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July 29, 2025
Brokerage Owner Says NAR Dues Policy Hurts Competition
The owner of a Modesto, California, residential sales brokerage urged a California federal court to not toss his antitrust suit challenging dues created by the National Association of Realtors and enforced by affiliated Realtor associations, arguing that he has Article III standing for his claims and that he was significantly harmed by the dues policy.
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July 29, 2025
Convicted Crypto CEO Tied To Abramoff Gets 7-Year Sentence
A California federal judge Tuesday sentenced a cryptocurrency company founder who committed a multimillion-dollar fraud in a scheme also involving disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff to seven years imprisonment — less than the 17 years prosecutors sought — in light of the man's childhood trauma, mental health and lack of criminal history.
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July 29, 2025
Sens. Introduce Aviation Safety Bill 6 Months After DCA Crash
Republican senators introduced legislation Tuesday that would mandate aircraft-tracking technology in civilian and military aircraft, alongside fresh audits of Federal Aviation Administration and U.S. Army practices, six months after January's deadly midair collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet near Washington, D.C.
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July 29, 2025
EEOC Retreat On Trans Bias Enforcement Illegal, Suit Says
A Maryland-based LGBTQ+ advocacy organization alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday that recent steps taken by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to walk back enforcement of protections against sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination violate federal civil rights law and the U.S. Constitution.
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July 29, 2025
EPA Proposes Ditching GHG Danger Finding In Tailpipe Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed repealing an Obama-era finding that greenhouse gases endanger people's health and all vehicle emissions standards that relied upon that finding.
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July 29, 2025
Ford Settles Proposed Class Action Over Emissions Warranty
Ford has settled a putative class action accusing it of violating the unfair competition law by failing to provide an emissions warranty for Golden State drivers whose vehicle transmissions weren't covered for seven years or 70,000 miles, according to a notice filed in California federal court.
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July 29, 2025
Calif. Privacy Agency Fines Data Broker For Skirting Registry
The California Privacy Protection Agency on Tuesday announced its latest enforcement action under a groundbreaking state data deletion law, imposing a more than $55,000 fine on a Washington-based data broker on allegations it failed to fulfill its registration obligations last year.
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July 29, 2025
USDA Seeks End To Pa. Suit Over $13M Food Aid Cut
The U.S. Department of Agriculture wants a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania's governor accusing the USDA of haphazardly cutting off $13 million in food aid that supports local farmers.
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July 29, 2025
Guests Defend Luxury Hotel Info Exchange Claims
Guests targeting luxury hotel chains for using software provided by Amadeus IT Group to exchange occupancy information told an Illinois federal court the chains have used the software platform to raise room rates in local areas across the country.
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July 29, 2025
Oft-Penalized Deutsche Bank Finds New GC From Freshfields
Deutsche Bank AG on Tuesday said a senior partner at Freshfields LLP who specializes in corporate criminal defense will become its new general counsel on Sept. 15.
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July 29, 2025
DOJ's Top Antitrust Deputy, Merger Chief Both Fired
The U.S. Department of Justice has ousted two of its top Antitrust Division officials, citing insubordination amid growing signs of tension between merger enforcers and the wider Trump administration.
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July 29, 2025
SEC, Crypto Bank Veteran Joins DeFi Platform As GC
A former senior attorney with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, who most recently served as cryptocurrency bank Anchorage Digital's general counsel, is taking her experience navigating federal regulations and institutional demands to decentralized finance infrastructure platform Veda, the firm announced Tuesday.
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July 29, 2025
Calif. Allows Retroactive Tax Exclusion For Solar Property
California will allow the purchaser of a new property a three-year window to apply for a property tax exclusion for solar energy systems under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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July 29, 2025
What To Watch As Deadline Looms For Jay Clayton At SDNY
The clock is ticking closer to the expiration of Jay Clayton's appointment as interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, setting him on a likely collision course with the district's judges, who have the power to vote on whether he can continue overseeing one of the top prosecutorial offices in the country.
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July 29, 2025
Ark. Law Banning PBM-Owned Pharmacies Put On Ice
Arkansas can't enforce a law banning pharmacy benefit managers from owning pharmacies in the state, a federal judge ruled, saying that CVS, Express Scripts, Optum and a trade group are likely to succeed on their claims that the statute unlawfully restricts interstate commerce.
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July 29, 2025
9th Circ. Clarifies Kickback Boundaries For Referral Bonuses
A Ninth Circuit opinion affirming a California man's fraud conviction provides some clarity — and a warning — to the owners of medical testing laboratories wondering what sales tactics are allowed under a 2018 kickbacks law.
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July 29, 2025
Federal Cuts Shake Up Clinical Research Funding Landscape
As the Trump administration makes deep cuts to clinical research funding, healthcare attorneys worry that the delicate balance between federal grants and private investment is at risk. Crowell & Moring LLP partner Linda Malek talks to Law360 Healthcare Authority about the industry's concerns.
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July 29, 2025
Top Gov't Contract Policies Of 2025: Midyear Report
The Trump administration made several prominent policy moves affecting contractors this year, including rescinding Biden-era policies related to pay equity and DEI, and pushing to overhaul the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Here, Law360 examines significant policy changes from the first half of 2025 that will affect government contractors.
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July 28, 2025
Apache Women Look To Block Arizona Site's Destruction
A group of Apache women are looking to block the federal government from transferring their Arizona worship site to a copper mining company, telling a D.C. federal court they will be unable to practice and pass down their religion if the site is destroyed.
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July 28, 2025
EXp Holdings Accused Of 'Bad Faith Inaction' In Del. Suit
An attorney for stockholders of real estate brokerage eXp World Holdings Inc. told Delaware's chancellor Monday the company's response to long-running sexual assault allegations was an example of "bad faith inaction" rather than good faith responses.
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July 28, 2025
Cadence To Pay $140M For Illegal Chip Design Exports To China
Semiconductor technology company Cadence Design Systems agreed to pay over $140 million and plead guilty to criminal conspiracy to commit export control violations to resolve charges that it exported semiconductor design tools to a restricted Chinese military university, U.S. Department of Justice officials announced Monday.
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July 28, 2025
SEC Pushes $630K Penalty Against Atty In Stock Fraud Suit
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission renewed its motion Monday for a more than $630,000 civil penalty and final judgment against securities attorney Henry Sargent, after years of litigation in Massachusetts federal court alleging he orchestrated a sham merger, saying Sargent "has never recognized the wrongfulness of his conduct."
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July 28, 2025
Amazon Says Geostationary Satellites Causing Interference
Amazon is asking the Federal Communications Commission to stop authorizing new geostationary satellite operators in the non-geostationary satellite primary bands, complaining that geostationary operators are haphazardly using the spectrum designated for operators like Amazon's planned Kuiper constellation and causing interference.
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July 28, 2025
Midband Spectrum Set-Aside Needed For Telemetry, FCC Told
As the Federal Communications Commission considers shutting down more than 2,000 regulatory dockets that have become dormant, it shouldn't have its eye on a rulemaking aimed at setting aside midband airways for the aeronautical mobile telemetry, a defense contractor says.
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July 28, 2025
Rincon Band Says NEPA Reform Proposal Is Bad Idea
The Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians says projects under the FCC's jurisdiction have historically "failed to adequately identify and assess historic properties of cultural and religious significance to Tribal Nations" and a proposal to loosen National Environmental Policy Act rules will make things only worse.
Expert Analysis
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Performing As A Clown Makes Me A Better Lawyer
To say that being a clown in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade has changed my legal career would truly be an understatement — by creating an opening to converse on a unique topic, it has allowed me to connect with clients, counsel and even judges on a deeper level, says Charles Tatelbaum at Tripp Scott.
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Focusing On Fluoride: From FDA To Class Action
A class action filed two days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced plans to remove ingestible fluoride prescription drug products for children from the market may be the tip of the iceberg in terms of the connection between government pronouncements on safety and their immediate use as evidence in lawsuits, says Rachel Turow at Skadden.
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A Guide To Permanent Capital Vehicles As Access Widens
Recent regulatory and legislative actions are making it easier for retail investors to access permanent capital vehicles like closed-end, interval, tender offer and open-end funds, which each offer distinct advantages that are important to review, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.
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The CFTC Is Shaking Up Sports Betting's Legal Future
The sports betting industry faces a potential sea change amid recent state and federal actions across the regulatory landscape that have expanded access to sporting event contracts against the backdrop of waning Commodity Futures Trading Commission opposition, says Nick Covek at Foley & Lardner.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Rejecting Biz Dev Myths
Law schools don’t spend sufficient time dispelling certain myths that prevent young lawyers from exploring new business opportunities, but by dismissing these misguided beliefs, even an introverted first-year associate with a small network of contacts can find long-term success, says Ronald Levine at Herrick Feinstein.
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DOJ Has Deep Toolbox For Corporate Immigration Violations
With the U.S. Department of Justice now offering rewards to whistleblowers who report businesses that employ unauthorized workers, companies should understand the immigration enforcement landscape and how they can reduce their risk, say attorneys at McDermott.
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Trade In Limbo: The Legal Storm Reshaping Trump's Tariffs
In the final days of May, decisions in two significant court actions upended the tariff and trade landscape, so until the U.S. Supreme Court rules, businesses and supply chains should expect tariffs to remain in place, and for the Trump administration to continue pursuing and enforcing all available trade policies, say attorneys at Ice Miller.
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Speech Protection Questions In AI Case Raise Liability Risk
A Florida federal court's recent landmark ruling in Garcia v. Character Technologies, rejecting artificial intelligence developers' efforts to shield themselves from product liability and wrongful death claims under the First Amendment, challenges the assumption that chatbot outputs qualify as speech, and may redefine AI regulation and litigation nationally, says Peter Gregory at Goldberg Segalla.
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Move Beyond Surface-Level Edits To Master Legal Writing
Recent instances in which attorneys filed briefs containing artificial intelligence hallucinations offer a stark reminder that effective revision isn’t just about superficial details like grammar — it requires attorneys to critically engage with their writing and analyze their rhetorical choices, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.
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3 Rulings May Reveal Next Frontier Of Gov't Contract Cases
Several U.S. Supreme Court decisions over the past year — involving wire fraud, gratuities and obstruction — offer wide-ranging and arguably conflicting takeaways for government contractors that are especially relevant given the Trump administration’s focus on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, say attorneys at Rogers Joseph.
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How Ore. Law Puts New Confines On Corp. Health Ownership
A newly enacted law in Oregon strengthens the state’s restrictions on corporate ownership of healthcare practices, with new limitations on overlapping control, permissible services, restrictive covenants and more making it necessary for practices to review decades-old physician practice arrangements, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Early Trends In Proxy Exclusion After SEC Relaxes Guidance
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s recent guidance broadening shareholder proposal exclusion under Rule 14a-8 has been undoubtedly useful to issuers this proxy season, but it does not guarantee exclusion, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Best Practices For State Banks Eyeing Federal Conversions
Amid a notable uptick — fueled by ongoing regulatory upheaval — in state-chartered banks exploring conversion to national bank charters, banks contemplating the decision should weigh the benefits, like uniform supervision, and potential impediments, like costly exam fees, say attorneys at Skadden.
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9th Circ. Has Muddied Waters Of Article III Pleading Standard
District courts in the Ninth Circuit continue to apply a defunct and especially forgiving pleading standard to questions of Article III standing, and the circuit court itself has only perpetuated this confusion — making it an attractive forum for disputes that have no rightful place in federal court, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.
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An Underused Tariff Exemption For Medical Product Importers
Medical device importers may be able to reduce tariff exposure by leveraging an often-overlooked Nairobi Protocol duty exemption for products specially designed to benefit those with qualifying medical conditions, says Samuel Finkelstein at LMD Trade Law.