Compliance

  • March 18, 2025

    BofA Must Face Parts of Pandemic Benefits Cards Suit

    A Baltimore federal judge on Tuesday trimmed claims in a proposed class action alleging Bank of America mismanaged Maryland's unemployment benefits debit cards during the pandemic, ruling that the customer may keep claims relating to Maryland privacy laws and potential breaches of contract.

  • March 18, 2025

    Crypto Firms Tied To Milei-Promoted Libra Token Face NY Suit

    A trio of crypto firms linked to a token known as Libra face a proposed class action accusing them of fraudulently raising $107 million from the controversial project, which was promoted by Argentine President Javier Milei prior to its collapse.

  • March 18, 2025

    Comerica Says Amended CFPB Suit Is A Delay Tactic

    Comerica Bank has asked a Texas federal judge to toss a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau suit alleging the bank mismanaged a government benefit card program, arguing the agency is trying to stall the case by filing an amended complaint after the court rejected its stay bid.

  • March 18, 2025

    Trading Giant Virtu Must Face Suit Over Confidentiality Issues

    A New York federal judge has trimmed a consolidated class action accusing trading giant Virtu Financial Inc. of misleading investors on issues around access to confidential customer trading information, finding that one category of statements in the complaint is not actionable but otherwise allowing the suit to proceed.

  • March 18, 2025

    Md. Judge Says USAID Dismantling Is Likely Unconstitutional

    A Maryland federal judge on Tuesday ruled that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the U.S. Constitution "in multiple ways" in their drive to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development.

  • March 18, 2025

    Trump Admin Asks 4th Circ. To Halt Employee Rehiring Order

    The Trump administration on Monday evening asked the Fourth Circuit for an emergency stay of a Maryland federal judge's restraining order requiring the reinstatement of probationary employees who were fired from 18 federal agencies, saying the suing states don't have standing to represent the fired workers.

  • March 18, 2025

    6th Circ. Panel Torn On Reviving Chevy Cruze Emissions Suit

    A Sixth Circuit panel wrestled Tuesday with whether it is precedent-bound to revive claims that General Motors misled car buyers about the emissions of Chevrolet Cruze vehicles marketed as having "clean" diesel engines.

  • March 18, 2025

    Deere & Co. Attacks FTC's Right-To-Repair Suit As 'Vague'

    Farm machinery manufacturer Deere & Co. is asking an Illinois federal court to nix the Federal Trade Commission's right-to-repair suit, arguing that the company doesn't operate in or exclude others from the equipment repair market, and that the FTC lacks the constitutional authority to sue, among other failings.

  • March 18, 2025

    10th Circ. Judge Probes Colo. On Opt-Out Law's Lender 'Focus'

    A Tenth Circuit judge asked Colorado how it can claim that an interest rate opt-out provision hinges on a borrower's location when "it's pretty clear" the statute it falls under is focused on lenders, at a hearing Tuesday in banking groups' challenge to a state law capping interest rates on consumer lending.

  • March 18, 2025

    Google, Apple Urge 9th Circ. To Reject Search Collusion Case

    Google and Apple are urging the Ninth Circuit to reject an appeal from an advertiser seeking to revive a case accusing Google of paying Apple to stay out of the search market, arguing that a ruling in the government's search case against Google has nothing to do with the claims.

  • March 18, 2025

    E-Commerce Co. Defendant Fights FTC Asset Freeze

    A defendant who says he was wrongfully caught up in a Federal Trade Commission action halting the operations of e-commerce platform Click Profit for allegedly duping users with its AI-powered system told a Florida federal judge he should not be subject to an asset freeze, as he divested his interest in the company well before the allegedly false statements were made.

  • March 18, 2025

    Apple Attempts To Hide Discovery Are 'Systemic,' Epic Says

    Epic Games is pushing a California federal judge to punish Apple for its "sanitized, fictional account" of compliance with an injunction blocking App Store anti-steering policies, arguing the iPhone-maker can't evade discovery sanctions by trying to blame the scale of document review.

  • March 18, 2025

    Fla. Mall Investor Gets 5 Years In $77M WeWork Stock Fraud

    A Manhattan federal judge sentenced a real estate investor and former owner of a Florida waterfront shopping complex to five years in prison Tuesday following a fraud conviction in connection with manipulating the price of WeWork Inc.'s stock at $77 million shortly before the company declared bankruptcy.

  • March 18, 2025

    DC Circ. Seems Divided Over Firings Of Agency Officials

    A D.C. Circuit panel on Tuesday questioned whether nearly century-old U.S. Supreme Court protections for some federal agency officials cover members of the Merit Systems Protection Board and National Labor Relations Board.

  • March 18, 2025

    Asphalt Co. Exec Avoids Prison, Fined $100K For Bid Rigging

    The president of an asphalt paving company who pled guilty to participating in a scheme with other asphalt companies to rig bids for projects in Michigan for roughly eight years avoided prison time and was ordered Tuesday to pay a $100,000 fine.

  • March 18, 2025

    Trump Hasn't Asked IRS For Immigrants' Tax Info, Gov't Says

    The IRS hasn't received any requests from President Donald Trump for immigrants' tax return information and hasn't released any such information to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the government told a D.C. federal court in opposing a restraining order sought by immigrant rights groups.

  • March 18, 2025

    DC Circ. Gives FERC Chance To Redo LNG Project Approvals

    The D.C. Circuit Tuesday said it would allow the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to fix problems in its reauthorizations for two natural gas projects in Texas, revising an August 2024 decision vacating the reauthorizations altogether after the commission said President Donald Trump's revocation of environmental orders should clear them.

  • March 18, 2025

    Trump Fires FTC's Democrats, But Both Vow To Fight

    President Donald Trump fired the Federal Trade Commission's two Democrats on Tuesday, a move the commissioners vowed to fight and that further tees up the brewing legal battle over separation between the White House and independent agencies.

  • March 18, 2025

    Feds Say Wash. Hospital Can't Strike Facts From Fraud Suit

    The government has accused a hospital operator in Washington state of "grasping at straws" by trying to strike inconvenient facts from the court record in a bid to defeat a False Claims Act lawsuit, a tactic prosecutors urged the court to see through and reject.

  • March 18, 2025

    NJ Retailer Settles Suit Over Ammo Sold To Undercover Cops

    A Garden State firearms retailer has agreed to establish procedures to make sure that it does not sell guns to unauthorized people, under a court-ordered settlement with the New Jersey attorney general.

  • March 18, 2025

    NRC Says Texas Reactor Licensing Suit Is In The Wrong Court

    The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission wants a Texas federal judge to toss a lawsuit claiming the agency doesn't have the authority to license small-scale nuclear reactors, saying not only is the suit meritless, but it was also brought in the wrong court.

  • March 18, 2025

    Mistrial Declared In Magnet Co. Export Control Violation Case

    A Kentucky federal judge has declared a mistrial in a case accusing Quadrant Magnetics LLC of violating export control law by sending schematics from military contractors to Chinese companies, finding that the government withheld relevant documents from the company.

  • March 18, 2025

    States Oppose Term In Sandoz Price-Fixing Deal With Fla.

    State enforcers still locked in price-fixing litigation against generic-drug maker Sandoz are raising objections to a cap on what they could win through settlements in Florida's recent agreement with the company, telling the Connecticut federal judge weighing approval that it would block or delay potential settlements of their own.

  • March 18, 2025

    Conn. Coalition Can't Challenge Pot Shop Zoning Approval

    A Connecticut state judge has thrown out a challenge by a group of Stamford residents appealing the city zoning board's approval of a cannabis shop location, finding neither the coalition nor its individual members have shown they have standing.

  • March 18, 2025

    Bancorp Downplayed CRE Bridge Loan Risks, Investor Claims

    An investor in The Bancorp Inc. is accusing the financial holding company in Delaware federal court of causing stock value to decline by misleading investors, including by not fully disclosing how its commercial real estate bridge loans were in danger of defaulting.

Expert Analysis

  • What's Potentially In Store For CFTC Under New Leadership

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    Under the leadership of acting U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Caroline Pham, and with the nomination of former commissioner Brian Quintenz to serve as permanent chair, the commission is set to widely embrace digital assets and event contracts, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

  • Revived Executive Order Is A Deregulatory Boon To Banks

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    A recently reinstated 2019 executive order reveals the Trump administration’s willingness to provide unprecedented protections for regulated parties — including financial institutions — but to claim them, banks and other entities must adopt a forward-leaning posture to work with the regulators, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

  • Recent Cases Clarify FCA Kickback Pleading Standards

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    Two recently resolved cases involving pharmaceutical manufacturers may make it more difficult for False Claims Act defendants facing kickback scheme allegations to get claims dismissed for lack of evidence, say Li Yu at Bernstein Litowitz, Ellen London at London & Noar, and Gregg Shapiro at Gregg Shapiro Law.

  • Opinion

    Antitrust Analysis In Iowa Pathologist Case Misses The Mark

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    An Iowa federal court erred in its recent decision in Goldfinch Laboratory v. Iowa Pathology Associates by focusing exclusively on market impacts and sidestepping key questions that should be central to antitrust standing analysis, says Daniel Graulich at Baker McKenzie.

  • 2 Practical Ways For Banks To Battle Elder Financial Abuse

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    Federal regulators' recent statement raising awareness of elder financial exploitation provides a useful catalog of techniques that banks can employ to fight fraud, particularly encouraging older account holders to establish trusted contacts and sharing timely warnings about the latest scams with customers, say attorneys at Nutter.

  • 3 Ways Civil Plaintiffs Could Fill An FCPA Enforcement Gap

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    While the Department of Justice recently announced it would deprioritize Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations into U.S. businesses without obvious ties to international crime, companies should stay alert to private plaintiffs, who could fill this enforcement void — and win significant civil damages — through several legal channels, says Eric Nitz at MoloLamken.

  • Examining Trump Meme Coin And SEC's Crypto Changes

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    While the previous U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission tended to view most crypto-assets as securities, the tide is rapidly changing, and hopefully the long-needed reevaluation of this regulatory framework is not tarnished by an arguable conflict of interest due to President Donald Trump's affiliation with the $Trump meme coin, say attorneys at Thompson Coburn.

  • Steps For Federal Grantees Affected By Stop-Work Orders

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    Broad changes in federal financial assistance programs are on the horizon, and organizations that may receive a stop-work order from a federal agency must prepare to be vigilant and nimble in a highly uncertain legal landscape, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

  • Opinion

    State FCAs Should Cover Local Fund Misuse, State Tax Fraud

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    New Jersey and other states with similar False Claims Acts should amend them to cover misappropriated municipal funding, and state and local tax fraud, which would encourage more whistleblowers to come forward and increase their recoveries, says Kenneth Levine at Stone & Magnanini.

  • Dewberry Ruling Is A Wakeup Call For Trademark Owners

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dewberry v. Dewberry hones in on the question of how a defendant's affiliates' profits should be treated under the Lanham Act, and should remind trademark litigants and practitioners that issues involving monetary relief should be treated seriously, say attorneys at Finnegan.

  • Recent Cases Suggest ESG Means 'Ever-Shifting Guidelines'

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    U.S. courts have recently handed down a number of contradictory decisions on important environmental, social and governance issues, adding to an already complex mix of conflicting political priorities, new laws and changing regulatory guidance — but there are steps that companies can take to minimize risk, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.

  • New HSR Rules Augur A Deeper Antitrust Review By Agencies

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    After some initial uncertainty, the new Hart-Scott-Rodino Act rules did go into effect last month, and though their increased information requirements create greater initial burdens for merging parties, the rules should lead to greater certainty and predictability through a more efficient and effective review process, says Craig Malam at Edgeworth Economics.

  • How EEOC Enforcement Priorities May Change Under Trump

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    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has already been rocked by the Trump administration's dramatic changes in personnel and policy, which calls into question how the agency may shift its direction from the priorities set forth in its five-year strategic enforcement plan in 2023, say attorneys at Seyfarth.

  • New Fla. Financial Abuse Law May See Limited Buy-In

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    Florida's newly effective financial protection law comes with compliance burdens and uncertainties that could discourage financial institutions from participating, even though the law aims to shield them from liability for delaying transactions when they suspect exploitation of elderly and vulnerable account holders, say attorneys at Shutts & Bowen.

  • Why Acquirers Should Reevaluate Federal Contract Risk

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    Long thought of as a stable investment, the scale with which the Trump administration is attempting to eliminate federal contracts is unprecedented, and acquirer considerations should include the size and scope of all active and pending government contracts of target companies, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.

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