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October 09, 2025
NCAA Considers Relaxing Gambling Restrictions For Athletes
The NCAA seems poised to allow student-athletes and staff to bet on professional sports in an attempt to promote responsible gambling, with the Division I Administrative Committee adopting a proposal that would no longer prohibit such wagers.
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October 09, 2025
Kentucky AG Enters Roblox Fray, Says App Attracts Predators
The Kentucky attorney general has filed his own suit against Roblox, joining other plaintiffs alleging that the popular gaming platform fails to safeguard against adult sexual predators seeking to target and exploit minors despite assurances to parents that its platform is safe for their children.
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October 09, 2025
UNC Ex-Provost Asks Court To Halt Alleged Evidence Deletion
A former provost of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suing the university in state court warned that without speeding up discovery, the public's right to transparency will suffer from the university's trustees deleting text messages and other evidence.
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October 09, 2025
Colgate-Palmolive's $332M Pension Settlement Gets Initial OK
A New York federal court granted initial approval to a $332 million settlement between Colgate-Palmolive and a class of pensioners who claimed the household products company shorted them on lump-sum retirement payouts, which comes after the parties mediated their dispute earlier this year.
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October 09, 2025
FERC Nixes Ban On Pipeline Work During Project Appeals
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has scrapped a rule barring construction activities on gas infrastructure projects when approvals are being challenged, saying it's no longer necessary and bogs down the development of needed infrastructure.
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October 09, 2025
False-Statement Case Puts Comey In Rare Company
Former FBI director James Comey is the latest addition to the relatively short list of government officials who have been criminally charged over the past several decades with making false statements to Congress.
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October 09, 2025
Calif. Enacts Law To Boost Pay Parity Protections
A California law aimed at increasing the accuracy of the compensation estimates that state employers are required to include in job postings and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom makes clear that perks such as stock options are considered wages and expands the limitations window for pursuing pay bias claims.
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October 09, 2025
Clearview AI's £7.5M GDPR Fine Faces Renewed Scrutiny
A London tribunal has decided that a lower court was wrong to find that the U.K.'s data protection regulator lacked the power to fine Clearview AI Inc. £7.5 million ($10 million) over its collection of images of U.K. citizens from social media without their knowledge.
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October 08, 2025
NYC Takes Social Media Youth Addiction Suit To Federal Court
New York City has withdrawn from coordinated litigation against social media companies in California and filed a largely identical suit in federal court, a move the city determined was in its "best interest" for holding the companies accountable for purposefully getting youth hooked on their addictive platforms, a spokesperson said Wednesday.
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October 08, 2025
Retailers Lose Bid To Ax NY Algorithmic Pricing Law
A New York federal judge Wednesday tossed the National Retail Federation's lawsuit challenging a new state law that requires retailers to disclose the use of so-called algorithmic pricing, saying the retailers have not plausibly alleged that the disclosure requirement violates the First Amendment's prohibition on compelled speech.
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October 08, 2025
FCC Tells Justices 5th Circ. Used Jarkesy To Gut Enforcement
The Fifth Circuit erroneously used a major U.S. Supreme Court decision curtailing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission trials to "severely impair" Federal Communications Commission enforcement in the telecommunications industry, the FCC said in a petition urging the justices to resolve a new circuit split.
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October 08, 2025
Defunct Coke Co. To Pay $700K For Skipped Pollution Monitor
A defunct Pennsylvania coal processor will pay the federal government $700,000 in fines after its employees admitted to bypassing pollution controls at an Erie coke plant, according to court records.
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October 08, 2025
Shinnecock Tribe Wants In On Long Island Land Dispute
A Native American tribe at the heart of a Long Island, New York, town's lawsuit over a U.S. government decision to place 84 acres of land into "restricted fee" status for the tribe has asked a federal judge to let it intervene in the suit.
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October 08, 2025
Big Banks' Gain Could Be Small Banks' Pain, Fed's Barr Says
Federal regulators' plans to ease capital rules and other supervisory safeguards at big banks may jeopardize financial stability and leave community banks to pick up the pieces if something goes wrong, Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr warned in a speech Wednesday.
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October 08, 2025
5th Circ. Wary Of TitleMax Affiliate's Aim To Skip Usury Case
A Fifth Circuit panel appears skeptical of a TitleMax affiliate's argument that it should get to escape the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities usury case alleging the affiliate breached state law, saying Wednesday the proceedings looked like typical state police power.
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October 08, 2025
Utah Tribe Appeals Denial To Fight $16M Ovintiv Air Deal
The Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation is appealing a federal district court decision that denied its intervention to challenge a $16 million Clean Air Act consent decree between the U.S. government and Ovintiv USA Inc.
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October 08, 2025
Next Boeing 737 Max Ethiopian Air Cases Set For Nov. 3 Trial
A Chicago damages trial has been set for Nov. 3 for two families forging ahead with wrongful death cases against Boeing over the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 crash of 2019, with three additional cases up next for trial, counsel for the families said Wednesday.
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October 08, 2025
Kalshi Accused Of Violating SC, Federal Gambling Laws
Trading platforms Kalshi and Robinhood are being sued in South Carolina on allegations that they violate the state's strict anti-gambling laws by offering sports betting and operating a "prediction market" for state residents.
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October 08, 2025
Kalshi Fights Ohio Ban As Pa. Flags Sports Betting Loophole
The clash between state gaming regulators and federally regulated platforms offering sports wagers continued this week as Kalshi sued Ohio agencies over a directive to shut down its sports event contracts, while Pennsylvania's Gaming Control Board warned Congress that prediction markets broadly "create a backdoor to legalized sports betting."
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October 08, 2025
'I Don't Want To Be A Referee,' Google Search Judge Says
A D.C. federal judge faced the prospect Wednesday of years more involvement in the U.S. Justice Department's case against Google's search monopoly, saying during a hearing that he's trying to balance avoiding being a "referee" for his remedies decision while preventing "misuses" of data sharing and search syndication mandates.
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October 08, 2025
North Dakota To Issue Stablecoin Through State-Owned Bank
North Dakota on Wednesday announced plans to issue its own stable-value token through a partnership between fintech Fiserv Inc. and the state-owned Bank of North Dakota.
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October 08, 2025
Firm Owner Benefited From Ex-Official's Help, Jury Hears
A construction management firm owner who claimed she felt pressured to pay Kosta Diamantis and to hire the Connecticut budget official's daughter also accepted business advice and landed government contracts with Diamantis' assistance, helping the fledgling company she launched without much experience, the official's attorney argued Wednesday.
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October 08, 2025
Exxon Retail Voting Program Green Light Inspires Other Cos.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent green light of Exxon Mobil Corp.'s program to enable automated proxy voting for retail investors has sparked interest among other firms exploring implementing their own such programs, as the oil and gas giant moves to counter activist groups.
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October 08, 2025
Judge OKs Amazon's Evidence Clawback In Antitrust Suits
Amazon can claw back certain documents it handed over during discovery in a series of antitrust lawsuits alleging the company's merchant policies artificially raised market prices, a Seattle federal judge has ruled, rejecting objections raised by consumers suing the e-commerce giant.
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October 08, 2025
FirstEnergy Investors Seek Clarity On 6th Circ. Privilege Order
FirstEnergy investors asked the Sixth Circuit Wednesday to clarify a recent ruling blocking them from accessing internal investigation documents in a lawsuit over a $1 billion bribery scandal, arguing that the company is holding up depositions due to its misreading of the court's opinion.
Expert Analysis
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'Solicit' Ruling Offers Proxy Advisers Compliance Relief
The D.C. Circuit recently found that proxy voting advice does not fall under the legal definition of "solicitation," significantly narrowing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's regulatory power over such advisers, offering stability to the proxy advisory industry and providing temporary relief from new compliance burdens, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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SAM Update May Ease Tricky Timing Technicalities
The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council's recent rule update, clarifying the System for Award Management's registration requirement, may reduce the number of disqualifications and bid protests resulting from minor lapses, but government contractors should still implement procedures to ensure early submission of registration renewals, say attorneys at Butzel Long.
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Evaluating The SEC's Rising Whistleblower Denial Rate
The rising trend of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower award claim denials represents a departure from the SEC's previous track record and may reflect a more conservative approach to whistleblower award determinations under the current administration, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.
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State Crypto Regs Diverge As Federal Framework Dawns
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.
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How 2nd Circ. Cannabis Ruling Upends NY Licensing
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.
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Parenting Skills That Can Help Lawyers Thrive Professionally
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.
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Trump NLRB Picks May Usher In Employer-Friendly Precedent
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.
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Series
Teaching Trial Advocacy Makes Us Better Lawyers
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.
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What New CFPB Oversight Limits Would Mean For 4 Markets
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.
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MIT Bros.' Crypto Charges Provide Fraud Test Case For Gov't
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.
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Navigating Brazil's Regulations, Incentives For Green Projects
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.
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Potential Paths To Modernizing The Bank Secrecy Act
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.
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DOJ Memo Shifts Interpretation Of Discrimination Laws
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.
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Preparing For DEA Rescheduling Of 2 Research Chemicals
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.
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Data Center Construction Trends, Challenges In Ill. And Texas
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.