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December 17, 2025
Trump Admin Asks Fed Whether It's Back In The Black
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday asked the Federal Reserve to confirm whether it has returned to profitability, a potential opening for the Trump administration to draw new funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after insisting none is available.
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December 17, 2025
9th Circ. Affirms DHS Officers' Fast-Track Removal Authority
A Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday upheld the denial of a Mexican citizen's bid to toss illegal reentry charges, rejecting arguments that a U.S. Department of Homeland Security "deciding service officer" unconstitutionally ordered his removal, while also clarifying that such officers who issue fast-track removal orders aren't subject to the U.S. Constitution's appointments clause.
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December 17, 2025
States, Groups Urge DC Circ. To Preserve EPA Soot Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's request that the D.C. Circuit vacate a Biden-era soot rule is legally untenable and should be rejected, Democrat-led states and cities, along with health and environmental groups, told the court.
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December 17, 2025
SEC Again Flags Adviser Testimonials, Ratings In Marketing
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Examinations has again flagged advisers' disclosures regarding their use of testimonials, endorsements and third-party ratings in advertisements, saying staff have observed noncompliance with commission rules in those areas.
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December 17, 2025
Lawmakers Raise Concerns Over Nexstar's $6.2B Tegna Deal
A group of Democratic lawmakers has urged federal enforcers to closely scrutinize Nexstar Media Group Inc.'s planned $6.2 billion purchase of rival broadcast company Tegna Inc. and to block the deal if they find it violates the law.
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December 17, 2025
DC Circ. Grants En Banc Hearing On CFPB Layoff Plan
Additional D.C. Circuit judges will get to weigh in on the Trump administration's bid to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through mass layoffs, after the appeals court granted the agency's employees' union an en banc rehearing on a lower court's injunction stopping the firings.
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December 17, 2025
Senate Dems, FCC Tangle Over Agency's 'Independent' Status
The Federal Communications Commission's Republican chair faced off Wednesday against Senate Democrats, who accused him of trying to muffle dissenting political views and gutting the telecommunications regulator's longstanding independence.
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December 17, 2025
10th Circ. Panel Restores $2.9M FINRA Award Against Adviser
A Tenth Circuit panel on Wednesday reinstated a $2.9 million Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration award against a financial adviser who allegedly undermined a firm she worked for, ruling that she waived any objections she had to arbitrating with the plaintiffs before FINRA.
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December 17, 2025
20 States Back 10th Circ. Rehearing In Colo. Interest Rate Row
Utah has led a group of 20 states in backing a push by banking groups for a full Tenth Circuit rehearing of their challenge to a Colorado law intended to curb high-cost lending in the state, saying a recent panel decision upholding the law harms states' interests.
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December 17, 2025
Energy Dept. Orders Wash. Coal Plant To Remain Open
The U.S. Department of Energy has ordered Washington's sole coal-fired power plant to remain open through March 2026, despite a state law that requires utilities to stop using coal-fired electricity by year's end.
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December 17, 2025
SEC Sues Over Alleged $48M Bitcoin Mining Fraud
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, accusing the former CEO of a bitcoin mining company of misappropriating $48.5 million in investor funds before fleeing the country once he learned he was under SEC investigation.
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December 17, 2025
Ex-Atlanta Hawks Exec Pleads Guilty In $3.8M Fraud Case
A former finance executive with the NBA's Atlanta Hawks pled guilty to wire fraud Tuesday, striking a deal to resolve a case in which federal prosecutors accused him of embezzling more than $3.9 million from the team.
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December 17, 2025
Ex-Conn. Official Denied Hearing On Juror's Media Comment
A former Connecticut schools construction official did not provide enough justification to warrant a post-conviction hearing to probe whether jurors were forthcoming about their exposure to press coverage of his public corruption case, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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December 17, 2025
Amazon Charged Too Much Sales Tax, Tenn. Consumer Claims
Amazon has been hit with a proposed class action in Washington state court by a Tennessee customer who claims the e-commerce giant collected excessive sales tax on his purchases and then refused to refund him, in violation of Volunteer State tax law that holds "marketplace facilitators" responsible for charging the correct rate.
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December 17, 2025
Union, Voter Group Seek To Join DOJ Election Records Case
A union local, an affiliate and a Black voters advocacy group urged a federal court Tuesday to let them intervene in a U.S. Department of Justice suit seeking election records from Fulton County, Georgia, arguing the DOJ is trying to boost conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election.
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December 17, 2025
Braidwood Asks For Judgment In ACA Preventive Care Fight
Christian-owned, for-profit management company Braidwood Management Inc. asked a Texas federal judge Tuesday to end its challenge to an Affordable Care Act provision that requires coverage of lung cancer screenings and preexposure prophylaxis for HIV/AIDS, citing a U.S. Supreme Court finding upholding the provision.
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December 17, 2025
DOJ Says Live Nation Can't Avoid Jury In Antitrust Case
The Justice Department wants a New York federal judge to force Live Nation to face a jury next year on allegations it bought, coerced and leveraged its way to live performance dominance, arguing in a newly unsealed brief that there are too many factual disputes to upstage the lawsuit.
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December 17, 2025
CFTC's Pham Will Head To Crypto Co. MoonPay After Exit
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's acting Chair Caroline Pham is set to join cryptocurrency payments firm MoonPay as its top lawyer following her impending departure from the commission, MoonPay announced Wednesday.
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December 17, 2025
NC Panel Revives Part Of Solar Co. Ex-Atty's Sex Bias Suit
A North Carolina attorney can proceed with a piece of her lawsuit alleging a solar company discriminated against her based on sex while she served in a senior legal role, after a state appeals court revived one of her claims Wednesday.
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December 17, 2025
Trump Admin's BEAD Redo Subject To Hill Review, GAO Says
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has ruled that Congress can review the Trump administration's sweeping revision of rules covering a $42.5 billion broadband deployment program.
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December 17, 2025
Full DC Circ. Blocks EPA From Freezing Grants
The D.C. Circuit on Wednesday reversed an order issued by a panel of its own judges and reinstated a federal district court's order that blocked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from freezing grants designated for climate change projects.
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December 17, 2025
Mass. Court Orders GPS Monitoring Review For Sex Offender
A Massachusetts man sentenced to 10 years in prison and 10 years probation with location monitoring after sexually abusing his children has the right to challenge the reasonableness of the duration of his tracking, the state's highest court said Wednesday, vacating a lower court's denial of his request.
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December 17, 2025
Treasury Issues Final Rule On BEAT For Securities Lending
Taxpayers must determine and account for certain qualified derivative payments linked to securities-lending transactions when calculating payments covered by the base erosion and anti-abuse tax, according to a final rule released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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December 17, 2025
Nikola Founder's Suit Against CNBC Time-Barred, Panel Says
Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton's trade libel claims against CNBC and short‑seller Hindenburg Research are actually defamation claims and time-barred, a New Jersey appellate panel said in a decision tossing the suit and awarding the defendants attorney fees.
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December 17, 2025
Mich. Tribe Fights Feds' High Court Protest In Fishing Suit
The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians says four of its fellow Michigan tribes and the federal government are "conjuring vehicle problems" from a dispute over a decades-old Great Lakes fishing compact, telling the U.S. Supreme Court that none of their arguments warrant denying its petition.
Expert Analysis
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How Cos. Can Roll With NY's New Algorithmic Pricing Rules
Despite uncertainty from New York’s new ban on artificial intelligence and computer algorithms for setting rents, and efforts to further restrict individualizing prices based on consumers' personal data, property managers, software providers and merchants can take several steps to stay compliant, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Practical Problem Solving
Issue-spotting skills are well honed in law school, but practicing attorneys must also identify clients’ problems and true goals, and then be able to provide solutions, says Mary Kate Hogan at Quarles & Brady.
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Crypto In 2025: From Federal Deregulation To State Action
The cryptocurrency enforcement landscape evolved in 2025, marked by federal deregulatory trends and active state attorney general enforcement, creating both opportunity and risk for businesses navigating the digital asset market, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.
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How CFTC Enforcement Shifted In 2025 And What's Next
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission pivoted sharply under acting Chairman Caroline Pham in 2025, resulting in a pared-back enforcement docket, sweeping policy changes intended to provide greater transparency, and a renewed focus on fraud prevention and maintaining market integrity for the CFTC's core markets, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.
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Learning From 2025 FCA Trends Targeting PE In Healthcare
False Claims Act enforcement trends and legislative developments from this year signal intensifying state and federal scrutiny of private equity's growing footprint in healthcare, and the urgency of compliance, says Lisa Re at Arnold & Porter.
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Reviewing 2025's State And Federal AI Regulations
In light of increasing state and federal action to oversee the use of artificial intelligence, companies that develop or deploy the technology should keep abreast of current and forthcoming AI laws and consider their applicability to their business activities, says Jessica Brigman at Spencer Fane.
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How Workforce, Tech Will Affect 2026 Construction Landscape
As the construction industry's center of gravity shifts from traditional commercial work to infrastructure, energy, industrial and data-hosting facilities, the effects of evolving technology and persistent labor shortages are reshaping real estate dealmaking, immigration policy debates and government contracting risk, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.
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4 Privacy Trends This Year With Lessons For Companies
As organizations plan for ongoing privacy law changes, 2025 trends that include a shift of activity from the federal to the state level mean companies should take an adaptive and principle-based approach to privacy programs rather than trying to memorize constantly changing laws, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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Opinion
A Uniform Federal Rule Would Curb Gen AI Missteps In Court
To address the patchwork of courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence, curbing abuses and relieving the burden on judges, the federal judiciary should consider amending its civil procedure rules to require litigants to certify they’ve reviewed legal filings for accuracy, say attorneys at Shook Hardy.
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Investment Advisers Should Stay Apprised Of New AI Risks
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recently issued annual examination priorities reiterate a host of regulatory implications for investment advisers using artificial intelligence tools, highlighting that meaningful ongoing due diligence can help mitigate both operational and regulatory surprises amid AI's rapid evolution, says Christopher Mills at Sidley.
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New Rule Shows NRC Willing To Move Fast To Reform Regs
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s decision to forgo public comment and immediately rescind certain rules governing adjudicatory procedures, federal tort claims and disclosure of licensee information signals the agency's intent to accelerate the regulatory streamlining efforts ordered by the president this spring, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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AG Watch: Texas Junk Fee Deal Shows Enforcement Priorities
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's recent $9.5 million settlement with online travel agency website Booking Holdings for so-called junk fee practices follows a larger trend of state attorneys general who have taken similar action and demonstrates the significant penalties that can follow such allegations, say attorneys at Kelley Drye.
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Calif. AG's No-Poach Case Reflects Tougher Antitrust Stance
This month, California’s attorney general resolved the latest enforcement action barring the use of no-poach agreements, underscoring an aggressive antitrust enforcement trend with significant increases in criminal and civil penalties, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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A Look At The Wave Of 2025 Email Marketing Suits In Wash.
Since the Washington Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Old Navy in April, more than 30 lawsuits have alleged that a broad range of retailers across industries sent emails that violate the Washington Commercial Electronic Mail Act, but retailers are unlikely to find clear answers yet, says Gonzalo Mon at Kelley Drye.
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2025 Noncompete Developments That Led To Inflection Point
Employers must reshape their approaches to noncompete agreements following key 2025 developments, including Delaware's rejection of blue-penciling and the proliferation of state wage thresholds, say attorneys at Gunderson Dettmer.