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September 10, 2025
NJ Comptroller Targets Firm Linked To Exonerated Mogul
A New Jersey insurance brokerage founded by Democratic power broker George E. Norcross III violated public contracting laws and failed to disclose conflicts of interest to state regulators, according to a report by the state's Office of the State Comptroller.
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September 10, 2025
SEC Says Adviser Startup Broke Investor Data Privacy Rule
An investment adviser representative and his firm were hit with a suit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday over claims that the adviser, among other things, emailed himself confidential client information from his former employer as a step in creating his own investment firm.
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September 10, 2025
FCC Sticks With Nearly $1M Pirate Radio Fine
A New York City area man was slapped with a nearly $1 million Federal Communications Commission fine Wednesday for operating an illegal radio station, after the agency says he ignored the notice warning that they intended to fine him for nearly a year.
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September 10, 2025
FCC Calls Preemption The Way To Rush Telecom Deployment
The Federal Communications Commission is considering making a "rocket docket" for permitting disputes and blocking states and localities from denying small cell wireless permits based on aesthetic concerns, according to a rule update the agency is proposing.
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September 10, 2025
Del. Justices Urged To Revive $10.5B Zendesk Deal Challenge
An attorney for stockholders of software-as-a-service business Zendesk Inc. told Delaware's Supreme Court Wednesday that a conflict at the heart of a challenge to the company's $10.5 billion take-private deal with a private equity consortium was undisclosed at the time of its approval.
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September 10, 2025
Trump Admin's Push To Sunset Energy Regs Faces Hurdles
Legal obligations and practical challenges may hamstring the Trump administration's efforts to wipe out as many energy regulations as possible, making the moves vulnerable to lawsuits while creating uncertainty for the energy industry.
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September 10, 2025
NCAA Bans Hoopsters For Betting, Rigging Performances
The NCAA has permanently banned three California college basketball players for their "coordinated effort" to bet on their own games, each other's games and their own performances, with at least one athlete manipulating his on-court performance to secure gambling wins.
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September 10, 2025
Consumers Defend Challenge To Nippon-US Steel Merger
Consumers urged a California federal judge Wednesday not to dismiss their challenge to Nippon Steel's now-closed purchase of U.S. Steel Corp., arguing they've fixed an earlier lawsuit's shortcomings.
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September 10, 2025
Airbnb Presses Bid To Toss Conservative Shareholders' Suit
Airbnb Inc. is urging a Delaware federal judge to reject a lawsuit from two conservative institutional shareholders, arguing that delivery of the groups' shareholder proposals to the company's mail room doesn't suggest executives sought to exclude the submissions from the company's 2025 proxy materials.
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September 10, 2025
3rd Circ. Questions NJ's Bid To Block Kalshi's Sports Bets
The Third Circuit seemed prepared on Wednesday to block New Jersey from enforcing a sports gambling ban on trading platform KalshiEx, with at least one judge arguing the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's authority to regulate the event contracts space "seems quite broad."
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September 10, 2025
FTC Warns Healthcare Employers About Noncompetes
The Federal Trade Commission has sent letters warning healthcare employers and staffing companies not to include overly broad noncompete restrictions in their employment contracts and urged them to conduct a review to ensure they comply with the law.
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September 10, 2025
FINRA Fines Jefferies $1M Over Inaccurate Reserve Math
Financial services giant Jefferies LLC has been fined $1 million by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority after its improper reserve calculations caused the firm to file a number of inaccurate reports, it said.
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September 10, 2025
Liberty Says Subcontractor's Insurer Must Defend Injury Row
A subcontractor's insurer must defend and indemnify companies insured by a Liberty Mutual unit on a primary basis in a worker's injury lawsuit, the unit argued to a New York federal court.
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September 10, 2025
FTA Probes Charlotte Transit After Fatal Light Rail Stabbing
The Federal Transit Administration has launched itself into the fray surrounding the stabbing death of a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee on a city light rail line in Charlotte, North Carolina, announcing on Wednesday that it is investigating the city transit system's compliance with federal safety regulations.
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September 10, 2025
FERC Urged To Drop 'Ill-Conceived' Pipeline Review Updates
Gas industry groups urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to accept Secretary of Energy Chris Wright's request to scrap plans for greater environmental reviews for pipeline approvals, agreeing that they exceed FERC's authority and undermine regulatory certainty.
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September 10, 2025
BLM Says It Will Rescind Biden-Era Land Conservation Rule
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday said it will roll back the Biden administration's Public Lands Rule, which the agency says improperly prioritizes land conservation over uses like energy development and livestock grazing.
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September 10, 2025
Texas Justices Wary Of Shifting Franchise Tax Calculation
The Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday pushed an energy company to explain why the Texas tax code would make it eligible for a refund for bunker oil sold in the Lone Star State, asking where it should look in the law to create a "destination test" for state franchise taxes.
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September 10, 2025
HomeServices, Douglas Elliman Fight Renewed Fee Claims
HomeServices of America and Douglas Elliman have urged a Florida federal court to toss a case from homebuyers targeting real estate commission rules, arguing that the latest version of the complaint adds 100 pages of allegations but still fails to fix the problems, the court found.
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September 10, 2025
Trump To Take Fed Gov. Cook's Removal Case To DC Circ.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday told a Washington, D.C., federal judge that the government will appeal the judge's decision granting a temporary win to Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook in her challenge to the president's attempt to remove her from her position.
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September 10, 2025
Trump's Pick For Fed Board Seat Moves Ahead To Full Senate
The U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday endorsed President Donald Trump's bid to install Stephen Miran, a top White House economist, at the Federal Reserve, advancing his nomination over Democratic objections that he would be a Trump loyalist rather than an independent central banker.
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September 10, 2025
OpenAI Can't Keep For-Profit Shift Docs From Musk
A California federal magistrate judge has said that OpenAI must produce key planning documents in Elon Musk's lawsuit challenging its attempted shift into a for-profit business, rejecting arguments that the information is protected because it could influence future takeover bids by the billionaire or future investments by Microsoft.
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September 10, 2025
DOJ Must Hand Over Documents To Ex-JPMorgan Trader
A Washington, D.C., federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Department of Justice did not properly withhold portions of documents that reference grand jury exhibits from a former JPMorgan trader that were part of a market manipulation case that he beat in 2018, and ordered the DOJ to turn over the documents in question.
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September 10, 2025
$36M DOL Award Unjustified, Nursing Homes Tell 3rd Circ.
A group of bankrupt nursing homes told a Third Circuit panel Wednesday that a nearly $36 million judgment against it for not paying employees overtime should be thrown out because the judge who ordered it found sweeping Fair Labor Standards Act violations across the company without the support of the evidence.
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September 10, 2025
SEC Taps Gibson Atty To Head Corporation Finance Division
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday named the co-chair of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's securities regulation practice as the new leader of its Division of Corporation Finance, which is responsible for writing rules and providing guidance to publicly traded companies on shareholder disclosure matters, among other things.
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September 10, 2025
OFAC Chief Counsel Returns To Jenner & Block In DC
The former chief counsel to the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has returned to Jenner & Block LLP in Washington, D.C., to co-chair two practice groups, the firm said on Wednesday.
Expert Analysis
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Potential Paths To Modernizing The Bank Secrecy Act
The Bank Secrecy Act's analog design has become increasingly incompatible with today's digital financial ecosystem, but legislative reforms, coupled with regulatory adjustments including updated thresholds, feedback mechanisms and innovation sandboxes, would help adjust the act to the unique challenges of modern technology, says Matthew Biben at King & Spalding.
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DOJ Memo Shifts Interpretation Of Discrimination Laws
While the recent memorandum targeting federal funding recipients' unlawful discrimination reiterates some long-standing interpretations of antidiscrimination law, it takes stronger positions on facially neutral practices and race-conscious recruiting that federal courts and prior administrations have not treated as unlawful, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Preparing For DEA Rescheduling Of 2 Research Chemicals
A recent decision to allow the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify two research psychedelics in Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act may pose significant barriers to scientific study, including stringent registration requirements, heightened security protocols and burdensome reporting obligations, say Kimberly Chew at Husch Blackwell and Jackie von Salm at Psilera.
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Data Center Construction Trends, Challenges In Ill. And Texas
Data centers in Illinois and Texas are reshaping the industrial landscape, but this growth brings legal complexity, so developers, contractors and corporate legal departments must have a deep understanding of each state's legal terrain and take a proactive approach to risk management, say attorneys at Hicks Johnson.
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Definitions Of 'Waters Of The United States' Ebb And Flow
The issue of defining whether "waters of the United States" include streams and channels that sometimes have water and sometimes do not has been fraught since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2006 Rapanos decision, but a possible new rule may help property owners stay out of court, says Neal McAliley at Carlton Fields.
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A Change In Big Pharma Response To FTC Delisting Warnings
While the effect of Federal Trade Commission notices to pharmaceutical companies about allegedly improper patent listings in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Orange Book had been de minimis through the end of last year, July data shows an increase in delistings, say Ratib Ali and Celia Lu at Competition Dynamics.
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Texas Property Law Complicates Financing And Development
A new Texas law imposing expansive state-level restrictions on properties owned by entities from designated countries creates a major obstacle for some lenders, developers and other stakeholders, as well as new diligence requirements for foreign companies, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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How Sustainability Reporting Changed In The 1st Half Of 2025
Sustainability reporting is evolving rapidly, with fewer S&P 500 companies publishing reports in the first half of 2025 than in the same period last year, suggesting that companies are becoming more selective and intentional about their reporting, say analysts at Orrick.
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As Product Recalls Rise, So Do The Stakes For The Bar
Recent recall announcements affecting over 800,000 Ford vehicles highlight how product recalls have become more frequent, complex and safety-critical than ever, raising key practice questions for counsel, and raising the stakes in product liability litigation, says Ken Fulginiti at Fulginiti Law.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From Texas AUSA To BigLaw
As I learned when I transitioned from an assistant U.S. attorney to a BigLaw partner, the move from government to private practice is not without its hurdles, but it offers immense potential for growth and the opportunity to use highly transferable skills developed in public service, says Jeffery Vaden at Bracewell.
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Lessons From Liberty Mutual FCPA Declination
Liberty Mutual’s recent Foreign Corrupt Practices Act resolution with the U.S. Department of Justice signals that the Trump administration is once again considering such declinations after an enforcement pause, offering some assurances for companies regarding the benefits of voluntary self-disclosure, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.
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3 Rulings Show Hurdles To Proving Market Manipulation Fraud
Three recent conviction reversals from New York federal courts highlight the challenges that prosecutors face in establishing fraud and market manipulation allegations, suggesting that courts are increasingly reluctant to find criminal liability when novel theories are advanced, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Drafting M&A Docs After Delaware Corp. Law Amendments
Attorneys at Greenberg Traurig discuss how the March and June amendments to the Delaware General Corporation Law affect the drafting of corporate and M&A documents, including board resolutions, governing documents, and books and records demands.
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Advice For 1st-Gen Lawyers Entering The Legal Profession
Nikki Hurtado at The Ferraro Law Firm tells her story of being a first-generation lawyer and how others who begin their professional journeys without the benefit of playbooks handed down by relatives can turn this disadvantage into their greatest strength.
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FTC Focus: When Green Goals And Antitrust Law Collide
A recently concluded Federal Trade Commission investigation has turned an emissions deal involving major U.S. heavy-duty truck manufacturers that was brokered by the California Air Resources Board into a cautionary tale about the potential for environmental agreements to run afoul of competition rules, say attorneys at Proskauer.