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Compliance

  • September 12, 2025

    Robotics Co. Defends Accounting Errors As 'Growing Pains'

    Supply chain automation company Symbotic asked a Massachusetts federal court to end a suit from an investor accusing it and its executives of hiding faulty accounting processes, saying the suit wrongly attempts to "convert a freshly public company's growing pains" into securities fraud.

  • September 12, 2025

    Trump Admin Asks Justices To Shut Down Climate Torts

    The Trump administration has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to put an end to climate change lawsuits brought by state and local governments against fossil fuel companies, arguing that such suits are barred by both the U.S. Constitution and Clean Air Act.

  • September 12, 2025

    Buyers Seek Final OK In $1.5M Rust-Oleum Greenwashing Suit

    A class alleging that Rust-Oleum Corp. has been "greenwashing" its cleaning products with labels claiming they are "non-toxic" and "Earth Friendly" is asking a California federal court to grant final approval of a $1.5 million settlement to resolve the suit.

  • September 12, 2025

    NY Judge Keeps Cayuga Citizen's 911 Bias Claims Alive

    A federal judge has dismissed a New York tribe's Civil Rights Act claims against two of the state's counties, while leaving in play a tribal council member and citizen's allegations in the dispute over 911 access, saying he plausibly asserted discrimination.

  • September 12, 2025

    GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

    The federal government has accused Uber Technologies Inc. of discriminating against riders with disabilities, including individuals traveling with service animals or using stowable wheelchairs. Meanwhile, a new Law360 analysis shows that male lawyers still hold nearly three times as many equity partner roles as women do.

  • September 12, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Felesky Flynn, Gibson, Kirkland

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, copper mining companies Anglo American and Teck Resources plan to merge, EchoStar agrees to sell spectrum licenses to SpaceX, and Diversified Energy acquires fellow energy operator Canvas.

  • September 12, 2025

    Ex-Conn. Assistant AG Faces DQ Bid In Price-Fixing Case

    Drug companies accused of fixing prices for generics are seeking to disqualify former Connecticut Assistant Attorney General Joseph Nielsen and his law firm from representing insurers in a multidistrict litigation, arguing Nielsen had access to confidential information as a government attorney that he could unfairly use against them now.

  • September 12, 2025

    Frost Adds In-House Compliance Pro As New Group Leader

    Frost LLP has added an experienced former chief compliance officer and in-house counsel to serve as the leader of its new investigations, compliance and privacy practice.

  • September 12, 2025

    EU Lets Microsoft Unbundle Teams To Avoid Fine

    European Union antitrust officials signed off Friday on Microsoft's plans to offer cheaper Office 365 suites without the Teams collaboration platform in order to avoid a potentially hefty fine for past policies shackling the two services together.

  • September 12, 2025

    Title Group Says FinCEN Erred In Rule On All-Cash Resi Deals

    The American Land Title Association told a Florida federal judge that the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network underestimated the costs and overestimated the benefits of a rule imposing new reporting requirements on all-cash residential real estate transactions.

  • September 12, 2025

    Calif. Court Refuses To Block Climate Reporting Rules, Again

    A California federal court judge would not bar two new state climate disclosure regulations while a coalition of business groups takes its bid for an injunction up to the Ninth Circuit, saying his perspective hasn't shifted since the groups' last injunction request. 

  • September 11, 2025

    Energy Giants Largely Defeat Climate Change RICO Suit

    A Puerto Rico federal judge on Thursday mostly threw out, for good, racketeering and antitrust claims accusing a slew of energy industry companies of misrepresenting the climate dangers of fossil fuel products in causing a pair of hurricanes, though she declined to throw out some of the claims with prejudice.

  • September 11, 2025

    Uber Sued By Feds, Accused Of Disability-Based Bias

    The federal government Thursday hauled Uber Technologies Inc. into a federal court in San Francisco, accusing the transportation company of discriminating against riders with disabilities, including by allegedly refusing service to individuals traveling with service animals or using stowable wheelchairs.

  • September 11, 2025

    States Push Conn. Court To Ban Generic Drug Price-Fixing

    A court order is necessary to prevent pharmaceutical companies and their executives from illegally fixing the prices of generic drugs, a coalition of state enforcers have told a Connecticut federal judge, arguing there is a "reasonable expectation" that the allegedly anticompetitive behavior at the center of multidistrict litigation will happen again.

  • September 11, 2025

    Trump's CFTC Nominee Publicly Feuds With Winklevoss Twins

    Brian Quintenz is accusing crypto exchange founders Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss of pressuring President Donald Trump to delay his nomination to lead the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, saying in a social media post that the identical 44-year-old twins were apparently unhappy that he refused to make promises about a complaint they've lodged against agency attorneys.

  • September 11, 2025

    Trump Wants Fed Gov. Cook Out Before Next Rate Meeting

    The Trump administration asked the D.C. Circuit Thursday to halt a preliminary injunction barring the removal of Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, urging the appellate court to fast-track its decision in an effort to block Cook from participating in a meeting regarding interest rates next week.

  • September 11, 2025

    9th Circ. Says News Article Doesn't Doom Biotronik FCA Suit

    The Ninth Circuit revived a False Claims Act suit alleging that Biotronik orchestrated an illicit compensation scheme to boost the implantation of its cardiac devices in patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, saying the whistleblower's complaint presents new information that is not barred by fraud allegations disclosed in an earlier news article.

  • September 11, 2025

    Capital One Sues FDIC Over $149M SVB Bailout Charge

    Capital One has sued the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in Virginia federal court challenging a $149 million charge in a special assessment levied by the agency as part of an effort to recoup losses from the 2023 regional banking crisis, saying the FDIC improperly included certain data in its calculation of the special assessment.

  • September 11, 2025

    FTC Presses OpenAI, Meta On AI Chatbots' Impact On Kids

    The Federal Trade Commission is seeking information from Meta, OpenAI, Google and four others about the steps they're taking to measure and monitor the potentially negative impacts that AI-powered chatbots that are designed to act as companions are having on children and teens, the agency revealed Thursday. 

  • September 11, 2025

    'Delete Delete Delete': FCC To Slash Hundreds Of Old Rules

    The Federal Communications Commission plans to get rid of nearly 400 rules that it says are obsolete, some of which hail from the "Ma Bell" era, and the agency has said it won't seek input on its updated guidance unless pressed to do so.

  • September 11, 2025

    SEC Sues Podcast Host, Others Over $82M In Securities Sales

    A trio of allegedly unregistered securities brokers, including a podcaster, are facing a suit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging they sold unregistered oil and gas securities at the behest of sponsors of the associated unregistered offerings, raising a combined $82 million in exchange for transaction-based compensation.

  • September 11, 2025

    SEC Fights Musk's Bid To Send Twitter Case To Texas

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is challenging Elon Musk's attempt to have a lawsuit over his purchase of Twitter shares moved to Texas, arguing Thursday that there was "no question" that the case belonged in Washington, D.C.

  • September 11, 2025

    SEC Drops Suit Against Nikola Founder After Trump's Pardon

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday ended its civil enforcement action in New York federal court against Nikola founder Trevor Milton months after he was pardoned by President Donald Trump for his securities fraud conviction on charges of lying to boost the company's stock on Wall Street.

  • September 11, 2025

    Expert's AI Hallucinations Blamed On Attys' 'Willful Blindness'

    Utah anesthesiologists facing a False Claims Act fraudulent billing suit doubled down Wednesday on their bid to sanction and disqualify the whistleblower's counsel for not catching an expert witness report with numerous AI-generated fabrications, arguing the errors were so obvious that the failure to catch them constitutes "willful blindness."

  • September 11, 2025

    T-Mobile Settles With FCC Over Unapproved Phone Rollout

    T-Mobile has reached an agreement with the Federal Communications Commission to resolve allegations that it began marketing a new cellphone model before getting a green light in the FCC's equipment testing process.

Expert Analysis

  • DOJ Consumer Branch's End Leaves FDA Litigation Questions

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    With the dissolution of the U.S. Department of Justice's Consumer Protection Branch set to occur by Sept. 30, companies must carefully monitor how responsibility is reallocated for civil and criminal enforcement cases related to products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

  • Surveying The Changing Overdraft Fee Landscape

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    Despite recent federal moves that undermine consumer overdraft fee protections, last year’s increase in fee charges suggests banks will face continued scrutiny via litigation and state regulation, says Amanda Kurzendoerfer at Bates White.

  • What's At Stake In High Court Review Of Funds' Right To Sue

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming review of FS Credit Opportunities v. Saba Capital Master Fund, a case testing the limits of using Investment Company Act Section 47(b) to give funds a private right of action to enforce other sections of the law, could either encourage or curb similar activist investor lawsuits, say attorneys at Goodwin.

  • Handling Sanctions Risk Cartel Control Brings To Mexico Port

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    Companies operating in or trading with Mexico should take steps to mitigate heightened exposure triggered by routine port transactions following the U.S. Treasury’s recent unequivocal statement that a foreign terrorist organization controls the port of Manzanillo, says Jeremy Paner at Hughes Hubbard.

  • The Road Ahead For Digital Assets Looks Promising

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    With new legislation expected to accelerate the adoption of blockchain technology, and with regulators taking a markedly more permissive approach to digital assets, the convergence of traditional finance and decentralized finance is closer than ever, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • Opinion

    Closing The Chemical Safety Board Is A Mistake

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    The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, which investigates the root causes of major chemical incidents, provides an essential component of worker and community safety and should not be defunded, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • A Look At NAIC's Proposed Tool For Evaluation Of Insurer AI

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    The National Association of Insurance Commissioners' recently proposed tool that would enable regulators to assess risks posed by insurers' use of artificial intelligence takes a more expansive approach than the organization's 2023 model bulletin, which focused primarily on consumer risks, say attorneys at Eversheds.

  • How Securities Defendants Might Use New Wire Fraud Ruling

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    Though the Second Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Chastain decision — vacating the conviction of an ex-OpenSea staffer — involved the wire fraud statute, insider trading defendants might attempt to import the ruling’s reasoning into the securities realm, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.

  • Cos. Must Tailor Due Diligence As Trafficking Risks Increase

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    As legislators, prosecutors and plaintiffs attorneys increasingly focus on labor and sex trafficking throughout the U.S., companies must tailor their due diligence strategies to protect against forced labor trafficking risks in their supply chains, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • Unpacking The Supreme Court's Views On Judgment Finality

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's June opinion in BLOM Bank SAL v. Honickman reaffirmed that the bar for reopening a final judgment remains exceptionally high — even when the movant seeks to amend their complaint based on a new legal development, say attorneys at Venable.

  • Series

    Creating Botanical Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Pressing and framing plants that I grow has shown me that pursuing an endeavor that brings you joy can lead to surprising benefits for a legal career, including mental clarity, perspective and even a bit of humility, says Douglas Selph at Morris Manning.

  • New Federal Worker Religious Protections Test All Employers

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    A recent Trump administration memorandum expanding federal employees' religious protections raises tough questions for all employers and signals a larger trend toward significantly expanding religious rights in the workplace, say attorneys at Seyfarth.

  • Supreme Court's Criminal Law Decisions: The Term In Review

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    Though the U.S. Supreme Court’s criminal law decisions in its recently concluded term proved underwhelming by many measures, their opinions revealed trends in how the justices approach criminal cases and offered reminders for practitioners, says Kenneth Notter at MoloLamken.

  • Compliance Is A New Competitive Edge For Mortgage Lenders

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    So far, 2025 has introduced state and federal regulatory turbulence that is pressuring mortgage lenders to reevaluate the balance between competitive and compliant employee and customer recruiting practices, necessitating a compliance recalibration that prioritizes five key strategies, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.

  • Opinion

    Privacy Bill Must Be Amended To Protect Small Businesses

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    While a bill recently passed by the California Senate would exempt a company's use of legally compliant website advertising and tracking technologies from the California Invasion of Privacy Act, it must be amended to adequately protect small businesses, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

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