Compliance

  • June 26, 2025

    Air Force Contractor Agrees To Pay $1M To Settle FCA Claims

    A Massachusetts company will pay approximately $1 million to settle allegations it overcharged the government under a contract supporting Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico, federal prosecutors have announced.

  • June 26, 2025

    Chemours Loses Bid To Keep Disclosures Suit Details Sealed

    Citing failure to specify harm from disclosure, a Delaware vice chancellor has denied Chemours Inc.'s request to keep confidential details about its internal document controls in a redacted derivative suit seeking damages arising from an alleged $575 million manipulation of company reports over two years.

  • June 26, 2025

    Ex-Asphalt Exec Gets 6 Months For $23M Bid-Rigging Scheme

    A co-founder and former executive of a Michigan asphalt paving company has been sentenced to six months in prison and fined $500,000 for his role in a bid-rigging conspiracy that earned his company more than $23 million in corrupted jobs, as a Michigan federal judge continued to emphasize the need to deter white collar crime. 

  • June 25, 2025

    Fed Rolls Out Plan To Relax Leverage Rule For Biggest Banks

    The Federal Reserve on Wednesday kicked off an effort to ease a key leverage requirement for the biggest U.S. banks, advancing a highly anticipated proposal that officials said could free up bank balance-sheet capacity to bolster the U.S. Treasury market. 

  • June 25, 2025

    TCPA Litigants Brace For 'Seismic Shift' After Deference Blow

    The U.S. Supreme Court's backing of broad judicial review for the crush of regulatory orders interpreting the Telephone Consumer Protection Act is poised to turn the litigation landscape on its head, as key statutory determinations that have long been viewed as settled matters are suddenly ripe for scrutiny. 

  • June 25, 2025

    Senate Panel Again OKs Bill To Boost Teens' Online Privacy

    A longstanding legislative proposal that would ban online targeted advertising to minors and expand digital privacy protections to cover teens between the ages of 13 and 16 began its latest trip through Congress on Wednesday, when the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee easily advanced the measure to the full chamber. 

  • June 25, 2025

    Coinme Fined $300K In Landmark Calif. Enforcement Action

    Crypto kiosk operator Coinme Inc. has agreed to pay a $300,000 fine to resolve findings that it violated California's kiosk transaction limits and failed to include certain disclosures on receipts, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation announced Wednesday.

  • June 25, 2025

    Chevron Denies Contract With Venezuelan Co. In $24M Suit

    Chevron Corp. has told a Texas federal judge to dismiss a Venezuelan company's lawsuit over $24 million in unpaid invoices, arguing that it didn't have a contract with the company to begin with.

  • June 25, 2025

    11th Circ. Backs Conviction In Bank Reporting Evasion Case

    The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday upheld the conviction of a man accused of trying to prevent regulators from learning about his large withdrawals from Wells Fargo accounts, rejecting his claims that prosecutors charged him with one offense but tried him for another.

  • June 25, 2025

    SEC Says Banned Investment Adviser Ran Crypto Fund Fraud

    A San Diego man and his dissolved company face U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that they improperly raised $413,000 from at least 11 investors on the strength of promises they'd put the money into a pooled investment vehicle for crypto assets.

  • June 25, 2025

    10th Circ. Urged To Revive Post-Jarkesy FDIC Challenge

    A Kansas bank has urged the Tenth Circuit to revive its suit claiming the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. violated the bank's right to a jury trial through an enforcement proceeding before an agency-appointed judge, arguing federal courts must be able to hear such constitutional claims.

  • June 25, 2025

    SEC Wins Jury Verdict In $10M Blood Bank Fraud Suit

    A California federal jury has found the former CEO of a blood bank business liable for securities fraud, agreeing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the executive defrauded retirees out of more than $10 million by promising them returns he knew he could not deliver.

  • June 25, 2025

    Cigna Says Bristol-Myers Delayed Cancer Drug Generic

    Cigna has launched an antitrust suit in New York federal court accusing Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and its Celgene subsidiary of fraudulently obtaining patents, filing sham litigation and paying off generic-drug makers to maintain a monopoly on their blockbuster blood-cancer drug Pomalyst.

  • June 25, 2025

    Media Matters' FTC Suit Can't Keep Same Judge As Texas Case

    The D.C. federal judge who blocked investigations into Media Matters by the attorneys general of Texas and Missouri won't be taking on the group's latest lawsuit challenging an allegedly similar probe by the Republican-controlled Federal Trade Commission after the judge concluded Wednesday that the FTC case is too different.

  • June 25, 2025

    Globalstar Concerned By Potential 'Big LEO' Band Changes

    Satellite company Globalstar is once again bashing SpaceX's proposal to rewrite the Federal Communications Commission's rules for the "Big LEO" band, telling agency officials in a recent meeting that there's no need to rethink things and let new entrants into its licensed spectrum.

  • June 25, 2025

    SEC Grants Brokers More Time On Customer-Protection Rule

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission agreed Wednesday to extend until late June 2026 the time broker-dealers have to comply with recent amendments to a regulation protecting customers, saying that firms need more time to upgrade their operations.

  • June 25, 2025

    Michigan Man Gets 2 Years In 'Despicable' Pill, Fraud Scheme

    A Michigan resident was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison by a Massachusetts federal judge who called the defendant's role in a prescription pill smuggling and pandemic aid fraud scheme "despicable."

  • June 25, 2025

    Ark., Idaho Push For Jury Trial In Google Ad Tech Case

    Arkansas and Idaho are hoping a Texas federal judge will reconsider the decision declaring they don't have a right to a jury trial and, as a result, can't seek civil penalties from Google on their antitrust claims accusing the tech behemoth of manipulating the advertising market.

  • June 25, 2025

    Citi Accused Of Complicity In $20M NFT 'Pig Butchering' Scam

    Citibank NA has been hit with a lawsuit in New York federal court by a Texas man accusing it of ignoring red flags that allowed scammers to use accounts at the bank to siphon nearly $4 million from his family trusts after he fell for a social media romance scam involving non-fungible tokens.

  • June 25, 2025

    EU Probing Mars' $36B Deal For Pringles-Maker Kellanova

    European competition enforcers said Wednesday they are investigating snack food and candy giant Mars Inc.'s planned $35.9 billion purchase of Cheez-It and Pringles maker Kellanova over concerns the combined company would have too much negotiating power with retailers.

  • June 25, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Backs EPA's Firing Of 'Disruptive' Whistleblower

    The Federal Circuit upheld a decision finding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would've fired a federal employee even if she wasn't whistleblowing on its failure to submit affirmative employment plans, ruling Wednesday that while there was significant motive to retaliate, there's also evidence the employee was "disrespectful, disruptive and discourteous" toward colleagues.

  • June 25, 2025

    Alaska Doesn't Need 5G In Most Remote Reaches, FCC Told

    Alaskan telecoms should not have to bring 5G-level internet to every corner of the state to which they are designated to deploy under the Alaska Connect Fund, a trade group has told the Federal Communications Commission.

  • June 25, 2025

    Ad Co. Says Rumble's Boycott Suit Belongs In NY, Not Texas

    Media strategy company GroupM Worldwide has asked a Texas federal judge to transfer Rumble's lawsuit accusing the company and others of boycotting the user-generated video platform, arguing that even if the antitrust case survives a pending motion to dismiss, it should be heard in New York.

  • June 25, 2025

    Adviser's $300M Ponzi Dismissal Bid 'Specious,' Investor Says

    An investor who was roped into what the federal government has called a $300 million Ponzi scheme asked a Georgia federal judge Wednesday to keep their suit alive, arguing they shouldn't be subject to heightened pleading standards for a fraud claim they never made against a Peach State financial adviser.

  • June 25, 2025

    RI Allows Providence To Exceed Tax Levy Cap For Fiscal 2026

    Providence, Rhode Island, may exceed the state's limit on property tax increases for the 2026 fiscal year under legislation signed by the governor.

Expert Analysis

  • Trump Rule Would Upend Endangered Species Status Quo

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    The Trump administration's recent proposal to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" in the Endangered Species Act would be a tectonic shift away from years of established regulatory practice, with major implications for both species protection and larger-scale conservation efforts, says David Smith at Manatt.

  • Chancery Ruling Raises Bar For Advance Notice Bylaws Suits

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    The Delaware Court of Chancery's recent ruling in Siegel v. Morse will make it more difficult for plaintiffs to successfully challenge advance notice bylaws before the emergence of an actual or threatened proxy contest, presumably reducing the occurrence of such challenges, say attorneys at Venable.

  • DOJ Memo Raises Bar For Imposition Of Corporate Monitors

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    A recently released U.S. Department of Justice memo, outlining guidance on the imposition of compliance monitors in corporate criminal cases, reflects DOJ leadership’s concerns about scope creep and business costs, but the strategies for companies to avoid a monitorship haven't changed much compared to the Biden era, says James Koukios at MoFo.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Becoming A Firmwide MVP

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    Though lawyers don't have a neat metric like baseball players for measuring the value they contribute to their organizations, the sooner new attorneys learn skills frequently skipped in law school — like networking, marketing, client development and case evaluation — the more valuable, and less replaceable, they will be, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.

  • How NY's FAIR Act Mirrors CFPB State Recommendations

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    New York's proposed FAIR Business Practices Act, which targets predatory lending and junk fees, reflects the Rohit Chopra-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's recommendations to states in a number of ways, including by defining "abusive" conduct and adding a new right to file class actions, says Christian Hancock at Bradley Arant.

  • Expect Eyes On Electronic Devices At US Entry Points

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    Electronic device searches are becoming common at U.S. border inspections, making it imperative for companies to familiarize themselves with what's allowed, and mandate specific precautions for employees to protect their privacy and sensitive information during international travel, say attorneys at Seyfarth.

  • Big Tech M&A Risk Under Trump May Resemble Biden Era

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    Merger review under the Trump administration may not differ substantially from merger review under the Biden administration, particularly in the Big Tech arena, in which case dealmakers and investors should shift the antitrust discount on M&A deals upward, says Jonathan Barnett at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

  • Takeaways From DOJ's 1st Wage-Fixing Jury Conviction

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    U.S. v. Lopez marked the U.S. Department of Justice's first labor market conviction at trial as a Nevada federal jury found a home healthcare staffing executive guilty of wage-fixing and wire fraud, signaling that improper agreements risk facing successful criminal prosecution, say attorneys at McGuireWoods.

  • Calif. Climate Superfund Bill Faces Legal, Technical Hurdles

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    California could soon join other states in sending the fossil fuel industry a massive bill for the costs of coping with climate change — but its pending climate Superfund legislation, if enacted, is certain to face legal pushback and daunting implementation challenges, says Donald Sobelman at Farella Braun.

  • How Cos. Can Navigate Risks Of New Cartel Terrorist Labels

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    The Trump administration’s recent designation of eight drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations gives rise to new criminal and civil liabilities for companies that are unwittingly exposed to cartel activity, but businesses can mitigate such risks in a few key ways, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • Cosmetic Co. Considerations As More States Target PFAS

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    In the first quarter of the year, seven states introduced or passed legislation focused on banning the sale of cosmetics that contain PFAS, making it necessary for businesses to adjust their product testing and supply chain practices, product formulations, marketing strategies, and more, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • What We Lost After SEC Eliminated Regional Director Role

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    Former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Regional Director Marc Fagel discusses the recent wholesale elimination of the regional director position, the responsibilities of the job itself and why discarding this role highlights how the appearance of creating a more efficient agency may limit the SEC's effectiveness.

  • Mass. Suit Points To New Scrutiny For Home Equity Contracts

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    The Massachusetts attorney general’s recent charge that a lender sold unregulated reverse mortgages shows more regulators are scrutinizing mortgage alternatives like home equity contracts, but a similar case in the Ninth Circuit suggests more courts need to help develop a consensus on these products' legality, say attorneys at Weiner Brodsky.

  • EEOC Suits Show Cos. Shouldn't Ax Anti-Harassment Efforts

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    Companies shouldn't be so quick to eliminate anti-harassment programs in response to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's guidance cautioning against unlawful diversity, equity and inclusion programs, as recent enforcement actions demonstrate that the agency still plans to hold employers accountable for addressing sexual harassment, says Ally Coll at the Purple Method.

  • Perspectives

    Reading Tea Leaves In High Court's Criminal Law Decisions

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    The criminal justice decisions the U.S. Supreme Court will announce in the coming weeks will reveal whether last term’s fractured decision-making has continued, an important data point as the justices’ alignment seems to correlate with who benefits from a case’s outcome, says Sharon Fairley at the University of Chicago Law School.

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