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  • June 11, 2025

    DOJ's Focus On Cartels Raises Compliance Risks For US Cos.

    U.S. corporations with business interests south of the border are increasingly worried about exposure to terrorism-related criminal charges under the Trump administration for inadvertently working with cartels linked to major business sectors throughout Mexico, from energy and manufacturing to financial services, compliance experts tell Law360.

  • June 11, 2025

    Regulators Delay Compliance On Private Fund Disclosures

    A divided U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission agreed on Wednesday to extend compliance dates for new Form PF rules that require additional disclosure from private funds, overcoming objections from one dissenting commissioner who feared the "11th-hour" extension could lead to abandoning the rules altogether.

  • June 11, 2025

    23andMe Shows Need For National DNA Data Law, Sens. Hear

    Senators from both sides of the aisle expressed interest in passing national consumer data privacy legislation during a Wednesday committee hearing inspired by 23andMe Inc.'s Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

  • June 11, 2025

    Verizon-Frontier Merger Gets Conn. Regulator's OK

    Connecticut's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority on Wednesday approved the merger of debt-laden internet and telephone services provider Frontier Communications with a wholly owned subsidiary of Verizon, saying the latter has the financial and managerial stability plus the technical knowledge necessary to provide adequate and reliable service to customers.

  • June 11, 2025

    Chamber Looks To Keep Merger Notice Challenge In Texas

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups have urged a Texas federal court not to transfer their case challenging the Federal Trade Commission's new merger filing requirements, arguing that several members based in the state regularly report mergers to the agency.

  • June 11, 2025

    Mo. House Passes $1.5B Stadium Bill To Keep Chiefs, Royals

    The Missouri House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve tax and other incentives worth $1.5 billion to help build or upgrade stadiums for Kansas City's MLB and NFL franchises, on the last day of a special legislative session ordered by Gov. Mike Kehoe.

  • June 11, 2025

    Senate Advances Stablecoin Bill As Dems Decry Swift Pace

    The Senate's proposal to regulate stablecoins cleared another procedural hurdle on Wednesday with bipartisan support despite some Democratic outcry over an allegedly limited opportunity to amend the bill.

  • June 11, 2025

    Think Tank Says Ill. 'Captive Audience' Fight Should Proceed

    A libertarian think tank and business group urged an Illinois federal judge Wednesday to let its legal challenge to a recent state law banning mandatory workplace meetings on politics and religion continue, arguing its already-chilled speech is enough to establish pre-enforcement standing.

  • June 11, 2025

    DC Circ. Pauses Habeas Order In Alien Enemies Act Case

    The D.C. Circuit has agreed to briefly pause a lower court order requiring the Trump administration to give due process to Venezuelan immigrants deported from the U.S. to a Salvadoran prison under the Alien Enemies Act.

  • June 11, 2025

    EPA Floats Takedown Of Biden GHG, Mercury Emissions Regs

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday said that the nation's power sector's greenhouse gas emissions don't significantly endanger people's health, and that therefore, the Clean Air Act doesn't allow regulations aimed at reducing those releases.

  • June 11, 2025

    VA Contractor To Pay $4.3M To Resolve Overbilling Claims

    Healthcare technology company Omnicell Inc. has agreed to pay more than $4.3 million to settle allegations it fraudulently overcharged the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for medical products and software, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

  • June 11, 2025

    AGs Press Meta To Do More To Stop Pump-And-Dump Scams

    Attorneys general from states and territories around the country, as well as the District of Columbia, sent an open letter to Meta Platforms Inc. Wednesday urging the social media giant to help stem the tide of widespread investment scams across Facebook and WhatsApp that they said have caused people to lose "life-changing" amounts of money.

  • June 11, 2025

    DOJ Says Newsom Can't Ask Court To Halt Guard Deployment

    The Trump administration is telling a California federal judge its decision to federalize the National Guard is unreviewable in court, calling California Gov. Gavin Newsom's effort to stop the takeover "a crass political stunt" in a new filing Wednesday.

  • June 11, 2025

    FCC Dem's Job Safe For Now As Agency Ranks Shrink

    The Federal Communications Commission is running on a shoestring when it comes to high-level decisions, with only a Republican chair and Democrat left in charge after recent departures that have made the agency's chairman unable to move major initiatives.

  • June 11, 2025

    3rd Circ. Seems Skeptical Of NJ Town's Car Seizure Process

    The Third Circuit seemed open Wednesday to a bid by Honda's leasing arm to have a Garden State town's towing ordinance deemed unconstitutional, with judges appearing doubtful that it adequately provides for due process.

  • June 11, 2025

    Senate Commerce Dems Demand Review Of Cruz Budget Bill

    Democrats on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee urged the chair on Wednesday to hold a formal markup for their reconciliation proposal, which includes a spectrum deal, instead of fast-tracking it to the Senate floor.

  • June 11, 2025

    Trump DOJ Clears Path To Shrink Or Abolish Nat'l Monuments

    National monuments protected by past U.S. presidents can be abolished or made smaller by President Donald Trump, according to an opinion from the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel.

  • June 11, 2025

    DOJ Says Abrego Garcia's Return Moots His Removal Suit

    U.S. Department of Justice attorneys told a Maryland federal judge they will soon ask the court to dismiss Kilmar Abrego Garcia's suit challenging his erroneous removal to El Salvador, saying his return to the U.S. to face criminal charges moots the matter.

  • June 11, 2025

    DC Attys Say They Had Small Role In 2020 Mich. Election Suit

    A pair of Washington, D.C., attorneys on Wednesday urged a disciplinary panel to dismiss ethics claims against them, telling the panel that they had no control over the filing of a complaint challenging the 2020 presidential election results that was later found to be frivolous.

  • June 11, 2025

    Debt Collectors Push FCC To Shed Consumer Contact Rules

    Debt collectors are adding their two cents to the Federal Communications Commission's request for unnecessary regulations that should be eliminated, calling on the agency to eliminate an upcoming rule that would make it easier for individuals to stop future robocalls and texts.

  • June 11, 2025

    DOJ Legal Policy Chief, Adviser On Judge Selections, Resigns

    Aaron Reitz, a top U.S. Department of Justice official who works on judicial nominations, announced Wednesday he's resigning after being confirmed for the role on March 26.

  • June 11, 2025

    Developers Urge Revival Of Suit To Unseat Miami Official

    Two real estate developers seeking to unseat a Miami commissioner from office following a $63.5 million judgment for civil rights violations told a Florida appeals court Wednesday that the city's charter provides for the removal of a public official found to have violated their office.

  • June 11, 2025

    House Budget Would Strong-Arm Foreign Gov'ts, Experts Say

    The U.S. House-passed budget would discard the tax-exempt status of foreign governments and entities connected to them, such as sovereign wealth funds, and impose escalating tax rates if those countries employ fiscal policies that lawmakers consider unfair, according to several experts.

  • June 11, 2025

    ACLU Seeks To Halt Quick Removals After Courthouse Arrests

    The American Civil Liberties Union asked a D.C. federal judge to postpone implementation of a rule and guidance expanding expedited removals of noncitizens to the interior U.S., after immigration officials started detaining immigrants at courthouses. 

  • June 11, 2025

    Denver Appeals Decision Limiting Dam's Expansion

    The City and County of Denver has asked the Tenth Circuit to review a lower court decision that barred its municipal water utility from fully completing a hydroelectric dam expansion project.

Expert Analysis

  • Reviving A Dormant Criminal Statute In Antitrust Prosecution

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    The U.S. Department of Justice is poised to revive a dormant misdemeanor statute to resolve bid-rigging charges against a foreign national, providing important context to a recent effort to entice foreign defendants to take responsibility for pending charges or face the risk of extradition, say attorneys at Axinn.

  • End May Be In Sight For Small Biz Set-Aside Programs

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    A Jan. 21 executive order largely disarming the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, along with recent court rulings, suggests that the administration may soon attempt to eliminate set-asides intended to level the award playing field for small business contractors that qualify under socioeconomic programs, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • Traversing The Shifting Sands Of ESG Reporting Compliance

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    Multinational corporations have increasingly found themselves between a rock and a hard place attempting to comply with EU and California ESG requirements while not running afoul of expanding U.S. anti-ESG regimes, but focusing on what is material to shareholder value and establishing strong governance can help, say attorneys at MoFo.

  • An Unrestrained, Bright-Eyed View Of Legal AI's Future

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    Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect.

  • Ban On Reputation Risk May Help Bank Enforcement Defense

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    The Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s recent commitment to stop examining banks for reputation risk could help defendants in enforcement actions challenge unfavorable assessments and support defendants' arguments for lower civil money penalties, says Brendan Clegg at Luse Gorman.

  • Tracking The Evolution In Litigation Finance

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    Despite continued innovation, litigation finance remains an immature market with borrowers recieving significantly different terms as lenders learn to value cases, which firms need a strong handle on to ensure lending terms do not overwhelm collateral value, says Robert Wilkins at Lightfoot Franklin.

  • Assessing Market Manipulation Claims In Energy Markets

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    Today's energy markets are conducive to sudden price changes, breakdowns in pricing linkages and substantial shifts in trading patterns, so it's necessary to take a holistic view when evaluating allegations of market manipulation, say Maximilian Bredendiek, Greg Leonard and Manuel Vasconcelos at Cornerstone Research.

  • Opinion

    In Vape Case, Justices Must Focus On Agencies' Results

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    With the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Wages and White Lion Investments having put off the question of whether agency decisions arrived at erroneously are always invalid, the court should give the results of agency actions more weight than the reasoning behind them when it revisits this case, says Jonathan Sheffield at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

  • How Int'l Arbitration Could Factor In Tariff Dispute Resolution

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    As tariffs complicate international business contracts, the robust legal infrastructure supporting international arbitration can provide a more solid base for recovery of rewards than foreign court judgments, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.

  • How Calif., NY Could Fill Consumer Finance Regulatory Void

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    California and New York have historically taken the lead in consumer financial protection, and both show signs of becoming even more active in this area during the second Trump administration amid an enforcement pullback at the federal level, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Series

    Volunteer Firefighting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While practicing corporate law and firefighting may appear incongruous, the latter benefits my legal career by reminding me of the importance of humility, perspective and education, says Nicholas Passaro at Ford.

  • Tax Takeaways From Georgia's 2025 Legislative Session

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    Attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland discuss tax-related measures passed by the Georgia Legislature during the session that adjourned on April 4, which included a decrease in income tax rates, an extension of the time in which to a protest tax assessment and cleanup provisions related to launching the state’s new tax court next year.

  • Unpacking FTC's New Stance On Standard-Essential Patents

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    Under its new chairman, Andrew Ferguson, the Federal Trade Commission is likely to bring more stand-alone Section 5 cases to challenge anticompetitive conduct, and it will be important for companies to see how the FTC responds to allegations of patent holdup by standard-essential patent holders committed to fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.

  • Limit On SEC Enforcement Authority May Mean Fewer Actions

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    Following a recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission final rule revoking the Enforcement Division director's long-standing authority to issue formal investigation orders, it's clear the division is headed for a new era of limited autonomy, marked by a significantly slower pace of SEC investigations, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.

  • How Lenders Should Prepare For Crypto As Collateral

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    Amid the administration's desire to position the U.S. as a digital banking leader, lenders should prepare for customers seeking to use cryptocurrency as collateral for financing, consider which rules govern these transactions, and assess their ability to obtain or maintain control of the virtual funds, say attorneys at Frost Brown.

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