Compliance

  • March 17, 2025

    Judge Extends Block On Data Sharing With DOGE

    A Maryland federal judge extended her temporary restraining order blocking the U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Office of Personnel Management from turning over sensitive personal information on federal employees to Department of Government Efficiency workers Monday, giving herself another week to rule on the workers' preliminary injunction request.

  • March 17, 2025

    DOJ Dismisses BitClout Crypto Fraud Case, Court Filings Say

    Federal prosecutors have dropped their fraud case against the founder of crypto project BitClout accused of ripping off a venture capital firm, while the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is engaged in talks about a possible end to its own civil action against him, court documents show.

  • March 17, 2025

    Judge Ends Ex-Ga. Tech Prof's Suit Over Finance Probe

    Two Georgia Tech auditors have escaped a malicious prosecution suit from a former professor over allegedly suspicious financial dealings by his startup that they flagged, as a Georgia federal judge said the professor "failed to provide evidence" his rights were violated.

  • March 17, 2025

    Gogo Says Rival Pivoted From Competing To Suing

    In-flight entertainment company Gogo Business Aviation wants out of a $1 billion lawsuit accusing it of wielding its monopoly over air-to-ground broadband tech to keep competitors at bay, telling the court that SmartSky is just trying to convert their intellectual property dispute into an antitrust one.

  • March 17, 2025

    Wells Fargo Says OCC Has Closed Home Loan Consent Order

    Wells Fargo & Co. on Monday said the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has closed a consent order related to its home lending business, marking the eleventh consent order against the bank that regulators have closed in recent years and another step forward in its regulatory rehabilitation efforts.

  • March 17, 2025

    Ford Seeks New Trial After $2.5B Ga. Rollover Verdict

    Ford Motor Co. has asked a Georgia federal judge for a new trial after being hit with a $2.5 billion punitive damages verdict last month in a fatal Super Duty truck rollover trial, claiming jurors improperly learned about a prior, now-scrapped $1.7 billion verdict against the company over a similar accident.

  • March 17, 2025

    4th Circ. Revives Tenant's FCRA Suit Over Disputed Debt

    The Fourth Circuit has revived a tenant's lawsuit over an allegedly bogus charge from her landlord, ruling that collection agencies are not exempt from their obligation to investigate Fair Credit Reporting Act claims if they involve a legal dispute.

  • March 17, 2025

    Toyota Seeks Exit From Investors' Emission Tests Fraud Suit

    Toyota Motor Corp. has asked a California federal judge to dump a proposed class action alleging it deceived investors by failing to thoroughly investigate reports of falsified vehicle certification data, saying the plaintiffs have twisted executives' public statements to inflate their securities fraud claims.

  • March 17, 2025

    Savannah Sues Over PFAS Pollution In River

    Numerous chemical and manufacturing companies, including 3M and DuPont, tainted the water supply of the city of Savannah, Georgia, with "forever chemicals" despite knowing for decades the dangers these substances pose, according to a lawsuit removed to federal court.

  • March 17, 2025

    Doctor Pays $700K To Settle Feds' Medicare Fraud Suit

    A doctor and his Ringgold, Georgia, practice have agreed to pay $700,000 to settle allegations that they knowingly submitted false claims to Medicare for medically unnecessary chelation therapy.

  • March 17, 2025

    NYC To Pay $140M To End Taxi Drivers' Unfair Suspension Suit

    New York City has agreed to pay $140 million to settle a nearly two-decade-old federal class action alleging its arbitrary practice of suspending taxi drivers who have been arrested but not yet convicted violated their due process rights.

  • March 17, 2025

    9th Circ. Says Capital One Cyberattacker Sentence Too Light

    A split Ninth Circuit panel Monday said a lower court judge was too lenient in sentencing a former Amazon.com Inc. coder to probation for orchestrating one of the nation's latest data breach crimes, finding that the district court judge erred in finding her actions were not "malicious."

  • March 17, 2025

    Amazon Hit With Greenwashing Suit Over Paper Products

    Consumers in four different states have launched a proposed class action against Amazon in Washington federal court, accusing the retail giant of greenwashing its claims about its "Basics" line of paper products and misleading buyers about the sustainability of products whose supply chains are in fact "deeply unsustainable."

  • March 17, 2025

    LA Settles Suit Over Port's Alleged Pollutant Discharges

    Los Angeles and an environmental nonprofit announced they have settled a Clean Water Act suit filed this past summer in federal court that accused the city of violating its wastewater discharge permit by exceeding limits on dangerous pollutants dispersed into the San Pedro Bay.

  • March 17, 2025

    Court Won't Toss Biotech Co.'s Antitrust Counterclaim

    A California federal court refused to toss claims from biotech company Zymo Research Corp. accusing rival Qiagen GmbH of filing a "sham" patent infringement suit against it to discredit a potential competitor in the DNA extraction market.

  • March 17, 2025

    SpaceX Hopes For Faster Commercial Launch Coordination

    SpaceX has asked the Federal Communications Commission to set up spectrum coordination among commercial space launches on tighter time frames to make it easier to avoid signal interference between users.

  • March 17, 2025

    Bowman Is Trump's Pick For Supervision Chief At Fed

    President Donald Trump on Monday tapped Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle "Miki" Bowman to take over as the central bank's vice chair for supervision, a role that would position the former community banker to shape key policymaking on bank capital, mergers and more.

  • March 17, 2025

    Execs Stole $5.4M In Fla. Trucking Co. Investments, SEC Says

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has brought a Florida federal lawsuit against three principal members of a trucking company over securities violations, alleging that they raised at least $5.4 million after falsely promising investors significant profits but returned only a fraction of the money.

  • March 17, 2025

    Energy Co. Urges FERC To End $1B Enforcement Case

    An energy efficiency aggregator on Monday urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to drop its pursuit of nearly $1 billion in penalties for disputed market manipulation and tariff violations, an enforcement case the company has already asked a federal judge to declare unconstitutional.

  • March 17, 2025

    Ex-Flooring Co. Exec Gets 7.5 Years For $1.8M Fraud Scheme

    Flooring manufacturer Mohawk Industries Inc.'s former head of information technology has been hit with a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence after admitting to masterminding a $1.8 million scheme to rip off the company, taking a guilty plea just days before a trial where his co-conspirators were set to testify against him.

  • March 17, 2025

    X Says Nonprofit Is Using Calif. Court To Evade Texas Suit

    X Corp. told a Texas federal judge a left-leaning media watchdog was trying to use a California court to weasel out of a suit accusing the nonprofit of running defamatory articles, saying Monday it was first to file and that the suit should stay in the Lone Star State.

  • March 17, 2025

    SEC Says Ex-CFO Cooked Pot Co. Acreage's Books

    The former chief financial officer of cannabis company Acreage faces U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that he covered up the company's attempt to inflate its 2019 cash balance with a so-called round-trip transaction involving an affiliate.

  • March 17, 2025

    Split 9th Circ. Won't Halt Federal Workers Reinstatement Order

    A divided Ninth Circuit panel on Monday denied the Trump administration's bid for an immediate administrative stay of a California district court order requiring reinstatement of some probationary federal workers fired from six agencies, with the majority saying a pause "would disrupt the status quo and turn it on its head."

  • March 17, 2025

    SEC's Acting Chair Uyeda Promises To Slow Rulemaking

    Acting U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mark Uyeda said Monday that he has directed staff to reassess a number of finalized and proposed regulations championed by the Biden administration, including those targeting mutual fund disclosures and the handling of crypto assets, as he championed a "smoother regulatory course" for the agency.

  • March 17, 2025

    Union, Green Groups Fight EPA Bid To Redo Biden TSCA Rule

    Labor unions and green groups are asking the D.C. Circuit to reject the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's bid to reconsider a Biden-era rule that strengthened regulations to assess chemicals' health and environmental risks.

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    It's Time To Fix The SEC's Pay-To-Play Rule

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    Nearly 15 years after its adoption, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's pay-to-play rule is not working as intended — a notion recently echoed by SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce — and the commission should reconsider the strict liability standard, raise the campaign contribution limits and remove the look-back provision, say attorneys at WilmerHale.

  • Opinion

    CPSC's Amazon Ruling Is A Win For Safety, Accountability

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    A recent U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission order classifying Amazon.com as a distributor, and requiring it to comply with notice, recall, refund and remediation obligations for defective products, is a major victory for consumer safety — and for attorneys pursuing product liability claims against major online retailers, says Donald Fountain at Clark Fountain.

  • Cross-Border Lessons In Using Hague Evidence Convention

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    Recent case law demonstrates that securing evidence located abroad requires a strategic approach, including utilization of the Hague Evidence Convention and preparation to justify your chosen evidence-gathering path, say attorneys at Fish & Richardson.

  • 4 Ways Women Attorneys Can Build A Legal Legacy

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    This Women’s History Month, women attorneys should consider what small, day-to-day actions they can take to help leave a lasting impact for future generations, even if it means mentoring one person or taking 10 minutes to make a plan, says Jackie Prester, a former shareholder at Baker Donelson.

  • UK Refusal Of US Extradition Request May Set New Standard

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    The recent U.K. Supreme Court ruling in El-Khouri v. U.S., denying a U.S. extradition request, overturns a long-held precedent and narrows how U.K. courts must decide such requests, potentially signaling a broader reevaluation of U.K. extradition law, say lawyers at Dechert and Kingsley Napley.

  • Navigating The Growing Thicket Of 'Right To Repair' Laws

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    An emerging patchwork of state laws on the right to repair creates tensions with traditional intellectual property and competition principles, so manufacturers should plan proactively for legal disputes and minimize potential for rival third-party repairs to weaponize state laws, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

  • Justices' Revival Ruling In Bias Suit Exceeds Procedural Issue

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Waetzig v. Halliburton allowed the plaintiff in an age discrimination lawsuit to move to reopen his case after arbitration, but the seemingly straightforward decision on a procedural issue raises complex questions for employment law practitioners, says Christopher Sakauye at Dykema.

  • Why A Rare SEC Dismissal May Not Reflect A New Approach

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    While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's pending dismissal of its case against Silver Point is remarkable to the extent that it reflects a novel repudiation of a decision made during the prior commission, a deeper look suggests it may not represent a shift in policy approach, say attorneys at Weil.

  • Unpacking First Consumer Claim Under Wash. Health Data Act

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    The first consumer class action claim filed under Washington's My Health My Data Act, Maxwell v. Amazon.com, may answer questions counsel have been contending with since the law was introduced almost a year ago, if the court takes the opportunity to interpret some of more opaque language, say attorneys at Polsinelli.

  • Deficiency Trends In National Futures Association Exams

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    A recent notice from the National Futures Association outlining the most common deficiencies uncovered during exams gives member firms an opportunity to review prior guidance, particularly regarding the hot topic of implementing procedures governing the use of outsourced service providers, say attorneys at Akin.

  • A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing

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    U.S. District Judge Fred Biery shares a few key lessons about how to go against the grain of the legal writing tradition by adding color to bland judicial opinions, such as by telling a human story and injecting literary devices where possible.

  • Mastering The Fundamentals Of Life Sciences Due Diligence

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    As life sciences transactions continue to gain tremendous momentum, companies participating in these transactions must conduct effective and strategic regulatory due diligence, which involves extensive amounts of information and varies by manifold factors, says Anna Zhao at GunnerCooke.

  • A Close-Up Look At DOJ's Challenge To HPE-Juniper Deal

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    The outcome of the Justice Department's challenge to Hewlett Packard Enterprise's proposed $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks will likely hinge on several key issues, including market dynamics and shares, internal documents, and questions about innovation and customer harm, say attorneys at McDermott.

  • Why NY May Want To Reconsider Its LLC Transparency Law

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    Against the backdrop of the myriad challenges to the federal Corporate Transparency Act, it may be prudent for New York to reconsider its adoption of the LLC Transparency Act, since it's unclear whether the Empire State's "baby-CTA" statute is still necessary or was passed prematurely, say attorneys at Pillsbury.

  • Pleading Rules At Stake In High Court Hamas Banking Case

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    While a case between victims of Hamas terrorist attacks and a Lebanese bank, recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, appears to ask a narrow question of which civil procedure rules apply to requests to reopen final judgments, how the justices rule could drastically change pleading strategies for future plaintiffs, say attorneys at Dorsey & Whitney.

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