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  • October 14, 2025

    ​​​​​​​Visa, MasterCard To Pay Combined $199.5M In Fraud Risk Suit

    Visa Inc. and MasterCard International Corp. have agreed to pay a combined $199.5 million to resolve a nearly decade-old certified class action accusing the credit card giants of conspiring to dump fraud risk costs on merchants, according to documents filed in New York federal court Friday.

  • October 14, 2025

    Six Pension Plans Settle In $2.1B Danish Tax Fraud Case

    Six pension plans have settled claims by Denmark's tax agency accusing them of participating in a $2.1 billion scheme that fraudulently claimed refunds on tax withheld from stock dividends, with a New York federal court dismissing the allegations Tuesday.

  • October 14, 2025

    NY State Court Sanctions Atty For Doubling Down On AI

    A New York state court said a New Jersey-based attorney must face sanctions for both submitting filings with inaccurate and outright made-up case details written in part by artificial intelligence and for subsequently doubling down by submitting more "AI-hallucinated" material to defend his conduct, according to a nine-page decision and order by Justice Joel M. Cohen signed Oct. 1.

  • October 14, 2025

    Tether Accused Of Wrongly Freezing $45M In Cryptocurrency

    Stablecoin issuer Tether faces a lawsuit from a business claiming that Tether improperly froze cryptocurrency worth about $44.72 million at the behest of a local police department in Bulgaria, departing from proper procedures for an asset freeze.

  • October 14, 2025

    Judge Slams Feds' 'Ham-Handed' Bid To Skirt DHS Aid Order

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies did "precisely" what a Rhode Island federal court forbade when they recently told states that they must agree to help with immigration enforcement in order to receive disaster and security funding, a judge ruled Tuesday.

  • October 14, 2025

    House of Doge To Go Public In Reverse Merger With Brag House

    House of Doge, led by Seward & Kissel LLP, will merge with esports platform Brag House Holdings Inc., which is being steered by Lucosky Brookman LLP, in a reverse merger backed by $50 million in capital investments that will see the cryptocurrency company go public.

  • October 14, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    Last week at the Delaware Chancery Court, Vice Chancellor Lori W. Will ruled that Carlos Vasallo remains the CEO of Caribevision TV Network LLC, finding that majority investors' attempt to remove him under a defective 2019 agreement was invalid for lack of proper notice.

  • October 14, 2025

    Blood Test Co. Can't Escape Willful Infringement Claims

    A company that makes diagnostic medical tests has been denied a bid to escape from a medical research firm's claims that it willfully infringed patents when a judge held that reading the allegations in combination creates a plausible basis that the company had knowledge of the patents.

  • October 14, 2025

    2nd Circ. Weighs Taking 'Novel' ICE Detainee Labor Appeal

    A Second Circuit panel mulled Tuesday if it should consider on an interlocutory basis if the New York Labor Law covers a class of detainees who allege they were underpaid by a for-profit company that manages a Buffalo-area immigration detention facility.

  • October 14, 2025

    Justices Won't Decide If 'Minute Entry' Triggers Appeal Clock

    The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday it won't review the Second Circuit's finding that a Connecticut federal judge's oral ruling and follow-up minute entry were formal orders that triggered a 30-day countdown to appeal losses in a sales representation contract dispute worth $1.7 million. 

  • October 10, 2025

    Real Estate Recap: Data Diligence, REIT Reinvention, Q3 Deals

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney tips for data center approvals, one Big Law partner's perspective on the reinvention of real estate investment trusts, and the third quarter's 10 largest global real estate mergers and acquisitions.

  • October 10, 2025

    Ex-Trump Ally Felix Sater Liable In Money Laundering Trial

    A bank and a Kazakh city won $52 million in New York federal court over claims that real estate financier and former Donald Trump ally Felix Sater skimmed money while helping others launder tens of millions of dollars, according to the plaintiffs. 

  • October 10, 2025

    Law Firm Seeks To Uphold $6.6M Arbitral Award In Fee Dispute

    A personal injury law firm embroiled in a long-running dispute over fees owed in litigation over a 1983 terrorist bombing in Lebanon urged a New York federal court to preserve a $6.59 million arbitral award it had secured for its work, arguing that tossing the arbitrator's "carefully balanced" decision would wrongly send the parties back to square one.

  • October 10, 2025

    Marex's Inflated Revenues Hurt Short Sellers, Suit Says

    U.K.-based financial services company Marex Group PLC faces a proposed class action accusing the company of hurting short sellers by using off-order book transactions with its subsidiaries to improperly inflate certain key accounting metrics for its market-making segment.

  • October 10, 2025

    DOJ Can't Pause Review Of UnitedHealth Deal Amid Shutdown

    A Maryland federal judge rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's bid to stay its recently settled case with UnitedHealth over the company's merger with Amedisys because of the government shutdown and lapse in appropriations, ruling that a stay would impede the DOJ's ability to evaluate the public interest in the settlement.

  • October 10, 2025

    CFTC Crypto Task Force Head Returns To Akin

    The former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's Digital Asset Task Force has left the agency to return to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP as senior counsel in its white collar defense and government investigations practice.

  • October 10, 2025

    Wyden Urges Justices To Revive UBS Retaliation Case Again

    Sen. Ron Wyden and several whistleblower organizations have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to revive for a second time a fired UBS worker's whistleblower retaliation lawsuit, pointing to a "deep and direct conflict" the Second Circuit has created with its latest decision in the case.

  • October 10, 2025

    Justices Told SEC 'Dead Wrong' On Activist Investor Suits

    An activist investor has told the U.S. Supreme Court that a series of investment funds, with the backing of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are "dead wrong" to say it has no right to sue over their decision to dilute the investor's voting shares.

  • October 10, 2025

    StubHub Sued Over Failure To Refund Swift's Eras Tour Show

    Online ticket reseller StubHub regularly reneges on its "FanProtect Guarantee" to either provide comparable tickets or refund customers if the tickets they bought aren't available the day of the concert, according to a proposed class action by a woman who says she was swindled out of thousands of dollars during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour.

  • October 10, 2025

    Atty's Due Process Claims Challenging Disbarments Trimmed

    A former attorney has had most of a due process suit fighting his disbarment in Florida and reciprocal discipline in Massachusetts and New York thrown out, with a Manhattan federal judge finding that New York lacks personal jurisdiction over out-of-state disciplinary officials.

  • October 10, 2025

    Profs Say Apple Used Copyrighted Material For AI Training

    Two neuroscientists have sued Apple in California federal court, claiming it made use of their copyrighted materials to train its artificial intelligence model Apple Intelligence.

  • October 10, 2025

    OpenAI's Sora Backlash Shows IP Challenges For Tech Cos.

    OpenAI's new version of its video-generation model Sora has highlighted the growing tension between the development of artificial intelligence technologies and intellectual property rights, with the company emphasizing an opt-in approach for copyright owners for using their works after backlash over a reported opt-out policy.

  • October 10, 2025

    Pipe Repair Co. Sues Competitor Over Alleged $10M Sabotage

    Several months after an arbitral tribunal awarded $10 million in damages to a trenchless pipe repair technology company, finding its supplier had breached an exclusivity agreement, the company has filed new litigation in New York federal court against a competitor over alleged corporate sabotage that destroyed its business.

  • October 10, 2025

    Retribution, Intent Claims May Defuse Bombshell James Case

    The Trump administration's indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James is tightly crafted and offers a straightforward presentation of the government's case, but experts say James appears to have a strong argument that she did not intend to break the law and is being unfairly targeted for what amounts to a minor offense.

  • October 10, 2025

    More Disciplinary Info On Atty Sent To Judge In Flores Case

    An attorney representing the NFL in the racial discrimination dispute with former head coach Brian Flores has informed a New York federal judge of additional disciplinary action against the former attorney for one of Flores' co-plaintiffs, as the judge is investigating whether the lawyer misrepresented his license to practice.

Expert Analysis

  • Bid Protest Spotlight: Documentation, Overrides, Eligibility

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    Recent decisions by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Government Accountability Office illustrate the importance of contemporaneous documentation in proposal evaluations, the standards for an agency’s override of a Competition in Contracting Act stay, and the regulatory requirements for small business joint ventures, says Cody Fisher at MoFo.

  • A Primer For Lenders On NY's New Mortgage Disclosure Regs

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    A recent New York regulation requiring licensed lenders and mortgage bankers to distribute a significant new disclosure pamphlet, essentially a borrower bill of rights, to applicants serves as a reminder to the industry to follow existing best practices, says Scott Samlin at Blank Rome.

  • Enter The Wu-Tang Ruling That May Change Trade Secret Law

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    A New York federal court's recent holding that a Wu-Tang Clan album qualifies as a trade secret provides the first federal framework for analyzing trade secret claims involving assets valued primarily for exclusivity, potentially reshaping Defend Trade Secrets Act jurisprudence for the digital economy, says Jason Bradford at Jenner & Block.

  • How Financial Cos. Can Prep As NYDFS Cyber Changes Loom

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    Financial institutions supervised by the New York State Department of Financial Services can prepare for two critical cybersecurity requirements relating to multifactor authentication and asset inventories, effective Nov. 1, by conducting gap analyses and allocating resources to high-risk assets, among other steps, say attorneys at Pillsbury.

  • Series

    Adapting To Private Practice: 3 Tips On Finding The Right Job

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    After 23 years as a state and federal prosecutor, when I contemplated moving to a law firm, practicing solo or going in-house, I found there's a critical first step — deep self-reflection on what you truly want to do and where your strengths lie, says Rachael Jones at McKool Smith.

  • Breaking Down The Intersection Of Right-Of-Publicity Law, AI

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    Jillian Taylor at Blank Rome examines how existing right-of-publicity law governs artificial intelligence-generated voice-overs, deepfakes and deadbots; highlights a recent New York federal court ruling involving AI-generated voice clones; and offers practical guardrails for using AI without violating the right of publicity.

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    Painting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Painting trains me to see both the fine detail and the whole composition at once, enabling me to identify friction points while keeping sight of a client's bigger vision, but the most significant lesson I've brought to my legal work has been the value of originality, says Jana Gouchev at Gouchev Law.

  • NY AML Rules Get Crypto Rebrand: What It Means For Banks

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    A recent letter from the New York State Department of Financial Services outlining how banks can use blockchain analytics in anti-money laundering efforts is a reminder that crypto activity is not exempted from banks' role in keeping the financial system safe, says Katherine Lemire at Lankler Siffert.

  • 3 Trends From AI-Related Securities Class Action Dismissals

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    A review of recently dismissed securities class actions centering on artificial intelligence highlights courts' scrutiny of statements about AI's capabilities and independence, and sustained focus on issues that aren't AI-specific, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • 5 Evolving Marketing Risks That Finance Cos. Should Watch

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    Financial services providers should beware several areas where consumer protection regulators are broadening their scrutiny of modern marketing practices, such as the use of influencer testimonials or advertisements touting artificial intelligence-powered products, so they can better adapt to changing expectations for compliance, say attorneys at Hinshaw.

  • Protecting Sensitive Court Filings After Recent Cyber Breach

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    In the wake of a recent cyberattack on federal courts' Case Management/Electronic Case Files system, civil litigants should consider seeking enhanced protections for sensitive materials filed under seal to mitigate the risk of unauthorized exposure, say attorneys at Redgrave.

  • Despite Fraud Focus, SEC Still Targeting Technical Violations

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under Chairman Paul Atkins has emphasized its back-to-basics strategy, focusing on identifying and combating fraud and manipulation, but at the same time, it has continued to pursue nonfraud-based actions targeting technical rule violations, a trend that will likely continue, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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    NY Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q3

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    Of note in the third quarter of the year, New York state regulators moved forward on their agendas to limit abuse of electronic banking, including via a settlement with stablecoin issuer Paxos and a lawsuit against Zelle alleging insufficient security measures, says Chris Bonner at Barclay Damon.

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    Judging Figure Skating Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Judging figure skating competitions helps me hone the focus, decisiveness and ability to process complex real-time information I need in court, but more importantly, it makes me reengage with a community and my identity outside of law, which, paradoxically, always brings me back to work feeling restored, says Megan Raymond at Groombridge Wu.

  • $100K H-1B Fee May Disrupt Rural Healthcare Needs

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    The Trump administration's newly imposed $100,000 supplemental fee on new H-1B petitions may disproportionately affect healthcare employers' ability to recruit international medical graduates, and the fee's national interest exceptions will not adequately solve ensuing problems for healthcare employers or medically underserved areas, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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