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January 10, 2025
Justices Seem Inclined To Uphold TikTok Sale-Or-Ban Law
The U.S. Supreme Court seemed likely Friday to uphold a law requiring TikTok to divest from its Chinese parent company over national security concerns or face a nationwide ban, despite some justices expressing concern over the law's impact on the free speech rights of Americans who use the wildly popular social media platform.
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January 10, 2025
DOJ Sues To Block Amex GBT's $570M Deal For Rival CWT
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit Friday seeking to block American Express Global Business Travel Inc.'s planned $570 million acquisition of corporate travel management rival CWT Holdings LLC.
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January 10, 2025
Vince McMahon Resolves SEC Probe Over Secret Settlements
Embattled World Wrestling Entertainment co-founder Vince McMahon signed two multimillion-dollar deals to buy silence from a former employee and a contractor without making the required disclosures to organization officials and staffers, according to a settlement announced Friday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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January 09, 2025
CFPB Bars Ex-Agency Attys From Revived Innovation Policies
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has said it will not consider applications for its rebooted no-action letter and compliance sandbox policies when those applications are submitted by financial service companies represented by former bureau attorneys as outside counsel.
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January 09, 2025
SEC Sues To Enforce $3M Cannabis Investment Fraud Deal
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has asked a Utah federal court to enforce an administrative cease-and-desist order requiring a wealth management company and its owner to give the regulator over $3 million they previously agreed to pay to end claims they defrauded investors in a $19.5 million cannabis-linked fund raise.
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January 09, 2025
Target Brass Face Derivative Suit Over DEI Fallout
Target Corp.'s executives and directors have been hit with a shareholder derivative suit in Florida federal court alleging that the company's diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and its offerings of LGBTQ+ merchandise harmed investors.
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January 09, 2025
Texas Hits TikTok With Another Suit Over Child-Online Safety
Texas hit TikTok with another lawsuit in the Lone Star State court following similar consumer protection suits, accusing the social media giant — which is facing a ban in the U.S. — of deceptively marketing its purportedly addictive app as safe for minors despite letting explicit material run rampant on the platform.
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January 09, 2025
CFPB Hit With 2nd Suit Over Medical Debt Reporting Rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been hit with a second lawsuit challenging its new rule that would wipe billions of dollars in medical debt off consumer credit reports, with ACA International filing a complaint in Texas federal court arguing healthcare markets are outside the agency's regulatory authority.
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January 09, 2025
FINRA Fines Fidelity Unit $600K Over Ex-Employee's Theft
Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC has agreed to pay $600,000 to resolve the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's claims that the firm had an inadequate supervisors system in place from 2012 through 2020 that failed to detect an associated person's theft of $750,000 from customer accounts.
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January 09, 2025
CFPB Taps First Open Banking Industry Standards Setter
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has given Financial Data Exchange Inc. the green light to set standards for open banking in a first of its kind approval aimed at giving customers more control over their financial data.
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January 09, 2025
DOJ Wants Time At 9th Circ. In Zillow, NAR Antitrust Case
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked the Ninth Circuit for permission to appear at oral arguments in an appeal looking to revive antitrust claims from a defunct brokerage platform against Zillow and the National Association of Realtors.
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January 09, 2025
New Mexico Justices Say Local Gov'ts Can't Restrict Abortion
New Mexico's highest court on Thursday struck down four local ordinances that restricted abortion access in the state, chastising the cities and counties behind them for running afoul of state laws on reproductive health and medical licensing.
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January 09, 2025
Colo. Urges 10th Circ. Not To Vacate Air Emissions Plan
Colorado told the Tenth Circuit that a green group challenging an air emissions permitting program in the state misled a panel of judges during oral arguments by asserting that eliminating the program would resolve its concerns.
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January 09, 2025
5 Things Executive Pay Attys Should Keep An Eye On In 2025
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk will be seeking a green light for a $56 billion pay package while a new administration in the White House may scuttle proposed incentive pay regulations and a ban on noncompete agreements. Here, Law360 looks at five things executive compensation lawyers will be following in the new year.
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January 09, 2025
Asphalt Exec Latest To Plead Guilty In Bid-Rigging Scheme
A metro Detroit asphalt executive pled guilty Wednesday for his role in a conspiracy to rig bids for paving jobs in Michigan, the latest plea in the government's sprawling investigation into multiple companies and their leaders for a scheme that resulted in millions of dollars' worth of rigged contracts.
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January 09, 2025
Stem Cell Therapy Co. Hit With $5.1M Deceptive Ad Judgment
A Georgia federal judge has ordered a stem cell therapy company and its co-founders to pay the state $5.1 million for falsely marketing its product as a cure-all miracle treatment for a slew of different medical conditions.
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January 09, 2025
DOD Says Chinese Military Co. Listing For Lidar Firm Is Legit
The U.S. Department of Defense is urging a D.C. federal judge to back its decision to include Shanghai-based lidar manufacturer Hesai Technology Co. Ltd. on a list of "Chinese military companies," a decision the company has called "riddled with sloppy mistakes."
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January 09, 2025
Indiana House Bill Would Abolish Property Taxes
Indiana would disallow the assessment of tangible property beginning in 2026 and end the imposition of property taxes beginning in 2027 under a bill introduced Thursday in the state House of Representatives.
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January 09, 2025
5 Questions Attys Have About Supreme Court's TikTok Case
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Friday in TikTok's challenge to a law requiring the wildly popular social media platform to be divested from its Chinese parent company over national security concerns or face a nationwide ban, in an unusual First Amendment case attorneys say also raises broad procedural and legal questions.
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January 09, 2025
US Steel And Nippon's Lawsuit Seen As 'Hail Mary' Attempt
President Joe Biden may not have put forth an airtight national security argument for blocking Nippon Steel's planned acquisition of U.S. Steel, but the companies' subsequent lawsuit is still highly unlikely to earn them another chance at making the deal happen, according to legal experts.
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January 09, 2025
Gordon Rees Adds Former Fintech GC In NY, Miami
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP said Thursday that it has brought on a new financial services partner who recently served as general counsel at fintech firms.
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January 09, 2025
High Court Ruling Looms Over FERC Gas Enforcement Deal
A TotalEnergies unit will pay $5 million to end a decadelong Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gas market manipulation probe, an enforcement case that was weakened by the U.S. Supreme Court's June ruling that limits the authority of in-house agency judges.
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January 09, 2025
Judge Nixes Bid To Depose SEC Counsel In $73M Fraud Case
A New Jersey federal magistrate judge has denied a credit reporting agency's bid to depose four U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorneys and to compel the production of their witness interview notes in a civil enforcement action over an alleged $73 million fraud, ruling the information sought is protected by the work-product doctrine.
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January 09, 2025
DOJ Fights Apple's Intervention In Google Search Remedies
The U.S. Department of Justice is opposing Apple Inc.'s "eleventh-hour effort" to have a say in what should be a proper fix for Google's search monopoly, telling a D.C. federal judge that the company has had ample opportunity to defend its lucrative revenue-sharing agreement with Google.
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January 09, 2025
Chamber, Bank Groups Press For Halt To CFPB Overdraft Rule
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Bank Policy Institute and several other banking industry groups have added their voices in opposition to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new $5 overdraft fee rule through amici curiae briefs filed in Mississippi federal court.
Expert Analysis
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Medicare Overpayment Rules Are A Mixed Bag For Providers
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' updated rules for handling agency overpayments adopt a more reasonable definition of what it means to have "identified" an overpayment, which is a win for providers, but their new time frame for investigating related overpayments is unrealistic, says Susan Banks at Holland & Knight.
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SEC Action Indicates Continued Focus On ESG Disclosures
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recently settled enforcement action against Invesco Advisers provides a road map for how regulatory agencies will continue to focus on ESG-related disclosures going forward, and underscores a focus on greenwashing, say attorneys at V&E.
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FERC's Reactive Power Compensation Cutoff Is No Shock
While the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's recent final rule ending compensation for reactive power provided within the standard power factor range will mean less revenue for some generators, it should not come as a surprise, since FERC has long signaled its interest in this shift, says Linda Walsh at Husch Blackwell.
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Navigating Decentralized Clinical Trials With FDA's Guidance
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recently finalized guidance on conducting decentralized clinical trials, while not legally binding, can serve as a road map for sponsors, investigators and others to ensure trial integrity and participant safety, say attorneys at Phillips Lytle.
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Unpacking The CFPB's Personal Financial Data Final Rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's personal financial data rights rule includes several important changes from the proposed rule, and hundreds of pages of supplementary information that provide important insights into the manner in which the bureau will enforce the final rule, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Opinion
Feds May Have Overstepped In Suit Against Mortgage Lender
The U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit against Rocket Mortgage goes too far in attempting to combat racial bias and appears to fail on the fatal flaw that mortgage lenders should be at arm's length from appraisers, says Drew Ketterer at Ketterer & Ketterer.
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5 Tips For Complying With NLRB Captive Audience Ban
The National Labor Relations Board’s recently ruled that so-called captive audience meetings violate federal labor law, representing a radical shift in precedent and creating new standards for employers to follow when holding workplace meetings where union representation will be discussed, say attorneys at Fisher Phillips.
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The Bar Needs More Clarity On The Discovery Objection Rule
Almost 10 years after Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34 was amended, attorneys still seem confused about what they should include in objections to discovery requests, and until the rules committee provides additional clarity, practitioners must beware the steep costs of noncompliance, says Tristan Ellis at Shanies Law Office.
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The AI Consumer Class Action Threat Is Not A Hallucination
As regulators scrutinize whether businesses can deliver on claims about their artificial intelligence products and services, the industry faces a wave of consumer fraud class actions — but AI companies can protect themselves by prioritizing fundamental best practices that are often overlooked, say Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein and Richard Torrenzano at the Torrenzano Group.
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What's Next For The CFTC After The Election
While much of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's enforcement actions in line with its traditional priorities will continue as usual in the near term, postelection leadership changes at the CFTC and new congressional priorities may alter the commission's regulatory framework in 2025 and beyond — particularly its oversight of crypto, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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What's Still Up In The Air After Ruling On Calif. Climate Laws
A California federal court's recent ruling on challenges to California's sweeping climate disclosure laws resolved some issues, but allows litigation over the constitutionality of the laws to continue, and leaves many important questions on what entities will need to do to comply with the laws unanswered, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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The Do's And Don'ts Of Commercial Debt Under Calif. FDCPA
Lenders, servicers and attorneys collecting on their behalf should pay careful attention to the consumer protections under the newly expanded California Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act that may apply going forward to some commercial debts, say attorneys at Womble Bond.
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A Look At The Hefty Demands In Calif. Employer AI Draft Regs
California's draft regulations on artificial intelligence use in employment decisions show that the California Privacy Protection Agency is positioning itself as a de facto AI regulator for the state, which isn't waiting around for federal legislation, says Lily Li at Metaverse Law.
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Series
Being A Navy Reservist Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Serving this country in uniform has not only been one of the greatest honors of my life, but it has also provided me with opportunities to broaden my legal acumen and interpersonal skills in ways that have indelibly contributed to my civilian practice, says Phillip Smith at Weinberg Wheeler.
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How To Prepare For Expanded HSR Notification Process
Following the recent publication of the Federal Trade Commission's final rule enhancing premerger reporting requirements under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, filing parties can take key steps to comply by the new Feb. 10 effective date, say attorneys at Squire Patton.