Dechert law firm asks judge to toss reporter’s hack-and-leak lawsuit

(Reuters) – Law firm Dechert asked a US judge to throw out a former Wall Street Journal reporter’s lawsuit accusing the firm of working with mercenary hackers to leak private emails and get him fired from his job.

Dechert argued in a Washington, DC, federal court filing late Friday that the lawsuit was untimely because it relates to events that occurred more than five years ago. The complaint by reporter Jay Solomon also does not show that Dechert was responsible for the harm he faced, the firm said.

Solomon, who recently became an editor at the news startup Semafor, sued

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Court: Chaco Canyon area drilling permits violated federal law

OIL & GAS: A federal appeals court finds the federal Bureau of Land Management violated environmental law by failing to account for the cumulative impacts of approving nearly 200 drilling permits near Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. (Associated Press)

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OJK plans to issue 224 derivative regulations of P2SK Law

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Financial Services Authority (OJK) plans to issue 224 OJK regulations as derivative regulations of the Financial Sector Development and Strengthening (P2SK) Law, Deputy Chairperson of OJK’s Board of Commissioners Mirza Adityaswara stated.

“In short, based on identification results, 224 OJK regulations have to be created and 43 government regulations as derivative regulations from the P2SK Law,” he remarked during an online press conference, Monday.

Currently, the OJK is discussing the possibility of these 224 OJK regulations being consolidated into several regulations in the form of “mini omnibus.”

“This is because if we create one by one

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