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Consumer Protection

  • September 19, 2025

    Fla. Court OKs $20M Settlement In Fortra Data Breach MDL

    A Florida federal judge gave final approval to a $20 million class action settlement as part of multidistrict litigation over theft of personal information from millions of U.S. citizens in a health data breach tied to a Russian ransomware group.

  • September 19, 2025

    MLB App Breaches Led To Lost, Stolen Tickets, Fan Claims

    Major League Baseball's mobile ticketing app has had systemic security breaches resulting in the disappearance or theft of game tickets throughout the season, with MLB failing to fully acknowledge the problem and leaving fans "in the lurch,'' according to a proposed class action in New York federal court.

  • September 19, 2025

    Treasury Launches Stablecoin Rule Push With Call For Input

    The U.S. Department of the Treasury on Friday asked for public input on key regulatory considerations for stablecoins as it begins crafting rules to govern the stable-value crypto tokens under the recently signed Genius Act.

  • September 19, 2025

    NC Atty Charged With Embezzlement, Elder Fund Exploitation

    A North Carolina attorney is facing 14 charges of embezzlement related to funds he allegedly rerouted to personal accounts that belonged to both his former law firm Walker Kiger PLLC and former clients.

  • September 19, 2025

    Agri Stats Looks To Nix DOJ Antitrust Case Ahead Of Trial

    Agri Stats is asking a Minnesota federal court to toss the government's antitrust case ahead of trial, arguing that enforcers still lack evidence to support their information-sharing claims despite scrutinizing the agricultural data firm's industry reports for more than a decade.

  • September 19, 2025

    Google Search Judge Values Storytelling, Not 'Denigrating'

    The federal judge who found Google liable for monopolizing search and ordered it to prop up rivals had advice in New York City remarks Friday for attorneys trying to sway courts: Write "plain," tell a story without "denigrating" the opposition, and back up economic analysis with business reality.

  • September 19, 2025

    Satellite Biz Bristles At Idea Of Tougher FCC Enviro Oversight

    Satellite companies say the Federal Communications Commission should exempt their operations from review under the National Environmental Policy Act because they are "inherently extraterritorial" projects.

  • September 19, 2025

    Calif. Official Questions FCC Power To Trim Historic Reviews

    The head of California's Office of Historic Preservation has criticized the Federal Communications Commission's decision to weigh regulatory changes that would streamline environmental and historic reviews for wireless broadband infrastructure projects.

  • September 19, 2025

    Victims' Families Sue Boeing, Honeywell Over Fatal 787 Crash

    The families of four passengers who were among the 260 killed in the crash of an Air India flight in June have hit Boeing and Honeywell with a product defect and negligence lawsuit in Delaware Superior Court, saying the companies ignored a defect in fuel cutoff switches.

  • September 19, 2025

    Ky.-Based CBD Co. Sues Tenn. Regulators Over New Law

    A Kentucky-based hemp products manufacturer is looking to block Tennessee officials from enforcing a new state law that would both ban direct-to-consumer sales and all health-related marketing labeling, according to a federal lawsuit that claims the statute violates the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause and the First Amendment.

  • September 19, 2025

    ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Union Drops Suit Over DOGE Access To Worker Data

    The National Treasury Employees Union on Friday dropped a lawsuit seeking to block Department of Government Efficiency access to personnel data at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a move that comes as the union assesses next steps in its other, higher-profile challenge to the consumer agency's downsizing.

  • September 19, 2025

    Boston Jury Awards $83M Asbestos Verdict Against Art Clay Co.

    A Boston jury has returned an $83 million verdict in favor of a woman who died from mesothelioma against a ceramic art clay company, which her lawyers believe to be the largest asbestos award delivered in the state.

  • September 19, 2025

    Fireball, Parrot Bay Buyers Win Cert. Over Malt Liquor False Ad

    A New York federal judge has certified classes of Fireball and Parrot Bay customers who have alleged beverage company Sazerac misleadingly labeled malt beverage versions of those products that led them to think they contained distilled spirits, ruling that whether the labels are materially misleading can be determined on a classwide basis.

  • September 19, 2025

    Privacy Class Suit Over Meta Code On Sports Site Stays Alive

    A California man's proposed class action accusing a website that provides free instructional sports videos of invading his privacy by way of Meta Platforms Inc. code will continue in federal court, after a judge denied the website's motions to dismiss the suit and to change the venue.

  • September 19, 2025

    McCarter & English Expands In Philly With Ex-Federal Atty

    A former assistant U.S. attorney has recently left the public sector and returned to private practice as a litigator with McCarter & English LLP's Philadelphia office.

  • September 19, 2025

    Moldex Says Rival Is Greenwashing With 'Bio-Based' Claims

    Moldex-Metric Inc. is suing rival earplug maker Protective Industrial Products Inc. in California federal court, saying it  is enjoying an unfair advantage by claiming that its products are "eco-friendly" and made with 82% "bio-based" material despite knowing that these claims are false.

  • September 19, 2025

    FTC Restructuring Its Non-DC Offices Under Single Banner

    The head of the Federal Trade Commission's Competition Bureau said in New York City remarks Friday that the agency is restructuring its offices outside its Washington, D.C., base so that those satellite units operate as a single division under an "easier, cleaner, more efficient reporting structure."

  • September 19, 2025

    Hagens Berman Seeks To Limit Sanctions For AI Mistakes

    A Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP partner should face only limited sanctions and the firm shouldn't be sanctioned at all over a contract attorney's use of artificial intelligence to generate legal briefs in a proposed class action against online platform OnlyFans since its attorneys did not act in bad faith, the firm told a California federal judge.

  • September 19, 2025

    Off The Bench: Briefings On Trans Ban, New Kalshi Conflicts

    In this week's Off The Bench, the U.S. Supreme Court receives initial briefs from West Virginia and Idaho regarding their bans on gender identity-based participation in school sports, Kalshi is taken to court by another state over its event contract offerings, and Washington, D.C.'s National Football League team takes a major step toward returning to its namesake city.

  • September 19, 2025

    Class Suit Says 'Advanced Alkaloids' Are Addictive Drugs

    A proposed class of consumers is suing CBD American Shaman LLC, its owner and affiliates in Missouri federal court, alleging that they're selling a concentrated kratom extract that is far more powerful and addictive than other kratom products, with harsh withdrawal side effects.

  • September 19, 2025

    Maine County Can Use Business Channel For Public Safety

    Maine's northernmost county will be able to draw from a pool of industrial channels to use for internal public safety and first responder communications.

  • September 19, 2025

    SEC Wins 'Scalping' Trial Against Penny Stock Trader

    A Manhattan federal jury held an Ohio man liable on Friday in a case brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleging he fraudulently earned over $2.5 million by buying up penny stocks, hyping them online and then selling for gains in a "scalping" scheme.

  • September 18, 2025

    MrBeast Ads, Kids' Privacy Practices Draw Watchdog Scrutiny

    An industry self-regulatory body has urged the media company created by YouTube personality MrBeast to revamp the way it advertises to and collects personal information from children, after identifying several issues with how the company presented ads on YouTube videos and promoted its Feastables chocolate brand.

  • September 18, 2025

    American Airlines On Hook For $9.6M For Passenger's Stroke

    A California federal jury has awarded $9.6 million to an American Airlines passenger who suffered an in-flight stroke resulting in severe injuries, after determining that the airline failed to heed its own guidelines regarding in-flight medical emergencies, according to plaintiffs' counsel.

  • September 18, 2025

    'My Life Ended In That Car,' Uber Assault Accuser Says

    A woman suing Uber over claims a driver sexually assaulted her told a San Francisco jury Thursday that "my life ended in that car" because of the lasting effects of the traumatic attack, and explained tearfully that she gave the driver a five-star review out of fear he'd come after her.

Expert Analysis

  • How The 5th, DC Circuits Agreed On FCC Forfeiture Orders

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    The Fifth and D.C. Circuits split this year on the Federal Communications Commission's process for adjudicating enforcement actions, but both implicitly recognized the problem with penalizing a party based on a forfeiture order that has not yet been challenged in any way in court, says Jared Marx at HWG.

  • 'Solicit' Ruling Offers Proxy Advisers Compliance Relief

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    The D.C. Circuit recently found that proxy voting advice does not fall under the legal definition of "solicitation," significantly narrowing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's regulatory power over such advisers, offering stability to the proxy advisory industry and providing temporary relief from new compliance burdens, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Evaluating The SEC's Rising Whistleblower Denial Rate

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    The rising trend of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower award claim denials represents a departure from the SEC's previous track record and may reflect a more conservative approach to whistleblower award determinations under the current administration, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • State Crypto Regs Diverge As Federal Framework Dawns

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    Following the Genius Act's passage, states like California, New York and Wyoming are racing to set new standards for crypto governance, creating both opportunity and risk for digital asset firms as innovation flourishes in some jurisdictions while costly friction emerges in others, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Parenting Skills That Can Help Lawyers Thrive Professionally

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    As kids head back to school, the time is ripe for lawyers who are parents to consider how they can incorporate their parenting skills to build a deep, meaningful and sustainable legal practice, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: September Lessons

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    In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses seven decisions pertaining to attorney fees in class action settlements, the predominance requirement in automobile insurance cases, how the no mootness exception applies if the named plaintiff is potentially subject to a strong individual defense, and more.

  • Series

    Teaching Trial Advocacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Teaching trial advocacy skills to other lawyers makes us better litigators because it makes us question our default methods, connect to young attorneys with new perspectives and focus on the needs of the real people at the heart of every trial, say Reuben Guttman, Veronica Finkelstein and Joleen Youngers.

  • What New ÃÛÌÒÊÓÆµ Oversight Limits Would Mean For 4 Markets

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    As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continues to centralize its resources, proposals to alter the definition of larger market participants in the automobile financing, international money transfer, consumer reporting and consumer debt collection markets would reduce the scope of the bureau's oversight, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • MIT Bros.' Crypto Charges Provide Fraud Test Case For Gov't

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    As U.S. v. Peraire-Bueno, involving cryptocurrency fraud charges against brothers who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, moves forward after surviving a motion to dismiss, the case provides an early example of how the government might use the federal fraud statutes to regulate decentralized networks, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.

  • Preparing For DEA Rescheduling Of 2 Research Chemicals

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    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.

  • 5 Key Steps To Prepare For Oral Arguments

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    Whether presenting oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court or a local county judge, effective preparation includes the same essential ingredients, from organizing arguments in blocks to maximizing the potential of mock exercises, says Allison Rocker at Baker McKenzie.

  • As Product Recalls Rise, So Do The Stakes For The Bar

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    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

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    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.

  • Advice For 1st-Gen Lawyers Entering The Legal Profession

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    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.

  • High Court E-Cig Ruling Opens Door For FDA Challenges

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    There will likely be more challenges to marketing denial orders brought before the Fifth Circuit following the Supreme Court's recent ruling in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co., where litigants have generally had greater success, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

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