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Consumer Protection

  • August 26, 2025

    DC Seeks Toss Of Challenge To Cannabinoid Rule

    There is nothing unconstitutional about the District of Columbia's laws which lump delta-9 THC into same category as marijuana and mandates all sellers to obtain a medical cannabis license, the city told a federal court, urging it to dismiss a lawsuit seeking to upend the city statutes filed by a hemp retailer whose shop was shut down.

  • August 26, 2025

    Standard General's Racial Bias Claims Against FCC Fall Flat

    Hedge fund manager Soo Kim has failed to convince a D.C. federal judge that the Federal Communications Commission and a cadre of media players were part of a racist conspiracy to kill his $8.6 billion merger with broadcaster Tegna.

  • August 26, 2025

    Google Backers Cite Security, Competition To 9th Circ.

    Trade groups, cybersecurity experts, think tanks and others backed Google with proposed Ninth Circuit amicus briefs arguing that an order affirmed by an appeals panel opening up the Play Store will upend competition and endanger security.

  • August 26, 2025

    Capital One Beats Robocall Class Cert. Appeal At 4th Circ.

    The Fourth Circuit has affirmed that consumers who accused Capital One of violating consumer protection laws by leaving prerecorded messages on their cell phones cannot be certified as a class, agreeing that it would be too difficult to ascertain members of the proposed class who weren't customers of the bank.

  • August 26, 2025

    Firm Says It Shouldn't Owe SEC For Ex-Owner's Alleged Fraud

    A now-shuttered investment advisory firm has opposed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's attempt to hold it jointly liable for a $5 million judgment alongside its former owner who was accused of scamming elderly clients, arguing it did not profit from the alleged exploitation.

  • August 26, 2025

    USDOT Threatens States With Funding Cuts Over Truck Safety

    The U.S. Department of Transportation on Tuesday threatened to withhold funds from California, Washington and New Mexico over their apparent failures to enforce federal mandates that all commercial truck drivers be proficient in the English language.

  • August 26, 2025

    PE Firm Escapes Patients' Anesthesia Antitrust Claims

    A Texas federal court tossed claims against Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe from a proposed class of patients accusing the private equity firm of monopolizing the anesthesiology market through a series of acquisitions, but let claims against a company it formed proceed.

  • August 26, 2025

    Farmers Defend Climate Superfund Law Against Challenges

    Farmers and environmentalists are asking a Vermont federal judge to toss the U.S. government's, industry groups' and red states' lawsuits challenging the state's climate change Superfund law, saying it's a lawful method to pay for damages caused by the phenomenon.

  • August 26, 2025

    Joy Dish Soap Maker Scrubs $12M Suit Against Conn. PE Firm

    The Michigan company that formerly manufactured Joy Dish Soap is scrubbing two of its lawsuits against a Connecticut private equity firm, Piney Lake Capital Management LP, that claimed the latter soiled a deal to produce the soap after purchasing the brand from Procter & Gamble.

  • August 26, 2025

    Hemp Interests Say Conn. Policy Inconsistent With Federal Law

    A group of Connecticut hemp farmers and product manufacturers alleged in a federal lawsuit Tuesday that the state's crackdown on hemp products is incompatible with the federal law that legalized it.

  • August 26, 2025

    Wash. Panel Nixes $5.5M Judgment In Asbestos Cancer Suit

    A Washington appeals panel has thrown out a $5.5 million judgment against Hardie-Tynes Co. Inc. in a suit alleging its predecessor's products contained asbestos that gave a former Navy worker mesothelioma, saying there's no successor liability where the new company did not make products containing the same dangerous substance.

  • August 26, 2025

    FCC Ordered To Turn Over More DOGE Docs

    A D.C. federal judge ruled Tuesday the Federal Communications Commission must produce more documents related to its communications with Elon Musk's government-slashing Department of Government Efficiency.

  • August 26, 2025

    Blacklist Suit Blocked By Illegal Biz Ties, Justices Told

    LegitScript has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene against the Ninth Circuit's decision to make it face PharmacyChecker.com's antitrust blacklisting claims, arguing the lower court rulings wrongly allow PharmacyChecker to sue to protect a business focused on facilitating the illegal importation of drugs.

  • August 26, 2025

    4th Circ. Revokes Class Cert. In Progressive Car Valuation Suit

    The Fourth Circuit reversed a Progressive Insurance policyholder's class certification win over certain adjustments the insurer makes when calculating the actual cash value of a totaled vehicle, saying that determining whether Progressive breached each insured's policy is a "highly individualized assessment."

  • August 26, 2025

    2nd Circ. OKs Tossing HR Biz TM Suit Over Ownership Issue

    The Second Circuit dismissed Tuesday a trademark infringement lawsuit brought against human resources services provider Rippling by competitor Ripple Analytics, saying a lower court was right to dismiss the case since Ripple's CEO was the actual owner of the trademark at issue, not his company.

  • August 26, 2025

    HPE's Trump-Tied Lobbyists Cast 'Pall' Over Merger Review

    The firing of two senior officials in the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division who complained after being forced to accept a merger clearance settlement has caused many practitioners to question whether the traditional separation between competition enforcement and other White House priorities is a thing of the past.

  • August 26, 2025

    Cigna Strikes ERISA Ghost Network Suit Settlement Deal

    Cigna Health and Life Insurance Co. has agreed to settle a proposed class action alleging the health plan administrator violated federal benefits law by advertising providers as in-network who were out-of-network to participants in employer-sponsored health benefit plans that Cigna administered, according to filings in Illinois federal court.

  • August 26, 2025

    MAC's Live Video Try-On Tech Violates BIPA, Customer Says

    A MAC Cosmetics customer has lodged proposed class biometric privacy claims against the beauty retailer in Illinois state court, claiming the company uses live-video, try-on technology that scans and uses consumers' geometric facial data without informed consent.

  • August 26, 2025

    1st Circ. Says Insurer Owes No Defense In Eviction Suits

    A Liberty Mutual unit has no duty to defend a commercial real estate loan provider in underlying suits over the eviction of residents from a Massachusetts senior care facility, the First Circuit ruled, finding the insurer's denial of coverage to be reasonable.

  • August 26, 2025

    TikTok Takes State's Addictive App Case To NC Top Court

    TikTok and its Chinese parent company are taking the state of North Carolina's lawsuit accusing it of intentionally designing the app to addict young users to the state's highest court after a Business Court judge rejected their early exit bid.

  • August 25, 2025

    Major Food Cos. Beat Suit Over Selling Kids Addictive Foods

    A Pennsylvania federal judge on Monday threw out a suit claiming that The Kraft Heinz Co., Nestle USA, General Mills and other major food companies are aggressively marketing highly addictive, ultra-processed foods to children, ruling that the plaintiff hasn't adequately alleged that he was harmed by the companies' products.

  • August 25, 2025

    Eli Lilly Settles Feud With Clinics Over TM Infringement

    Eli Lilly & Co. has come to terms with two clinics that it sued in Washington federal court for trademark infringement after accusing them of tricking customers into thinking they were buying brand name versions of weight loss medications Mounjaro and Zepbound.

  • August 25, 2025

    Del. Justices Won't Revive Hunter Biden Defamation Suit

    Delaware's highest court on Monday affirmed a lower court's decision to toss defamation claims a computer repair shop owner lodged against Hunter Biden and others over media reports he asserted tied him to Russian disinformation, saying no reasonable person would have concluded that statements he alleged were defamatory concerned him.

  • August 25, 2025

    'Bring Him In': Judge Blasts Google Atty Over Witness Travel

    The California federal judge overseeing a multibillion-dollar privacy lawsuit alleging Google illegally collected data from 98 million cellphone users chastised an attorney for the tech giant for allowing a Google employee on the witness list to leave on a trip, ordering the lawyer to "get him on an airplane" and "bring him in."

  • August 25, 2025

    FTC Says 'Conversational AI' Company Misled Small Businesses

    The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday accused artificial intelligence company Air AI Technologies of making deceptive claims about what businesses and entrepreneurs could achieve with its "conversational AI" tool, according to a suit filed in Arizona federal court.

Expert Analysis

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    Volunteering At Schools Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Speaking to elementary school students about the importance of college and other opportunities after high school — especially students who may not see those paths reflected in their daily lives — not only taught me the importance of giving back, but also helped to sharpen several skills essential to a successful legal practice, says Guillermo Escobedo at Constangy.

  • Fed's Crypto Guidance Yank Could Drive Innovation

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    The Federal Reserve Board's recent withdrawal of guidance letters brings regulatory consistency and broadens banks' ability to innovate in the crypto-asset space, but key distinctions remain between the Fed's policy on crypto liquidity and that of the other banking regulators, says Dan Hartman at Nutter.

  • GM Case Highlights New Trends In AI-Related Securities Suits

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    Bold company statements about artificial intelligence have resulted in a rise in AI-related securities litigation, and a recent Michigan federal court decision in In Re: General Motors Co. Securities Litigation illustrates how courts are analyzing these AI-based claims and applying traditional securities concepts to new technologies, say attorneys at Cooley.

  • Attacks On Judicial Independence Tend To Manifest In 3 Ways

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    Attacks on judicial independence now run the gamut from gross (bald-faced interference) to systemic (structural changes) to insidious (efforts to undermine public trust), so lawyers, judges and the public must recognize the fateful moment in which we live and defend the rule of law every day, says Jim Moliterno at Washington and Lee University.

  • Statistics Tools Chart A Path For AI Use In Expert Testimony

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    To avoid the fate of numerous expert witnesses whose testimony was recently deemed inadmissible by courts, experts relying on artificial intelligence and machine learning should learn from statistical tools’ road to judicial acceptance, say directors at Secretariat.

  • Compliance Refresher For 'Made In USA' Labeling Claims

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    As tariffs reshape the trade landscape, companies hoping to invoke the powerful consumer appeal of “Made in USA” labels must understand the strict rules for making acceptable claims so they avoid the costly legal ramifications and brand damage possible from misrepresenting products as 100% American, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • 4 Strategies For De-Escalating Hospitality Industry Disputes

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    As recent uncertainty in the travel business exacerbates the risk of conflict in the hospitality sector, industry in-house counsel and their outside partners should consider proactive strategies aimed at de-escalating disputes, including preserving the record, avoiding boilerplate clauses and considering arbitration, say Randa Adra at Crowell and Stephanie Jean-Jacques at Hyatt.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Appreciating Civil Procedure

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    If you’re like me, law school’s often complex and theoretical approach to teaching civil procedure may have contributed to an early struggle with the topic, but when seen from a practical perspective, new lawyers may find they enjoy mastering these rules, says Chloe Villagomez at Foster Garvey.

  • Appellate Guidance Needed On California Chatbot Litigation

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    There is wide variation in how courts are applying the California Invasion of Privacy Act against website owners that allegedly help third parties spy on visitors via chatbots — and the lack of appellate rulings creates uncertainty, especially as these cases move toward the summary judgment stage, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • Calif. Bar Exam Fiasco Shows Why Attys Must Disclose AI Use

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    The recent revelation that a handful of questions from the controversial California bar exam administered in February were drafted using generative artificial intelligence demonstrates the continued importance of disclosure for attorneys who use AI tools, say attorneys at Troutman.

  • Platforms Face Section 230 Shift From Take It Down Act

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    The federal Take It Down Act, signed into law last month, aims to combat deepfake pornography with criminal penalties for individual wrongdoers, but the notice and takedown provisions change the broad protections provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in ways that directly affect platform providers, say attorneys at Troutman.

  • Ƶ's Guidance Withdrawal Deepens Industry Uncertainty

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    Following the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent withdrawal of dozens of guidance documents in a post-Chevron world, financial services providers are left to make their own determinations about the complex issues addressed in the now-revoked materials, presenting a significant compliance burden, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.

  • In 2nd Place, Va. 'Rocket Docket' Remains Old Reliable

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    The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia was again one of the fastest civil trial courts in the nation last year, and an interview with the court’s newest judge provides insights into why it continues to soar, says Robert Tata at Hunton.

  • How Attorneys Can Become Change Agents For Racial Equity

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    As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Law School.

  • Digital Equity Act Grant Terminations Raise Key Legal Issues

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    The Trump administration's move to cancel grant programs created under the Digital Equity Act yields key legal and policy questions facing the executive branch, Congress and the courts, including how the administration plans to implement the cancellation of the Digital Equity Act's appropriations in the first place, say attorneys at Akin.

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