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April 14, 2025
Industry Seeks Tougher Laws To Fight Cable Theft, Vandalism
State and local officials should enact more effective laws to fight the growing theft and vandalism of cable infrastructure, according to a new industry report.
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April 14, 2025
4th Circ. Asked To Rethink Credit Union's Liability In Scam
A metal fabricator asked the full Fourth Circuit to rethink a panel decision finding a credit union cannot be held liable for a scammer's use of its services to swindle the fabricator out of $560,000, saying the majority should have deferred to the district court's findings about the scheme.
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April 14, 2025
DOJ Resists Airing Full ICE Pact On Taxpayer Data Sharing
The U.S. government objected Monday to releasing an unredacted copy of a tax-information-sharing agreement between the IRS and immigration enforcement agencies sought by groups seeking to block the disclosure, telling a D.C. federal court that it would reveal sensitive information and law enforcement techniques.
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April 11, 2025
Microsoft, OpenAI Want Out Of Musk's For-Profit Challenge
OpenAI and Microsoft are ready to be done with a lawsuit brought by Elon Musk accusing them of swindling the billionaire by turning OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, into a private entity after he and others invested in the artificial intelligence venture.
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April 11, 2025
DOJ Issues Compliance Tips for New Data Security Program
The U.S. Department of Justice published tips Friday on complying with the new national data security program — which was created under the Biden administration and took effect April 8 — to prevent China, Russia, Iran and other foreign entities from exploiting Americans' sensitive personal data through commercial transactions.
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April 11, 2025
Ireland Probes X's Use Of Public Posts To Train AI Tool Grok
Ireland's data protection authority said Friday that it is forging ahead with an investigation into whether efforts by the Elon Musk-owned social media platform X to train its artificial intelligence model Grok on personal data lifted from public posts complied with the European Union's data protection rules.
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April 11, 2025
Ƶ To Pull Medical Debt Opinion, May Ax Nonbank Registry
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Friday that it will scrap recent guidance aimed at reining in medical debt collectors and may close out its new national nonbank enforcement registry, extending the agency's pullback from its Biden-era policies.
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April 11, 2025
Coinbase 'Mining Pools' Scam Case Heads To Arbitration
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and its subsidiary Toshi Holdings Ltd. are moving ahead with arbitration of a Virginia man's claims that he saw $50,000 drained from his Coinbase wallet by means of a "malicious smart contract" that appeared to be a liquidity mining pool.
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April 11, 2025
Tether-Backed Crypto Co. Can't Duck Swan's Trade Secrets Suit
A California federal judge has ruled that an entity backed by cryptocurrency Tether can't escape a trade secrets suit from crypto trading firm Swan Bitcoin, which claims the entity reneged on a commitment to provide financing for a bitcoin mining deal and induced Swan employees to quit and steal the firm's proprietary information.
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April 11, 2025
FTC Democrat Members Seek Quick Win In Trump Firing Suit
Recently fired Federal Trade Commission Democrat members Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro M. Bedoya on Friday asked a D.C. federal court for an expedited summary judgment ruling in their case challenging their removals, arguing that President Donald Trump's attempted firings run afoul of decades-old precedent and the FTC Act.
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April 11, 2025
Chancery Tosses Exabeam Stockholder's Appraisal Suit
A former stockholder of cybersecurity venture Exabeam Inc. saw his suit for Court of Chancery share appraisal shot down on Friday, after a vice chancellor concluded that the suit was launched as an unsupported workaround to secure documents unavailable to him on the company's merger with LogRhythm Inc.
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April 11, 2025
Telehealth Co. Sued Over 2024 Data Breach
A company that helps healthcare providers manage after-hours patient calls was hit with a proposed class action in New York federal court Friday alleging that it failed to secure user data prior to a 2024 breach that exposed the sensitive information of nearly 1 million people.
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April 11, 2025
Alex Jones' Sandy Hook Atty Lands 7-Day Suspension Credit
Alex Jones' former lead Connecticut attorney will be suspended for only one additional week because of a prior sit-out in 2023, a state court judge has clarified, saying she hadn't considered that Norm Pattis was previously benched while he appealed his discipline for his role in transferring Sandy Hook families' confidential records to another Jones attorney.
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April 10, 2025
Senate Confirms Meador To Fill 3rd GOP Seat AT FTC
The U.S. Senate voted along party lines Thursday to confirm Kressin Meador Powers LLC partner Mark Meador to the Federal Trade Commission, filling the agency's third Republican seat as the spots left by the recent firing of the commission's two Democrats remain vacant.
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April 10, 2025
Immigration Groups Seek Unredacted Tax Data-Sharing Pact
Immigration advocates trying to block the Internal Revenue Service from disclosing taxpayers' information to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other agencies urged a D.C. federal court on Thursday to require the Justice Department to hand over an unredacted version of a government agreement to share the confidential data.
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April 10, 2025
Netchoice Wants New Calif. Online Marketplace Law Blocked
Big Tech trade group Netchoice LLC has asked a California federal court to block a new Golden State law requiring online marketplaces to collect information from third-party sellers and report those selling stolen goods, claiming the "onerous" measure will "impose unprecedented and unconstitutional burdens on widely used online services."
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April 10, 2025
Online Advertising Co. Is Sued Over Use Of Tracking Cookies
Digital advertising firm PubMatic Inc. engaged in vast and unauthorized tracking of the online lives of "hundreds of millions of Americans," which it later shared and sold to third parties, violating state and federal privacy laws, according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court.
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April 10, 2025
Bipartisan AI Deepfakes Bill Reintroduced In Congress
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress will again try to address the proliferation of so-called deepfakes created with artificial intelligence with a bill that would give individuals the right to authorize or oppose the use of their voice or visual likeness.
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April 10, 2025
Debt Collector Can Hang Tight While Ƶ Mulls Probe
A Georgia federal judge has said that National Credit Systems does not have to turn over documents and other material to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for the time being, as the agency decides whether it is proceeding with a pending investigation into the debt collector for alleged credit reporting and debt collection violations.
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April 10, 2025
Israel's NSO Faces April Damages Trial For WhatsApp Hacking
A California federal judge on Thursday nailed down details of an April 28 jury trial to determine the amount of damages Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta for hacking into 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices, refusing to seal the proceedings and expressing frustration at the amount of discovery withheld by the parties, particularly NSO.
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April 10, 2025
GAO Backs 2nd Protest Over $112M FEMA Cybersecurity Deal
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has sustained a second protest over a $112 million Federal Emergency Management Agency cybersecurity support services deal, saying FEMA mistakenly disqualified a bidder for proposing the use of contractual labor categories the company was allowed to use.
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April 10, 2025
Fairplay Urges FTC To Investigate Meta Over Kids' VR Privacy
A nonprofit organization that works to curb child-targeted marketing asked the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday to look into whether Meta Platforms is violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by allowing kids under the age of 13 to access its "Horizon Worlds" virtual reality platform and collecting their personal information.
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April 10, 2025
NSO Hack Needed Apple's Calif. Servers, Foreign Journos Say
Counsel for a group of El Salvador-based journalists urged the Ninth Circuit on Thursday to revive a lawsuit accusing Israeli spyware maker NSO Group of hacking their iPhones, saying the case belongs in California federal court because the alleged attacks relied on Apple's servers within the Golden State.
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April 10, 2025
Mint Mobile Secretly Records Customer Calls, Suit Says
Mint Mobile "routinely and intentionally" records conversations on its customer service line without notifying callers, according to a proposed class action moved to California federal court Wednesday.
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April 10, 2025
IRS-ICE Deal Could Cost $25B In Tax Revenue, Report Says
The Internal Revenue Service's agreement to share the taxpayer records of certain non-U.S. citizens with immigration enforcement authorities could lead to a $25 billion loss in tax revenue in 2026, according to research from Yale University.
Expert Analysis
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How Ƶ Rule Would Affect Data Brokers And Beyond
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently proposed a rule that would not only expand data broker oversight by classifying many as consumer reporting agencies, but would also impose new limitations on companies seeking to obtain information from them, potentially requiring such entities to alter their business models, say attorneys at Orrick.
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Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware
Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer’s market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business — but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
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Reviewing 2024's State Consumer Privacy Law Enforcement
While we are still in the infancy of state consumer privacy laws, a review of enforcement activity this year suggests substantial overlaps in regulatory priorities across the most active states and gives insight into the likely paths of future enforcement, says Thomas Nolan at Quinn Emanuel.
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5th Circ. Crypto Ruling Shows Limits On OFAC Authority
The Fifth Circuit's recent decision that immutable smart contracts on the Tornado Cash crypto-transaction software protocol are not "property" subject to Office of Foreign Assets Control jurisdiction may signal that courts can construe OFAC's authority more restrictively after Loper Bright, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Preparing For The New Restrictions On Investment Into China
In light of a new regulatory program governing U.S. investments in China-related technology companies of national security concern, investors should keep several considerations in mind, including the rules' effect on existing and new investments, compliance hurdles, and penalties for noncompliance ahead of the rules' January implementation, say attorneys at Gunderson Dettmer.
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Risk Disclosure Issue Remains After Justices Nix Meta Case
After full briefing and argument, the U.S. Supreme Court recently dismissed Facebook v. Amalgamated Bank as improvidently granted, leaving courts with the tricky endeavor of determining when the failure to disclose a past event in an Item 105 risk disclosure is materially misleading, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out
In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a “sliding scale” approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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FTX Exec's Sentencing Shows Pros And Cons Of Cooperation
The sentencing of former FTX tech deputy Gary Wang, whose cooperation netted him a rare outcome of no prison time, offers critical takeaways for attorneys and clients navigating the burgeoning world of crypto-related prosecutions, says Andrew Meck at Whiteford.
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Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity
Cases can appear complex for several reasons — due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources — but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Trending At The PTAB: Collateral Estoppel Continues Evolving
We are starting to see brighter lines on collateral estoppel involving Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings, illustrated by two recent cases that considered whether collateral estoppel should apply to factual findings on prior art from the PTAB in a later district court litigation, say attorneys at Finnegan.
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Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.
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SEC Prioritized Enforcement Sweeps As Cases Slowed In '24
Following three consecutive years of increasing activity, fiscal year 2024 marked the lowest number of cases the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has brought since Gary Gensler assumed office in April 2021, buttressed by some familiar enforcement sweeps, say attorneys at Covington.
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Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review
For attorneys — new ones especially — there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Implementing Human Rights Due Diligence
The Bureau of Industry and Security’s recent removal of a Canadian surveillance provider from its export blacklist, after just eight months, illustrates the importance of integrating human rights due diligence into the vetting process by asking a few targeted questions, say attorneys at Cravath.
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How CFIUS' Updated Framework Affects Global Investors
The recent change to the monitoring and enforcement regulations governing the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States will broaden administrative practices around nonnotified transaction investigations, increase the scope of information demands from the committee and accelerate its ability to impose mitigation on parties, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.