Tags: "law"

02 Nov
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NEWS RELEASE: Treasury’s COINS Act Proposal Replaces Market Choices with Government Mandates, Putting Medicine Supply at Risk

WASHINGTON, DC – Recently, the U.S. Department of the Treasury proposed sweeping new restrictions under the Comprehensive Outbound Investment National Security (COINS) Act, which in part prohibits certain investments by US persons in companies abroad. The sweeping new proposed regulations ...

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23 Oct
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Crucial Questions Remain After Court Ruling in New Mexico’s Case Against Meta

A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion following a jury verdict finding violations of the state’s consumer protection laws. While the extraordinary penalty has driven the headlines, other details deserve attention: One question emerging from the ...

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31 Jul
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A Bank Account Should Not Come with a Political Litmus Test

Few things are as essential to participating in the American economy as a bank account. It is how workers get paid, how families save for a home, and how small businesses make payroll. That is precisely why regulatory pressure on ...

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24 Jul
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Outlawing Pricing Algorithms Will Not Solve the Housing Crisis

HLF president Mario H. Lopez recently sent a letter to the editor, in response to a recent op-ed in California calling for ban on the use of artificial intelligence to set market-based rent prices in the state. Published in the ...

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30 Jun
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Statement On Supreme Court Ruling in 14th Amendment Case

WASHINGTON, DC – The Hispanic Leadership Fund today issued a statement from its president Mario H Lopez regarding the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. Barbara: “Today’s Supreme Court decision is a victory for the Constitution, for originalist jurisprudence, and ...

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26 Jan
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Testimony Before the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee

HLF’s president testified before the Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC), a panel that advises the Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) on regulatory matters dealing with safety, dependence, and health issues relating to tobacco products. The TPSAC ...

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03 Dec
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Congress Needs to Ensure That Recently Passed Crypto Law Protects Deposits and Lending

Earlier this year, the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act) was signed into law.  Stablecoins, a form of cryptocurrency, are backed by traditional assets—the U.S. dollar, for example.  Stablecoins are used to exchange other cryptocurrencies.  ...

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20 Aug
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Credit Union Tax Exemption Continues To Garner Attention

As Congress was starting to debate its reconciliation bill in earnest back in March we wrote about a proposal to eliminate the tax exemption provisions for certain credit unions.  Credit Unions’ tax-exempt status was established in The Federal Credit Union ...

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