Posts Tagged ‘Legal’
Big Bubble or Local Fraud? How Tricolor’s Recent Bankruptcy Highlights Continuing Issues with Credit Rating Agencies
By: Francesca Jaubert In 2010, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”) in response to the overly optimistic credit ratings that created the housing market bubble collapse.[1] Before the 2008 financial crisis, Credit Rating Agencies assigned AAA ratings to many unworthy securities, only to downgrade them later.[2] Why? Experts…
Read MoreThe Five-Year Countdown Rule: Satellite Deorbiting and the Impact on the Space Industry
By: Emily Martinez In 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) adopted a new regulatory rule for the space industry requiring satellite operators in low-Earth orbit (“LEO”) to dispose of their satellites no later than five years after the conclusion of their mission.[1] The five-year deorbiting rule replaces the decades-old twenty-five-year guideline for deorbiting satellites post-mission,…
Read MoreThe Catch-22 of California’s SB 53: The Legal Tension Between Disclosure Requirements and Confidentiality Obligations
By: Andrea Martinez On September 29th, 2025, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 53 into law, the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, which is the first state legislation to impose public safety disclosure requirements on major artificial intelligence (“AI”) frontier developers, such as Google, Microsoft, and Apple.[1] California’s legislative efforts in this rapidly…
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