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Compliance

  • July 14, 2025

    Media Matters Wants FTC Probe Paused Pending Suit

    Media Matters for America asked a D.C. federal court Monday for a preliminary injunction to block what it calls a retaliatory investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, saying the agency has been weaponized against the organization for simply exercising its First Amendment rights.

  • July 14, 2025

    OCC Drops 'Disparate Impact' From Fair Lending Oversight

    The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Monday that it will stop checking to see whether banks' lending practices are causing potentially unintended discrimination, scrubbing so-called disparate-impact liability from its examination policies.

  • July 14, 2025

    GAO Report Looks At FAA Use Of Fee Waivers In Settlements

    The Federal Aviation Administration has required pilots and other certificate holders to waive their rights to seek attorney fees and other costs under the Equal Access to Justice Act in order to settle enforcement actions initiated against them, according to a U.S. Government Accountability Office report released Monday.

  • July 14, 2025

    FCC To Hear Anuvu's Claim It Got Shorted In Spectrum Move

    Anuvu Licensing Holdings will get a hearing before an administrative law judge at the Federal Communications Commission to determine if the agency owes it money for clearing out part of the C-band to repurpose the spectrum.

  • July 14, 2025

    Google Ads Rival Wants Search Fix To Include It, AI Cos.

    If a D.C. federal judge agrees with the Justice Department and orders Google to syndicate its search and search advertising results, he should do so in a way that permits expansive access, a search advertising rival said Friday in an 11th-hour intervention bid.

  • July 14, 2025

    Ga. Contractor Denies Harassment Claims In EEOC Lawsuit

    A Georgia construction contractor has denied claims from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that a former employee of the company faced years of sexual harassment and groping from its owner and CEO.

  • July 14, 2025

    Assault Exclusion Bars Drywall Co.'s Murder Coverage Bid

    A drywall company's insurer has no duty to cover the business in a pending wrongful death lawsuit over a woman's murder, a Texas federal court ruled Monday, saying that both "common sense" and a "plethora of caselaw" support its finding that an assault and battery exclusion applies.

  • July 14, 2025

    9th Circ. Keeps Alive Part Of Prof's DEI Free Speech Fight

    A California professor can continue to sue his community college district over its enforcement of certain state regulations proscribing diversity and inclusion practices because they press on his free speech rights, the Ninth Circuit said, but stopped short of reviving the entire lawsuit.

  • July 14, 2025

    Tulsa Sheriff, DA Seek Pause In Tribal Jurisdiction Dispute

    Tulsa County, Oklahoma, Sheriff Vic Regalado and District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler on Friday asked a federal judge to pause the Muscogee (Creek) Nation's lawsuit seeking to prevent the state from asserting criminal jurisdiction on its reservation until the U.S. Supreme Court reviews a similar case.

  • July 14, 2025

    Ga. County Wants 11th Circ. To Nix Trans Deputy's Health Win

    A Georgia county urged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse a transgender sheriff's deputy's trial court win on claims that denying coverage for a vaginoplasty constituted discrimination in violation of Title VII, arguing the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision upholding a Tennessee state ban on gender-affirming care for minors supported its appeal.

  • July 14, 2025

    Pa. Bank Fights Court Oversight After $3M Redlining Deal

    A Pennsylvania bank that agreed to pay a $3 million settlement to resolve the U.S. Department of Justice's allegations of discriminatory lending practices has asked a federal judge to reject a request by fair housing advocacy groups to continue court oversight to ensure the bank's compliance with the settlement terms.

  • July 14, 2025

    Feds Argue Trump's Energy Orders Should Not Be Blocked

    The federal government is fighting an effort to block President Donald Trump's fossil fuel-boosting executive orders that was filed by youths alleging U.S. energy policies harm their future by exacerbating climate change.

  • July 14, 2025

    States Back Domestic Violence Groups In DOJ Grant Fight

    Nearly two dozen states are backing a group of domestic violence coalitions in their bid to block the Trump administration from imposing restrictions on grants by the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women, saying the funding is critical to their ability to fulfill their public safety obligations.

  • July 14, 2025

    2nd Circ. Affirms Biotech Founder's Win In Trading Suit

    The Second Circuit on Monday affirmed an early win for the founder of biotech Y-mAbs Therapeutics Inc. in a suit alleging he realized more than $2.5 million in short-swing profits after he exchanged his shares for those of another company, agreeing with the lower court that the move didn't constitute a "purchase."

  • July 14, 2025

    5th Circ. Revives Suit Accusing UT Of Race-Based Admissions

    A Fifth Circuit panel partially revived a lawsuit accusing the University of Texas at Austin of continuing to consider race in admissions decisions despite the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 decision ending affirmative action programs.

  • July 14, 2025

    Ex-ComEd Exec Gets 1½ Years For Hiding Madigan Bribes

    An Illinois federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Commonwealth Edison executive and lobbyist to one and a half years in prison for his role in a scheme to steer payments to allies of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to win his support for energy legislation favorable to the utility, and for falsifying company records to hide no-show jobs for Madigan's associates.

  • July 14, 2025

    'Varsity Blues' Ringleader Must Disclose Case To New Clients

    The convicted mastermind of the Varsity Blues college admissions bribery scandal will be allowed to work as an adviser to college applicants, but must post a notice about the case on the website of his new venture, a Massachusetts federal judge ordered Monday.

  • July 14, 2025

    CFTC Must Pay $3M In Atty Fees As Sanctions In Forex Case

    A New Jersey federal judge ordered the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Friday to pay back over $3.1 million in attorney fees to a foreign exchange company after dismissing the regulator's case for bad-faith sanctionable behavior.

  • July 14, 2025

    Amazon Aims To Flush 'Greenwashing' Toilet Paper Suit

    Amazon.com Inc. is asking a Washington federal court to throw out a proposed class action alleging it "greenwashed" its toilet paper products by misleading consumers about the source of wood for the products, saying the plaintiffs can't read their subjective expectations into the labeling.

  • July 14, 2025

    Judge Sets Hearing In $70M Alaskan Broadband Grant Row

    After over a year of battling it out in Alaska federal court, two Native Alaskan villages will have their chance to go before the judge and argue for summary judgment against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in their suit over $70 million in broadband funds.

  • July 14, 2025

    Ex-NFL Player Asks 5th Circ. To Keep $1.86M Fee Award Intact

    The National Football League's retirement plan had a chance to appeal a $1.86 million award of attorney fees to former running back Michael Cloud three years ago in his disability benefits suit, but it chose not to do so, Cloud told the Fifth Circuit in his pushback against the plan's latest appeal.

  • July 14, 2025

    NCAA Intensifies Effort To Shield Athlete Eligibility Rules

    The sprawling legal battle over the NCAA's restrictions on athletes' eligibility is trudging forward in Tennessee federal court, where the organization is warning that litigants are threatening to upend the entire structure of collegiate athletics.

  • July 14, 2025

    Home Depot Faces Suit Over Worker Moonlighting Ban

    Home Depot Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action from a former retail worker who alleged that the company is violating Washington state labor laws by banning its lowest-earning employees from moonlighting at second jobs.

  • July 14, 2025

    Ex-Seward & Kissel Partner Joins EDNY As 1st Asst. US Atty

    U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. announced Monday he has selected a former federal prosecutor and Seward & Kissel LLP partner to serve as first assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

  • July 14, 2025

    Calif. Native American Casino Seeks To Block Workers' Strike

    A Native American casino near Yosemite National Park accused the union that represents about half of its employees of launching an illegal strike, claiming in a suit filed in California federal court that the UNITE HERE local is violating the law in several ways.

Expert Analysis

  • Navigating Antitrust Risks When Responding To Tariffs

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    Companies should assess competitive perils, implement compliance safeguards and document independent decision-making as they consider their responses to recent tariff pressures, say attorneys at White & Case.

  • Bill Leaves Renewable Cos. In Dark On Farmland Reporting

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    A U.S. Senate bill to update disclosure requirements for foreign control of U.S. farmland does not provide much-needed guidance on how to report renewable energy development on agricultural property, leaving significant compliance risks for project developers, say attorneys at Hodgson Russ.

  • How State AG Consumer Finance Enforcement Is Expanding

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    As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau becomes less active, state attorneys general are increasingly shaping the enforcement landscape for consumer financial services — and several areas of focus have recently emerged, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: From US Rep. To Boutique Firm

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    My transition from serving as a member of Congress to becoming a partner at a boutique firm has been remarkably smooth, in part because I never stopped exercising my legal muscles, maintained relationships with my former colleagues and set the right tone at the outset, says Mondaire Jones at Friedman Kaplan.

  • Opinion

    FCPA Shift Is A Good Start, But There's More DOJ Should Do

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    The U.S. Department of Justice’s new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act guidelines bring a needed course correction amid overexpansive enforcement, but there’s more the DOJ can do to provide additional clarity and predictability for global companies, say attorneys at Norton Rose.

  • Opinion

    IRS Should Work With Industry On Microcaptive Regs

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    The IRS should engage with microcaptive insurance owners to develop better regulations on these arrangements or risk the emergence of common law guidance as taxpayers with legitimate programs seek relief in the federal courts, says Dustin Carlson at SRA 831(b) Admin.

  • How Providers Can Brace For Drug Pricing Policy Changes

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    Though it's uncertain which provisions of the Trump administration's executive order aimed at addressing prescription drug costs will eventually be implemented, stakeholders can reduce potential negative outcomes by understanding pathways that could be used to effectuate the order's directives, say attorneys at McDermott.

  • FLSA Interpretation Patterns Emerge 1 Year After Loper Bright

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    One year after the U.S. Supreme Court's monumental decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, four distinct avenues of judicial decision-making have taken shape among lower courts that are responding to their newfound freedom in interpreting the Fair Labor Standards Act through U.S. Department of Labor regulations, say attorneys at Kutak Rock.

  • Comparing New Neural Data Privacy Laws In 4 States

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    Although no federal law yet addresses neural privacy comprehensively, the combined effect of recent state laws in Colorado, California, Montana and Connecticut is already shaping the regulatory future, but a multistate compliance strategy has quickly become a gating item for those experimenting with neuro-enabled workplace tools, says Kristen Mathews at Cooley.

  • 2025's First Half Brings Regulatory Detours For Fintechs

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    The first half of the year has resulted in a bifurcated regulatory environment for fintechs, featuring narrowed enforcement in some areas, heightened scrutiny in others and a policy window that, with proper compliance, offers meaningful opportunities for innovation, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Debunking 4 Misconceptions Around Texas' IV Therapy Law

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    Despite industry confusion, an IV therapy law enacted in Texas last week may actually be the most business-friendly regulatory development the medical spa industry has seen in recent years, says Keith Lefkowitz at Hendershot Cowart.

  • Employer Tips For Responding To ICE In The Workplace

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    Increased immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump's administration has left employers struggling to balance their compliance obligations with their desire to provide a safe workplace, so creating a thorough response plan and training for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's presence at the workplace is crucial, say attorneys at Hanson Bridgett.

  • Opinion

    Senate's 41% Litigation Finance Tax Would Hurt Legal System

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    The Senate’s latest version of the Big Beautiful Bill Act would impose a 41% tax on the litigation finance industry, but the tax is totally disconnected from the concerns it purports to address, and it would set the country back to a time when small plaintiffs had little recourse against big defendants, says Anthony Sebok at Cardozo School of Law.

  • Comparing Stablecoin Bills From UK, EU, US And Hong Kong

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    For multinational stablecoin issuers, navigating the differences and similarities among regimes in the U.K., EU, Hong Kong and U.S., which are currently unfolding in several key ways, is critical to achieving scalable, compliant operations, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • What Baseball Can Teach Criminal Attys About Rule Of Lenity

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    Judges tend to assess ambiguous criminal laws not unlike how baseball umpires approach checked swings, so defense attorneys should consider how to best frame their arguments to maximize courts' willingness to invoke the rule of lenity, wherein a tie goes to the defendant, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.

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