, launched its new Standards Code and Guidance (the new Code and Guidance will come into force on the 1st of April 2023). As a member of the Impress Code Committee I was involved in the review process and in drafting the revised Code. In this post I explain some of the reasons behind the new Code, and some of the key changes.

Journalism has changed. One of the great things about the internet is that it has opened up journalism