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  • June 03, 2025

    SEC Chair Says Next Steps On Crypto Regs Coming Soon

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins indicated Tuesday that the agency is working toward proposing regulations for the cryptocurrency industry and that a key aspect of the work being done by a recently established crypto task force could be complete within a matter of months.

  • June 03, 2025

    MyPillow CEO Denies Defamation By Association At Colo. Trial

    An attorney for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell told a Colorado jury Tuesday that Lindell didn't control the allegedly defamatory statements that other conservative personalities made on his media platform, at the start of a trial on a former voting company executive's defamation claims. 

  • June 03, 2025

    Pharma Group Can Pursue Challenge To Insulin Pricing Law

    A Minnesota federal judge refused Tuesday to throw out a lawsuit over a state law requiring drugmakers to provide insulin to low-income diabetic patients, finding the drug industry's top lobbying group has plausibly alleged that a new registration fee imposed by the law could be unconstitutional.

  • June 03, 2025

    Senators Preview Possible National Injunction Reforms

    A Senate hearing on Tuesday was marked largely by partisan fighting over whether federal courts have justifiably ruled against the Trump administration, but there were some hints that cooperation to rein in acknowledged litigation abuses such as forum shopping and universal injunctions might be possible.

  • June 03, 2025

    Ga. Seeks Chance To Defend New Social Media Age Limit Law

    The state of Georgia asked a federal judge on Tuesday to hold off on blocking new state-imposed restrictions on minors' use of social media before they take effect next month, suggesting the court should at least unpack how the law might work in practice before deciding whether it violates the First Amendment.

  • June 03, 2025

    DC Judge Blocks Trump's Ban On Transgender Prisoner Care

    A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday blocked the enforcement of a Trump administration executive order barring funding of gender-affirming care in federal prisons and granted class certification to a group of transgender inmates challenging the directive.

  • June 03, 2025

    Big 3 Wireless Companies Divvying Up UScellular, FCC Told

    T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon appear to be coordinating to split UScellular among themselves and the Federal Communications Commission needs to review the megadeals in their totality and not just individually, public interest groups said.

  • June 03, 2025

    Unsigned Copyright Certificates Raise Validity Questions

    The Trump administration's dismissal of Shira Perlmutter as head of the U.S. Copyright Office, coupled with the ensuing legal dispute over who is leading the agency and whether the firing was lawful, has resulted in the office issuing copyright certificates without a signature, raising questions about whether those are valid.

  • June 03, 2025

    FCC Delays Cutoff For 4.9 GHz User Data As It Mulls 5G Intro

    The Federal Communications Commission is giving public safety agencies with licenses in the public safety band an additional 30 days to share technical data about their existing radio operations, saying it wants the most accurate information available as it moves forward with reforms in the band.

  • June 03, 2025

    9th Circ. Wary Of Dormant Commerce Application To Cannabis

    A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday appeared skeptical that constitutional doctrine barring states from impeding interstate commerce should apply to the federally illegal marijuana market in a pair of cases involving cannabis business licenses in Washington state and Sacramento, California.

  • June 03, 2025

    4th Circ. Again Decertifies Marriott Data Breach Classes

    The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday once again scrapped class certification of potentially millions of Marriott International Inc. guests in multidistrict litigation over a major data breach at the company's Starwood-branded hotels, finding the guests can't get around a class action waiver built into the rewards program.

  • June 03, 2025

    HHS, DOGE Accused Of Using Flawed Data In Mass Layoffs

    Former federal workers laid off by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services brought a putative class action Tuesday in D.C. federal court alleging their terminations were unlawful because they were based on "hopelessly error-ridden" personnel records, in violation of the Privacy Act.

  • June 03, 2025

    Wis. Village Wants Reversal Of Land Transfers To Tribal Trust

    Hobart, Wisconsin, has asked a federal judge to undo a move by the U.S. Department of the Interior to place properties into a trust for the Oneida Nation, arguing that the transfers were made despite the village's claims of a biased administrative process.

  • June 03, 2025

    FCC Urged To Move Faster In Opening Upper C-Band

    A Washington, D.C., think tank said the Federal Communications Commission should move quickly to open the upper C-band for mobile 5G use while maintaining protections for aircraft that use nearby airwaves.

  • June 03, 2025

    Citi's Global Sanctions Head Tapped For Treasury Role

    President Donald Trump has nominated Citigroup's global head of banking sanctions compliance to serve as the U.S. Department of the Treasury's assistant secretary for terrorist financing, according to congressional records, in a move that would mark his return to the department after years in the private sector.

  • June 03, 2025

    NJ Steel Co. Seeks Block Of OSHA Review Agency Hearing

    A steel fabrication company is urging a New Jersey federal court to give it an early win in its suit against an independent federal commission over nearly $350,000 in proposed penalties, arguing that it will be required to undergo an unconstitutional proceeding without court intervention.

  • June 03, 2025

    Texas Gives Some Property Owners More Time To Pay Taxes

    Some Texas property owners whose taxing authorities allow bills to be paid in two installments will get more time to make their initial payment under legislation signed by Gov. Greg Abbott.

  • June 03, 2025

    Fed. Bill Pushes For Streamlined Access To Tribal Disaster Aid

    A trio of Washington state federal lawmakers has reintroduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would fast-track the process for tribal nations to apply for resources to manage the impact of extreme weather and natural disasters, and address their environmental resiliency and relocation goals.

  • June 03, 2025

    Senate Panel Advances Trump's Pick To Lead IRS

    The Senate Finance Committee approved President Donald Trump's selection of former U.S. Rep. Billy Long to serve as commissioner of the IRS on Tuesday, sending the nomination to the full Senate.

  • June 03, 2025

    US Withdraws From El Paso Tribal Land Ownership Dispute

    The U.S. says it no longer wants to intervene in a dispute between the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and the city of El Paso, Texas, over 155 acres of land, a shift in position from the prior administration that argued it never authorized non-Native Americans to usurp the tribe's property.

  • June 03, 2025

    KKR Says DOJ Merger Notice Suit Rewrites HSR Act

    KKR pushed a New York federal judge to dismiss a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit seeking fines that could top $650 million, arguing that in defending claims the private equity giant failed to notify two mergers and deleted key documentation from notifications, enforcers are trying to "expand" merger filing requirements.

  • June 03, 2025

    Supreme Court Won't Hear Mich. Gym's COVID Closure Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would not hear a petition from a Michigan gym seeking compensation from the state for the economic losses it suffered after being forced to scale back services or close during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • June 03, 2025

    Fla. Jury Finds CEO Guilty In $1.4B Medicare Fraud

    A Florida federal jury on Tuesday found a software company CEO guilty of participating in a scheme to coordinate illegal medical kickbacks through an internet platform, resulting in about $1.4 billion worth of false billings to Medicare and other insurers for unnecessary medical products, including orthotic braces.

  • June 03, 2025

    Bills Texas Attys Should Know From The 2025 Session

    Texas lawmakers wrapped up the state's 89th legislative session this week, passing a number of bills on topics like artificial intelligence and social media, business law and the authorities granted to the attorney general.

  • June 03, 2025

    Wells Fargo Free To Grow After Fed Ends $2T Asset Cap

    The Federal Reserve announced Tuesday that it has lifted the $2 trillion asset cap it imposed on Wells Fargo & Co. as part of a 2018 enforcement action stemming from the so-called fake accounts scandal, finding the bank has met all conditions required by the regulator.

Expert Analysis

  • 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.

  • Calif. Antitrust Laws May Turn More Zealous Than US Regs

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    California is poised in the next 18 months to significantly expand its antitrust laws, broadening the scope of liability and creating a premerger review process that could be more expansive than review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, say attorneys at Munger Tolles.

  • As SEC, CFTC Retreat, Who Will Police The Crypto Markets?

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    As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission pull back from policing the crypto markets, the Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have the authority to pick up the slack — although recent events raise doubts that they will do so, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • 5 Ways Banking Has Changed In 5 Years Since COVID

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    Since the start of the pandemic five years ago, technology, convenience and shifting expectations have transformed compliance for the financial services industry in several key ways, from the shrinking role of the traditional bank branch to the rise of fintech and mobile payments, says Christopher Pippett at Fox Rothschild.

  • Calif. May Pick Up The Slack On Foreign Bribery Enforcement

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    The California attorney general recently expressed an interest in targeting foreign bribery amid a federal pause in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, so companies should calibrate their compliance programs to mitigate against changing risks, especially as other states could follow California’s lead, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols

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    Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Making Sense Of Small Biz Fair Lending Compliance

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    Despite the uncertainty brought on by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent efforts to revise fair lending data collection requirements under Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act, the compliance dates have not yet been stayed, so covered institutions should still start to monitor any disparities now, say attorneys at Frost Brown Todd.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Preparing For Corporate Work

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    Law school often doesn't cover the business strategy, financial fluency and negotiation skills needed for a successful corporate or transactional law practice, but there are practical ways to gain relevant experience and achieve the mindset shifts critical to a thriving career in this space, says Dakota Forsyth at Olshan Frome.

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