Compliance

  • October 10, 2025

    Block Founders Face Investor Suit Over Cash App Fraud

    Several executives and directors of Cash App parent company Block Inc. have been hit with a derivative suit accusing them of allowing Cash App's "frictionless" sign-up system to fuel fraud, money laundering and inflated user counts while lying about compliance.

  • October 10, 2025

    Ill. AG, Retailers Will Split Swipe-Fee Law's Defense At Hearing

    A Chicago federal judge has agreed to allow a coalition of merchant groups to take part in a key hearing later this month that could decide a banking industry legal challenge to the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, a law banning swipe fees on tax and tip payments.

  • October 10, 2025

    5th Circ.'s FDIC Ruling 'Cries Out' For Review, Ex-CEO Says

    A former Texas bank CEO has asked the full Fifth Circuit to revive his constitutional challenge to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s in-house enforcement process, arguing that a recent panel decision to reject his case as premature "cries out" for review.

  • October 10, 2025

    SEC's Atkins Commits To Expanding Use Of Wells Process

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins plans to refresh the agency's Wells process of engaging with firms ahead of potential enforcement actions, saying he intends for the agency to be more forthcoming with investigative findings and provide more time and opportunities to respond to these findings.

  • October 10, 2025

    DOJ Can't Pause Review Of UnitedHealth Deal Amid Shutdown

    A Maryland federal judge rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to stay its recently settled case with UnitedHealth over the company's merger with Amedisys because of the government shutdown and lapse in appropriations, ruling that a stay would impede the DOJ's ability to evaluate the public interest in the settlement.

  • October 10, 2025

    Elf Bar Will No Longer Sell In Calif., Ending Altria Unit Suit

    The Chinese companies behind the popular Elf Bar brand of vape will no longer sell their flavored products in California, according to an agreement they signed to end a lawsuit filed by the e-cigarette unit of tobacco giant Altria Group.

  • October 10, 2025

    $20M Gas Plant Verdict At Texas High Court Gets Settled

    Arrow Field Services LLC settled with Linde Engineering North America Inc. after the latter secured a $20 million verdict, ending an appeal of the decision at the Texas Supreme Court Friday.

  • October 10, 2025

    FERC's $1B Penalties Would Doom Energy Co., NC Judge Told

    An energy efficiency aggregator told a North Carolina federal judge that it will go out of business without an order blocking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from imposing nearly $1 billion in penalties against it for alleged market manipulation and tariff violations.

  • October 10, 2025

    CFTC Crypto Task Force Head Returns To Akin

    The former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Digital Asset Task Force has left the agency to return to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as senior counsel in its white collar defense and government investigations practice.

  • October 10, 2025

    Employment Authority: EEOC Cracks Down On Opioid Bias

    Law360 Employment Authority covers the biggest employment cases and trends. Catch up this week with coverage on why the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission appears to be cracking down on bias toward workers' opioid prescriptions, what two mixed rulings on captive audience bans mean for the landscape of the labor fight, and how today's U.S. Department of Labor compares to its mission under President Donald Trump's first term. 

  • October 10, 2025

    Wyden Urges Justices To Revive UBS Retaliation Case Again

    Sen. Ron Wyden and several whistleblower organizations have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to revive for a second time a fired UBS worker's whistleblower retaliation lawsuit, pointing to a "deep and direct conflict" the Second Circuit has created with its latest decision in the case.

  • October 10, 2025

    ATyr Pharma Faces Investor Suit Over Failed Drug Trial

    Rare disease biotech aTyr Pharma Inc. and its CEO have been hit with a proposed shareholder class action accusing them of misleading the public about the efficacy of aTyr's lung disease treatment for several months before announcing its trial had not yielded favorable results.

  • October 10, 2025

    More Gun Rights Groups Take Aim At National Firearms Act

    Gun rights groups have launched another lawsuit aimed at repealing the National Firearms Act in the Northern District of Texas, joining a growing number of legal challenges to the gun law that controls access to short-barreled rifles and firearms with suppressors.

  • October 10, 2025

    Justices Told SEC 'Dead Wrong' On Activist Investor Suits

    An activist investor has told the U.S. Supreme Court that a series of investment funds, with the backing of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are "dead wrong" to say it has no right to sue over their decision to dilute the investor's voting shares.

  • October 10, 2025

    Feds Nix Large-Scale Enviro Review Of Nev. Solar Project

    The U.S. Department of the Interior confirmed that it canceled a broad environmental review of a massive solar development in Nevada, saying it would instead perform individual reviews of the seven projects that make up the development.

  • October 10, 2025

    Duke Accused Of Misusing Retirement Funds In Class Claims

    Just weeks after settling one benefits-related lawsuit, Duke University has been hit with another putative class action in North Carolina federal court, this time accusing it of being disloyal to retirement plan participants by using forfeited funds only to reduce its own contributions.

  • October 10, 2025

    Curaleaf Says NJ's Pot Shop Union Requirement Bucks NLRA

    Curaleaf Holdings Inc. is suing the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory Commission in federal court, saying the commission's requirement that cannabis companies have "labor peace agreements" with particular unions is preempted by the National Labor Relations Act.

  • October 10, 2025

    SEC's Atkins Criticizes Del. As 'Uninterested' In IPO Reform

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said he is "disappointed" by recent changes to Delaware law that he believes will drive up litigation costs for public companies and make the state seem "uninterested in reform" that would encourage more companies to file initial public offerings there.

  • October 10, 2025

    Rediscovered Texas Indigenous Site Spurs Preservation Push

    The Texas Historical Commission is investigating whether to list an Indigenous Gulf Coast tribal settlement as a historic property or a state antiquities landmark after a local scientist rediscovered what could be part of the tribe's ancestral lands.

  • October 10, 2025

    Ex-Casino CEO's ERISA Fight Against ND Tribe Gets Trimmed

    A North Dakota federal judge trimmed a suit by the ex-CEO of a tribe-owned casino who alleged his healthcare benefits were cut off following a period of leave, finding the court lacked jurisdiction over common law claims, but claims under federal benefits law were sufficiently backed up to reach discovery.

  • October 10, 2025

    Back Where We Started: Life After FTC's Noncompete Ban

    Now that the Federal Trade Commission has abandoned efforts for a nationwide ban on noncompete clauses, the employment provisions remain subject to a constellation of changing state laws and can sometimes still violate federal law in certain situations.

  • October 10, 2025

    FCC's Carr Reminds Retailers To Heed Banned Equipment List

    Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission chair, said that millions of online sales listings have been taken down because of manufacturing ties to Chinese telecoms and warned that retailers must comply with the federal ban on telecommunications devices made in foreign adversary countries.

  • October 10, 2025

    Pharma Co. Escapes Suit Over Ex-CEO's Alleged Misconduct

    Exscientia PLC on Friday won dismissal of a proposed class action related to the termination of its CEO after claims emerged that he participated in inappropriate workplace relationships, with the court finding the investors failed to show that the company's statements about its culture and governance were anything more than puffery.

  • October 10, 2025

    Ga. Medical Billing Practice Faces Data Breach Class Action

    A Georgia-based medical billing practice was hit with a proposed class action in federal court over a September data breach that allegedly exposed the personally identifiable and protected health information of its patients and current and former employees.

  • October 10, 2025

    Space Biz Could Get FCC Boost In Upper Microwave Bands

    Hoping to give a jolt to satellite industry growth, the Federal Communications Commission will look at revamping several upper microwave spectrum bands for more flexible use.

Expert Analysis

  • State Crypto Regs Diverge As Federal Framework Dawns

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    Following the Genius Act's passage, states like California, New York and Wyoming are racing to set new standards for crypto governance, creating both opportunity and risk for digital asset firms as innovation flourishes in some jurisdictions while costly friction emerges in others, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.

  • How 2nd Circ. Cannabis Ruling Upends NY Licensing

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    A recent Second Circuit decision in Variscite NY Four v. New York, holding that New York's extra-priority cannabis licensing preference for applicants with in-state marijuana convictions violates the dormant commerce clause, underscores that state-legal cannabis markets remain subject to the same constitutional constraints as other economic markets, say attorneys at Harris Beach.

  • Parenting Skills That Can Help Lawyers Thrive Professionally

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    As kids head back to school, the time is ripe for lawyers who are parents to consider how they can incorporate their parenting skills to build a deep, meaningful and sustainable legal practice, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • Trump NLRB Picks May Usher In Employer-Friendly Precedent

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    If President Donald Trump's National Labor Relations Board nominees are confirmed, the board would regain a quorum with a Republican majority and would likely reverse several union-friendly decisions, but each nominee will bring a unique perspective as to how the board should operate, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

  • Series

    Teaching Trial Advocacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Teaching trial advocacy skills to other lawyers makes us better litigators because it makes us question our default methods, connect to young attorneys with new perspectives and focus on the needs of the real people at the heart of every trial, say Reuben Guttman, Veronica Finkelstein and Joleen Youngers.

  • What New CFPB Oversight Limits Would Mean For 4 Markets

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    As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continues to centralize its resources, proposals to alter the definition of larger market participants in the automobile financing, international money transfer, consumer reporting and consumer debt collection markets would reduce the scope of the bureau's oversight, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

  • MIT Bros.' Crypto Charges Provide Fraud Test Case For Gov't

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    As U.S. v. Peraire-Bueno, involving cryptocurrency fraud charges against brothers who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, moves forward after surviving a motion to dismiss, the case provides an early example of how the government might use the federal fraud statutes to regulate decentralized networks, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.

  • Navigating Brazil's Regulations, Incentives For Green Projects

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    Brazil's evolving environmental regulatory framework and ongoing moves to attract international capital for climate-focused projects may appeal to U.S.-based companies and investors interested in sustainable development — but taking advantage of these opportunities requires careful planning and meaningful stakeholder engagement, says Milena Angulo at Guimarães.

  • Potential Paths To Modernizing The Bank Secrecy Act

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    The Bank Secrecy Act's analog design has become increasingly incompatible with today's digital financial ecosystem, but legislative reforms, coupled with regulatory adjustments including updated thresholds, feedback mechanisms and innovation sandboxes, would help adjust the act to the unique challenges of modern technology, says Matthew Biben at King & Spalding.

  • DOJ Memo Shifts Interpretation Of Discrimination Laws

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    While the recent memorandum targeting federal funding recipients' unlawful discrimination reiterates some long-standing interpretations of antidiscrimination law, it takes stronger positions on facially neutral practices and race-conscious recruiting that federal courts and prior administrations have not treated as unlawful, say attorneys at Pillsbury.

  • Preparing For DEA Rescheduling Of 2 Research Chemicals

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    A recent decision to allow the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify two research psychedelics in Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act may pose significant barriers to scientific study, including stringent registration requirements, heightened security protocols and burdensome reporting obligations, say Kimberly Chew at Husch Blackwell and Jackie von Salm at Psilera.

  • Data Center Construction Trends, Challenges In Ill. And Texas

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    Data centers in Illinois and Texas are reshaping the industrial landscape, but this growth brings legal complexity, so developers, contractors and corporate legal departments must have a deep understanding of each state's legal terrain and take a proactive approach to risk management, say attorneys at Hicks Johnson.

  • Definitions Of 'Waters Of The United States' Ebb And Flow

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    The issue of defining whether "waters of the United States" include streams and channels that sometimes have water and sometimes do not has been fraught since the U.S. Supreme Court's 2006 Rapanos decision, but a possible new rule may help property owners stay out of court, says Neal McAliley at Carlton Fields.

  • A Change In Big Pharma Response To FTC Delisting Warnings

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    While the effect of Federal Trade Commission notices to pharmaceutical companies about allegedly improper patent listings in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Orange Book had been de minimis through the end of last year, July data shows an increase in delistings, say Ratib Ali and Celia Lu at Competition Dynamics.

  • Texas Property Law Complicates Financing And Development

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    A new Texas law imposing expansive state-level restrictions on properties owned by entities from designated countries creates a major obstacle for some lenders, developers and other stakeholders, as well as new diligence requirements for foreign companies, say attorneys at Pillsbury.

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