Compliance

  • June 18, 2026

    DirecTV, AGs Tell 9th Circ. Not To Curb Nexstar-Tegna Block

    DirecTV and a coalition of state attorneys general urged the Ninth Circuit not to narrow a district court preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, arguing the only way to preserve competition while the case proceeds is a full block, not one restricted to 31 overlapping broadcast markets.

  • June 18, 2026

    Senate Panel Advances Revised College Sports Reform Bill

    The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday approved a bill to codify federal protections for college sports and for athletes' earning abilities, sending it to the full Senate for a possible vote.

  • June 18, 2026

    DOJ Says Philadelphia Can't Order Fed. Officers To Unmask

    The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued the city of Philadelphia, District Attorney Larry Krasner and the city solicitor in Pennsylvania federal court over an ordinance prohibiting federal agents from wearing masks and requiring them to identify themselves and their vehicles as part of law enforcement agencies.

  • June 18, 2026

    Kalshi Urges 6th Circ. To Keep Tenn. Sports Contracts Online

    Kalshi has asked the Sixth Circuit to ensure that its sports contract offerings remain online in Tennessee while a lawsuit over their legality proceeds, once again drawing a bright line between its services and conventional sports betting.

  • June 18, 2026

    Del. Bill Seeks Intermediary Municipal Rental Tax Collection

    Delaware would require accommodations intermediaries to collect short-term rental tax for municipalities under a bill introduced in the state House of Representatives.

  • June 18, 2026

    ISP Tells FCC Minn. City Can't Force It Into Cable Agreement

    Internet service provider Gateway Fiber has asked the Federal Communications Commission to step in and declare that a Minnesota city can't decide that its cable franchise agreement ordinances suddenly apply to broadband providers now.

  • June 18, 2026

    Trump Accounts Not Subject To ERISA, DOL Says

    Trump accounts, the new tax-advantaged brokerage accounts for newborns, will generally not be considered employee pension benefit plans and will not be subject to federal benefits laws, according to guidance issued Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor.

  • June 18, 2026

    Ohio Justices Clear Interactive Brokers Of $25M Scheme

    The Ohio Supreme Court said Thursday that Interactive Brokers LLC cannot be held liable for a failed $25 million investment scheme run by a now-deceased customer, finding that the relevant state statute requires a firm to provide more than routine account services to be held liable for a customer's scheme.

  • June 18, 2026

    BofA Exits Biden-Era OCC Order Over Pandemic Relief Lapses

    The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has terminated a 2022 consent order with Bank of America NA over its handling of prepaid unemployment benefit cards during the COVID-19 pandemic, closing out a key part of a Biden-era joint enforcement action against the bank.

  • June 18, 2026

    GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

    General counsel may cringe at the news, but their chief financial officers will rejoice over a new study that shows the average spending by legal departments dropped to a six-year low in 2026. And two in-house Cigna lawyers are at the center of a finding of "improperly asserted privilege" over key company documents related to a payment lawsuit brought by three labs.

  • June 18, 2026

    Mother Defends Punitive Claims In Boeing Door Plug Blowout Suit

    A woman and her son suing The Boeing Co. over a door plug blowout on a 737 Max jet flight out of Oregon are urging a Washington federal court to deny Boeing's bid to throw out their punitive damages claims, saying the question is a fact intensive one unsuitable for dismissal.

  • June 18, 2026

    Trade Court OKs Penalties For Importer Who Skipped Duties

    The U.S. Court of International Trade said a tire distributor is liable for a $56,000 penalty for failing to pay antidumping and countervailing duties on tires it imported from China after the company failed to appear in court.

  • June 18, 2026

    Amazon Wraps Up Ex-Worker's Race Bias, Retaliation Suit

    Amazon has reached an agreement to end a suit from a former executive assistant who claimed he was fired for complaining that he'd missed out on promotions and faced unwarranted criticism because he's Black, according to a filing in Georgia federal court.

  • June 18, 2026

    CME Group Sues CFTC Over Perpetual-Contracts Approval

    CME Group is challenging the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's decision to approve the listing of perpetual contracts, arguing in a lawsuit filed Thursday that the agency "overrode Congress's definition of the term 'swap'" when it gave Kalshi the green light last month to allow trading on bitcoin spot prices. 

  • June 17, 2026

    Kentucky AG Says Kalshi And Polymarket Offerings Are Illegal

    Kentucky's attorney general on Wednesday lodged three lawsuits accusing prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket, and online casino platform VGW, of violating the state's consumer protection and gambling laws by offering unlicensed sports wagering in the state, and running illegal and addictive sweepstakes casino websites.

  • June 17, 2026

    Calif., Ore. Cities Likely To Win Block On Federal Grant Limits

    A California federal judge said Wednesday he's inclined to block at least three federal agencies from conditioning certain grants to California and Oregon municipalities on compliance with Trump administration priorities — including immigration enforcement and anti-diversity, equity and inclusion restrictions — saying they'd established harm when it comes to grants for which they'd applied.

  • June 17, 2026

    FTX Exec's Wife Must Face Campaign Finance Charges

    A New York federal judge Wednesday refused to throw out an indictment accusing crypto lobbyist Michelle Bond of campaign finance crimes, rejecting her argument that prosecutors previously promised her husband, a former FTX executive, that his guilty plea would mean she's in the clear.

  • June 17, 2026

    Bosch Receives First DOJ Declination Under New Policy

    German technology company Bosch on Wednesday became the first company to avoid criminal prosecution under a new U.S. Department of Justice enforcement policy after it cooperated with the federal government and agreed to pay $36 million to settle allegations it improperly exported technology products to sanctioned Chinese company Huawei.

  • June 17, 2026

    OCC Warns Charter Hopefuls Against Incomplete Applications

    The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Wednesday that it will send back incomplete regulatory applications without a review and will start publishing its denial decisions, putting bank charter hopefuls and other corporate filers on notice.

  • June 17, 2026

    FINRA Expels NY Firm, Bars Founders Over Churning Scheme

    The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority on Wednesday expelled a New York broker-dealer and its co-founders and fined the firm's chief compliance officer over claims that the founders churned and excessively traded customer accounts, harming customers while generating millions in revenue for the firm.

  • June 17, 2026

    Sen. Committee Clears Drug Disclosure, Biosimilar Bills

    The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Wednesday cleared two bills for full Senate review, tackling the gap between health and patent oversight agencies, and the need for more interchangeable biosimilars.

  • June 17, 2026

    FTC Claims Trans Health Org. Lied About Medical Consensus

    The Federal Trade Commission and several Republican-led states sued the World Professional Association for Transgender Health on Wednesday, telling a Texas federal court that the organization falsely touted a "medical consensus" while advocating for transgender healthcare for children.

  • June 17, 2026

    FCC Gives California More Time To Weigh In On Copper Lines

    The FCC has granted the California Public Utilities Commission extra time to respond to a petition from AT&T after the state agency told the federal one that the telecom titan hadn't been upfront about the reason California has declined to retire AT&T's copper network in the state.

  • June 17, 2026

    Bipartisan Sens. Condemn Bankman-Fried's Pardon Bid

    The top members of a cryptocurrency-focused Senate subcommittee on Wednesday introduced a bipartisan resolution condemning Sam Bankman-Fried's bid for a presidential pardon, saying that "under no circumstances" should the convicted FTX founder receive executive clemency.

  • June 17, 2026

    Cayuga Tribe Sues Caesars In NY Over Online Sports Betting

    The Cayuga Nation has alleged Caesars Sportsbook engaged in illegal gambling on the tribe's reservation, violated the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and unlawfully operated within the tribe's territorial boundaries under state law.

Expert Analysis

  • High Court's FCC Ruling Adds To Comms Industry Paradox

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    The Supreme Court's recent decision in Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T, finding that the FCC's informal forfeiture process survives Seventh Amendment scrutiny, opens some doors for regulated entities, but the practical effect may be surprisingly constrained, says Jonathan Marashlian at The CommLaw Group.

  • A Lender's Guide To Fraud: Identifying Risks

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    The evolving lending landscape, particularly the private credit boom, has heightened lenders' exposure to fraud, but recent bankruptcies demonstrate where fraud risks most commonly materialize and how banks can mitigate exposure at the outset, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.

  • Class Actions Have Entered The Fight Over Prediction Markets

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    While disputes brought by states over the regulation of prediction markets have claimed most of the headlines, class actions brought by ordinary citizens, particularly in Kentucky and Massachusetts, represent another avenue to challenge the legality of the prediction markets themselves, says Laura Chiu at DarrowEverett.

  • Series

    Founding An Autism Academy Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    Starting a nonprofit autism school with no building, no funding model and no guarantee that families would trust us taught me the importance of mission, patience and purpose — lessons that sharpened my practice and showed how meaningful work outside the office can make lawyers better, says Phillip Russell at Ogletree Deakins.

  • Why Private Sector Should Watch Gov't DEI Firing Class Bid

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    Former federal employees' class certification attempt in Fell v. Trump is worth following, as their challenge of the Office of Personnel Management's elimination of DEI positions raises questions about commonality in employee classes and protections for nonminority advocacy that reach beyond the public sector, says Shaun Southworth at Southworth PC.

  • Mapping US-China Investment Compliance For EB-5 Deals

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    Chinese capital deployment through the U.S.'s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, alongside China's recently established outbound investment security framework, creates compliance gaps with the U.S. framework, and unique risks and considerations for practitioners, says Xuan Zhang at Reid & Wise.

  • HHS Enforcement Restructuring Signals Compliance Risks

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    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' recent restructuring of its Office for Civil Rights suggests that, while Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act enforcement remains central, its priorities have expanded to encompass civil rights, conscience and religious freedom, and data and cybersecurity issues, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • Trump's AI Order Is Strategic, Not Merely Deregulatory

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    Although the framework presented in President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on artificial intelligence is styled as voluntary and innovation-friendly, it creates a new soft-power mechanism for bringing the most capable AI systems into closer alignment with federal security priorities, says Jesse Lemon at The Beckage Firm.

  • Agentic AI And Securities Law: The Vanishing Defendant

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    The entire framework of traditional securities regulation rests on the ability to attribute conduct to human actors and assess their intent and control, but agentic artificial intelligence systems threaten to upend that basic first-step analysis, says Joseph A. Hall at Davis Polk.

  • A New Wave Of Prediction Market Risk Is About To Break

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    The convergence of three potential new risks — shareholder derivative suits, evolving disclosure requirements and congressional investigations — means that prediction market exposure has graduated from an interesting hypothetical to a company's audit committee agenda item, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • Opinion

    Rule Of Law Requires Gov't Engagement With Bar, Not Retreat

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    A federal agency's absence from national and local bar conferences, most recently illustrated by the U.S. Department of Justice's withdrawal from a New York City Bar Association white collar conference, disserves the bar, the government lawyers themselves and, ultimately, the administration of justice, says Muhammad Faridi at Linklaters.

  • AG Watch: Oregon's Strategic Civil Enforcement Approach

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    Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield’s recent antitrust litigation activity and proposed staffing increase are the latest in a series of structural and policy changes that signal that the state Department of Justice is taking a more aggressive approach to civil enforcement, says Keturah Taylor at Cozen O'Connor.

  • How Nasdaq's 23/5 Rule Will Alter Public Offering Strategies

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent approval of Nasdaq's proposal to extend trading hours to 23 hours a day, five days a week, may reshape how certain public offerings are executed, particularly for confidentially marketed public offerings, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

  • How Boards Can Shrink The AI Governance Gap

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    While companies have overwhelmingly embraced artificial intelligence, most lack corresponding governance structures and director-level fluency to oversee these programs, highlighting the importance of board and executive supervision to keep pace with growing litigation risk, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • Fannie, Freddie AI Rules Raise Stakes For Mortgage Lenders

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    Artificial intelligence governance frameworks recently released by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac impose monitoring and vendor oversight standards on mortgage lenders, potentially reshaping secondary-market eligibility, fair lending reviews and risk management as compliance deadlines approach, says Brendan Palfreyman at Harris Beach.

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