Consumer Protection

  • September 10, 2025

    3rd Circ. Questions NJ's Bid To Block Kalshi's Sports Bets

    The Third Circuit seemed prepared on Wednesday to block New Jersey from enforcing a sports gambling ban on trading platform KalshiEx, with at least one judge arguing the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's authority to regulate the event contracts space "seems quite broad."

  • September 10, 2025

    FTC Warns Healthcare Employers About Noncompetes

    The Federal Trade Commission has sent letters warning healthcare employers and staffing companies not to include overly broad noncompete restrictions in their employment contracts and urged them to conduct a review to ensure they comply with the law.

  • September 10, 2025

    Biz Groups Ask 4th Circ. To Revisit Ethylene Oxide Class Suit

    Business groups have urged the Fourth Circuit to reconsider a recent ruling that allowed a West Virginia woman's proposed class action to proceed against Union Carbide Corp. and Covestro LLC over ethylene oxide exposure, arguing that she doesn't have ground for her medical-monitoring claims.

  • September 10, 2025

    Meet The Attys Now Fighting Judge Newman's Suspension

    Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's main attorney in the fight against her suspension from the appeals court has departed from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, leaving his former colleagues to head the litigation.

  • September 10, 2025

    Unions' Challenge To Fed. Layoffs, Reorganizations Proceeds

    The Trump administration must continue facing a union-backed challenge to its federal worker layoffs and agency reorganizations, a California federal judge ruled, tossing the administration's argument that the U.S. Supreme Court cast enough doubt on the suit's legitimacy by pausing an injunction to justify dismissing the case.

  • September 10, 2025

    FTA Probes Charlotte Transit After Fatal Light Rail Stabbing

    The Federal Transit Administration has launched itself into the fray surrounding the stabbing death of a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee on a city light rail line in Charlotte, North Carolina, announcing on Wednesday that it is investigating the city transit system's compliance with federal safety regulations.

  • September 10, 2025

    HomeServices, Douglas Elliman Fight Renewed Fee Claims

    HomeServices of America and Douglas Elliman have urged a Florida federal court to toss a case from homebuyers targeting real estate commission rules, arguing that the latest version of the complaint adds 100 pages of allegations but still fails to fix the problems, the court found.

  • September 10, 2025

    Trump's Pick For Fed Board Seat Moves Ahead To Full Senate

    The U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Wednesday endorsed President Donald Trump's bid to install Stephen Miran, a top White House economist, at the Federal Reserve, advancing his nomination over Democratic objections that he would be a Trump loyalist rather than an independent central banker.

  • September 10, 2025

    Teen's Estate Says Grindr Death Suit Can't Be Arbitrated

    The estate of a teenager who was killed by a 35-year-old man she matched with on Grindr LLC's dating platform is urging a Florida federal court not to send the case to arbitration or Los Angeles, saying federal law blocks arbitration, and Florida law require that the suit be heard in the state where she was killed.

  • September 10, 2025

    OpenAI Can't Keep For-Profit Shift Docs From Musk

    A California federal magistrate judge has said that OpenAI must produce key planning documents in Elon Musk's lawsuit challenging its attempted shift into a for-profit business, rejecting arguments that the information is protected because it could influence future takeover bids by the billionaire or future investments by Microsoft.

  • September 10, 2025

    Cruz Fights NDAA's Pentagon 'Veto' Of Commercial Spectrum

    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said Wednesday he's pushing to remove a draft provision in this year's defense policy bill that he says would allow the U.S. Department of Defense to effectively "veto" certain allocations of military-held spectrum to the private sector.

  • September 10, 2025

    $5.9M Fidelity National Data Breach Settlement Gets Final OK

    A Florida federal court officially signed off on a $5.9 million settlement of a proposed class action against title insurer Fidelity National Financial over a November 2023 data breach that allegedly impacted roughly 1.3 million individuals, noting the court was notified of a settlement just seven months after the litigation commenced. 

  • September 10, 2025

    3rd Circ. Seeks Standing Specifics In Website Tracking MDL

    The Third Circuit on Wednesday challenged both retailers and consumers over so-called session replay software capturing online shoppers' data, wanting to know if a proposed class could be more specific about what "sensitive" information was actually shared by Bass Pro Shops and Cabela's and if their stores had any limits on connecting private searches with specific people.

  • September 10, 2025

    NTIA Poised To Release First Spectrum Under New Budget Act

    The Trump administration said Wednesday it will make a chunk of spectrum used for weather monitoring available for commercial use, the first such transfer of the airwaves since Congress passed this summer's sweeping budget package.

  • September 10, 2025

    Splenda Maker Says Scientist's Counterclaims Are Too Late

    The company behind artificial sweetener Splenda is urging a North Carolina federal court to deny a scientist's bid to amend her counterclaims in a suit over whether Splenda contains cancer-causing chemicals, saying her claims are either outside the statute of limitations or retreads of claims she already dropped.

  • September 09, 2025

    Uber Jury Won't Hear Exec's Convo He 'Trashed Rape Victims'

    A California judge overseeing a trial in a rape victim's lawsuit against Uber declined Tuesday to allow the woman's lawyer to introduce evidence that an Uber communications executive once joked with a colleague via Slack that he "trashed rape victims" in talks with a reporter.

  • September 09, 2025

    Block Beats Investor Action Over 2021 Customer Data Breach

    A Manhattan federal judge Tuesday knocked out consolidated litigation alleging Block's stock price plummeted after the financial technology company dilly-dallied disclosing a 2021 data breach stemming from a former employee's alleged theft of customer information, saying the complaint doesn't allege Block made misleading statements or knew it was misleading investors.

  • September 09, 2025

    State Privacy Enforcers Set Sights On Data Use Opt-Outs

    California's data privacy agency and attorney general are teaming up with regulators in Colorado and Connecticut on an investigative sweep focused on whether companies are honoring consumers' requests to stop the sale and sharing of their personal information to third parties, the enforcers announced Tuesday. 

  • September 09, 2025

    Investor Tells Texas Justices UDF Claims Aren't Derivative

    The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday pressed an alternative investment firm to explain how its suit against an adviser to a fund at the center of a $100 million, decadelong Ponzi scheme would not be classified as a derivative action, asking what distinct injury allows the firm to sue individually.

  • September 09, 2025

    CVS Says Takeda Tried To Block Heartburn Drug Competition

    Drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and other entities engaged in a "horizontal conspiracy and agreement" to restrain competition in the U.S. market for the acid reflux drug Dexilant and its generic equivalents, CVS Pharmacy Inc. alleged in a complaint filed in California federal court Tuesday.

  • September 09, 2025

    FCC OKs Waivers For Smart House Locks

    The Federal Communications Commission agreed Tuesday to make some exceptions to its rules for ultra-wideband devices — specifically a requirement that they be handheld — so a pair of companies can ensure their smart locks have the agency's seal of approval.

  • September 09, 2025

    Wash. Appeals Court Won't Revive Phish Concert Assault Suit

    A Washington state appeals court declined Tuesday to renew two concert attendees' personal injury suit against Phish and Live Nation after they were injured by rocks during a 2018 show, finding they failed to show the band and venue manager could have foreseen the "random attacks."

  • September 09, 2025

    Hemp Interests Drop Challenge To Louisiana THC Law

    A cannabis industry group and a wholesaler have asked a Louisiana federal judge to dismiss their lawsuit seeking to block the state from imposing new restrictions on consumables infused with hemp-derived THC.

  • September 09, 2025

    FDIC Eases Standards For Lifting Cease-And-Desist Orders

    The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is giving banks a quicker potential path out of its doghouse, rolling out a policy change that allows more flexibility to close out enforcement orders before firms have finished satisfying all their terms.

  • September 09, 2025

    OCC Taps Cravath Atty As Principal Deputy Chief Counsel

    A former Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP corporate attorney has been tapped to serve as the principal deputy chief counsel of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, while a longtime agency official has been promoted to oversee its newly elevated chartering and licensing process, the regulator said Tuesday.

Expert Analysis

  • How AI Is Easing Digital Asset Recovery In Fraud Cases

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    In combination with recent legislation and a maturing digital asset infrastructure, artificial intelligence tools are making it easier to recover stolen assets, giving litigants a more specific understanding of financial fraud earlier in the process and making it economically feasible to pursue smaller fraud claims, says Solomon Shinerock at Lewis Baach.

  • What 2 Profs Noticed As Transactional Law Students Used AI

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    After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School.

  • State AGs Are Turning Up The Antitrust Heat On ESG Actions

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    Recent antitrust developments from red state attorneys general continue a trend of environmental, social and governance scrutiny, and businesses exposed to these areas should conduct close examinations of strategy and potential material risk, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Crypto Custody Guidelines Buoy Both Banks And Funds

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    A statement released last month by banking regulators — highlighting risks that the agencies expect banks holding crypto-assets to mitigate — may encourage more traditional institutions to offer crypto-asset safekeeping and thereby offer asset managers more options for qualified custodians to custody crypto-assets for their clients, say attorneys at Dechert.

  • Rebuttal

    BigLaw Settlements Should Not Spur Ethics Deregulation

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    A recent Law360 op-ed argued that loosening law firm funding restrictions would make BigLaw firms less inclined to settle with the Trump administration, but deregulating legal financing ethics may well prove to be not merely ineffective, but counterproductive, says Laurel Kilgour at the American Economic Liberties Project.

  • 9th Circ. Leaves Scope Of CIPA Applicability Unclear

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    Three recent Ninth Circuit decisions declined to directly address whether all of the California Invasion of Privacy Act's provisions actually apply to internet activity, and given this uncertainty, companies should heed five recommendations when seeking to minimize CIPA litigation risk, say attorneys at Skadden.

  • What FinCEN's AML Rule Delay Means For Advisers

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    Even with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's statement last month delaying the compliance date for a rule requiring advisers to report suspicious activity, advisers can expect some level of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission oversight in connection with anti-money laundering compliance, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • Liquidity Rule Compliance Still Vital Even After SEC Dismissal

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    Despite its recent dismissal of a novel case against Pinnacle Advisors over liquidity rule violations, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has continued to bring enforcement actions involving investment advisers, making compliance with the rule important for registrants, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • 5 Ways Lawyers Can Earn Back The Public's Trust

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    Amid salacious headlines about lawyers behaving badly and recent polls showing the public’s increasingly unfavorable view of attorneys, we must make meaningful changes to our culture to rebuild trust in the legal system, says Carl Taylor at Carl Taylor Law.

  • How To Successfully Challenge Jurors For Cause In 5 Steps

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    To effectively challenge a potential juror for cause, attorneys should follow a multistep framework rather than skipping straight to the final qualification question, says Ken Broda-Bahm at Persuasion Strategies.

  • State Laws Show Uniformity Is Key To Truly Fair Bank Access

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    The lack of uniformity among state laws — including new Idaho legislation — that forbid banks from discriminating against customers based on ideology shows that a single set of federally administered fair access rules would better serve financial institutions and American consumers, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: August Lessons

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    In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses key takeaways from federal appellate decisions involving topics including antitrust, immigration, consumer fraud, birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment, and product defects.

  • Notable Q2 Updates In Insurance Class Actions

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    Vehicle valuation challenges regarding the use of projected sale adjustments continued apace in insurance class actions this quarter, where insurers have been scoring victories on class certification decisions in federal circuit courts, says Mathew Drocton at BakerHostetler.

  • Series

    Hiking Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    On the trail, I have thought often about the parallels between hiking and high-stakes patent litigation, and why strategizing, preparation, perseverance and joy are important skills for success in both endeavors, says Barbara Fiacco at Foley Hoag.

  • Opinion

    Time For Full Disclosure Of Third-Party Funding In MDLs

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    It is appropriate that the Federal Advisory Committee on Civil Rules is considering a rule to require disclosure of third-party litigation funding in civil litigation — something that is particularly needed in multidistrict litigation, which now comprises more than half of all civil cases in the federal courts, says Eric Hudson at Butler Snow.

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