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April 21, 2025
NJ Says KalshiEx Can't Rebrand Bets To Dodge Gambling Law
New Jersey regulators fired back at KalshiEx LLC's challenge to the state's block of the platform's sports event contracts, arguing the firm can't sidestep registration under the state's gambling laws "just by offering sports wagers in a different format."
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April 21, 2025
Crypto Cos. Sued Over 'Covert' Meme Coin 'Pump-And-Dump'
A proposed securities class action in New York federal court is accusing a crypto platform, a venture capital firm and their executives of a "covertly orchestrated" scheme to pump and dump a token affiliated with a newly launched meme coin exchange.
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April 21, 2025
YouTube's 'Nelk Boys' Want Suit Over NFTs Tossed
A pair of influencers behind the YouTube channel "Nelk Boys" asked a California federal judge to toss a lawsuit brought by a buyer of their crypto product who claimed the promised benefits never materialized, arguing the complaint does not show the defendants made any claims that have not or will not be fulfilled.
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April 21, 2025
Unions Score Block On Orders To Fire Probationary Workers
A California federal judge blocked the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to fire probationary employees and stopped several agencies from heeding its directives, but he declined to order them to rehire the workers they've already let go.
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April 21, 2025
SafeMoon CEO Can't Ax Fraud Case Ahead Of Trial
A Brooklyn federal judge denied an effort from the former CEO of crypto firm SafeMoon to dismiss his fraud case, saying a jury should assess his arguments that the case lacks sufficient ties to the U.S. and that SafeMoon's marquee coin was not a security.
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April 21, 2025
Justices Pass On Damages Fight In Trading Patent Case
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday skipped a case brought by the winner of a $6.6 million patent infringement verdict who has argued that the Federal Circuit wrongly denied its bid to increase those damages after it said it discovered fraud in the proceedings.
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April 18, 2025
FDIC Eases Big Banks' 'Living Will' Requirements
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. moved Friday to spare large banks from certain requirements for what should go into the next version of their so-called living wills, saying it wants to put more emphasis on planning for quicker, potentially weekend sales of failing banks.
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April 18, 2025
Ore. AG Sues Coinbase In Bid To Fill 'Enforcement Vacuum'
Oregon's attorney general on Friday sued crypto exchange Coinbase and called on states to fill the "enforcement vacuum left by federal regulators" like the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which have dropped cases under the Trump administration.
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April 18, 2025
Celsius Founder Asks For A Year And A Day For Crypto Fraud
Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky urged a New York federal judge to reject the probation office's recommended 15-year prison sentence for lying that the fallen $25 billion crypto-lender's tokens were safe, arguing he's always had "genuinely good intentions" and should serve at most one year plus a day behind bars.
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April 18, 2025
Santander Not Responsible For Customer's Bad Crypto Buys
Santander Bank is not liable for more than $750,000 lost by a customer to a cryptocurrency scam, a Massachusetts intermediate appellate court said Friday.
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April 18, 2025
CFTC Details Violation Materiality After Cooperation Guidance
Divisions of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission have offered details on their materiality standards for assessing supervision and noncompliance issues, following February guidance on how much money regulated entities can expect to save for cooperating with agency investigations.
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April 18, 2025
How Manatt Beat A Crypto Trader's 'Code As Law' Defense
After a crypto user exploited a software bug to create millions of dollars' worth of new tokens from a blockchain network, a Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP team defeated his claim to the tokens — and won an award worth millions — by showing that faulty code can't stand in for rule of law.
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April 18, 2025
Block Execs Failed To Prevent 'Illicit Activities,' Suit Says
A Block Inc. shareholder claims in a new suit that the fintech company's top brass, which includes former Twitter chief Jack Dorsey, failed to prevent illicit activities like money laundering, child sexual abuse and terrorism financing on its platform, causing damage to the company's reputation and investors as a result.
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April 18, 2025
Attys Score Bitcoin-Based Fee Award In Crypto Mining Suit
The attorneys who won $4.6 million and 25 bitcoins in a class action accusing crypto mining company Stronghold Digital Mining Inc. of failing to fully disclose its supply chain risks will, along with the class, be partially paid in the cash equivalent of bitcoin, according to an order.
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April 18, 2025
Miles & Stockbridge Hires Career Troutman Atty In Richmond
Miles & Stockbridge has hired an attorney who represents commercial lenders and banks in a range of financial matters, and who joins the firm after nearly 30 years at Troutman Pepper Locke LLP.
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April 18, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Davis Polk, Simpson Thacher
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Global Payments Inc. buys Worldpay from GTCR and FIS, Intel Corp. sells a stake in its Altera business to Silver Lake, KKR acquires OSTTRA from S&P Global and CME Group, and Canada's Capital Power Corp. nabs two U.S. natural gas power plants.
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April 18, 2025
5 Takeaways From Texas Stock Exchange's SEC Filing
The newly formed Texas Stock Exchange LLC is proposing rules that largely resemble those of the New York heavyweights it seeks to challenge, along with some notable differences, leaving questions on how the exchange will distinguish itself. Here are five takeaways from TXSE's securities filing.
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April 18, 2025
Ƶ Mass Layoffs Blocked Again In DC Court
A D.C. federal judge once again halted the layoffs of more than 1,000 employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, saying at an emergency hearing Friday morning that she needed a full record to determine whether the firings complied with a D.C. Circuit order from last week.
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April 18, 2025
Capital One's Discover Deal Gets Bank Regulators' Approval
Capital One on Friday received the last regulatory sign-offs needed for its $35 billion purchase of Discover, putting the megadeal on track to close for the former while also clearing the decks of a more than $1 billion enforcement matter for the latter.
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April 18, 2025
DOJ To Move Ahead In SafeMoon Case Despite Crypto Memo
Prosecutors told a federal judge in Brooklyn on Friday that they plan to proceed with an investor fraud case against the CEO of crypto firm SafeMoon, having reviewed a Justice Department directive not to pursue certain charges related to digital assets.
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April 17, 2025
David Geffen Hits Back At Crypto Exec In 'Stolen' Art Suit
Media giant David Geffen has called a suit brought against him by crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun over a valuable Alberto Giacometti sculpture a "sham" and has shot back at the Tron founder with claims of "unethical and/or illegal business activities" in a response filed in New York federal court.
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April 17, 2025
Bill-Pay Co. Customers Can Continue With Most Of Class Action
Customers of online bill-pay service Doxo Inc. can proceed with most of their claims in a Consumer Protection Act proposed class action alleging the company deceived them by not disclosing fees upfront, a Washington federal judge ruled Thursday.
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April 17, 2025
Polymarket Operator To Pay Fine Over Binary Options Claims
The Ontario Securities Commission said Thursday that the operators of prediction market platform Polymarket have agreed to a 200,000 Canadian dollar ($144,456) penalty over allegations it served Ontario customers despite the jurisdiction's ban on binary options.
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April 17, 2025
Feds Say Estonians Won't Be Deported Before Fraud Sentence
Prosecutors told a Washington federal judge Thursday that they had secured approval for "deferred action" from the Department of Homeland Security on potential immigration proceedings against two Estonian men awaiting sentencing for a cryptocurrency fraud scheme.
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April 17, 2025
K&L Gates Bungled Crypto Co.'s Bankruptcy Claim, Suit Says
Gryphon Digital Mining has sued its former counsel K&L Gates LLP, claiming it dropped the ball on a bankruptcy filing that cost the company millions of dollars and complicated another legal case, all while allegedly overbilling the crypto mining firm by $1 million for related matters.
Expert Analysis
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The Current And Future State Of Bank-Fintech Partnerships
Though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under President Donald Trump seems likely to cultivate an environment friendlier to the financial services industry, bank-fintech partnerships should stay devoted to proactive compliance and be ready to adapt to regulatory shifts that may intensify scrutiny from enforcers, say attorneys at Greenberg Traurig.
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Opinion
NFT Bill Needs Refining To Effectively Regulate Digital Assets
A recent bill in the U.S. House proposing to regulate nonfungible tokens as digital assets would leave key concepts undefined until the U.S. comptroller general completes an after-the-fact study of NFTs, showing it needs more work before it is comprehensive enough to meaningfully protect the market, say attorneys at Duane Morris.
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Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.
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Opinion
Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.
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Short-Term Predictions For The Ƶ's Fate Under Trump
Though the Trump administration is unlikely to succeed in abolishing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, new leadership will likely moderate enforcement, possibly prompting state attorneys general to step up supervision, say attorneys at Husch Blackwell.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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A Closer Look At FDX's New Role As Banking Standard-Setter
Should the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau let stand the decision empowering Financial Data Exchange as an industry standard-setter, it will be a significant step toward broader financial data-sharing, but its success will depend on industry adoption, regulatory oversight and consumer confidence, say attorneys at Clark Hill.
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What To Expect In Crypto Banking After SEC Nixed Guidance
With the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission recently rescinding its controversial cryptocurrency accounting guidance, the industry's focus will turn to the potentially significant hurdle to crypto banking posed by the federal banking regulators, say attorneys at Duane Morris.
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Fund Names Rule FAQs Leave Some Interpretative Uncertainty
Although recently released FAQs clarify many specific points of the 2023 expansion to the Investment Company Act's fund names rule, important questions remain about how U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staff will interpret other key terms when the end-of-year compliance date arrives, say attorneys at Dechert.
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How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work
Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.
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What Travis Hill's Vision For FDIC Could Portend For Banks
If selected to lead the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a permanent capacity, acting Chairman Travis Hill is likely to prioritize removing barriers to innovation and institution-level growth, emphasizing the idea that eliminating rules, relaxing standards and reducing scrutiny will reinvigorate the industry, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.
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5 Major Crypto Developments From The Trump Admin So Far
The early weeks of the Trump administration have set the stage for a significant transformation in U.S. digital asset policy by prioritizing regulatory clarity, innovation and a shift away from enforcement-heavy tactics, but many of these changes will require congressional support and progress may be gradual, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Compliance Pointers For DOJ's Sweeping Data Security Rule
A new Justice Department rule broadly restricts many common data transactions with the goal of preventing access by countries of concern, and with an effective date of April 8, U.S. companies must quickly assess practices related to employee, customer and vendor data, says Sam Castic at Hintze Law.
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Comparing 2 Pending Bills To Regulate Stablecoins
Alexandra Steinberg Barrage at Troutman analyzes the key similarities and differences between two payment stablecoin proposals currently pending in Congress — the STABLE and GENIUS acts — as both chambers are forming a working group to deliver a clear regulatory framework for digital assets and bipartisan agreement appears within reach.
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Citibank Wire Transfer Ruling Creates New Liability For Banks
A New York federal court's recent decision in New York v. Citibank, affirming the Electronic Fund Transfer Act's consumer protections cover wire transfers allegedly initiated by scammers who infiltrated Citibank customers' online accounts, creates new liability for sending financial institutions and upends decades-old regulatory guidance, say attorneys at Stinson.