Compliance

  • February 27, 2025

    DraftKings To Pay $10M In NFT Proposed Class Settlement

    DraftKings Inc. will pay $10 million to users of the sports betting site who owned nonfungible tokens offered through its marketplace, according to a proposed settlement in the putative class action.

  • February 27, 2025

    US Senate Panel Advances Trump's Labor Secretary Pick

    A U.S. Senate committee voted Thursday to move forward the nomination of former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead the U.S. Department of Labor.

  • February 26, 2025

    High Court Halts Trump's Wed. Night Deadline To Restore Aid

    The U.S. Supreme Court late Wednesday paused a Washington, D.C., federal judge's late-night deadline ordering the Trump administration to restore nearly $2 billion in foreign assistance funding.

  • February 26, 2025

    Apple Comms Director's Texts Reveal Criticisms Of Judge

    An Apple communications director's text messages came to light Wednesday on the last day of a high-stakes hearing into whether Apple complied with a 2021 antitrust injunction, revealing the director had criticized the judge extensively when the hearing began in May.

  • February 26, 2025

    DOJ Drops Suits Over Police, Firefighter Discriminatory Hiring

    The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday it was dropping lawsuits across the country over allegedly discriminatory practices for hiring police officers and firefighters, saying the litigation "unjustly targeted fire and police departments for using standard aptitude tests."

  • February 26, 2025

    Arkansas Hits GM With Suit Over 'Deceptive' Driver Data Sales

    Arkansas' attorney general has become the latest to take aim at General Motors Co. over its data privacy practices, filing a lawsuit in state court Wednesday accusing the automaker of padding its profits by deceptively collecting and selling drivers' private data, which purchasers would then resell to insurance companies.

  • February 26, 2025

    Bank Directors Back Ex-Rabobank Exec's High Court Bid

    A bank director advocacy group has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a former Rabobank compliance chief's challenge against the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, arguing the agency engages in a practice of "regulation-by-dismissal" to the detriment of the banking industry.

  • February 26, 2025

    Merck, Glenmark Trim United Healthcare's Zetia Antitrust Suit

    A Minnesota federal judge has trimmed a United Healthcare unit's antitrust suit claiming that Merck and Glenmark conspired to delay a generic version of the anti-cholesterol drug Zetia, throwing out non-Minnesota state-law claims he called a "bare and conclusory pleading."

  • February 26, 2025

    Trump's CFPB Pick Says Agency's 'Past Excesses' Must End

    President Donald Trump's nominee to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will tell senators on Thursday that a "crisis of legitimacy" plagues the beleaguered agency, casting it as an out-of-control regulator that needs to be brought to heel.

  • February 26, 2025

    Trump Orders Fed Agencies To Plan For Large Layoffs

    The White House is telling federal agencies to submit plans for "large-scale" layoffs by mid-March, accusing them of siphoning funding for "unproductive and unnecessary programs" and "not producing results for the American public."

  • February 26, 2025

    NJ Tech Co. Misled Investors On NASA Partnership, Suit Says

    Computer chip manufacturer Quantum Computing Inc. was hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging it overhyped its business relationships, including its partnership with NASA, and lied about its revenues and the progress it made in building a foundry.

  • February 26, 2025

    Calif. AG's Hiring Of Lieff Cabraser In Climate Suit Challenged

    California Attorney General Rob Bonta improperly hired Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP to assist with the state's climate deception suit against fossil fuel companies when attorneys in his office were capable of handling the litigation, the union representing the public lawyers contended in a newly filed state court complaint.

  • February 26, 2025

    Ga. Judge OKs Deal To End Feds' Apartment Access Probe

    A Georgia federal judge has signed off on a series of consent orders resolving a civil suit brought by the federal government against a Savannah apartment complex and a local housing authority over allegations that they denied a disabled resident an accessible apartment in spite of her repeated accommodation requests.

  • February 26, 2025

    Trump CFTC Shifts Enforcement Stance From Stick To Carrot

    In a sign that it is backing off a more aggressive tone on enforcement during the second Trump administration, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has provided what it says is first-of-its-kind guidance on how much money regulated entities can expect to save for cooperating with agency investigations.

  • February 26, 2025

    Debt Collectors Accused Of Preying On Fla. Military Members

    Two debt collectors operating in Florida are accused of repeatedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by filing lawsuits to collect consumer debt from military service members after the statutes of limitation expired on claims, according to a proposed class action filed Wednesday in federal court in Jacksonville.

  • February 26, 2025

    Trump Order May Affect Trader's FCPA Conviction, DOJ Says

    Federal prosecutors say an oil trader from Connecticut should not win his bid to undo his overseas bribery conviction, but noted that the case's future is uncertain given President Donald Trump's executive order pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases.

  • February 26, 2025

    Senators Want Federal Broadband Money To Be Tax-Exempt

    Telecom companies set to collectively receive billions in federal dollars aimed at subsidizing the build-out of broadband infrastructure won't have to pay taxes on those funds, if a bipartisan group of senators gets its way.

  • February 26, 2025

    Broadcasters Say Next-Gen TV Transition Must Move Faster

    It's time to finish up the transition to the next generation of television broadcasting, and the Federal Communications Commission should move things along or the "realistic window for implementation could pass," broadcasters are telling the agency.

  • February 26, 2025

    EPA's Enviro Justice Reset Upending Community Relations

    The Trump administration's undertaking to root out environmental justice staffers, programs and funding has sown confusion and ruptured relationships with communities that had worked more closely with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in recent years.

  • February 26, 2025

    Dewberry Ruling May Lead To More Defendants In TM Fights

    Plaintiffs in trademark disputes likely will consider including multiple defendants in their complaints when it's unclear who holds the profits from the alleged infringement, according to intellectual property attorneys, after the U.S. Supreme Court remanded a case because nonparty affiliates of a defendant were ordered to pay an award that reached nearly $47 million.

  • February 26, 2025

    Chicago Nonprofit Sues Trump Over Anti-DEI Orders

    A Chicago-based women's trade group sued the Trump administration in Illinois federal court Wednesday, claiming his recent executive orders restricting federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs are unconstitutional and unlawfully chill the organization's free speech.

  • February 26, 2025

    Ex-CFTC Chair Says Congress 'Can Do Better' On Stablecoins

    Senate Democrats questioned the consumer protection provisions included in recently proposed stablecoin legislation at a Wednesday digital asset subcommittee hearing, which saw a former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair argue that lawmakers "can do a lot better" than the existing proposals.

  • February 26, 2025

    King & Spalding Alum Confirmed As Trade Rep, 56-43

    The U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved President Donald Trump's pick to be U.S. trade representative in a vote almost entirely across party lines.

  • February 26, 2025

    NY Investment Firm Founder Charged With $4M Fraud

    The founder of investment firm Never Alone Capital LLC was hit with parallel criminal and civil suits on Wednesday from the Manhattan district attorney and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging he ran a fraudulent scheme that raised approximately $4 million from investors, most of which he then misappropriated for personal use.

  • February 26, 2025

    Web Liability Fix Faces 'Persuasive' Test, FCC Expert Says

    It won't be easy for the Federal Communications Commission to weaken tech platforms' liability shield as some Republicans want to do, but the commission could still make changes that courts find "persuasive," a former FCC lawyer now leading a pro-business group said on a blog Tuesday.

Expert Analysis

  • Climate Disclosure Spotlight Shifts To 2 Calif. Laws

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    With Donald Trump's election spelling the all-but-certain demise of the proposed federal climate disclosure rules, new laws in California currently stand as the nation's only broadly applicable climate disclosure requirements — and their brevity is both a blessing and a curse, say attorneys at Davis Polk.

  • A Deep Dive Into DOJ's Proposed FARA Shake-Up

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    The U.S. Department of Justice's recently published and long-awaited proposed amendments to the Foreign Agents Registration Act's implementing regulations, if adopted, would mark dramatic changes to the commercial exemption and new requirements for labeling informational materials, says Tessa Capeloto at Wiley.

  • What's Ahead As Transparency Act Comes To A Crossroads

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    Synthesizing the contrasting federal district and appellate court rulings on the Corporate Transparency Act’s validity reveals several main areas of debate that will likely remain at issue as challenges to the law continue winding through the courts, say attorneys at Farella Braun.

  • What 2024 Tells Us About Calif. Health Transaction Reviews

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    Looking back at the California Office of Health Care Affordability's first year accepting notices for material healthcare transactions reveals critical lessons on what the OHCA's review process may mean for the future of covered transactions in the state, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Final Hydrogen Tax Credit Regs Add Flexibility For Producers

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    The recently released final regulations implementing the Inflation Reduction Act's clean hydrogen production tax credit offer taxpayers greater flexibility, reducing risk and creating more certainty for investments in the industry, thus diminishing — but not eliminating — the risk of legal challenges to the regulations, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • Where Payments Law And Regulation Are Headed In 2025

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    The Trump administration will likely bring significant changes to payments regulations in 2025, but maintaining internal compliance efforts in the absence of robust federal oversight will remain key as state authorities and private plaintiffs step into the breach, say attorneys at Stinson.

  • What To Expect From Federal Cybersecurity Policy In 2025

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    There are 12 cyber policy questions to keep an eye on as the new administration and Republican control of Congress present an opportunity to advance less regulatory approaches and revisit some choices from the prior administration, say attorneys at Wiley.

  • Republican Trifecta Amplifies Risks For Cos. In 3 Key Areas

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    Expected coordination between a Republican Congress and presidential administration may expose companies to simultaneous criminal, civil and congressional investigations, particularly with regard to supply chain risks in certain industries, government contracting and cross-border investment, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • 2 Cases May Signal Where FTC Is Headed On Labor Issues

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    Two recent Federal Trade Commission challenges to no-hire clauses in agreements between building service firms and their customers include comments by future FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson that may offer insight into the direction the FTC is headed on labor issues, says Michael Wise at Squire Patton.

  • 5 Evolving Concerns For Family Offices In 2025

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    Complex regulatory changes and emerging operational risks will force family offices to stay on their toes in 2025, with timely action particularly necessary to address several tax and reporting developments that may affect their investments and business operations, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • New Law In NY Places Employee NIL Rights In Spotlight

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    New York recently became the first state to codify name, image and likeness rights for models, but as such protections seemingly expand for individual employees across industries, employers may want to brush up on related case law, and update their handbooks and policies accordingly, says Timothy Bechen at Woods Rogers.

  • Updated HIPAA Rule Is A Necessary Step For Data Protection

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    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' updated rules addressing cybersecurity threats in healthcare will necessitate significant investment in technology, training and compliance infrastructure, but are an essential evolution in safeguarding data in an increasingly digital world, say attorneys at Clark Hill.

  • National Trust Bank Charter Can Widen Reach Of Fintech Cos.

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    U.S. fintech companies that want to expand nationwide are at a competitive disadvantage with foreign companies, which can much more easily branch into the U.S., but setting up a national trust bank charter could offer a path forward, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

  • 2024 Was A Banner Year For Shareholder Activism

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    Shareholder activism campaigns in 2024 continued at an elevated pace globally, with activist investors exploiting valuation gaps and pushing aggressively for corporate governance reforms, including the ouster of many companies' chief executives, a trend that could continue once President-elect Donald Trump takes office, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Expect A Big Shake Up At The EEOC Under 2nd Trump Admin

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    During President-elect Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is likely to significantly shift its focus and priorities, especially where workplace DEI initiatives, immigration enforcement, LGBTQ+ rights and pregnancy protections are concerned, say attorneys at Stoel Rives.

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