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June 18, 2025
Texas Judge Vacates Biden-Era HHS Abortion Privacy Rule
A Texas federal judge on Thursday agreed to vacate a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rule finalized during the Biden administration that aimed to protect the privacy of patients seeking abortions and gender-affirming care, ruling that the HHS didn't have the authority to "fashion special protections" in areas of "great political significance."
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June 18, 2025
Sens., AGs Unite To Raise Alarm On State AI Moratorium
A sweeping proposal being considered by Congress to strip states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence for a decade would do more harm than good, especially if there continues to be no similar protections in place at the federal level, a bipartisan quartet of U.S. senators and state attorneys general said Wednesday.
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June 18, 2025
Groups Say Feds Violate Flores With Lengthy Child Detention
Children's and legal rights groups on Tuesday evening urged a California federal judge to enforce a decadesold settlement agreement governing the custody of immigrant children, saying migrant children today are being held for prolonged periods in unsafe and unsanitary "prison-like" conditions.
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June 18, 2025
Tesla Says Justices Shouldn't Wait On La. Auto Sales Law
Tesla is asking the U.S. Supreme Court not to push off considering Louisiana regulators' petition seeking to appeal the revival of a lawsuit brought by the electric-car maker targeting the state's ban on direct sales by automakers, even though the state has asked the justices to wait.
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June 18, 2025
Alphabet, Investors Face Judge's Questions Over $500M Deal
A California federal judge has questions about an investor settlement with Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., which agreed to earmark half a billion dollars over the next 10 years to overhaul its global compliance structure to resolve claims against company leaders of anticompetitive and monopolistic practices.
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June 18, 2025
Toyota Says DOJ Has Closed Thai Bribery Probe
Toyota said Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice has closed a long-running Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigation concerning allegations of bribery at its Thai subsidiary, the latest such probe to be dropped under the Trump administration.
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June 18, 2025
Mississippi Social Media Law Blocked Again By Federal Judge
A Mississippi federal judge reinstated a preliminary injunction Wednesday that blocks a state law requiring digital service providers to verify users' ages and social media platforms to acquire parental consent for a minor's account, preventing it from taking effect after the Fifth Circuit lifted the court's previous injunction.
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June 18, 2025
OCC Orders Earnings, Strategy Overhaul For 'Troubled' Carver
Carver Federal Savings Bank, one of the nation's largest Black-led banks, has agreed to undertake new strategic planning and efforts to improve its earnings in response to regulatory concerns flagged by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
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June 18, 2025
NY Prosecutors Seize Crypto Linked To Social Media Scams
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday said her office and the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office collaborated to seize and freeze $440,000 worth of cryptocurrency that was stolen via Facebook scams targeting Russian-speaking communities in the city and beyond.
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June 18, 2025
Super Micro Can't Ditch Whistleblower Retaliation Suit
Super Micro Computer cannot escape its former employee's claim that the information technology company unlawfully retaliated against him for acting as a whistleblower to report its misleading accounting practices and other misconduct, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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June 18, 2025
AI Software Co. Cerence's Leaders Beat Shareholder Suit
A Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday tossed a consolidated derivative shareholder suit against the top brass of artificial intelligence software company Cerence Inc. over its revenue reporting, saying the plaintiffs did not make a presuit demand on the company's board and have failed to show that such a demand would have been futile.
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June 18, 2025
4th Circ. Backs Ban On Handgun Sales To Young Adults
A Fourth Circuit panel upheld a set of federal laws barring licensed firearm dealers from selling handguns to 18- to 20-year-olds Wednesday, reversing lower court decisions in Virginia and West Virginia in a split decision.
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June 18, 2025
US Seizes $225M In Crypto Tied To 'Pig Butchering' Schemes
Law enforcement on Wednesday asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to help it return more than $225.3 million worth of stolen digital assets to victims of phony crypto investment schemes, including to a small Kansas bank that failed after its CEO got entangled in a so-called pig butchering scheme, as part of what the U.S. Department of Justice called its largest ever seizure connected with such scams.
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June 18, 2025
Dealmakers Eye More Crypto-Targeted SPAC Mergers
More special purpose acquisition companies plan to seize upon the revival of cryptocurrencies under a second Trump administration and take cryptocurrency-related ventures public in the coming months, an attorney told a gathering of dealmakers on Wednesday.
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June 18, 2025
9th Circ. Tosses NLRB Order On Union Jurisdiction Dispute
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday axed a National Labor Relations Board order barring a longshore union from going after maintenance work in the Port of Seattle that was awarded to the Machinists, with one judge inviting en banc review of appeals court precedent about work preservation defenses.
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June 18, 2025
GM Hit With New Class Action Over V8 Engine Defect
General Motors LLC misled consumers by knowingly selling hundreds of thousands of SUVs and trucks with potentially deadly defective engines that could suddenly fail, according to a proposed class action filed Wednesday in Michigan federal court.
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June 18, 2025
Ga. Court Backs Dismissal Of Hemp Farm's Drug Raid Suit
A Georgia appellate panel has said that state law enforcement cannot be held liable for allegedly damaging tens of thousands of dollars worth of product at a hemp farm, ruling that the Georgia Department of Public Safety was wholly shielded by sovereign immunity.
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June 18, 2025
Fed. Circ. OKs How Commerce Filled Blank In Steel Duty Case
The U.S. Department of Commerce may apply adverse facts to a company that fails to propose reasonable alternatives for collecting information that would be unreasonably hard to obtain in an antidumping investigation, the Federal Circuit said in a precedential opinion upholding steel duties on German companies.
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June 18, 2025
AG Paxton Says Austin Bank Contract Violates 2021 Gun Law
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is giving the city of Austin a month to cure a contract that he says violates a 2021 law preventing government entities from doing business with companies that discriminate against companies involved in the firearm industry.
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June 18, 2025
FTC, Amazon Trade Blows Over Attempts To End Prime Case
The Federal Trade Commission and Amazon have slammed one another in federal court filings over their competing bids to win regulators' case targeting Prime subscription enrollment practices, continuing to spar over the applicability of a consumer protection law shielding online shoppers.
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June 18, 2025
Trump Set To Delay TikTok Sale-Or-Ban Deadline For 3rd Time
President Donald Trump is planning to extend for an additional 90 days a looming deadline for TikTok to cut ties with its Chinese parent company or face a nationwide ban, according to the White House, which said that the administration would use the extra time to finalize a deal to keep the popular social media app from going dark.
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June 18, 2025
NY Tribe Looks To Block Long Island Town Code Enforcement
A Long Island tribe is asking a New York federal court to block the Town of Southampton from imposing its municipal codes on 84 acres of their lands, saying its officials are attempting to prevent them from using the site for economic gain.
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June 18, 2025
Tenn. School Sues Vet Group Over Accreditation Rules
Lincoln Memorial University filed a lawsuit in Tennessee federal court on Wednesday accusing a trade association for veterinarians of restricting competition for veterinary schools and vet services with burdensome accreditation requirements.
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June 18, 2025
Judge Skeptical That Assa Abloy Needn't Extend Supply Deal
A D.C. federal judge suggested Tuesday that Assa Abloy faces an uphill fight resisting efforts by its divestiture buyer to extend a supply agreement inked as part of an asset sale deal resolving a U.S. Department of Justice merger lawsuit.
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June 18, 2025
Union Urges Del. Justices To Refloat BofA Benefit Card Suit
Delaware's chief justice pressed an attorney for Bank of America stockholders Wednesday to "drill down to the bad faith" during an appeal for revival of a Chancery Court suit accusing the company of intentionally prioritizing profits over compliance in managing unemployment benefit cards during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Expert Analysis
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Teaching College Students Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins.
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5 Areas Contractors Should Watch After 1st 100 Days
Federal agencies and contractors face challenges from staff reductions, contract terminations, pending regulatory reform and other actions from the second Trump administration's first 100 days, but other areas stand to become more efficient and cost-effective, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.
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Planning For Open Banking Despite CFPB Uncertainty
Though pending litigation or new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau leadership may reshape the Biden-era regulation governing access to consumer financial data, companies can use this uncertain period to take practical steps toward an open banking strategy that will work regardless of the rule’s ultimate form, says Adam Maarec at McGlinchey Stafford.
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A New Tool For Assessing Kickback Risks In Health Marketing
The Seventh Circuit's recent decision in U.S. v. Sorensen, reversing a conviction after trial of a durable medical equipment distributor, highlights two principle considerations for determining whether payments to marketers in healthcare are unlawful under the Anti-Kickback Statute, says Elisha Kobre at Sheppard Mullin.
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Crunching The Numbers Of Trump SEC's 1st 100 Days
During the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission brought significantly fewer stand-alone enforcement actions than at the beginning of the Biden and the first Trump administrations, with every one of the federal court complaints including allegations of fraudulent conduct, say attorneys at Dentons.
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Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Enviro To Mid-Law
Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond.
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Independent Contractor Rule Up In The Air Under New DOL
In several recent court challenges, the U.S. Department of Labor has indicated its intent to revoke the 2024 independent contractor rule, sending a clear signal that it will not defend the Biden-era rule on the merits in anticipation of further rulemaking, say attorneys at Jackson Lewis.
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AG Watch: Letitia James' Major Influence On Federal Litigation
While the multistate cases brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James appear to be based upon her interpretation of the effect of the Trump administration's policies on New York state and its residents, most also have a decidedly political tone to them, says Dennis Vacco at Lippes Mathias.
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Why Trade Cases May Put Maple Leaf Deference On Review
When litigation challenging the president’s trade actions reaches the Federal Circuit, the court will have to reevaluate the Maple Leaf standard in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 Loper Bright decision limiting Chevron-like deference to cases involving statutory provisions in which Congress delegated discretionary authority to the executive branch, say attorneys at Wiley.
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Risk Control Tips For Banks With Cryptocurrency Customers
Given federal policy shifts, cryptocurrency's presence within the U.S. banking system will doubtless increase, so banks should keep in mind key risk control considerations when accepting funds related to cryptocurrency transactions — and make sure they know their customers and the crypto industry, says Jason Noto at Polsinelli.
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A Look At Probabilistic Tracing After High Court's Slack Ruling
Recent decisions following the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 ruling in Slack v. Pirani have increased the difficulty of pleading Securities Act claims for securities issued in direct listings by rejecting the use of statistical probabilities to establish that share purchases were traceable to a challenged registration statement, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.
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3 Change Management Tools To Boost Compliance Efforts
As companies grapple with rapidly changing regulations and expectations, leaders charged with implementing their organizations’ compliance programs should look to change management principles to make the process less costly and more effective, says Liisa Thomas at Sheppard Mullin.
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How Trump Orders Affect Health Orgs.' Care For Trans Minors
Two recent executive orders issued by President Donald Trump regarding gender-affirming care for minors have put healthcare organizations in a precarious situation, and these institutions should prepare for various implications and potential scenarios, say attorneys at ArentFox.
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FDIC Rules Rollback Foretells More Pro-Industry Changes
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s March withdrawal of Biden-era proposals to tighten brokered deposit rules and impose new corporate governance standards shows that acting chair Travis Hill’s commitment to reviewing regulations that may restrict growth and innovation for financial institution and fintech companies is unlikely to flag soon, say attorneys at Cooley.
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DOJ Memo Maps Out A Lighter Touch For Digital Assets
A recent memo issued by the Justice Department signals a less aggressive approach toward the digital asset industry, with notable directives including disbandment of the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, a higher evidentiary bar for unlicensed money transmitting, and prosecutions of individuals rather than platforms, say attorneys at Cleary.