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May 13, 2025
Attys Invoke 5th Amendment In Mexican Bank Discovery Row
Lawyers for a Mexican businessman told a Houston federal court that sanctions are not warranted in their response to a subpoena amid discovery by a Mexican bank, arguing their client is justified in preserving his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.
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May 13, 2025
DOJ Criminal Division Head Dangles Self-Disclosure 'Carrot'
The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled a revised corporate enforcement policy Monday that offers companies a "clear path" to avoid criminal resolutions when they voluntarily self-disclose misconduct, a boon for American businesses that further scales back the scope of white collar enforcement under the Trump administration.
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May 13, 2025
Feds Want 2陆 Years For Ex-Alvarez & Marsal CPA In Tax Case
A onetime managing director at consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal should spend two-and-a-half years in prison as punishment for failing to file his personal taxes and lying on a mortgage application, prosecutors told a D.C. federal judge.
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May 13, 2025
Morgan Lewis Adds Ex-Dechert Registered Funds Pro In NY
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP has added a registered funds specialist who previously served over 20 years with Dechert LLP as a partner in its New York office, the firm announced Tuesday.
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May 12, 2025
AI Cash Advance Co. Cleo Faces Service Member Class Action
Artificial intelligence-powered finance app Cleo faces a proposed class action alleging it violated the federal Military Lending Act with its cash advance product by lending to active duty service members at rates "well in excess" of the relevant legal rate cap.
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May 12, 2025
Eric Trump-Backed Crypto Miner Merges With Gryphon Digital
A new bitcoin miner backed by President Donald Trump's two eldest sons said Monday that it will go public through an all-stock merger with Gryphon Digital Mining Inc. and will list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol ABTC.
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May 12, 2025
DC Circ. Has 'Duty To Intervene' To Protect 蜜桃视频, Union Says
A union representing employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has urged the D.C. Circuit to keep in place a lower court injunction barring the agency from stopping work and firing staff, asserting ahead of oral arguments this week that the Trump administration is trying to "place the executive branch above the law."
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May 12, 2025
Tribal Co. Hit With Class Suit Over High Interest Rates
Bright Lending was hit Friday with a proposed racketeering class action in Florida, claiming the online payday lender charges illegal interest rates on short-term loans and hides behind a Native American tribe in Montana to escape legal claims.
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May 12, 2025
蜜桃视频 Eyes Reversal Of Biden-Era In-House Proceeding Rules
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday moved to scrap rules from the Biden administration that gave the agency's director more control over in-house enforcement proceedings, a rollback that comes on the heels of President Donald Trump striking two other Biden-era rules on overdraft fees and digital payment supervision.
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May 12, 2025
Billionaire Vik Sues To Reclaim Software Co. Ownership
Norwegian billionaire Alexander Vik has added another thread to a web of litigation arising from unfulfilled margin calls during the 2008 financial crisis, suing several Indiana-based businesses to reclaim a software company that was sold under court order to partially satisfy a $243 million judgment in favor of Deutsche Bank AG.
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May 12, 2025
Cardholders Can't Revive Visa, Mastercard Swipe Fee Suit
A New York federal judge on Monday declined cardholders' bid to revive their interchange fee suit against Visa, Mastercard and major banks, saying they failed to show that they were directly harmed by an alleged swipe fee price-fixing conspiracy.
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May 12, 2025
Hedge Fund Group Urges Delay On New AML Rules
A top trade group representing hedge funds is urging the Trump administration to delay enforcement of new Treasury Department anti-money laundering rules applicable to investment managers, part of a broader attempt to persuade financial and securities regulators to slow down or rescind wide-ranging rules.
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May 12, 2025
Del. Judge OKs $1.2M Deal In Del-One Overdraft Action
A Delaware federal judge granted final approval to a nearly $1.2 million class action settlement resolving claims that Del-One Federal Credit Union unlawfully charged overdraft fees based on account balances reduced by future payments without properly notifying customers.
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May 12, 2025
Will Justices Finally Rein In Universal Injunctions?
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.
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May 12, 2025
Texas Rep. Cuellar Argues He's Immune From Bribery Charges
U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, on Friday moved to dismiss a 14-count indictment accusing him of accepting bribes in exchange for political favors, arguing it violates the immunity representatives are afforded under the Constitution's speech and debate clause.
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May 12, 2025
Wells Fargo Hid Account Amid Man's Homelessness, Suit Says
A Massachusetts man has alleged in a lawsuit filed in federal court that聽Wells Fargo intentionally concealed聽a trust fund account聽from him for decades while he suffered years of financial instability, including homelessness.
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May 12, 2025
Capital Group Inks $18.7M Deal With Conn. Housing Authority
Titan Capital ID LLC on Monday accepted $18.7 million to settle a damages feud with a nonprofit tied to a Connecticut public housing authority, agreeing to drop an interest rate from 24% to 12% on an underlying $16.2 million promissory note while waiving an 8% late fee.
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May 09, 2025
Ex-Meinl Bank CEO Extradited To US On $170M Odebrecht Rap
The former CEO of Austrian lender Meinl Bank AG was extradited from the U.K. and pled not guilty Friday to money laundering charges, stemming from allegations that he helped Odebrecht SA hide $170 million in funds used to bribe officials around the world and defraud the Brazilian government.聽
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May 09, 2025
LNG Exporter's Brass Face Investor Suit Over IPO Risk Claims
Officers and directors of liquefied natural gas exporter Venture Global Inc. face聽shareholder derivative allegations after trading prices for its shares sunk twice on the heels of its January initial public offering following revelations about its pre-IPO business.
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May 09, 2025
Calif. Judge Blocks Trump's Gov't Reorganization, Job Cuts
A California federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked federal agencies and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from carrying out President Donald Trump's directive to reduce the government workforce, saying the president doesn't have the constitutional or statutory authority "to reorganize the executive branch."
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May 09, 2025
BDO Urges Justices To Hear 'Crucial' Auditor Fraud Case
BDO USA LLP is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that the firm warns could have "devastating" consequences for public companies' auditors, arguing in a Friday filing that the Second Circuit created a "dangerous precedent" by reviving a lawsuit brought by AmTrust Financial Services Inc. shareholders.聽
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May 09, 2025
Treasury Pushes To Ax Shareholders' FHFA Director Suit
The federal government has said a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholder complaint should be dismissed because it is "devoid of any allegations" that tenure protections for the Federal Housing Finance Agency's director affected their dividend payments.聽
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May 09, 2025
Private Fundraising Takes Hit Amid Volatile Backdrop
Global private equity and venture capital funding plunged in April amid volatile equity markets, data released Friday shows, falling from a peak in March driven by one blockbuster artificial intelligence deal.
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May 09, 2025
Cannabis Co. Wins Bid To Block Lender From Seizing Cash
A New Jersey federal judge on Friday granted a cannabis company's bid to block its lender from seizing any of its assets or cash amid a dispute over whether it defaulted on loans to build its business, ruling that the company was likely to succeed on its claims after an evidentiary hearing.
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May 09, 2025
Vanguard Shared Customer Data With Meta, Others, Suit Says
Investment management company the Vanguard Group has been hit with a class action by users of its electronic services, claiming that the company allowed customers' personal information to be intercepted by LinkedIn, Meta and Google to build profiles based on their web habits.
Expert Analysis
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Series
Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes 鈥 complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.
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Opinion
Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch鈥檚 authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.
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Short-Term Predictions For The 蜜桃视频's Fate Under Trump
Though the Trump administration is unlikely to succeed in abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, new leadership will likely moderate enforcement, possibly prompting state attorneys general to step up supervision, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
鈥淣o comment鈥 is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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A Closer Look At FDX's New Role As Banking Standard-Setter
Should the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau let 鈥嬧嬧嬧嬧嬧嬧媠tand the decision empowering Financial Data Exchange as an industry standard-setter, it will be a significant step toward broader financial data-sharing, but its success will depend on industry adoption, regulatory oversight and consumer confidence, say attorneys at Clark Hill.
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What To Expect In Crypto Banking After SEC Nixed Guidance
With the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently rescinding its controversial cryptocurrency accounting guidance, the industry's focus will turn to the potentially significant hurdle to crypto banking posed by the federal banking regulators, say attorneys at Duane Morris.
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Fund Names Rule FAQs Leave Some Interpretative Uncertainty
Although recently released FAQs clarify many specific points of the 2023 expansion to the Investment Company Act's fund names rule, important questions remain about how U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff will interpret other key terms when the end-of-year compliance date arrives, say attorneys at Dechert.
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How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work
Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits 鈥 but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.
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What Travis Hill's Vision For FDIC Could Portend For Banks
If selected to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a permanent capacity, acting Chairman Travis Hill is likely to prioritize removing barriers to innovation and institution-level growth, emphasizing the idea that eliminating rules, relaxing standards and reducing scrutiny will reinvigorate the industry, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.
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Will Independent Federal Agencies Remain Independent?
For 90 years, members of multimember independent federal agencies have relied on the U.S. Supreme Court's 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor v. U.S. establishing the security of their positions 鈥 but as the Trump administration attempts to overturn this understanding, it is unclear how the high court will respond, says Harvey Reiter at Stinson.
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5 Major Crypto Developments From The Trump Admin So Far
The early weeks of the Trump administration have set the stage for a significant transformation in U.S. digital asset policy by prioritizing regulatory clarity, innovation and a shift away from enforcement-heavy tactics, but many of these changes will require congressional support and progress may be gradual, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Compliance Pointers For DOJ's Sweeping Data Security Rule
A new Justice Department rule broadly restricts many common data transactions with the goal of preventing access by countries of concern, and with an effective date of April 8, U.S. companies must quickly assess practices related to employee, customer and vendor data, says Sam Castic at Hintze Law.
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Navigating Mortgage Insurance Provisions After LA Fires
As homeowners affected by the Los Angeles wildfires consider rebuilding, mortgage lenders and servicers must negotiate the complex intersection between the standard deed of trust and property insurance, says Heather Wright at Buchalter.
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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: February Lessons
In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five federal appellate court class certification decisions and identifies practice tips from cases involving breach of life insurance contracts, constitutional violations of inmates and more.
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Comparing 2 Pending Bills To Regulate Stablecoins
Alexandra Steinberg Barrage at Troutman analyzes the key similarities and differences between two payment stablecoin proposals currently pending in Congress 鈥 the STABLE and GENIUS acts 鈥 as both chambers are forming a working group to deliver a clear regulatory framework for digital assets and bipartisan agreement appears within reach.