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Latest News in Consumer Protection

  • July 02, 2026

    SVB's CEO Was Paid Millions As Risk Rating Slid, Judge Told​​​​

    Silicon Valley Bank's ex-CEO testified Thursday during a California federal bench trial over the FDIC's claims that the bank's brass mismanaged its assets, acknowledging during a tense examination that he received multimillion-dollar payouts and sold nearly $30 million in stock while regulators downgraded SVB's risk management rating ahead of its collapse.

  • July 02, 2026

    Meta Hit With Textbook Authors' IP Suit Over AI Training

    Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a proposed class action Thursday in California federal court accusing it of feeding copyrighted textbooks into its Llama large language model to train the artificial intelligence product without getting permission from or compensating the textbooks' authors.

  • July 02, 2026

    Minn. Judge Won't Let Cypriot Gaming Co. Force Arbitration

    A Minnesota federal judge has denied a request by the Cypriot operator of the online "social gaming" site Stake to force a proposed illegal gambling class action into arbitration, saying it still isn't clear whether the terms and conditions containing an underlying arbitration agreement are valid.

  • July 02, 2026

    Ticketmaster Can't Shield Breach Probe In Snowflake MDL

    A Montana federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over a data breach at cloud storage provider Snowflake ordered Ticketmaster, one of its affected clients, to turn over materials about its post-breach investigation and cybersecurity spending, while hitting the ticketing giant with $5,000 in sanctions for "discovery abuses" related to these requests. 

  • July 02, 2026

    Fed Nears CRA Rule Repeal As FDIC, OCC Exit 5th Circ. Fight

    Federal regulators plan to take different legal approaches to completing their previously joint effort to unwind Biden-era updates to decades-old community reinvestment rules for banks, according to two filings at the Fifth Circuit.

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