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• April 15, 2026

  CBP's $166B Tariff Refund Portal Needs 4 Safeguards

  Before launching its automated web portal to process tariff-refund disbursements on April 20, U.S. Customs and Border Protection should apply the expensive lessons learned from the pandemic-era employee retention credit, says Peter Gariepy at RubinBrown.

• April 15, 2026

  Chair Says FTC Shouldn't Be 'All-Purpose AI Regulator'

  Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson told lawmakers Wednesday that the agency is committed to using its existing authorities to protect Americans from deceptive artificial intelligence claims and AI-facilitated fraud, while arguing the FTC shouldn't serve as an overarching regulator for the technology.

• April 15, 2026

  Judge Limits Evidence In Revived Deloitte Trade Secret Case

  A West Virginia federal judge has narrowed the evidence prosecutors can present at trial in a revived trade secret case against two former Deloitte employees, curtailing use of an internal investigative report from the company they joined and restricting how "trade secrets" may be used to describe allegedly confidential materials.

• April 15, 2026

  NC Judge Won't Undo $4M Philips Copyright Verdict

  A North Carolina federal judge has refused to erase a $4 million jury verdict against independent service organization Transtate Equipment Co. for violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, saying trial evidence provided a "firm basis" to support the jury's statutory damages award.

• April 15, 2026

  Ad Agencies Settle FTC's 'Brand Safety' Boycott Claims

  The Federal Trade Commission reached a deal on Wednesday with WPP, Publicis and Dentsu over concerns that "brand safety" standards allowed them to collude to steer ad money away from disfavored platforms.

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