Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has aggressively defended the state's landmark prediction market statute, which would criminalize the hosting, facilitation and advertising of prediction markets, on both statutory and federalism grounds — signaling that he won’t hesitate to pursue enforcement once the law takes effect Aug. 1, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright of the Western District of Texas examines how artificial intelligence could transform a court's ability to deal with administrative work and organize materials when preparing for hearings or drafting opinions, thereby affording judges more time to resolve contested issues.

Two agency actions that identify weaknesses in the government’s foreign investment screening architecture signal a broadening of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ jurisdiction over agricultural real estate transactions, more demanding beneficial-ownership resolutions and the coming integration of agency disclosure systems, says researcher Robert Green.

The pattern of regulatory activity emerging in the wake of the Trump administration's first 18 months of executive orders makes clear that financial institutions should treat presidential directives as early warning signs and not wait for final rules to assess the accompanying compliance impact, says Jonathan Kolodziej at Bradley.

Courts' recent endorsement of the involvement-of-counsel defense in securities fraud litigation has clarified that its use depends on how evidence is used, carrying important lessons for presenting evidence of a disclosure process to undermine scienter, say attorneys at Sidley.

Rhode Island's law limiting self-checkout in retail stores is the first of its kind, but state and local lawmakers across the country are considering similar bills — and if enacted, they could create a patchwork of compliance requirements around issues including staffing, signage and restricted merchandise, says Hannah Flint at Hunton.

The Fourth Circuit's ruling last month in West Virginia Rivers Coalition v. Chemours, holding that a Clean Water Act permit violation does not automatically create a presumption of irreparable harm that requires a preliminary injunction, avoided a dramatic change in CWA enforcement, say attorneys at Hunton.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's recent orders concerning grid operators' procedures for connecting large loads like data centers to the power grid came with concurring statements from the FERC commissioners, which provide key insights into individual commissioners' concerns and a road map for compliance, say attorneys at Womble Bond.

The wide chasm between the USPTO's and the Federal Circuit's approach to eligibility for machine learning patents means that patent drafters must avoid functional claiming and specifications if they hope to avoid invalidation of a machine learning patent at the appellate court, says attorney Michael Kiklis.

Private credit firms should not wait for a result in the Ninth Circuit appeal in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Panuwat to address material nonpublic information exposure under existing statutes and take steps to ensure their internal policies and surveillance are ready for increased regulatory scrutiny, says Steve Brown at StarCompliance.

After the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in Ford Motor v. Montana and Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway expanded limits on personal jurisdiction, the justices' denials this term of four certiorari petitions suggest they are content to let jurisdiction questions brew in lower courts before weighing in, say attorneys at Hunton.

A recent legal challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's fair lending amendments underscores continuing uncertainty over disparate impact liability, discouragement standards and special purpose credit programs, signaling that financial services providers should avoid hasty compliance changes, say attorneys at Weiner Brodsky.

In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses four recent rulings involving wage and hour allegations, medical care for incarcerated individuals, oil and gas royalty payments, and nuisance claims.

As states compete to lure data centers, sales tax exemptions are an important component of many incentive packages — but companies must ensure that projects not only qualify for exemptions on paper, but also can preserve and prove their eligibility through the planning, construction and operation phases, says Peter Lowy at Nelson Mullins.

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in West Virginia v. B.P.J. that allowed states to limit trans women's participation in sports, schools must carefully navigate investigations and religious accommodations, as even lawful athletics policies can lead to employment claims, say attorneys at Seyfarth.

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Trump v. Slaughter may have inadvertently undermined the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, and given the importance of data transfers for U.S. businesses, companies should start preparing for a scenario in which the framework is no longer enforceable, says Fernanda Pires Merouço at Davis Wright.

As states adopt divergent approaches to prediction market platforms through both legislation and litigation, and the landscape is anything but settled, the emerging patchwork of state taxes on prediction markets presents novel questions about characterization, preemption and compliance, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's new pilot programs seek to reduce the patent examination backlog by offering opportunities for faster review, but applicants should proceed carefully to avoid an application losing its accrued patent term adjustment award — or being involuntarily abandoned, says David Gass at Marshall Gerstein.

In Labeaume v. First National Insurance, a Washington appeals court recently held that the insurer's benefit payment did not preclude the plaintiff's Insurance Fair Conduct Act claim, expanding the scope of the act's cure provision and making claim documentation even more significant, says Rishabh Agny at Clyde & Co.