You are probably well acquainted with its successor, rule 506.[2] Prior to the adoption of former rule 146 in April 1974, the Commission did not have rules interpreting section 4(2) of the Securities Act.[3] As a result, issuers faced uncertainty in determining whether a sale of securities did not involve “any public offering” and in applying case law on the topic, including the Supreme Court’s decision in SEC v. [read post]

National/Federal ‘Blue’ Suburban Moms Are Mobilizing to Counter Conservatives in Fights Over Masks, Book Bans and Diversity Education Washington Post – Annie Gowan | Published: 2/9/2022 Dozens of suburban moms from around the country dialed into an Ohio-based Zoom training session with the same goal – to learn how to combat the increasingly vitriolic rhetoric from parents whose protests over mask mandates and diversity education have turned school board meeting rooms… [read post]

" 17 - Hitchhiker's Guide was adapted, revised, sliced and diced, and rebooted several times to suit the needs of radio, novels, television, and film, as well as the author's own sensibilities. [read post]

., federal trial court judges) who have let the government off the hook for its terrible conduct in rendering prisoners for torture, in torturing and killing them itself, in running Iraq incompetently, and in prosecuting persons who disclose or pass on classified information -- no matter how "unclassifiable" it in truth is -- while itself or through Bush or Cheney disclosing classified information when it suits their morally and intellectually corrupt administration's own… [read post]