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January 28, 2026
Ambulance Billing Co. Settles Data Breach Claims
An ambulance billing service will pay a total of $515,000 to the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut and take measures to improve its data security to settle allegations stemming from a 2022 breach, the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office announced Wednesday.
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January 28, 2026
Insurer Claims No Duty In Crash Suit Against Vape Shop
A deadly car accident underpinning a lawsuit against a North Carolina-based vape and smoke shop occurred several miles away from the store's grounds, so exclusions in the shop's commercial insurance policy preclude coverage, the insurer's counsel told a North Carolina state appeals court Wednesday.
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January 28, 2026
NY Firm And Medical Providers Defrauded Insurers, Suit Says
An insurer accused a law firm and a collection of medical providers and professionals of engaging in a scheme to defraud insurers through sham lawsuits and inflated medical bills, telling a New York federal court that the defendants have enriched themselves "at the expense of justice, equity and human dignity."
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January 28, 2026
Nomura Unit Taps Legal Chief To Steer Crypto Trust Bank Plan
A crypto-focused subsidiary of financial services group Nomura has applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national trust bank headed by its legal chief.
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January 28, 2026
ArentFox Schiff Launches Longevity Industry Group
ArentFox Schiff LLP on Wednesday announced the launch of a group geared toward advising companies focused on advancing wellness, preventive health care and the longevity of life.
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January 28, 2026
Advocates Seek Shift To 1st Circ. In Prison Call Rate Cases
A public interest group, backed by other public interest petitioners, is asking the D.C. Circuit to transfer to the First Circuit the challenges to the Federal Communications Commission's latest prison phone rate order, arguing the court is already deeply familiar with the dispute and best positioned to resolve it.
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January 28, 2026
Ropes & Gray Adds 3 Partners In New York
Ropes & Gray LLP has expanded its offerings in New York with the addition of three attorneys, one each from Debevoise, Paul Weiss and Wachtell Lipton.
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January 28, 2026
Solar Panel Co. Sunrun Misclassifying Sales Reps, Suit Says
Solar panel company Sunrun Inc. misclassified its sales representatives as independent contractors in violation of Massachusetts workers' compensation law, a coalition of advocacy groups alleged in a complaint filed in state court.
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January 28, 2026
Wash. Panel Won't Force State To Pull Dispensary License
A Washington appeals panel won't force state cannabis regulators to revoke a dispensary's license at the request of another dispensary that wished to open in the same area, saying the board rightly found that the license was not subject to forfeiture.
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January 27, 2026
Ohio PBM Suit Belongs In Federal Court, 6th Circ. Rules
The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday ruled that Ohio's lawsuit accusing pharmacy benefit managers of driving up prescription prices through rebate schemes belongs in federal court, saying in an opinion recommended for publication that the suit imposes liability on conduct undertaken at the direction of a federal officer.
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January 27, 2026
ADM To Pay $40M To Resolve SEC Accounting Fraud Claims
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. has agreed to shell out $40 million to put to rest U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations the company and several former executives committed accounting and disclosure fraud, according to announcements made Tuesday.
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January 27, 2026
Crypto Network Cofounder Hit With $100M RICO Suit
The co-founder and board members of cryptocurrency-associated data cloud platform Cere Network were sued in California federal court Tuesday over an alleged pump-and-dump scheme where they secretly sold over $41 million in Cere tokens on various exchanges and misappropriated investor funds.
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January 27, 2026
Google's Allegedly Stolen AI Secrets Not Valuable, Jury Told
Former Google engineer Linwei Ding's counsel wrapped his defense case Tuesday, questioning a technical expert who told a California federal jury that the documents taken by Ding related to artificial intelligence supercomputers wouldn't allow someone to replicate Google's technology and had minimal value to competitors.
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January 27, 2026
SEC Blunts Some Shareholder Activists With Policy Reversal
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reversed course on allowing shareholders with less than $5 million in holdings to publicize information about their proxy ballot proposals through the agency, saying it will object to such voluntary submissions going forward.
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January 27, 2026
Kelley Drye Adds Ex-23andMe, Facebook Privacy Pros
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP said Monday it is boosting its privacy and information security practice with the addition of a former 23andMe attorney in California and a former Facebook attorney in Texas.
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January 27, 2026
UBS Wants Hayes' $400M Malicious Prosecution Suit Axed
UBS AG has asked a Connecticut state court to throw out former trader Tom Hayes' lawsuit that alleges the bank scapegoated him for Libor-rigging, arguing the case doesn't belong in the state and improperly seeks to punish the bank for cooperating with prosecutors.
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January 27, 2026
Iowa Can't Block Schwab's Antitrust Deal, 5th Circ. Told
A group of investors who settled with The Charles Schwab Corp. in an antitrust suit over the financial services company's merger with TD Ameritrade has urged the Fifth Circuit to dismiss an appeal filed by the state of Iowa, which had previously objected to the settlement's lack of monetary benefit to the class and proposed attorney payouts.
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January 27, 2026
Language Access Bill Targets Trump's English-Only Order
Four members of Congress have introduced a bill that would protect language access at federal agencies for millions of people in the United States with limited English, saying an executive order by President Donald Trump declaring English as the official U.S. language wrongly minimizes multilingual services.
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January 27, 2026
EPA Says Enviro Groups Lack Standing To Fight Review Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the environmental groups challenging the agency's "project accounting" method for triggering air pollution review at industrial facilities lack the standing to pursue their fight, claiming that the challengers identified no harm at all from the agency's denial of their reconsideration bid.
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January 27, 2026
Starbucks VP Says She Was Fired For Flagging 'Siren' System
A former Starbucks vice president who oversaw new equipment testing claims the company terminated her for raising concerns about the debut of the "Siren" drink-making system, including that maggots spawned in the machine without proper cleaning, according to a lawsuit launched Monday in Washington state court.
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January 27, 2026
Autodesk Investor Suit Over Internal Controls Axed For Good
A California federal judge has dismissed, for good, a class action alleging that software company Autodesk misled investors on its financial metrics and internal controls, finding that there is nothing actionable or misleading about the three remaining challenged statements in the suit.
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January 27, 2026
9th Circ. Affirms Ripple's Early Win On Registration Claim
The Ninth Circuit won't revive class action claims alleging cryptocurrency company Ripple Labs sold the digital token XRP in an unregistered securities offering, upholding in its decision Tuesday a lower court's finding that the claims are time-barred.
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February 02, 2026
Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards
Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.
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January 27, 2026
Texas AG Says Nurse Practitioner Is Shipping Abortion Drugs
The Texas attorney general told a state court that a Delaware-based nurse practitioner and the organization she operates have shipped abortion pills to Texas, saying Tuesday that the defendants have publicly acknowledged that they send abortion pills to the Lone Star State.
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January 27, 2026
NC Medical Practice Will Pay $8.8M To End False Billing Suit
Bethany Medical Center PA and its founder have agreed to shell out $8.8 million to settle allegations that they violated state and federal law for years after billing Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare for unnecessary urine drug tests, according to a Tuesday announcement from the North Carolina Attorney General.
Expert Analysis
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Wis. Sanctions Order May Shake Up Securities Class Actions
A Wisconsin federal court’s recent decision to impose sanctions on a plaintiffs law firm for filing a frivolous Private Securities Litigation Reform Act complaint in Toft v. Harbor Diversified may cause both plaintiffs and defendants law firms to reconsider certain customary practices in securities class actions, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.
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5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2026 And Beyond
2026 will likely be shaped by issues ranging from artificial intelligence regulatory turbulence to potential evidence rule changes, and e-discovery professionals will need to understand how to effectively guide the responsible and defensible adoption of emerging tools, while also ensuring effective safeguards, say attorneys at Littler.
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Reinventing Bank Risk Mgmt. After 2025's Cartel Crackdown
The Trump administration's 2025 designation of certain transnational drug cartels as terrorists means that banks must adapt to a narrowing margin of error in their customer screening and transaction assessments by treating financial crime prevention as a continuous and cross-enterprise concern with national security implications, says Jack Harrington at Bradley Arant.
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How Developers Can Harness New Texas Zoning Framework
A Texas law introducing a new zoning framework has the potential to unlock meaningful multifamily development opportunities, but developers and their project teams should follow four steps to help identify how affected cities are interpreting and implementing the new law, says Angela Hunt at Munsch Hardt.
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Where States Jumped In When SEC Stepped Back In 2025
The state regulators that picked up the slack when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission scaled back enforcement last year should not be underestimated as they continue to aggressively police areas where the SEC has lost interest and probe industries where SEC leadership has actively declined to intervene, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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2026 Enforcement Trends To Expect In Maritime And Int'l Trade
The maritime and international trade community should expect U.S. federal enforcement to ramp up in 2026, particularly via Office of Foreign Asset Control shipping sanctions, accelerating interagency investigations of trade fraud, and U.S. Coast Guard narcotics and pollution inspections, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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What's On Deck In Tribal Nations' Prediction Markets Litigation
Native American tribes' response to the expansion of sports-based prediction markets enters a decisive phase this year, with appellate courts positioned to address whether federal commodities law permits nationwide offering of sports-based event contracts free from state and tribal gaming regulation, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Reviewing Historical And Recent NYDFS Blockchain Guidance
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
An industry letter released in the fall by the New York State Department of Financial Services, together with guidance issued over the past decade, signals a heightened regulatory expectation for covered institutions regarding the use of blockchain analytics and requires review, says Nicole De Santis at Nomadis Consulting.
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SEC Virtu Deal Previews Risks Of Nonpublic Info In AI Models
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent settlement with Virtu Financial Inc. over alleged failures to safeguard customer data raises broader questions about how traditional enforcement frameworks may apply when material nonpublic information is embedded into artificial intelligence trading systems, says Braeden Anderson at Gesmer Updegrove.
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Business Considerations Amid Hemp Product Policy Change
With the passage of a bill fundamentally narrowing the federal definition of "hemp," there are practical and business considerations that brands, manufacturers and other parties should heed over the next year, including operational strategies, evaluating contract and counterparty risk, and tax implications, say attorneys at Foley Hoag.
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How Mamdani Will Shift NYC Employment Law Enforcement
Under Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the New York City labor law regime is poised to become more coordinated, less forgiving and more willing to test gray areas in favor of workers, with wage and hour practices, pay equity and contractor relationships among likely areas of enforcement focus, says Scott Green at Goldberg Segalla.
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Series
Judges On AI: How Courts Can Boost Access To Justice
Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Samuel A. Thumma writes that generative artificial intelligence tools offer a profound opportunity to enhance access to justice and engender public confidence in courts’ use of technology, and judges can seize this opportunity in five key ways.
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Opinion
The Case For Emulating, Not Dividing, The Ninth Circuit
Champions for improved judicial administration should reject the unfounded criticisms driving recent Senate proposals to divide the Ninth Circuit and instead seek to replicate the court's unique strengths and successes, says Ninth Circuit Judge J. Clifford Wallace.
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4 Ways 2026 Will Shift Corporate Compliance And Ethics
As we begin 2026, ethics and compliance functions are being reshaped by forces that go far beyond traditional regulatory risk, and there are key trends that will define the landscape, with success defined less by activity and volume, and more by impact, judgment and credibility, says Hui Chen at CDE Advisors.
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Montana Ruling Reaffirms Record-Based Enviro Analyses
A Montana federal court's recent decision in Center for Biological Diversity v. U.S. Forest Service, vacating permits for logging near Yellowstone National Park, is a reminder that, despite attempts to pare back National Environmental Policy Act reviews, agencies must still properly complete such reviews before projects are approved, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.