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August 02, 2024
Conn. AG Probes Solar Site's 'False' Social Media Ads
A company running social media ads that claim the government will "cover the cost" of installing solar products is deceiving Connecticut residents and leaving them with a false sense of urgency to claim a benefit that doesn't exist, the state attorney general's office said Friday in announcing an investigation.
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August 02, 2024
Boeing's New CEO To Steer Daunting Safety Culture Rebound
Boeing's selection of an engineer and longtime aerospace industry executive as its next CEO demonstrates an eagerness to correct course amid daunting legal and regulatory troubles, as victims' families relentlessly press for Boeing to face a criminal trial over the two 737 Max 8 crashes.
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August 02, 2024
Commerce Rejects Vietnam's Bid For Market Economy Status
The U.S. Department of Commerce said Friday that it has rejected Vietnam's request to lift its status as a non-market economy, which would have altered how antidumping duties are calculated on Vietnamese exports.
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August 02, 2024
Navajo Restrict Radioactive Transport On Reservation Lands
For the next six months, no radioactive material can be transported across the Navajo Nation's reservation without prior agreement with the country's largest federally recognized tribe, according to an executive order signed by President Buu Nygren.
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August 02, 2024
Ousted USA Badminton CEO Fights SafeSport Suspension
A former Olympic badminton player who recently lost her position as CEO of USA Badminton has filed a lawsuit in Colorado federal court as part of her bid to undo a five-year suspension by the U.S. Center for SafeSport, upheld in arbitration, over allegations that she failed to report sexual misconduct and retaliated against someone who did.
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August 02, 2024
Colo. Appeals Panel Rejects Lower Tax Rate For Hospital
A Colorado rehabilitation hospital should be classified as a commercial property for tax purposes because it was predominantly designed for its services and not for residency, a state appeals court said, reversing a state assessment board.
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August 02, 2024
Dollar Tree To Pay $190K Over Heavy Metals In Kids Products
The Washington state attorney general has announced that Greenbrier International Inc., importer and purchaser for sister company Dollar Tree Stores Inc., has agreed to pay $190,000 and bolster its testing to resolve a probe that the attorney general said found heavy metals in children's school supplies.
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August 02, 2024
Mich. Court Won't Remove Detroit Judges From Ballot
Two long-serving Detroit judges won't have their reelection bids dashed by alleged missteps in their filing paperwork, the Michigan Court of Claims has ruled.
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August 02, 2024
Family Separation Trial Paused For Settlement
A California federal court has paused a lawsuit from three families separated at the southwestern border under the Trump-era zero tolerance policy as they finalize a settlement with the Biden administration to resolve the suit.
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August 02, 2024
ABA Taskforce Urges Attys To Step Up Election Volunteering
The American Bar Association's Task Force for American Democracy, launched last year, published a 12-page report Friday outlining the importance of lawyers knowing their state's election laws and encouraging them to volunteer their time to bolster faith in elections.
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August 02, 2024
Privacy & Cybersecurity Midyear Report: 4 Areas To Watch
New York and Colorado shook up the data privacy landscape by enacting groundbreaking laws protecting children online and clamping down on high-risk uses of artificial intelligence during the first half of 2024, and both states and the federal government are expected to devote considerable attention to these areas in the coming months.
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August 02, 2024
Manhattan DA Slams Trump's 'Regurgitated' Recusal Bid
The Manhattan district attorney pilloried Donald Trump's renewed request for the judge overseeing his hush money case to recuse himself, branding it a "regurgitated" attempt to rehash issues the court already decided without any new facts — besides Kamala Harris' presidential bid.
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August 02, 2024
Akin Debuts AI Law & Regulation Info Tracker
Global BigLaw firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP launched a tracker to help monitor changing policies related to artificial intelligence in various fields including intellectual property, data privacy, health and national security.
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August 02, 2024
Prosecutors Back NJ Judicial Privacy Law's Constitutionality
Daniel's Law is a "commonsense" measure necessary to counter the surge in threats and violence against judges and law enforcement officers, and it places only a "modest" burden on commercial data brokers, federal prosecutors told a New Jersey federal court weighing the future of the law.
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August 02, 2024
DC Circ. Rejects Speech Rights Challenge To DMCA
A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday knocked down a challenge to a provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that bars circumventing digital locks on copyrighted material, ruling that the law is in line with the First Amendment.
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August 02, 2024
NYC Courts' $9.5M Accounting Error Quietly Broke The Law
Internal audits found New York City courts violated state law by failing to turn over $9.5 million to the state treasury — the result of clerks not keeping tabs on public money in recent years.
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August 02, 2024
SEC Narrows Its Rulemaking Focus As Election Looms
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's aggressive rulemaking spree is showing signs of dwindling as November elections loom, although several proposals could be primed for autumn votes if regulators wish to tackle hot-button topics.
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August 02, 2024
Tribes Seek Commission's Help On Canada Mining Policy
A consortium of southeast Alaska tribes is urging the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to call on Canada and British Columbia to formally consult and obtain their "free, prior and informed consent" ahead of looming permitting decisions for the Eskay Creek gold mine.
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August 02, 2024
Land Sale Deals Allowed In Colo. Eminent Domain Dispute
A Colorado appeals court ruled against the city of Westminster in its eminent domain action, ruling that three comparable sales contracts and an adjacent land parcel's $51.5 million purchase and sale contract can be admitted as evidence in a valuation trial.
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August 02, 2024
Aussie Panel Opposes Aligning Public Tax Reporting With EU
The benefits of Australia's public country-by-country reporting bill would diminish if it were limited to jurisdictions covered by the European Union's regime, as businesses have requested, the Australian Senate's economics committee reported Friday.
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August 02, 2024
DC Circ. Says Precedent Allows H-1B Spousal Work Permits
The D.C. Circuit on Friday upheld an Obama-era program authorizing some spouses of highly skilled foreign workers to get work permits, rejecting a challenge from an organization of former IT workers who say they are being displaced by temporary visa holders.
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August 02, 2024
Plumbing Co. Sales Reps Owed OT, 1st Circ. Affirms
A group of more than 600 sales representatives at a Massachusetts-based plumbing and HVAC wholesaler are eligible for overtime pay, the First Circuit concluded on Thursday, affirming a lower court's finding on a Fair Labor Standards Act complaint brought by the government.
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August 02, 2024
3 Candidates In Running To Replace Washington AG
Washington voters on Tuesday will narrow the candidates aspiring to become the state's next attorney general, choosing from among a former U.S. attorney, a state lawmaker who was a county prosecutor, as well as a mayor and attorney who is a gun rights advocate.
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August 02, 2024
Kilpatrick Adds Government Relations Adviser In DC
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP has hired a former Cox Communications government and public affairs senior specialist, who joined the firm as a government relations adviser, to advise clients on federal funding and navigating state and federal grant programs.
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August 02, 2024
FCC Beefs Up Compensation For Phone Caption Services
The Federal Communications Commission has agreed to a five-year plan that raises compensation for internet-enabled phone caption providers, although Republican commissioners balked at details of the plan and one called on the FCC to move toward greater use of automation technologies.
Expert Analysis
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Opinion
Industry Self-Regulation Will Shine Post-Chevron
The U.S. Supreme Court's Loper decision will shape the contours of industry self-regulation in the years to come, providing opportunities for this often-misunderstood practice, says Eric Reicin at BBB National Programs.
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Justices' Bribery Ruling: A Corrupt Act Isn't Necessarily Illegal
In its Snyder v. U.S. decision last week, the U.S. Supreme Court held that a bribery law does not criminalize gratuities, continuing a trend of narrowing federal anti-corruption laws and scrutinizing public corruption prosecutions that go beyond obvious quid pro quo schemes, say Carrie Cohen and Christine Wong at MoFo.
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3 Ways Agencies Will Keep Making Law After Chevron
The U.S. Supreme Court clearly thinks it has done something big in overturning the Chevron precedent that had given deference to agencies' statutory interpretations, but regulated parties have to consider how agencies retain significant power to shape the law and its meaning, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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Roundup
After Chevron
In the month since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Chevron deference standard, this Expert Analysis series has featured attorneys discussing the potential impact across 26 different rulemaking and litigation areas.
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Takeaways From New HHS Substance Use Disorder Info Rules
A new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rule continues the agency's efforts to harmonize complex rules surrounding confidentiality provisions for substance use disorder patient records, though healthcare providers will need to remain mindful of different potentially applicable requirements and changes that their compliance structures may require, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Series
After Chevron: Expect Few Changes In ITC Rulemaking
The U.S. Supreme Court's opinion overruling the Chevron doctrine will have less impact on the U.S. International Trade Commission than other agencies administering trade statutes, given that the commission exercises its congressionally granted authority in a manner that allows for consistent decision making at both agency and judicial levels, say attorneys at Polsinelli.
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Opinion
Reform NEPA To Speed Mining Permits, Clean Energy Shift
It is essential to balance responsible regulatory oversight with permit approvals for mining projects that are needed for the transition to renewable energy — and with the National Environmental Policy Act being one of the leading causes of permit delays, reform is urgently needed, say Ana Maria Gutierrez and Michael Miller at Womble Bond.
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Series
Calif. Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2
The second quarter of 2024 in California, which saw efforts to expand consumer protection legislation and enforcement actions in areas of federal focus like medical debt and student loans, demonstrated that the state's role as a trendsetter in consumer financial protection will continue for the foreseeable future, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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6 PTAB Events To Know From The Last 6 Months
The first half of 2024 brought a flurry of Patent Trial and Appeal Board developments that should be considered in post-grant strategies, including proposed rules on discretionary denial and director review, and the first decisions of the Delegated Rehearing Panel, say attorneys at Fish & Richardson.
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Key Takeaways From High Court's Substitute Expert Decision
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Smith v. Arizona decision, holding that the confrontation clause generally bars prosecutors’ use of a substitute expert witness at trial, will have the most impact in narcotics and violent crime cases, but creative defense lawyers may find it useful in white collar cases, too, say Joshua Naftalis and Melissa Kelley at Pallas Partners.
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Opinion
Atty Well-Being Efforts Ignore Root Causes Of The Problem
The legal industry is engaged in a critical conversation about lawyers' mental health, but current attorney well-being programs primarily focus on helping lawyers cope with the stress of excessive workloads, instead of examining whether this work culture is even fundamentally compatible with lawyer well-being, says Jonathan Baum at Avenir Guild.
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How Generative AI May Aid Merger Clearance Process
Generative artificial intelligence capable of analyzing and searching large datasets stands to revolutionize the merger clearance process, including by significantly reducing the time and effort required to respond to Hart-Scott-Rodino second requests, say Kenneth Koch and Brian Blush at BDO USA.
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Proposed Customer ID Rule Could Cost Investment Advisers
A rule recently proposed by FinCEN and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to make financial advisers collect more customer information parallels an anti-money laundering and counterterrorism rule proposed this spring, but firms may face new compliance costs when implementing these screening programs, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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What Passage Of House Crypto Bill Could Mean For Industry
While the prospects of the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act, which recently passed the House in a bipartisan fashion, becoming law remain murky, the manner of its passage may give crypto markets a real cause for hope, say Neel Maitra and Dale Beggs at Dechert.
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A Case Study For Calif. Cities In Water Utility Takeovers
With growing water scarcity and drier weather looming, some local governments in California have sought to acquire investor-owned water utilities by eminent domain — but the 2016 case of Claremont v. Golden State Water is a reminder that such municipalization attempts must meet certain statutory requirements, say attorneys at Nossaman.