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  • August 26, 2025

    5th Circ. Says Fed. Law Explicitly Bars Ex-CEO's NCUA Suit

    The Fifth Circuit on Monday refused to revive a former Texas credit union CEO's constitutional challenge to an enforcement action the National Credit Union Administration had brought against him for alleged banking misconduct, saying in a published opinion that federal law explicitly stripped a district court's jurisdiction over the matter.

  • August 26, 2025

    Md. Pharmacy Owner Gets 1 Year For Filing False Tax Returns

    A Baltimore pharmacy owner was sentenced to just over one year in prison after filing fraudulent tax returns and underreporting his income to the Internal Revenue Service by more than $3.5 million, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

  • August 26, 2025

    CFTC's Last Dem Member Departing Agency

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's sole remaining Democrat, Kristin Johnson, announced Tuesday that she will be departing the agency next week, leaving it in the hands of acting Chair Caroline Pham.

  • August 26, 2025

    No Immunity For Wis. Judge Charged With ICE Interference

    A Wisconsin federal judge on Tuesday rejected a motion to dismiss from a state judge accused of helping an unauthorized immigrant escape arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, turning down her argument that she is protected by judicial immunity.

  • August 26, 2025

    Fed's Lisa Cook Preps Lawsuit Over Trump Firing

    Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook is preparing to file a lawsuit over President Donald Trump's announcement that she has been terminated from her position, allegedly for committing mortgage fraud, her lawyer said Tuesday.

  • August 26, 2025

    DOJ Terrorism Prosecutor Joins Stris & Maher As DC Partner

    California-headquartered Stris & Maher LLP said Tuesday it has hired a former national security attorney from the U.S. Department of Justice, who joined the firm after ending a trial in which the government proved a Michigan man experimented with bomb making in support of ISIS.

  • August 25, 2025

    LA Atty Used Client Trust Acct. To Hide $2.1M Bribe, Jury Told

    A California divorce attorney accepted a $2.1 million bribe from a Swiss oil company related to his work in Nigeria and laundered the money through his U.S. client trust account, a prosecutor told a federal jury in Los Angeles on Monday during opening statements in the attorney's criminal trial. 

  • August 25, 2025

    DOJ Antitrust Whistleblowers May Find Ally At The Post Office

    The U.S. Department of Justice's new whistleblower program brings the Antitrust Division in line with other programs across the DOJ and at other agencies, although it may have a particularly broad scope thanks to a unique partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.

  • August 25, 2025

    Trump Plans To Withdraw Federal Funding Over Cashless Bail

    President Donald Trump said Monday that he would suspend or terminate federal funds provided to any jurisdictions that have adopted cashless bail policies, calling the reforms a "failed experiment" that allow repeat criminals to "mock our justice system."

  • August 25, 2025

    SEC Nabs $1.1M Over Alleged Blue Apron Insider Trading

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that an Arizona man will pay over $1.1 million to settle claims he traded shares of meal kit company Blue Apron Holdings Inc. on inside information he learned from a family member who was also a senior executive at the company.

  • August 25, 2025

    DOJ Wants $10.5M From Convicted Nursing Exec For Fraud

    U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors asked a Nevada federal judge Friday for a $10.5 million preliminary forfeiture order against a nurse staffing executive convicted of wage-fixing, an amount that matches what he was paid for his staffing company after deceiving the buyer into thinking there was no criminal antitrust investigation.

  • August 25, 2025

    Judge Orders Hearing Before ICE Can Deport Abrego Garcia

    A Maryland federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration Monday from immediately deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia, after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement re-detained the Salvadoran at his first check-in since the U.S. Marshals released him from criminal custody last week.

  • August 25, 2025

    Supervised Release Violators Can Be Jailed, 2nd Circ. Says

    The Second Circuit on Monday ruled that federal judges have the authority to detain criminal defendants who are awaiting a hearing to determine whether they violated the terms of their supervised release.

  • August 25, 2025

    Ƶ Plans To Limit Nonbank Supervision With Rule Proposal

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau plans to propose a rule that would rein in the use of the agency's power to designate individual nonbanks for supervision, according to a notice of rulemaking scheduled to publish in the Federal Register on Tuesday.

  • August 25, 2025

    Epic's 9th Circ. Case Against Apple Draws Amicus Support

    Epic Games has received backing from state enforcers, Microsoft, Spotify and others as the Fortnite developer opposes Apple's Ninth Circuit appeal challenging an order blocking commissions on purchases made outside of Apple's own app payment system.

  • August 25, 2025

    Battle Over NJ US Atty Appointment Lands In 3rd Circ.

    The U.S. Department of Justice said Monday it will appeal a Pennsylvania federal judge's ruling that interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba is not lawfully serving as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor.

  • August 25, 2025

    NC Man Gets Nearly 20 Years For Tax Fraud, Ponzi Scheme

    A North Carolina man was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison after willfully failing to report nearly $9 million in income to the Internal Revenue Service and evading more than $3 million in taxes in connection with a $20 million Ponzi scheme, federal prosecutors said.

  • August 25, 2025

    Alleged Crypto Thieves Fight Use Of Google Search History

    A New York federal judge should exclude evidence showing two Massachusetts Institute of Technology-educated brothers accused of stealing $25 million in cryptocurrency searched terms including "top crypto lawyers" and "wire fraud statute / wire fraud statue of limitations," the brothers said in a motion, arguing their explanations for the searches are privileged.

  • August 25, 2025

    Long Island Tax Pro Gets 18 Months For $12M Pandemic Scam

    A Manhattan federal judge sentenced a wealthy Long Island tax preparer to 18 months in prison Monday, after he admitted filing over 100 fraudulent applications for nearly $12 million of loans earmarked to help businesses hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • August 25, 2025

    Wyden Urges Independent Review Of Courts' Cybersecurity

    U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a cybersecurity hawk, urged Chief Justice John Roberts on Monday to commission an independent study of the federal judiciary's cybersecurity practices in light of two significant hacks in the last five years.

  • August 25, 2025

    MusclePharm Ex-CEO Pays $175K To End SEC Fraud Claims

    A former CEO of supplements company MusclePharm Corp. will pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $75,000 and reimburse his former company $100,000 as part of an agreement ending the regulator's claims he failed to properly oversee the company's accounting and financial reporting, including by not reporting $231,000 worth of perks he received.

  • August 25, 2025

    Ex-Ohio Lawyer Gets Probation For Making False Statements

    A former Ohio lawyer was sentenced to two years of probation and fined $15,000 after pleading guilty earlier this year to making false statements to the FBI regarding a cooperating witness he represented in a drug and sex trafficking probe the bureau was pursuing.

  • August 22, 2025

    Nadine Menendez Presses Court For 1-Year Prison Sentence

    The wife of former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez on Friday urged a New York federal judge to sentence her to just one year and one day behind bars, a request backed up by her husband, who said he regretted what his own lawyers said about her during his trial.

  • August 22, 2025

    Coder Gets 4 Years For 'Kill Switch' On Ex-Employer's System

    A Texas-based software developer has been sentenced in Ohio federal court to four years in prison after an unsuccessful attempt at getting a new trial following his conviction for deploying a "kill switch" on his former employer's network.

  • August 22, 2025

    DOJ Investigation Of NY AG Condemned By AGs Of 21 States

    A coalition of 21 attorneys general Friday issued an open letter saying the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating New York Attorney General Letitia James and condemning the probe as political payback for the financial fraud claims she pursued against President Donald Trump and his New York-based businesses.

Expert Analysis

  • What's At Stake In High Court Review Of Funds' Right To Sue

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming review of FS Credit Opportunities v. Saba Capital Master Fund, a case testing the limits of using Investment Company Act Section 47(b) to give funds a private right of action to enforce other sections of the law, could either encourage or curb similar activist investor lawsuits, say attorneys at Goodwin.

  • How Securities Defendants Might Use New Wire Fraud Ruling

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    Though the Second Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Chastain decision — vacating the conviction of an ex-OpenSea staffer — involved the wire fraud statute, insider trading defendants might attempt to import the ruling’s reasoning into the securities realm, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.

  • Cos. Must Tailor Due Diligence As Trafficking Risks Increase

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    As legislators, prosecutors and plaintiffs attorneys increasingly focus on labor and sex trafficking throughout the U.S., companies must tailor their due diligence strategies to protect against forced labor trafficking risks in their supply chains, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • Series

    Creating Botanical Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Pressing and framing plants that I grow has shown me that pursuing an endeavor that brings you joy can lead to surprising benefits for a legal career, including mental clarity, perspective and even a bit of humility, says Douglas Selph at Morris Manning.

  • Supreme Court's Criminal Law Decisions: The Term In Review

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    Though the U.S. Supreme Court’s criminal law decisions in its recently concluded term proved underwhelming by many measures, their opinions revealed trends in how the justices approach criminal cases and offered reminders for practitioners, says Kenneth Notter at MoloLamken.

  • Opinion

    Budget Act's Deduction Limit Penalizes Losing Gamblers

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    A provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that reduces the deduction for gambling losses is unfair to professional and recreational players, risks driving online activity to offshore sites, and will set back efforts to legalize and regulate the industry, says Walter Bourdaghs at Kang Haggerty.

  • Opinion

    The Legal Education Status Quo Is No Longer Tenable

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    As underscored by the fallout from California’s February bar exam, legal education and licensure are tethered to outdated systems, and the industry must implement several key reforms to remain relevant and responsive to 21st century legal needs, says Matthew Nehmer at The Colleges of Law.

  • The Int'l Compliance View: Everything Everywhere All At Once

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    Changes to the enforcement landscape in the U.S. and abroad shift the risks and incentives for global compliance programs, creating a race against the clock for companies to deploy investigative resources across worldwide operations, say attorneys at Dentons.

  • 'Pig Butchering' Seizure Is A Milestone In Crypto Crime Fight

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    The U.S.' recent seizure of $225 million in crypto funds in a massive "pig butchering" scheme highlights the transformative impact of blockchain analysis in law enforcement, and the increasing necessity of collaboration between law enforcement agencies, cryptocurrency exchanges and stablecoin issuers, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Relevance Redactions

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    In recent cases addressing redactions that parties sought to apply based on the relevance of information — as opposed to considerations of privilege — courts have generally limited a party’s ability to withhold nonresponsive or irrelevant material, providing a few lessons for discovery strategy, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • How DOJ's New Data Security Rules Leave HIPAA In The Dust

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's recently effective data security requirements carry profound implications for how healthcare providers collect, store, share and use data — and approach vendor oversight — that go far beyond the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, say attorneys at Nelson Mullins.

  • Opinion

    Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.

  • Reel Justice: 'Oh, Hi!' Teaches Attys To Return To The Statute

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    The new dark comedy film “Oh, Hi!” — depicting a romantic vacation that turns into an inadvertent kidnapping — should remind criminal practitioners to always reread the statute to avoid assumptions, meet their ethical duties and finesse their trial strategy, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.

  • How Banks Can Harness New Customer ID Rule's Flexibility

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    Banking regulators' update to the customer identification process, allowing banks to collect some information from third parties rather than directly from customers, helps modernize anti-money laundering compliance and carries advantages for financial institutions that embrace the new approach, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.

  • Opinion

    Premerger Settlements Don't Meet Standard For Bribery

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    Claims that Paramount’s decision to settle a lawsuit with President Donald Trump while it was undergoing a premerger regulatory review amounts to a quid pro quo misconstrue bribery law and ignore how modern legal departments operate, says Ediberto Román at the Florida International University College of Law.

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