Compliance

  • August 04, 2025

    Ex-CNBC Pundit Gets 5 Years For $2.7M Investor Fraud

    A California federal judge sentenced former frequent CNBC guest James Arthur McDonald Jr. to five years in prison Monday for defrauding investors out of at least $2.7 million after he admitted he "betrayed" some of his close friends as part of his scam.

  • August 04, 2025

    Chemical Group Says Fluoride Judge Got It Wrong

    The American Chemistry Council told the Ninth Circuit that a California federal judge who ruled that current limits on fluoride in drinking water aren't protective enough misinterpreted the Toxic Substances Control Act and urged reversal of his decision.

  • August 04, 2025

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    Last week at the Delaware Court of Chancery, insurance brokerage and risk management giant Marsh & McLennan Cos. sought injunctive relief in a new suit accusing U.S. affiliates of London-based Howden Holdings Ltd. of a poaching scheme that involved over 100 M&M employees resigning on July 21. 

  • August 04, 2025

    FinCEN Urges Industry To Stay 'Vigilant' On Crypto ATM Fraud

    The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network on Monday cautioned about rising fraud involving crypto ATMs, saying criminals are increasingly using the kiosks to launder money and scam vulnerable consumers, especially seniors.

  • August 04, 2025

    DC Circ. Upholds FCC's Foreign Sponsorship Rule

    The D.C. Circuit upheld the Federal Communications Commission's 2024 foreign sponsorship disclosure rule for broadcasters Friday, rejecting arguments that the rule violated First Amendment speech protections and even reprimanding the premature leaking of nonpublic rulemaking details to broadcasters, calling the process a "new low" of industry capture.

  • August 04, 2025

    Boeing Settles Defunct African Airline's 737 Max Fraud Suit

    Boeing has resolved a lawsuit accusing it of duping a South African airline into purchasing faulty 737 Max jets, the parties told a Washington federal judge, ending a case marked by discovery disputes that the judge recently said had "spiraled out of control."

  • August 04, 2025

    Barnes & Thornburg Adds Leader Of FDA Practices At 2 Firms

    Barnes & Thornburg LLP has hired the former leader of both Husch Blackwell LLP and Michael Best & Friedrich LLP's U.S. Food and Drug Administration-focused practices who brings a perspective to its Washington, D.C., office that includes working at the agency for more than a decade.

  • August 04, 2025

    Cold Storage Co. Duped Investors Before 2024 IPO, Suit Says

    A pension fund has sued Lineage Inc., a cold-storage real estate investment trust, and several of its executives in Michigan federal court over the company's initial public offering, the largest of 2024, alleging the REIT and its top brass misled investors about softening demand and unsustainable pricing.

  • August 04, 2025

    Home Depot's Self-Checkout Kiosks Violate BIPA, Suit Says

    Home Depot was hit with proposed class biometric privacy claims Monday by a customer who says the facial recognition technology the retailer deploys at its self-checkout kiosks illegally scans, collects and uses consumers' geometric facial data without informed consent.

  • August 04, 2025

    Texas Bill Seeks Lower Voter-Approval Property Tax Rate

    Texas would reduce its voter-approval property tax rate, or the rate that a local government unit may adopt without voter approval, for large taxing units under a bill introduced in the state Senate.

  • August 04, 2025

    DuPont Inks $2.5B Deal With NJ Over PFAS Pollution

    E.I. du Pont de Nemours and New Jersey have reached a more than $2 billion landmark deal to remedy long-standing "forever chemical" contamination at the company's manufacturing sites across the Garden State, including a longtime facility in Salem County.

  • August 04, 2025

    UBS To Pay DOJ $300M To Settle Inherited Credit Suisse Case

    Swiss bank UBS said Monday it has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Justice $300 million to settle outstanding obligations inherited from the mortgage-backed securities business of Credit Suisse, the lender it acquired in 2023.

  • August 01, 2025

    States Can't Block Trump Admin's Cuts To Science Grants

    A Manhattan federal judge on Friday rejected a request from 16 states to block the Trump administration from cutting millions of dollars in grant funds from the National Science Foundation for scientific research and programs aimed at enhancing diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM fields and environmental justice.

  • August 01, 2025

    Meta Illegally Recorded Flo Users' Data, Calif. Jury Finds

    A California federal jury Friday found Meta Platforms Inc. liable for violating the state's wiretap law by using a data analytics tool to retrieve sensitive health data from users of the popular menstrual tracking app Flo, in what plaintiffs' counsel called "one of the first times" a major tech company has been held accountable for such practices. 

  • August 01, 2025

    Kalshi Gets Ex-Lawmakers' Backing In 3rd Circ. Betting Row

    A bipartisan group of former federal lawmakers is urging the Third Circuit to continue preventing New Jersey gambling regulators from taking action over KalshiEx's sports contracts, saying Congress intended for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to have the final say on event contracts trading on federally regulated markets.

  • August 01, 2025

    Oppenheimer Says OFAC Is Looking Into Its AML Policies

    Wall Street brokerage and investment bank Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. said Friday that the U.S. Department of the Treasury's sanctions arm is investigating its anti-money laundering compliance program.

  • August 01, 2025

    Real Estate Recap: Succession Planning, 'Build, Baby, Build'

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into how law firms are winning the succession game, and the Trump administration's efforts to cut red tape for data center projects.

  • August 01, 2025

    Azure Power Seeks Final OK Of $23M Investor Deal

    Investors of an India-based solar energy company asked a New York federal judge on Friday to grant final approval to a $23 million settlement they reached with the company and its top brass, alleging they misrepresented the company's compliance with anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws, and the methods through which the company won bids for projects.

  • August 01, 2025

    9th Circ. Sees 'Everest-Like' Preemption For Credit Union Fees

    A Ninth Circuit panel on Friday rejected a consumer's bid to revive his California class action claims over bounced-check fees at Navy Federal Credit Union, ruling that federal credit unions are exempt from state laws that regulate account fees.

  • August 01, 2025

    DC Circ. Upholds FERC's Limited Review Of Texas Pipeline

    The D.C. Circuit on Friday backed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision to limit its review of a Texas pipeline to a 1,000-foot section near the U.S.-Mexico border, saying the agency had reasonably explained why a broader review wasn't required.

  • August 01, 2025

    9th Circ. Partially Revives Child Porn Victims' Suit Against X

    The Ninth Circuit on Friday partially revived a lawsuit brought by 13-year-old boys who had been sex trafficked alleging X Corp. refused to remove pornographic videos of them, saying Section 230 shields the social media platform from claims it knowingly benefited from sex trafficking, but not from negligence and defective-reporting design claims.

  • August 01, 2025

    GOP Reps Eye Reforms To Landmark Bank Data Privacy Law

    Republican lawmakers have kicked off a review that could lay the groundwork for new financial data privacy legislation, soliciting public input on whether and how to overhaul a law that governs financial institutions' handling of consumer financial records.

  • August 01, 2025

    AGs Sue Trump Over 'Onslaught Of Pressure' On Trans Care

    The Trump administration has improperly "weaponized" federal laws against drug misbranding, false claims and female genital mutilation as part of a pressure campaign to undermine state protections for gender-affirming care, a coalition of state attorneys general argued in a new suit Friday.

  • August 01, 2025

    SEC To Explore Internal Use Of AI With New Task Force

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that it plans to ramp up its internal use of artificial intelligence tools with a new task force led by a veteran staffer who's recently led the agency's fintech efforts.

  • August 01, 2025

    Calif. Tribe Can't Halt Tobacco Ruling Amid Ninth Circuit Fight

    A California federal court won't order the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to remove the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians from a noncompliance list over the alleged sale of cigarettes to non-Native customers while the tribe appeals the decision to the Ninth Circuit.

Expert Analysis

  • Arguing The 8th Amendment For Reduction In FCA Penalties

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    While False Claims Act decisions lack consistency in how high the judgment-to-damages ratio in such cases can be before it becomes unconstitutional, defense counsel should cite the Eighth Amendment's excessive fines clause in pre-trial settlement negotiations, and seek penalty decreases in post-judgment motions and on appeal, says Scott Grubman at Chilivis Grubman.

  • Business Takeaways Following CCPA Enforcement Actions

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    Advisories and recent enforcement activity by the California Privacy Protection Agency against Honda and Todd Snyder underscore the agency's enforcement interest in the intersection of data minimization and consumer rights, and could make it more challenging for a business to provide a streamlined consumer rights process, say attorneys at Covington.

  • Compliance Lessons From 1st-Ever Product Safety Sentences

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    A California federal judge’s recent sentencing of two former Gree USA executives in a landmark Consumer Product Safety Act case serves as a reminder of the federal government’s willingness to pursue criminal prosecution of individuals who fail to report safety hazards, as well as companies’ need to strengthen their reporting and compliance programs, say attorneys at Cooley.

  • GENIUS Act Creates 'Commodity' Uncertainty For Stablecoins

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    Half a century ago, Congress made trading in onion futures on commodity exchanges unlawful, and payment stablecoins could soon face a similarly unstable fate in the markets as the GENIUS Act heads to the president's desk for signature, says Peter Malyshev at Cadwalader.

  • 9th Circ. Decisions Help Clarify Scope Of Legal Lab Marketing

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    Two Ninth Circuit decisions last week provide a welcome development in clarifying the line between laboratories' legal marketing efforts and undue influence that violates the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, and offer useful guidance for labs seeking to mitigate enforcement risk, says Joshua Robbins at Buchalter.

  • $95M Caremark Verdict Should Put PBMs On Notice

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    A Pennsylvania federal judge’s recent ruling that pharmacy benefits manager CVS Caremark owes the government $95 million for overbilling Medicare Part D-sponsored drugs highlights the effectiveness of the False Claims Act, as scrutiny of PBMs’ outsized role in setting drug prices continues to increase, say attorneys at Duane Morris.

  • Cos. Face Convergence Of Anti-Terrorism Act, FCPA Risks

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    Recent moves by the U.S. Department of Justice to classify cartels and transnational criminal organizations as terrorist groups, and to use a range of statutes including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act to pursue these types of targets, mean that companies operating in certain jurisdictions are now subject to overlapping exposure, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.

  • Unpacking Enforcement Challenges Of DOJ's Bulk Data Rule

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    Now fully effective, the U.S. Department of Justice's new data security program represents the U.S.' first data localization requirement ripe for enforcement, but its implementation faces substantial practical challenges that may hinder the DOJ's ability for wide-ranging or swift action, say attorneys at Cleary.

  • Feds' Shift On Reputational Risk Raises Questions For Banks

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    While banking regulators' recent retreat from reputational risk narrows the scope of federal oversight in some respects, it also raises practical questions about consistency, reputational management and the evolving political landscape surrounding financial services, say attorneys at Smith Anderson.

  • Nuclear Stakeholders Must Prepare For Cyber Threats

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    As the White House signals its support for a revival of nuclear power to supply the power needs of data centers and the artificial intelligence industry, investors and operators must keep in mind that safeguarding nuclear infrastructure from evolving cyber threats will be essential, say attorneys at A&O Shearman.

  • Series

    Playing Mah-Jongg Makes Me A Better Mediator

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    Mah-jongg rewards patience, pattern recognition, adaptability and keen observation, all skills that are invaluable to my role as a mediator, and to all mediating parties, says Marina Corodemus.

  • FTC Staff Cuts Unlikely To Curb Antitrust Enforcement Agenda

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    While Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson's recent commitment to reducing agency staff may seem at odds with the Trump administration's commitment to antitrust enforcement, a closer analysis shows that such reductions have little chance of derailing the president's efforts, say attorneys at Squire Patton.

  • Diversity, Equity, Indictment? Contractor Risks After Kousisis

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    The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Kousisis v. U.S. decision, holding that economic loss is not required to sustain wire fraud charges related to fraudulent inducement, may extend criminal liability to government contractors that make false diversity, equity and inclusion certifications, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Navigating Client Trauma

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    Law schools don't train students to handle repeated exposure to clients' traumatic experiences, but for litigators practicing in areas like civil rights and personal injury, success depends on the ability to view cases clinically and to recognize when you may need to seek help, says Katie Bennett at Robins Kaplan.

  • What To Expect As UK, US Gov'ts Develop Stablecoin Policies

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    While the U.K. and U.S. governments’ policies both suggest that fiat-backed stablecoins can improve efficiency and safety in payments systems, a perception that crypto-assets remain high risk means consumers are unlikely to use them in significant volume anytime soon, say lawyers at Cadwalader.

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