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September 24, 2025
Suit Claims PNC Failed To Protect 740K Users' Data In Breach
A proposed class action filed in Pennsylvania federal court Tuesday claims PNC Financial Services suffered a data breach affecting 740,000 customers and should be held liable for not protecting their personal information.
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September 24, 2025
AvalonBay Can't Duck DC's RealPage Claims
A District of Columbia Superior Court judge has rejected landlord AvalonBay Communities Inc.'s bid to escape D.C.'s rent-fixing antitrust suit against property management software company RealPage Inc., AvalonBay and several landlords.
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September 24, 2025
Lender Must Face Class Claims It Ignored 'Do Not Call' Asks
A mortgage lender must face class allegations that it called people without their consent to market its loan products and continued to call people who asked it to stop, a Michigan federal judge has ruled, rejecting the lender's arguments that the proposed class is too vague.
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September 23, 2025
Experian Beats Credit Investigation Suit, For Now
Experian beat a proposed class action alleging it failed to timely reinvestigate disputed information in a plaintiff's file that kept him from securing a property mortgage loan, a North Carolina federal judge said Tuesday, finding that the plaintiff lacked standing and couldn't fairly trace his injury to the delay in reinvestigation.
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September 23, 2025
Uber Asks Judge To Look Into Leak Of Sealed Records To NYT
Uber has asked a San Francisco judge to order the lawyers in coordinated sexual assault litigation in California state court involving hundreds of accusers to officially state they have no knowledge about how sealed, confidential information protected under the court's order was handed over to The New York Times.
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September 23, 2025
Industry Witnesses In Google Ad Tech Case Not 'That Helpful'
A Virginia federal judge tightened the leash Tuesday on the U.S. Department of Justice and Google fight over the company's advertising placement technology business, expressing dissatisfaction with non-technical industry witnesses testifying about the benefits and costs of a government breakup proposal.
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September 23, 2025
Ad Groups Urge Newsom To Veto Calif. Opt-Out Tool Bill
Four major ad industry groups are asking California Gov. Gavin Newsom to veto a bill that would require browser developers to offer a digital tool enabling consumers to more easily opt out of online behavioral advertising throughout the web.
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September 23, 2025
Eli Lilly Deal In Weight Loss Drugs Trademark Suit Hits Snag
Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and two Seattle-area medical clinics tried to leave a federal court "entirely in the dark" on the finer points of their newly proposed trademark suit settlement, a Seattle federal judge held in declining to approve the deal and enter a consent judgment in the case.
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September 23, 2025
Italy's Telecom Regulator Seeks 'Back Door' Network Fees
As debate rages in the U.S. about whether to help pay for broadband network deployment by imposing fees on streamers and Big Tech, an Italian regulator is getting around an EU restriction on so-called network fees by reclassifying content delivery networks as "electronic communications networks," an industry group warned.
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September 23, 2025
Amazon Prime Trapped Consumers, FTC Tells Seattle Jury
Amazon knew for years that millions of people were inadvertently enrolling in its Prime subscription program because of its design choices but prioritized boosting membership counts over fixing the problem, the Federal Trade Commission told a Seattle federal jury on Tuesday, kicking off a long-awaited consumer protection trial against the e-commerce giant.
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September 23, 2025
Banks Urge SEC To Hold Crypto Custody To Same Standards
Financial services trade groups have cautioned the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission against broadly permitting investment advisers and state-chartered trust companies to safeguard customer's cryptocurrency assets, urging the agency to maintain equal standards for all financial custodians amid planned crypto rulemaking.
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September 23, 2025
FCC Demands Boomerang, Others Repay $1.1M For Contracts
The Federal Communications Commission said it is owed more than $1.1 million for spending more on computer tablets than was needed by two wireless companies during pandemic-era assistance programs.
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September 23, 2025
CFTC Seeks Feedback On The Use Of Crypto Collateral
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission launched an initiative on Tuesday to enable the use of certain crypto assets as collateral in derivatives markets, soliciting industry suggestions on potential pilot programs, amendments to regulations and relevant issues.
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September 23, 2025
CFPB Frees Apple, US Bank From Biden-Era Consent Orders
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has lifted two more enforcement orders issued during the Biden administration, this time granting both Apple Inc. and U.S. Bank NA an early release from ongoing monitoring years ahead of schedule.
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September 23, 2025
This Week In Healthcare Cybersecurity
Expiring Obama-era cybersecurity legislation, U.K. charges for 'Scattered Spider' breach, and the challenges of 23andMe's bankruptcy. Law360 looks at the week in cybersecurity developments affecting the healthcare industry.
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September 23, 2025
Cannabis Cos. To Pay $400K In Deal Over Sleep Aid Product
The companies behind the 1906 brand of cannabis products have agreed to halt all sales in Colorado and pay $400,000 to the state in order to end an investigation into allegations that they sold a marijuana-based sleep-aid product, "Midnight Drops," that might have caused liver problems.
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September 23, 2025
Fox Pushes To Move Newsmax Antitrust Case Back To Florida
Fox Corp. urged a Wisconsin federal court to move Newsmax's antitrust complaint back to Florida, accusing the cable TV broadcaster of "impermissible forum shopping" and saying that the suit belongs in the Sunshine State, the location of Newsmax's headquarters and where a similar lawsuit has already been filed.
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September 23, 2025
Ship's Owner Can't Shift Blame For Bridge Collapse, Court Told
The Singaporean owner and manager of the container ship that slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge and triggered its collapse cannot try to shift blame for its own failings, the South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. has told a Pennsylvania federal court.
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September 23, 2025
FERC Urges Justices To Let Grid Incentive Ruling Stand
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to disturb its revocation of an incentive for power companies that are required to be members of a regional transmission organization.
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September 23, 2025
Dentists Denied Class Certification In $13B Delta Dental Suit
An Illinois federal court refused to certify a class of dentists in multidistrict litigation targeting an alleged $13 billion antitrust scheme by Delta Dental and its members, finding that dental insurance markets are local, not national in scope.
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September 23, 2025
Social Media Giants Must Face Expert Testimony On Harm
A California state judge ruled Monday that jurors set to consider claims against major social media technology companies for allegedly causing harm to young users' mental health will be allowed to hear expert testimony about potential injuries inflicted by the design and operation of the platforms.
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September 23, 2025
28 AGs Tell 4th Circ. NC Vape Law Isn't Preempted
A group of 28 attorneys general are urging the Fourth Circuit not to block a North Carolina state law prohibiting the sale of e-cigarettes unapproved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, saying the law isn't preempted by federal law.
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September 23, 2025
1st Circ. Won't Let Citizens Bank Escape Escrow Interest Suit
The First Circuit has revived a proposed class action accusing Citizens Bank of violating Rhode Island law by not making interest payments for mortgage escrow accounts, ruling the action must be reinstated in part because of a U.S. Supreme Court decision handed down after the case was dismissed.
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September 23, 2025
Chemours Asks 4th Circ. To Toss Ohio River Pollution Order
Chemours told the Fourth Circuit a West Virginia federal judge botched the law and the science about the risks a forever chemical poses when he ordered its Washington Works facility to stop discharging permit-exceeding amounts of the substance into the Ohio River.
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September 22, 2025
Uber Assault Accuser's PTSD Signs Pre-Date Ride, Jury Told
A woman claiming she suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of being sexually assaulted by her Uber driver when she was 18 has a history of childhood abuse and traumatic incidents, indicating she had PTSD before the 2016 ride, two psychiatrists told jurors Monday in a bellwether trial.
Expert Analysis
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What Novel NIL Suit Reveals About College Sports Landscape
A first-of-its-kind name, image and likeness lawsuit — recently filed in Wisconsin state court by the University of Wisconsin-Madison against the University of Miami — highlights new challenges and risks following the NCAA’s landmark agreement to allow schools to make NIL deals and share revenue with student-athletes, say attorneys at O'Melveny.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Time Management
Law students typically have weeks or months to prepare for any given deadline, but the unpredictability of practicing in the real world means that lawyers must become time-management pros, ready to adapt to scheduling conflicts and unexpected assignments at any given moment, says David Thomas at Honigman.
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How Prohibiting Trigger Leads May Affect Mortgage Marketing
Recent amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act prohibiting the sale of trigger leads mark a significant shift in the regulatory landscape for mortgage lenders, third-party lead generators and their legal counsel, who should reevaluate lead generation strategies and compliance protocols, say Joel Herberman, Rob Robilliard and Leah Dempsey at Brownstein Hyatt.
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Privacy Policy Lessons After Google App Data Verdict
In Rodriguez v. Google, a California federal jury recently found that Google unlawfully invaded app users' privacy by collecting, using and disclosing pseudonymized data, highlighting the complex interplay between nonpersonalized data and customers' understanding of privacy policy choices, says Beth Waller at Woods Rogers.
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How Hyperlinks Are Changing E-Discovery Responsibilities
A recent e-discovery dispute over hyperlinked data in Hubbard v. Crow shows how courts have increasingly broadened the definition of control to account for cloud-based evidence, and why organizations must rethink preservation practices to avoid spoliation risks, says Bree Murphy at Exterro.
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CFPB Proposal Defining Consumer Risk May Add Uncertainty
Though a recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposal would codify when risks to consumers justify supervisory intervention against nonbanks, furthering Trump administration plans to curtail CFPB authority, firms may still struggle to identify what could attract supervisory designation under the new rule, say attorneys at Steptoe.
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Targeting Execs Could Hurt SEC's Probusiness Goals
While many enforcement changes under the Trump administration’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have been touted by commission leadership as proinnovation and probusiness, a planned focus on holding individual directors and officers responsible for wrongdoing may have the opposite effect, say attorneys at MoFo.
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Navigating The Risks Of Employee-Influencers, Side Gigs
Though companies may be embracing employee-influencer roles, this growing trend — along with an increase in gig employment — presents compliance risks, particularly around employee classification, compensation and workplace policies, as the line between work, influence and outside employment becomes increasingly blurred, say attorneys at Squire Patton.
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Assessing Potential Ad Tech Remedies Ahead Of Google Trial
The Virginia federal judge tasked with prying open Google’s digital advertising monopoly faces a smorgasbord of potential remedies, all with different implications for competition, government control and consumers' internet experience, but compromises reached in the parallel Google search monopoly litigation may point a way forward, say attorneys at MoloLamken.
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Earned Wage Access Providers Face State Law Labyrinth
At least 12 states have established laws or rules regulating services that allow employees to access earned wages before payday, with more laws potentially to follow suit, creating an evolving state licensing maze even for fintech providers that partner with banks, say attorneys at Venable.
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Strategies To Get The Most Out Of A Mock Jury Exercise
A Florida federal jury’s recent $329 million verdict against Tesla over a fatal crash demonstrates how jurors’ perceptions of nuanced facts can make or break a case, and why attorneys must maximize the potential of their mock jury exercises to pinpoint the best trial strategy, says Jennifer Catero at Snell & Wilmer.
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Writing Musicals Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My experiences with writing musicals and practicing law have shown that the building blocks for both endeavors are one and the same, because drama is necessary for the law to exist, says Addison O’Donnell at LOIS Law.
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What Prop 65 Ruling Means For Cosmetics, Personal Care Biz
A California federal court's recent decision on Proposition 65 warnings is good news for companies in the cosmetics and personal care space, as it will relieve businesses of the need to apply such warnings to products containing titanium dioxide and likely stop a wave of pending failure-to-warn litigation, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Genius Act Poses Strategic Hurdles For Community Banks
The pace of change in digital asset policy, including the recent arrival of the Genius Act, suggests that strategic planning should be a near-term priority for community banks, with careful attention to customer relationships, regulatory developments and the local communities they serve, say attorneys at Jones Walker.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From Va. AUSA To Mid-Law
Returning to the firm where I began my career after seven years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia has been complex, nuanced and rewarding, and I’ve learned that the pursuit of justice remains the constant, even as the mindset and client change, says Kristin Johnson at Woods Rogers.