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July 23, 2025
3rd Circ. Backs Off 2nd Look At Class Action Fraud Sanction
The Third Circuit has reissued an opinion upholding the conviction of a man accused of defrauding shareholder settlement funds, but saying it should not have previously ordered the lower court to potentially increase the $31 million judgment against the man.
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July 23, 2025
Trump Wins 9th Circ. Block On Order Providing Reorg Plans
The Ninth Circuit greenlighted the Trump administration's request to pause a lower court ruling requiring the government to turn over its layoff and reorganization plans in the case disputing whether the president can lawfully reshape federal agencies without congressional approval.
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July 23, 2025
Ex-Cannabis Co. CFO OK'd To Argue Good Faith In SEC Case
A former executive of cannabis company Acreage Holdings Inc., accused of falsifying the company's financials, will be permitted to argue that he was acting in good faith, a Manhattan federal judge said Wednesday, finding it was too early to know whether attorney-client privilege would block his defense.
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July 23, 2025
Adviser Drops FINRA 5th Amendment Challenge
A financial adviser has dropped his Fifth Amendment challenge against the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, following the regulator's arguments that it is not subject to constitutional requirements when carrying out its self-regulatory responsibilities.
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July 23, 2025
FWS Wrongly Approved Bird-Harming Pesticide, Judge Says
A North Carolina judge on Wednesday revoked the federal government's approval of a pesticide that is toxic to birds for use as an algal bloom control measure at a lake in a wildlife refuge, saying regulators bungled the environmental review.
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July 23, 2025
Amazon Shoppers Protest Proposed 'Mini-Trial' On Class Cert.
Consumers are fighting Amazon's bid for an evidentiary hearing in parallel antitrust suits before a Washington federal judge decides a pending class certification motion, insisting the company has had plenty of time to vet key opinions from the plaintiffs' economics expert.
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July 23, 2025
Creek High Court Grants Freedmen Descendants Citizenship
The (Muscogee) Creek Nation Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a lower court's decision to give citizenship to two descendants of those once enslaved by the tribe, saying a 19th century treaty that required the Five Civilized Tribes to abolish slavery should have applied to their applications seven years ago.
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July 23, 2025
SEC Asks 8th Circ. To Rule On Abandoned Climate Regs
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission asked the Eighth Circuit on Wednesday to decide the fate of Biden-era climate disclosure rules that the agency has said it will no longer defend against challenges brought by Republican-led states and business interests.
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July 23, 2025
Feds Seek 15 Months For Lobbyist Over Madigan Scheme
Federal prosecutors have urged an Illinois federal judge to sentence ex-ComEd lobbyist Jay Doherty to one year and three months in prison for his "critical role" in a scheme to bribe former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, whose associates were paid as "subcontractors" under Doherty's lobbying contract with the utility even though they did little to no work.
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July 23, 2025
UK Eyes Google, Apple Mandates For App Ranking, Payments
United Kingdom antitrust authorities on Wednesday formally proposed singling out Apple's and Google's mobile platforms for extra regulatory attention and specific mandates, proposing road maps for the Play Store and App Store that could try to stop the companies from boosting their own apps and commission-based payment systems.
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July 23, 2025
Unlicensed $1M Crypto Exchange Operator Pleads Guilty
A 56-year-old Connecticut man has pled guilty to charging fees for swapping more than $1 million in cash, checks and money orders for cryptocurrency at a West Haven business that didn't obtain a license from the state banking commissioner.
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July 23, 2025
US Says It's Immune In Booz Allen Worker Tax Info Leak Suit
A proposed class action seeking to hold the federal government and its contractor Booz Allen Hamilton responsible for a leak of thousands of wealthy people's tax returns, including President Donald Trump's, cannot move forward against the U.S., the government argued Wednesday, saying it's immune from the suit.
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July 23, 2025
Ex-Real Estate Finance Pro Tapped For OCC Chief Of Staff
President Donald Trump's top national bank regulator has hired a new chief of staff, bringing on a former federal housing finance official from the private sector to help steer policy coordination and internal operations at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the agency said Wednesday.
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July 23, 2025
High Court Lets Trump Fire CPSC Members, For Now
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump could fire three members of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, even though a Maryland federal judge found that the president lacked authority to remove them without cause.
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July 23, 2025
CFTC Settles With Puerto Rico-Based Gas Futures Trader
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and a Puerto Rico-based natural gas futures trader on Wednesday announced that they had reached a settlement, ending the agency's suit alleging that the trader used nonpublic information to make profitable energy trades.
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July 23, 2025
Apple Tells 9th Circ. Birthright Ruling Scraps Epic's Injunction
Apple Inc. told the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in litigation challenging President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order means that a nationwide injunction and civil contempt order in Epic Games Inc.'s antitrust case over Apple's App Store policies cannot stand.
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July 23, 2025
Feds Fight Bid To Block Domestic Violence Grant Restrictions
The U.S. Department of Justice is fighting a bid by a group of domestic violence coalitions to block restrictions imposed on grants from its Office on Violence Against Women, arguing that a Rhode Island federal court lacks jurisdiction over the group's claims and that the Tucker Act instead gives jurisdiction to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
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July 23, 2025
Trump Publishes AI 'Action Plan' With 90 Policy Proposals
In an effort to secure America's leadership in artificial intelligence, the Trump administration released a blueprint Wednesday outlining ideas to accelerate innovation, modernize infrastructure and foster international collaboration while safeguarding national security.
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July 23, 2025
Co., Lenders Hit With Suit Over Medical Spa Financing Scam
A medical device manufacturer and several financing companies worked together to manipulate boutique clinics and medical spas into purchasing expensive cosmetic devices based on inflated revenue projections and false promises of marketing support, according to a proposed class action filed Monday in California federal court.
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July 23, 2025
Trump Admin To Probe Harvard's Student Visa Program
The State Department said Wednesday it is opening an investigation into Harvard University's eligibility to host international students and professors on visas, the Trump administration's latest salvo in its legal battle with the elite school.
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July 23, 2025
Thompson Hine Adds Venable Product Liability Atty In LA
Thompson Hine LLP is expanding its litigation team, announcing Wednesday it has brought in a Venable LLP product liability expert as a partner in its year-old Los Angeles office.
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July 22, 2025
FCA Draws Heavy Constitutional Fire After $1.6B J&J Verdict
Reeling from a record fraud verdict tied to drug promotion practices, Johnson & Johnson is pursuing a sweeping constitutional challenge to the False Claims Act, and in filings this week at the Third Circuit, major industry allies rallied behind its views of whistleblower litigants usurping executive branch power.
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July 22, 2025
Becton Dickinson Investors Seek Final OK Of $9M Deal
Investors in medical tech manufacturer Becton Dickinson are seeking final approval of their $9 million deal that will end derivative claims the company was damaged by its attempts to hide regulatory problems regarding sales of its Alaris pump, which would add to the list of settlements the company has entered over the alleged misrepresentations.
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July 22, 2025
Engineer Cops To Stealing Missile Tracking Tech To Aid China
An engineer who worked at a tech company admitted in California federal court to stealing trade secrets regarding nuclear missile detection used by the U.S. government after previously seeking to help the People's Republic of China with its military research, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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July 22, 2025
Trump's NCUA Board Member Firings Were Illegal, Judge Says
A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday held that President Donald Trump broke the law when he fired two Democratic credit union regulators, finding that the members must remain on the National Credit Union Administration's board and can only be removed before their terms are up for cause.
Expert Analysis
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How The DOJ Is Redesigning Its Approach To Digital Assets
Two key digital asset enforcement policy pronouncements narrow the Justice Department's focus on threats like fraud, terrorism, trafficking and sanctions evasion and dial back so-called regulation by prosecution, but institutions prioritizing compliance must remember that the underlying statutory framework hasn't changed, say attorneys at Blank Rome.
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At 'SEC Speaks,' Leaders Frame New Views
At the Practising Law Institute's recent SEC Speaks conference, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission leadership highlighted the agency's significant priority changes, including in enforcement, crypto and artificial intelligence, say attorneys at Perkins Coie.
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The Ins And Outs Of Consensual Judicial References
As parties consider the possibility of judicial reference to resolve complex disputes, it is critical to understand how the process works, why it's gaining traction, and why carefully crafted agreements make all the difference, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Calif. Digital Assets Proposal Provides Only Partial Clarity
Recently proposed regulations under California's Digital Financial Assets Law answer some important questions about the new regime, particularly regarding its interaction with the state's money transmission law, but many key compliance questions remain, say attorneys at Stinson.
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Staying The Course Amid Seismic DOJ White Collar Changes
While some of the big changes at the U.S. Department of Justice during the second Trump administration — like an embrace of cryptocurrency and more politicized prosecutions — were expected, there have also been surprises, so practitioners should advise clients to stay focused on white collar compliance in this unpredictable environment, say attorneys at Keker.
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SpaceX Labor Suit May Bring Cosmic Jurisdictional Shifts
The National Mediation Board's upcoming decision about whether SpaceX falls under the purview of the National Labor Relations Act or the Railway Labor Act could establish how jurisdictional boundaries are determined for employers that toe the line, with tangible consequences for decades to come, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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Opinion
The BigLaw Settlements Are About Risk, Not Profit
The nine Am Law 100 firms that settled with the Trump administration likely did so because of the personal risk faced by equity partners in today's billion‑dollar national practices, enabled by an ethics rule primed for modernization, says Adam Forest at Scale.
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Current Antitrust Zeitgeist May Transcend Political Parties
The Trump administration's "America First" antitrust policy initially suggests a different approach than the Biden administration's, but closer examination reveals key parallels, including a broad focus on anticompetitive harm beyond consumer welfare and aggressive enforcement of existing laws, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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House Bill Tax Tweaks Would Hinder Renewable Projects
Provisions in the budget reconciliation bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would rapidly phase out clean energy tax credits, constrain renewable energy financing arrangements and impose sweeping restrictions on projects with foreign ties, which may create compliance and supply chain issues for many developers, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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State Tort Claims May Help Deter Bribes During FCPA Pause
As the U.S. pauses Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, companies that lose business due to competitors' bribery should consider using state tortious interference suits to expose corruption, deter illegal practices and obtain compensation for commercial losses, says Jason Manning at Levy Firestone.
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4 States' Enforcement Actions Illustrate Data Privacy Priorities
Attorneys at Wilson Elser examine recent enforcement actions based on new consumer data privacy laws by regulators in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Texas, centered around key themes, including crackdowns on dark patterns, misuse of sensitive data and failure to honor consumer rights.
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Google Ad Tech Ruling Creates Antitrust Uncertainty
A Virginia federal court’s recent decision in the Justice Department’s ad tech antitrust case against Google includes two unusual aspects in that it narrowly construed U.S. Supreme Court precedent when rejecting Google's two-sided market argument, and it found the company liable for unlawful tying, say attorneys at Ballard Spahr.
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Series
Brazilian Jiujitsu Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Competing in Brazilian jiujitsu – often against opponents who are much larger and younger than me – has allowed me to develop a handful of useful skills that foster the resilience and adaptability necessary for a successful legal career, says Tina Dorr of Barnes & Thornburg.
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Key Steps For Traversing Federal Grant Terminations
For grantees, the Trump administration’s unexpected termination or alteration of billions of dollars in federal grants across multiple agencies necessitates a thorough understanding of the legal rights and obligations involved, either in challenging such terminations or engaging in grant termination settlements and closeout procedures, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Signed, Sealed, Deleted: A Look At The California Delete Act
The California Delete Act, proposed Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform regulations, and California Privacy Protection Agency enforcement raise a number of compliance considerations — even for data brokers that have existing deletion processes in place, say attorneys at Hunton.