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March 03, 2025
Coinbase Wants To Know SEC Spend On Crypto Enforcement
Crypto exchange Coinbase wants to know how much the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission spent on its "regulation-by-enforcement campaign" against crypto firms under previous Chair Gary Gensler, according to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted on Monday.
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February 28, 2025
Trump Still Isn't Obeying Order To Free FEMA Funds, AGs Say
The Trump administration still has not restored millions of dollars in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds as part of a temporary restraining order barring a freeze on funding for federal grant and aid programs, a coalition of states told a Rhode Island federal judge Friday, asking the court to enforce its order.
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February 28, 2025
CFPB Endgame Is Just 'Five Men And A Phone,' Filings Allege
Current and former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees alleged in D.C. federal court filings that the Trump administration is much more aggressively trying to gut the agency than it has let on, warning it has already damaged vital functions.
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February 28, 2025
CFPB Won't Drop MoneyLion Suit Despite Agency Shake-Up
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told a New York federal judge Friday that the agency plans to continue pursuing its lawsuit against MoneyLion Technologies Inc. under Trump-appointed leadership despite uncertainty about the agency's future and the CFPB's recent decisions to drop other actions due to the Trump administration's policy shake-up.
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February 28, 2025
SEC, Ex-Silvergate CFO Trade Shots Over Enforcement Case
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday urged a New York federal court not to throw out its claims that the former chief financial officer of defunct crypto-focused bank Silvergate Capital concealed the bank's rocky financial position, saying that the executive is mischaracterizing its claims.
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February 28, 2025
Trump Admin Cuts Raise Trade Secret Security Concerns
As the Trump administration reduces the size of the federal government, intellectual property attorneys are expressing concerns about the continued safeguarding of trade secrets that companies are required to disclose to certain agencies.
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February 28, 2025
Up Next At High Court: Gun Violence Liability & Nuclear Waste
The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench Monday to consider Mexico's attempt to hold gun manufacturers and distributors liable for cartel-related gun violence and a nuclear waste site dispute that could determine who can challenge future agency actions.
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February 28, 2025
BofA Customer Gets Class Cert. In Revived ATM Fee Dispute
A class of account holders who allege Bank of America breached a contract by charging out-of-network fees for balance inquiries at certain ATMs can now proceed with claims as a class after their initial attempt at certification was denied.
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February 28, 2025
FDIC Can't Nix SVB Trust's Claims Feds Must Turn Over $1.93B
A California federal judge has tossed a pair of claims from SVB Financial Trust's lawsuit alleging that the FDIC wrongfully took control of $1.93 billion in deposits amid Silicon Valley Bank's collapse, dismissing due process claims for good but allowing the trust to pursue promissory estoppel allegations and so-called turnover claims.
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February 28, 2025
Mich. Justices Reject Credit Suisse's NOL Carryforward Bid
The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday denied Credit Suisse's bid to appeal a lower court's decision that barred the bank from straying from the federal method of determining taxable income to carry forward $21.3 million in losses on its state returns.
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February 28, 2025
Ex-UBS Financial Adviser Must Pay $2M Back, 11th Circ. Told
UBS urged the Eleventh Circuit on Friday to undo rulings in a bankruptcy adversary case precluding a former financial adviser from paying back the proceeds of a $2 million loan deposited in a joint account with his wife, saying the funds shouldn't be immune to creditors.
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February 28, 2025
FinCEN Delays Corporate Transparency Act Deadlines
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network said it will not take any enforcement actions against companies failing to file or update their beneficial ownership information reports pursuant to the Corporate Transparency Act until an interim final rule becomes effective.
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February 28, 2025
Justices Asked To Review IRS Crypto Doc Seizure Case
A cryptocurrency investor who lost his challenge to the Internal Revenue Service's seizure of his account records has asked the U.S. Supreme Court for review, saying the 1976 legal doctrine that sank his case is outdated and fails to meet digital realities, including decentralized banking.
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February 28, 2025
CFPB Drops TransUnion Suit In Enforcement Retreat
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday voluntarily dismissed, with prejudice, a lawsuit against TransUnion alleging deceptive marketing practices, and another suit against 1st Alliance Lending LLC alleging deceptive mortgage lending practices, the latest in a string of enforcement actions the Trump administration has dropped without explanation.
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February 28, 2025
Mayer Brown Adds Ex-EDNY Prosecutor To White Collar Team
As the new presidential administration ushers in changes to federal regulatory and enforcement priorities, Mayer Brown LLP has bulked up its global investigations and white collar defense practice in New York with the addition of a litigator from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York.
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February 28, 2025
Carbon Project Investor C-Quest Hits Ch. 7
Carbon project developer C-Quest Capital has filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in a Delaware bankruptcy court as its ex-CEO faces charges he fraudulently obtained millions of dollars worth of carbon credits.
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February 28, 2025
State Street To Buy Mizuho's $580B Custody Business
State Street Corp. said Friday it has agreed to purchase Mizuho Financial Group Inc.'s global custody and related businesses outside of Japan, which it said support the overseas investments of Mizuho's Japanese clients and hold $580 billion in assets under custody and $24 billion in assets under administration.
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February 27, 2025
PennyMac Can't Avoid Investors' Suit Over Post-Libor Rate
A California federal judge has ruled PennyMac's mortgage investment arm must face a suit accusing it of using last year's discontinuation of Libor to unlawfully lock in a lower dividend for some of its preferred stock, saying the plaintiffs have adequately pled that the company violated the LIBOR Act when it issued dividends at a fixed rate.
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February 27, 2025
Black Homebuyers' Predatory Loan Settlement Gets Final OK
A Michigan class of Black homebuyers have gotten final approval for their $750,000 deal to end claims against real estate companies and their investors who allegedly bought up run-down Detroit properties to sell with abusive lending terms.
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February 27, 2025
Payment Processor Sues Trulieve Over Cashless ATMs
A Texas payments processor is suing multistate cannabis giant Trulieve in Arizona state court, alleging the company's use of so-called cashless ATMs to handle retail marijuana sales triggered close to $1 million in fines.
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February 27, 2025
Trump's CFPB Pick Vows To 'Follow The Law' As Cases Pulled
Trump nominee Jonathan McKernan told U.S. senators on Thursday that he'd be the one calling the shots at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau if confirmed as its director, but his message of independence was muddled by a wave of enforcement dismissals that hit federal courts in the middle of his confirmation hearing.
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February 27, 2025
Judge Axes NYC Loan Row, Sanctions Firm For Depositions
A New York federal judge has dismissed a commercial real estate lender's claims against two guarantors for a 2022 loan it made, ripping the lender and its ex-counsel, Fox Rothschild LLP, for deposition no-shows.
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February 27, 2025
Unions Can Depose DOGE In Agency Access Suit, Judge Says
The Department of Government Efficiency must tell a group of unions whom it's sent into the Department of Labor, the Department of Health & Human Services and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and what computer systems they've accessed, a D.C. federal judge ruled Thursday.
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February 27, 2025
Alsup Halts 'Illegal' Firings Of Probationary Federal Workers
U.S. District Judge William Alsup on Thursday temporarily blocked the mass firings of probationary federal employees ordered by President Donald Trump's administration, determining that the Office of Personnel Management illegally directed government agencies to terminate the probationary employees without authority to do so from Congress.
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February 27, 2025
NC Woman Admits To Role In $5M Student Loan Fraud
A North Carolina woman has admitted she conspired to commit wire fraud as part of a more than $5 million theft from the federal student loan aid program, a fraud that the U.S. Department of Justice said she organized with more than 70 "straw students."
Expert Analysis
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Scope And Nature Of Judicial Relief Will Affect Loper's Impact
The practical result of post-Loper Bright rulings against regulatory actions will depend on the relief courts grant — and there has been controversy in these types of cases over whether the ruling is applied just to the parties or nationwide, and whether the action can be left in place while it's corrected, says Steven Gordon at Holland & Knight.
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The Implications Of E-Cigarette Cos. Taking Suits To 5th Circ.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. R.J. Reynolds over the definition of an "adversely affected" person under the Tobacco Control Act, and the justices' ruling will have important and potentially wide-ranging implications for forum shopping claims, says Trillium Chang at Zuckerman Spaeder.
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Del. Dispatch: Lessons From Failed Albertsons-Kroger Merger
The allegations in Albertsons' lawsuit against Kroger following the grocery stores' blocked merger demonstrate how a target company can best ensure that a buyer timely and effectively complies with its obligations to pursue the necessary regulatory approvals for a deal, say attorneys at Fried Frank.
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Adventure Photography Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Photographing nature everywhere from Siberia to Cuba and Iceland to Rwanda provides me with a constant reminder to refresh, refocus and rethink the legal issues that my clients face, says Richard Birmingham at Davis Wright.
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How Cos. Can Respond To CFPB Digital Asset Safeguard Plan
Though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposal to regulate online payment platforms via existing federal laws would create new challenges, digital payment companies that engage with the rulemaking process could help shape a win-win regulatory framework that protects consumer data and ensures the sector’s growth, says Allison Raley at Arnall Golden.
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How Ch. 11 Can Alleviate Merchant Cash Advance Concerns
Merchant cash advance funding is one of the biggest challenges for small businesses today because funders are so prevalent, aggressive and expensive, but bankruptcy can provide several tools for dealing with MCA agreements that may allow the debtor business to restructure and survive, says Patricia Fugée at FisherBroyles.
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Future Of Crypto-Asset Classification Is In 2nd Circ.'s Hands
A definitive ruling from the Second Circuit in a rare interlocutory appeal in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's ongoing court battle with Coinbase could finally establish clear guidelines on the classification of digital assets, influencing how they are regulated and traded in the U.S., say attorneys at Manatt.
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5 Ways To Create Effective Mock Assignments For Associates
In order to effectively develop associates’ critical thinking skills, firms should design mock assignments that contain a few key ingredients, from messy fact patterns to actionable feedback, says Abdi Shayesteh at AltaClaro.
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Assessing Gary Gensler's Legacy At The SEC
Gary Gensler's tenure as U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chair is defined by a record of commonsense regulation in some areas and social activism in others, and by increasing judicial skepticism about the SEC's authority to fulfill its regulatory, enforcement, administrative law and adjudicatory functions, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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Takeaways From DOJ Fraud Section's 2024 Year In Review
Attorneys at Paul Weiss highlight notable developments in the U.S. Department of Justice Fraud Section’s recently released annual report, and discuss what the second Trump administration could mean for enforcement in the year to come.
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A Defendant's Guide To 4 Common CFPB Discovery Tactics
With the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recent flurry of new lawsuits showing no signs of stopping, defendants should know the bureau's most relied-upon discovery strategies — and be prepared to resist them, say attorneys at Goodwin.
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The 7th Circ.'s Top 10 Civil Opinions Of 2024
Attorneys at Jenner & Block examine the most significant decisions issued by the Seventh Circuit in 2024, and explain how they may affect issues related to mass arbitration, consumer fraud, class certification and more.
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Kansas Bank's Suit Could Upend FDIC Enforcement Authority
Should CBW Bank's federal lawsuit in Kansas challenging the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s enforcement authority gain traction with a post-Chevron U.S. Supreme Court, it could have profound implications for the FDIC and the banking industry at large, says Jack Harrington at Bradley Arant.
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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: Nov. And Dec. Lessons
In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five federal court decisions and identifies practice tips from cases involving takings clause violations, breach of contract with banks, life insurance policies, employment and automobile defects.
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Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year
Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.