Try our Advanced Search for more refined results
Compliance
-
October 17, 2025
Federal Courts To Scale Back Operations Amid Shutdown
The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.
-
October 17, 2025
Texas Farm Bureau Suit Alleging USDA Discrimination Stayed
A Texas federal judge on Thursday opted to stay the Texas Farm Bureau's suit against the USDA over the agency's alleged preferential treatment of minority farmers while a similar case plays out.
-
October 17, 2025
Verizon Scraps Ad For Free Google Pixel After AT&T Objects
Verizon has dropped an advertisement for free Google Pixel phones that prompted an AT&T complaint that the offer was only available for "Unlimited Ultimate" plan customers, not everyone.
-
October 17, 2025
Ark. Trust 'Trying To Determine' What NY Attys Did With $20M
A New York law group is facing allegations that it misappropriated $20 million that was meant to facilitate a business loan transaction on behalf of an Arkansas trust.
-
October 17, 2025
Sidley Lands Ex-Acting SDNY US Attorney
Matthew Podolsky, the former acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, has jumped to private practice at Sidley Austin LLP.
-
October 17, 2025
Industry Calls On Policymakers To Tackle Telecom Vandalism
Growing theft and vandalism of telecom lines can trigger not only immediate costs, but broader economic and social ripple effects from network shutdowns, a wireless infrastructure group warned in a pair of new reports issued to support the group's call for stepped-up law enforcement.
-
October 17, 2025
GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Exxon was hit with a proposed class action alleging its new program to enable automated proxy voting for retail investors is intended to stifle shareholder dissent. Meanwhile, a new survey found that nearly two-thirds of in-house legal departments think they will rely less on outside legal service providers because of generative artificial intelligence. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
-
October 17, 2025
Mercedes-Benz, Staffing Firm Settle OT Dispute
A billable worker told a Georgia federal court that she reached a tentative settlement with Mercedes-Benz and a staffing agency she accused of flouting the Fair Labor Standards Act by failing to pay her overtime.
-
October 16, 2025
Ripple Pays $1B For Treasury Management Co. GTreasury
Crypto exchange Ripple announced Thursday that it entered a deal to acquire treasury management systems provider GTreasury for $1 billion.
-
October 16, 2025
CFPB Ends Citi Order Over Armenian Discrimination Claims
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has agreed to drop its case accusing Citibank NA of intentionally and systematically discriminating against retail-branded credit card applicants with Armenian-looking last names, according to an order filed Thursday.
-
October 16, 2025
Smartmatic Faces FCPA Indictment In Philippine Bribery Case
A Florida federal grand jury on Thursday returned a superseding indictment that adds charges against Smartmatic, which wasn't previously a party to prosecutors' case accusing former executives at the voting machine company of bribing an elections official in the Philippines to secure contracts.
-
October 16, 2025
Fed. Judge Keeps X's Suit Against Apple, OpenAI In Texas
A Texas federal judge told X Corp, Apple and OpenAI that they ought to move their headquarters to Fort Worth if they like litigating in Cowtown so much, opting Thursday to keep X and xAI's sweeping antitrust suit against Apple and OpenAI in the Lone Star State.
-
October 16, 2025
Why Ethics Complaints Against Halligan Face 'Very High Bar'
Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan for the Eastern District of Virginia could face bar disciplinary action or court sanctions if the prosecutions she's pursuing at President Donald Trump's behest are found to be politically motivated or baseless, although proving ethics allegations will be an uphill battle, experts say.
-
October 16, 2025
Semler Investor Sues For Details Of Strive Bitcoin Merger
An investor in healthcare-focused bitcoin treasury company Semler Scientific Inc. has sued to block a shareholder vote on Semler's proposed acquisition by another corporate bitcoin holder until it provides more information on the deal.
-
October 16, 2025
Lumen Wants 'Speculative' $1.4B Pension Swap Suit Tossed
Lumen Technologies Inc. asked a Colorado federal court to throw out a proposed class action alleging it wrongly transferred obligations for a $1.4 billion pension fund to a private equity-controlled insurance company, calling it "speculative" and arguing that retired employees can't show they've been harmed by the move.
-
October 16, 2025
Tech Group Aims To Ax Texas' App Store Age Verification Law
A new Texas law that requires app store owners to verify users' ages and block minors from downloading apps or making in-app purchases without parental consent unconstitutionally imposes a "broad censorship regime" on the entire mobile app ecosystem, a tech industry trade group argued in a lawsuit Thursday seeking to strike down the measure.
-
October 16, 2025
Kalshi Tells 4th Circ. Md. Is Stepping On CFTC Oversight
Maryland federal judge was wrong to reject sports betting company Kalshi's argument that its so-called prediction market, which allows users to wager on the outcome of real-world events, counts as a federal derivative exchange, the company said to the Fourth Circuit.
-
October 16, 2025
Privacy Compliance Needs 'Kindergarten Rules,' Atty Says
Panelists at a Los Angeles conference on the intersection of technology and entertainment tackled the issue of privacy and data laws Thursday, with one participant telling the crowd that helping clients avoid legal entanglements in those areas involves applying "kindergarten rules."
-
October 16, 2025
NY Counties Want Court To Toss Rest Of 911 Tribal Bias Suit
Two New York counties have asked a federal judge to rethink her dismissal of only part of a lawsuit brought by the Cayuga Nation that accuses the counties of refusing to forward 911 calls made from the tribe's land to the tribal police unless the nation pays to connect the force to the counties' 911 system.
-
October 16, 2025
Library Services Co. Accused Of Layoff Without Proper Notice
A Georgia company that identifies as the largest supplier of library content, software and services to public and academic libraries in the U.S., terminated at least 300 employees without proper notice as part of a mass layoff without meeting a federal 60-day notice requirement, according to a proposed class action.
-
October 16, 2025
Justices Told Presidential Firing Limits Rely On 'Soured' Logic
President Donald Trump and a cadre of supporters have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to wipe out what remains of a 90-year-old ruling that empowers Congress to prohibit the president from firing certain agency officials at will, arguing the decision was flawed when originally issued and is now well past its prime.
-
October 16, 2025
Macy's, Discount Tire Co. Hit With Wash. Anti-Spam Suits
Macy's and Discount Tire Co. are the latest businesses targeted by a wave of proposed class actions in which consumers claim the companies broke a Washington state law outlawing commercial emails with false or misleading subject lines.
-
October 16, 2025
Calif. Hospitals Sue Over New Healthcare Cost Increase Caps
The California Hospital Association hit the state's Office of Health Care Affordability and others with a lawsuit Wednesday, claiming they violated state law with new rules that aim to limit increases in consumer health care costs by curbing hospital spending.
-
October 16, 2025
NetChoice Fights Colo. 'Cigarette-Style' Social Media Law
A lawyer for an internet trade association urged a federal judge Thursday to block a Colorado law set to take effect next year, comparing its requirement for social media platforms to display warnings for minors to the mandated warning labels on tobacco products.
-
October 16, 2025
Texas Business Court Says Winter Storm Stalled Gas Delivery
A Texas business court found that Marathon Oil Co. had no obligation to buy natural gas to make up for delivery shortfalls to a commodity trading company created during Winter Storm Uri, saying the winter storm counted as an unforeseen event.
Expert Analysis
-
Breaking Down The Intersection Of Right-Of-Publicity Law, AI
Jillian Taylor at Blank Rome examines how existing right-of-publicity law governs artificial intelligence-generated voice-overs, deepfakes and deadbots; highlights a recent New York federal court ruling involving AI-generated voice clones; and offers practical guardrails for using AI without violating the right of publicity.
-
Series
Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.
-
H-2A Rule Rollback Sheds Light On 2 Policy Litigation Issues
The Trump administration’s recent refusal to defend an immigration regulation implemented by the Biden administration highlights a questionable process that both parties have used to bypass the Administrative Procedure Act’s rulemaking process, and points toward the next step in the fight over universal injunctions, says Mark Stevens at Clark Hill.
-
NY AML Rules Get Crypto Rebrand: What It Means For Banks
A recent letter from the New York State Department of Financial Services outlining how banks can use blockchain analytics in anti-money laundering efforts is a reminder that crypto activity is not exempted from banks' role in keeping the financial system safe, says Katherine Lemire at Lankler Siffert.
-
What's At Stake At High Court For Presidential Removal Power
Two pending U.S. Supreme Court cases —Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook — raise fundamental questions about the constitutional separation of powers, threaten the 90-year-old precedent of Humphrey's Executor v. U.S. and will determine the president's authority to control independent federal agencies, says Kolya Glick at Arnold & Porter.
-
Using The GHG Protocol For California Climate Reporting
With the California Air Resources Board's recent announcement that entities subject to the state's climate disclosure laws can use the Greenhouse Gas Protocol as a standard for structured, auditable reporting, a review of methods, data sources and disclosures under the protocol is timely for compliance planning, says Thierry Montoya at Frost Brown.
-
Employer Considerations As Ill. Ends Mandatory Fact-Finding
Illinois recently eliminated mandatory fact-finding conferences, and while such meetings tend to benefit complainants, respondent employers should not dismiss them out of hand without conducting a thorough analysis of the risks and benefits, which will vary from case to case, says Kimberly Ross at FordHarrison.
-
3 Trends From AI-Related Securities Class Action Dismissals
A review of recently dismissed securities class actions centering on artificial intelligence highlights courts' scrutiny of statements about AI's capabilities and independence, and sustained focus on issues that aren't AI-specific, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.
-
Compliance Pointers Amid Domestic Terrorism Clampdown
A recent presidential memorandum marks a shift in federal domestic-terrorism enforcement that should prompt nonprofits to enhance diligence related to grantees, vendors and events, and financial institutions to shore up their internal resources for increased suspicious-activity monitoring and reporting obligations, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
-
5 Evolving Marketing Risks That Finance Cos. Should Watch
Financial services providers should beware several areas where consumer protection regulators are broadening their scrutiny of modern marketing practices, such as the use of influencer testimonials or advertisements touting artificial intelligence-powered products, so they can better adapt to changing expectations for compliance, say attorneys at Hinshaw.
-
CFTC, SEC Joint Statement Highlights New Unity On Crypto
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's recent joint statement announcing a cross-agency initiative enabling certain spot crypto-asset products to trade on regulated exchanges is the earliest and most visible instance of interagency cooperation on crypto regulation, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
-
Regulatory Uncertainties Loom As Fed Ends Crypto Oversight
The Federal Reserve Bank's recently ended crypto supervisory program headlines other recent federal actions from Congress, the White House and relevant agencies that may complicate financial institutions' digital-asset use and attendant compliance strategies, say attorneys at Buchalter.
-
What The New Nondomiciled-Trucker Rule Means For Carriers
A new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration interim final rule restricting states' issuance of commercial drivers licenses to nondomiciled drivers does not alter motor carriers' obligations to verify drivers' qualifications, but may create disruptions by reducing the number of eligible drivers, say attorneys at Benesch.
-
EU-US Data Transfer Ruling Offers Reassurance To Cos.
The European Union General Court’s recent upholding of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework in Latombe v. European Commission, although subject to appeal, provides companies with legal certainty for the first time by allowing the transfer of European Economic Area personal data without relying on alternative mechanisms, say lawyers at Wilson Sonsini.
-
Opinion
SEC Arbitration Shift Is At Odds With Fraud Deterrence
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent statement allowing the use of mandatory arbitration by new publicly traded companies could result in higher legal costs, while removing the powerful deterrent impact of public lawsuits that have helped make the U.S. securities markets a model of transparency and fairness, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.