|
TOP NEWS
LEGAL ETHICS & MALPRACTICE
PRIVACY & CONSUMER PROTECTION
FTC Hits Chinese Toy Maker For Gathering Kids' Location Data
By Allison Grande
A robot toy maker has agreed to comply with federal rules for handling children's data and ensure that its vendors are doing the same in order to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's claims that the company enabled a Chinese analytics provider to collect geolocation information from mobile app users who were younger than 13 without parental consent.
2 documents attached |
Read full article »
| Save to favorites »
Texas AG Accuses PowerSchool Of Failing At Data Security
By Allison Grande
Texas' attorney general has become the latest to sue education technology provider PowerSchool Holdings Inc. over a 2024 data breach, asserting in a new state court lawsuit that the company failed to implement basic data security measure despite promising "state-of-the-art protections" for students' and employees' personal information.
Complaint attached |
Read full article »
| Save to favorites »
COMPETITION
Monthly Merger Review Snapshot
By Bryan Koenig
The Justice Department settled a challenge to UnitedHealth's $3.3 billion home hospice acquisition while Democrats called for a judge to reject a different government settlement and the Federal Trade Commission moved against medical technologies transactions for heart valves and device coatings.
Read full article »
| Save to favorites »
SECURITIES & WHITE COLLAR
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
REAL ESTATE
7th Circ. Mulls Ex-Cushman & Wakefield GC's Defamation Row
By Celeste Bott
A Seventh Circuit panel on Thursday asked an attorney for Cushman & Wakefield's former general counsel, who has alleged a Law.com article about his departure was defamatory, if there was any reasonable interpretation of the story other than his claim that it linked his termination with his handling of the firm's involvement in an investigation into President Donald Trump.
Read full article »
| Save to favorites »
EXPERT ANALYSIS
LEGAL INDUSTRY
Judges Warn ICE Is Turning Courts Into Deportation Traps
By Marco Poggio
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers violently arrest unauthorized immigrants in court buildings' hallways, former and current judges warn that the Trump administration is using courts as a dragnet, arresting people indiscriminately and expelling them with little to no due process in a bid to fulfill President Donald Trump’s goal of mass deportations.
Read full article »
| Save to favorites »
OnlyFans Users May Face Sanctions Over AI 'Misuse'
By Craig Clough
OnlyFans users who have alleged the site employs professional "chatters" to impersonate content creators are facing possible sanctions in their case, as a California federal judge ordered their attorneys to appear in court for filing briefs with nonexistent citations and quotations generated by an AI chatbot.
1 document attached |
Read full article »
| Save to favorites »
Motley Rice Fights OptumRx DQ Bid In Utah Opioid Suit
By Jack Karp
Pharmacy benefit manager OptumRx cannot disqualify Motley Rice LLC from representing Utah in a lawsuit over the opioid crisis, since any information the firm obtained during its involvement in earlier government investigations is available to all other parties in the multidistrict litigation and so isn't confidential, the state has told a federal court.
Brief attached |
Read full article »
| Save to favorites »
Analysis
SEC, CFTC Set Sights On Crypto In Regulatory Collab
By Jessica Corso
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission said Friday they are moving forward with a broad regulatory harmonization effort that they hope will encourage innovation in growing markets, and lawyers tell Law360 they expect the focus to be writing rules governing the crypto sector.
Read full article »
| Save to favorites »
Analysis
Trump Plan For Nat'l Guard In Chicago Sparks Legal Concerns
By Celeste Bott
President Donald Trump's plan to send the National Guard to Chicago over the objections of Illinois' governor could face similar legal hurdles as his use of the military in Los Angeles to quell protests over immigration raids, with some experts and local officials suggesting he may try to use an impending immigration crackdown in the city to justify a similar deployment.
Read full article »
| Save to favorites »
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
By Max Austin
This past week in London has seen professional boxing promoter Boxxer take action against the former head of boxing at Matchroom Sport, Aegis Motor Insurance and Chubb European Group clash over a reinsurance claim, and a transgender pool player sue the English Blackball Pool Federation over its decision to ban her competing in women's teams and tournaments.
Read full article »
| Save to favorites »
GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
By Michele Gorman
In arguing that the proposed class action against the business should be denied, online platform OnlyFans' parent company said that the decision to use AI to create mistake-riddled documents is severe misconduct. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm unveiled a new fee disclosure rule involving pharmacy benefit managers and plans to revisit retirement plan fiduciary investment advice regulations. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.
Read full article »
| Save to favorites »
Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week
By Kevin Penton
Milbank LLP, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and the Liberty Justice Center lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit held that President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs were improperly imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Read full article »
| Save to favorites »
|
