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Compliance

  • June 17, 2025

    BowFlex Recall Burdens Buyers Of 3.7M Dumbbells, Suit Says

    A BowFlex buyer is suing the brand's new owner in California federal court, alleging that a recall of defective adjustable dumbbells wrongly leaves out the vast majority of the product's buyers, covering only about 100,000 of the 3.8 million products sold.

  • June 17, 2025

    Former Antitrust Enforcers Launching New Firm

    Former enforcers from the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice launched a new law firm on Tuesday, Simonsen Sussman LLP, to bring cases on behalf of entrepreneurs, small businesses, workers and other victims of anticompetitive practices.

  • June 16, 2025

    Paddle.com To Pay FTC $5M Over Tech Support Scam Claims

    Payment processing company Paddle.com Market Ltd. agreed on Monday to pay $5 million to settle a suit brought by the Federal Trade Commission accusing it of assisting and processing payments for tech support scams.

  • June 16, 2025

    DOJ Won't Charge PE Firm That Acquired Sanctions Violator

    The U.S. Department of Justice has decided not to go after private equity firm White Deer Management LLC after it discovered and voluntarily disclosed that Unicat's former leadership had violated economic sanctions and export laws, according to an announcement made Monday.

  • June 16, 2025

    DOJ Says Naval Academy Admissions Policy Case Is Moot

    The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday asked the Fourth Circuit to toss an appeal challenging the U.S. Naval Academy's consideration of race in admissions because the school has since changed its admissions program "so that race and ethnicity are no longer considered in any way at any point."

  • June 16, 2025

    Ex-Gree Execs Get 3 Yrs. In Landmark Product Safety Case

    Two former Gree USA Inc. executives were sentenced to approximately three years in prison each by a California federal judge on Monday, after being found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission by failing to report defective humidifiers in landmark criminal convictions under the Consumer Product Safety Act.

  • June 16, 2025

    US, UK Reach Trade Deal On Cars; Steel Tariffs Still Unresolved

    President Donald Trump signed an order Monday enshrining the nation's new trade deal with U.K. governments under which the U.S. agreed to slash tariffs on 100,000 imported U.K. automobiles and auto parts, while eliminating tariffs on certain aerospace products but leaving steel and pharmaceuticals tariffs for future negotiations.

  • June 16, 2025

    Bank Groups Will Join In On Fed's Debit-Card Swipe Fee Fight

    Two banking industry groups received a North Dakota federal judge's permission Monday to present the perspective of banks when he holds a key hearing next month to mull a retailer-backed legal challenge to the Federal Reserve's limits on debit-card swipe fees.

  • June 16, 2025

    Maryland, Kalshi Clash Over Sports Contract Oversight

    Maryland regulators and KalshiEx are dueling over whether the trading platform's past battle with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to list its election contracts complicates its current bid to block Maryland regulators from taking action over contracts that allow traders to wager on the outcome of sporting events.

  • June 16, 2025

    FCC Defends Prison Phone Rate Caps At 1st Circ.

    The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to push the deadline for its prison phone rate caps back by one year for a company that has argued it needs more time, but it's still standing by the need for those caps at the First Circuit.

  • June 16, 2025

    NY Seeks To Move Feds' Climate Superfund Suit Upstate

    The Trump administration's lawsuit challenging New York's climate change Superfund law should be transferred from the Southern District of New York to the Northern District, where it can join a similar lawsuit lodged by several Republican-led states, New York told a federal judge.

  • June 16, 2025

    Petroleum Co. Owes $21M In Withdrawal Liability, Fund Says

    Petroleum company Sieveking Inc. was hit Monday with a $21 million withdrawal liability suit in Illinois federal court by a pension fund that says the company should be paying off its balance while it asks an arbitrator to weigh in.

  • June 16, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    Delaware's Court of Chancery this past week sought answers in the high-stakes battle over the constitutionality of newly enacted Delaware corporation law amendments, which will hitch a ride to the state's Supreme Court via a suit contesting a $117 million acquisition of Clearway Energy Inc. by its majority shareholder.

  • June 16, 2025

    CFTC Founding Chair Bagley Dies At 96

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's first chair, William T. Bagley, has died at the age of 96.

  • June 16, 2025

    Canadian Atty Must Pay SEC $323K Over Stock Promotion

    A Canadian securities attorney will pay over $323,000 to resolve U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that he drafted and executed sham consulting agreements at the heart of a scheme to conceal pay-for-play promotion of two so-called Regulation A offerings.

  • June 16, 2025

    VoIP Providers Want FCC To Preempt Calif. 'Overreach'

    Internet voice call providers are asking the Federal Communications Commission to preempt California from enforcing new rules that the providers consider "overreach" in regulating the businesses.

  • June 16, 2025

    Chancery Taps Lead Counsel For Chemours Disclosures Suit

    Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe and The Brown Law Firm PC got the nod in Delaware's Court of Chancery on Monday to lead a consolidated stockholder derivative suit seeking damages on behalf of Chemours Inc. arising from an alleged $575 million manipulation of company reports over two years.

  • June 16, 2025

    Gaming Group Backs High Court Fight In Wash. Compact Row

    The California Gaming Association is backing a casino owner and operator in its U.S. Supreme Court bid to undo a Ninth Circuit ruling dismissing the company's challenge to Washington state tribal gaming compacts, arguing the nonprofit has an interest in ensuring its members can pursue their legal claims.

  • June 16, 2025

    SEC Calls For Trial In SolarWinds Data Breach Suit

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is urging a New York federal judge to send its novel case against software developer SolarWinds Corp. to trial, arguing that the company hid its "pervasively poor cybersecurity practices" from investors ahead of a massive data breach that affected government and corporate clients.

  • June 16, 2025

    China Mobile Won't Give Up Info In Federal Probe, FCC Says

    China Mobile has failed to fully cooperate with an investigation of whether the company is violating restrictions on its U.S. operations and could soon be fined more than $25,000 per day if the situation continues, the Federal Communications Commission said Monday.

  • June 16, 2025

    Ohio Tells 6th Circ. PBM Case Doesn't Target Federal Work

    Ohio urged the Sixth Circuit to send its case accusing Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics of driving up prescription drug prices through rebate schemes back to state court, arguing the case doesn't target any federal government work by the pharmacy benefit managers.

  • June 16, 2025

    Opendoor Investors Score $39M Deal In Hyped Algorithm Suit

    Real estate firm Opendoor Technologies Inc. has agreed to pay $39 million as part of an investor settlement presented to an Arizona federal court for preliminary approval to resolve litigation accusing the company of overhyping its pricing algorithm software.

  • June 16, 2025

    Rural Broadband Cos. Say Scalability, Cost Key To Buildout

    Rural network providers are happy about some of the changes the U.S. Department of Commerce is making to the multibillion-dollar broadband deployment program BEAD, but say they also think the government should turn a keen eye toward making sure projects are scalable and cost-efficient.

  • June 16, 2025

    Shell Loses Bid To Halt Suit Over Oil Terminal's Pollution Plan

    Two Shell Oil Co. subsidiaries cannot halt discovery in an environmental group's challenge to pollution control efforts at a New Haven petroleum terminal based on their interpretations of a state agency's draft permit, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled.

  • June 16, 2025

    6th Circ. Denies Mich. Gov.'s Rehearing Bid In Pipeline Suit

    A three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit on Monday rejected a request for a rehearing from Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who had asked the appellate court to reconsider its earlier decision that she didn't have sovereign immunity from Enbridge Energy's lawsuit seeking to halt her efforts to shut down the Line 5 pipeline.

Expert Analysis

  • Cos. Face Enviro Justice Tug-Of-War Between States, Feds

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    The second Trump administration's sweeping elimination of environmental justice policies, programs and funding, and targeting of state-level EJ initiatives, creates difficult questions for companies on how best to avoid friction with federal policy, navigate state compliance obligations and maintain important stakeholder relationships with communities, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

  • Top 3 Litigation Finance Deal-Killers, And How To Avoid Them

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    Like all transactions, litigation finance deals can sometimes collapse, but understanding the most common reasons for failure, including a lack of trust or a misunderstanding of deal terms, can help both parties avoid problems, say Rebecca Berrebi at Avenue 33 and Boris Ziser at Schulte Roth.

  • A 2-Step System For Choosing A Digital Asset Reporting Path

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    Under the Internal Revenue Service's new digital asset reporting regulation, each type of asset may have three potential reporting destinations, so a detailed testing framework can help to determine the appropriate path, says Keval Sonecha at Sonecha & Amlani.

  • NEPA Repeal Could Slow Down Environmental Review

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    As the Trump administration has rescinded the Council on Environmental Quality's long-standing National Environmental Policy Act regulations, projects that require NEPA review may be bogged down by significant regulatory uncertainty and litigation risks, potentially undermining the administration's intent to streamline the permitting process, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.

  • Compliance Lessons From Warby Parker's HIPAA Fine

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    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' civil money penalty against Warby Parker highlights the emerging challenges that consumer-facing brands encounter when expanding into healthcare-adjacent sectors, with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act compliance being a potential focus of regulatory attention, say attorneys at Saul Ewing.

  • 5th Circ. Ruling Is Latest Signal Of Shaky Qui Tam Landscape

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    In his recent concurring opinion in U.S. v. Peripheral Vascular Associates, a Fifth Circuit judge joined a growing list of jurists suggesting that the False Claims Act's whistleblower provisions are unconstitutional, underscoring that acceptance of qui tam relators can no longer be taken for granted, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.

  • Foreign Countries Have Strong Foundation To Fill FCPA Void

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    Though the U.S. has paused enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, liberal democracies across the globe are well equipped to reverse any setback in anti-corruption enforcement, potentially heightening prosecution risk for companies headquartered in the U.S., says Stephen Kohn at Kohn Kohn.

  • How Attys Can Use A Therapy Model To Help Triggered Clients

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    Attorneys can lean on key principles from a psychotherapeutic paradigm known as the "Internal Family Systems" model to help manage triggered clients and get settlement negotiations back on track, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.

  • A Tale Of Two Admins: Parsing 1st Half Of SEC's FY 2025

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    The first half of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's fiscal year 2025, which ended March 31, was unusually eventful, marked by a flurry of enforcement actions in the last three months of former Chair Gary Gensler's tenure and a prompt pivot after Inauguration Day, say attorneys at Jones Day.

  • How Banks Can Manage Risk As AI Adoption Expands

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    Following new, supportive comments from financial regulatory leaders about the use of artificial intelligence in the industry, banks may move toward wider, less-tentative adoption of the technology, but will also need to deploy important risk management measures, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • Medicare Advantage Enforcement Strong Amid Agency Cuts

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    The second Trump administration's actions thus far suggest that Medicare Advantage enforcement remains a bipartisan focus despite challenges presented by evolving trends in federal agency staffing and resources, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • What Banks Must Do To Attract Gen Z Customers

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    The young adults of Generation Z bank differently, so financial institutions must engage appropriately if they wish to attract this key population, including by leveraging savvy marketing, well-designed online interfaces and top-notch customer service, says Madeline Thieschafer at Fredrikson & Byron.

  • What Bank Regulator Consolidation Would Mean For Industry

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    Speculation over the Trump administration’s potential plans to consolidate financial service regulators is intensifying uncertainty, but no matter the outcome for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the industry should expect continued policy changes, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

  • Getting Ahead Of The SEC's Continued Focus On Cyber, AI

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is showing it will continue to scrutinize actions involving cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, but there are proactive measures that companies and financial institutions can take to avoid regulatory scrutiny going forward, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • 3 Steps For In-House Counsel To Assess Litigation Claims

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    Before a potential economic downturn, in-house attorneys should investigate whether their company is sitting on hidden litigation claims that could unlock large recoveries to help the business withstand tough times, says Will Burgess at Hilgers Graben.

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