Consumer Protection

  • October 15, 2025

    Fla. Medical Clinic Settles Patient Data Breach Row For $10M

    A Florida federal judge has given initial approval to a $10 million settlement to resolve a proposed class action accusing Watson Clinic LLP of failing to adequately protect current and former patients' medical imaging records, financial account information and other personal data that was swept up in a 2024 data breach. 

  • October 15, 2025

    Valve Seeks To Toss 'Overlapping' $21M Arbitration Fee Suit

    Valve Corp. is asking a Seattle federal judge to throw out a proposed class action seeking nearly $21 million in arbitration fees from the software company, claiming the suit is part of a scheme by law firm Mason LLP in which attorneys are seeking identical relief through redundant court challenges.

  • October 15, 2025

    Cybersecurity Co. F5 Says Hackers Infiltrated Its Systems

    Cybersecurity company F5 Inc. revealed Wednesday that hackers had crept into its systems and maintained long-term access to certain platforms, and that the breach has been contained, an infiltration that comes amid similar attacks on the legal and technology sectors by hackers with suspected ties to foreign governments.

  • October 15, 2025

    JPMorgan Dinged By Judge For Raising Arbitration Issue Late

    A Washington federal judge hinted on Wednesday that she's likely to stand by her past decision spurning JPMorgan Chase's attempt to force arbitration of a customer's racial discrimination claims, suggesting the bank lost its chance to make the points it's now relying on to persuade the court to reconsider.

  • October 15, 2025

    Texas Appeals Court Pushes Cigna On Payments To Hospitals

    A Texas appeals court seemed skeptical of Cigna Healthcare of Texas Inc.'s claim that once a patient gets hospitalized, any subsequent treatment should be classified as emergency care, asking Wednesday why Cigna should get to escape a lawsuit claiming it underpaid multiple hospitals.

  • October 15, 2025

    Professor Takes 'Rapunzel' TM Case To Supreme Court

    A law professor seeking to challenge a "Rapunzel" trademark as a consumer of fairy-tale toy characters has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her out after the Federal Circuit upheld a finding that she lacked standing because her alleged injury wasn't commercial in nature.

  • October 15, 2025

    FDIC's Hill Discusses Stablecoin Rulemaking Lift

    Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. acting Chairman Travis Hill said Wednesday that crafting a licensing regime for stablecoin issuers under his agency's purview will likely be relatively "straightforward," but the recently passed stablecoin legislation has also tasked banking regulators with thornier policy issues.

  • October 15, 2025

    States Want To Keep Eye On $14B HPE-Juniper Deal Review

    The Justice Department is in the middle of trying to settle its challenge to Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks, but a dozen states are now trying to get involved and have asked a California federal judge to allow them to intervene in the litigation.

  • October 15, 2025

    Some Sugar Producers Escape Info Sharing Claims

    A Minnesota federal court dismissed several major sugar producers from a case accusing them of sharing competitively sensitive information but is allowing claims against Domino and United Sugar Producers & Refiners to proceed.

  • October 15, 2025

    Consumer Says Nail Fungus Product Falsely Marketed

    A North Carolina man hit Arcadia Consumer Healthcare Inc. with a proposed class action in federal court accusing the company of falsely advertising that its product Fungi-Nail is meant to treat nail fungus, although the fine print on the back label says otherwise.

  • October 15, 2025

    Cal Poly Athletes Told Objections To NIL Deal Don't Hold Water

    The members of a college swimming and diving team that was eliminated by its school last March should blame the school itself for its demise, not the negotiators of a $2.78 billion class action athlete compensation settlement, the NCAA and the athlete class representatives told a California federal court in response to their objections.

  • October 15, 2025

    Newsmax Says It Can Refile Fox Antitrust Fight In Wisconsin

    Newsmax is fighting back against Fox Corp.'s attempt to ship the conservative cable news broadcaster's antitrust suit back to Florida, saying there's no evidence that it's "clearly more convenient" to litigate the matter in the Sunshine State compared to Wisconsin.

  • October 15, 2025

    Crypto.com Can't Block Nev. Action Over Event Contracts

    A Nevada federal judge decided not to bar state gaming regulators from taking action over Crypto.com's event contracts for now, reaching a different conclusion than his earlier ruling in a similar challenge from event contract platform Kalshi after finding that Crypto.com's contracts do not appear to qualify as swaps under the Commodity Exchange Act.

  • October 15, 2025

    Glock Loses Bid To Toss New Jersey AG's Gun Violence Suit

    A New Jersey state judge has declined to dismiss a suit brought by the state's attorney general seeking to hold Glock Inc. liable for gun violence, finding that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in a case brought by Mexico against gunmakers doesn't bar the state's claims.

  • October 15, 2025

    AGs Concerned About Landlord Settlements In RealPage Case

    Attorneys general of the District of Columbia and three states told a Tennessee federal court Wednesday that they have concerns about a combined $141.8 million worth of class settlements for antitrust claims against several multifamily landlords that allegedly used property management software company RealPage Inc.'s technology for rent price-fixing.

  • October 15, 2025

    Carriers Take Heat From Hill GOP Over Sens.' Phone Data

    The Big Three phone carriers face growing pressure from Capitol Hill Republicans over reports that they tracked eight senators' cellphone data at the FBI's request, with one lawmaker saying there was no "criminal predicate" for the subpoenas.

  • October 15, 2025

    FCC Looks To Pull Hong Kong Telecom's US Authorization

    The Federal Communications Commission has warned it could expel Hong Kong telecom HKT from the U.S. market, citing ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

  • October 15, 2025

    Geico Says Cos. Owe $415K For Fraudulent Med Gear Scheme

    A group of Geico auto insurers told a New York federal court that they are entitled to recoup $415,000 from companies that they allege submitted hundreds of fraudulent no-fault insurance claims, totaling over $1.25 million, for unnecessary durable medical equipment.

  • October 15, 2025

    9th Circ. Lets Alaska Flyers Redo Hawaiian Merger Case

    The Ninth Circuit found that a lower court was right to toss a case from flyers and travel agents challenging the $1.9 billion merger between Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines but said they should have been given a chance to revise their allegations.

  • October 15, 2025

    Hawaiian Tropic Sunscreen Maker Hit With SPF False Ad Suit

    A proposed class of consumers is suing the makers of a Hawaiian Tropic-branded sunscreen in Connecticut federal court, saying despite the product being advertised as having a sun protection factor, or SPF, of 50, laboratory testing shows it only offers the protection of SPF 20.

  • October 15, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Affirms ITC Ruling That Brita Filter Patent Is Invalid

    The Federal Circuit on Wednesday let stand the U.S. International Trade Commission's decision that a Brita LP water filter patent is invalid, affirming a finding that the patent wasn't adequately described and that it didn't enable someone to make the invention.

  • October 15, 2025

    Sen. Panel To Consider Bill Meant To Curb Foreign Scam Calls

    A U.S. Senate committee later this month will consider a bill to direct Federal Communications Commission resources toward reducing spam robocalls originating overseas.

  • May 22, 2025

    Fed. Circ. Says Professor Lacks Standing To Fight Rapunzel TM

    The Federal Circuit on Thursday backed the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board's rejection of a professor's challenge to a "Rapunzel" trademark as a consumer of fairy tale toy characters, saying the board properly used a framework laid out by the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • October 14, 2025

    Apple Judge May Decertify Antitrust Class, But Not Toss Case

    A California federal judge indicated Tuesday that she may decertify a class of consumers alleging Apple violated antitrust laws with its App Store policies, but said she's unlikely to grant Apple's bid to toss the case on summary judgment.

  • October 14, 2025

    Fla. AG Hits Roku With Privacy Suit Over Kids' Data Handling

    Video streaming platform Roku Inc. is violating Florida's new data privacy law by collecting and selling children's voice recordings, viewing habits and other personal data without proper notice or consent, the state's attorney general alleged in a lawsuit announced Tuesday. 

Expert Analysis

  • What Novel NIL Suit Reveals About College Sports Landscape

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    A first-of-its-kind name, image and likeness lawsuit — recently filed in Wisconsin state court by the University of Wisconsin-Madison against the University of Miami — highlights new challenges and risks following the NCAA’s landmark agreement to allow schools to make NIL deals and share revenue with student-athletes, say attorneys at O'Melveny.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Mastering Time Management

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    Law students typically have weeks or months to prepare for any given deadline, but the unpredictability of practicing in the real world means that lawyers must become time-management pros, ready to adapt to scheduling conflicts and unexpected assignments at any given moment, says David Thomas at Honigman.

  • How Prohibiting Trigger Leads May Affect Mortgage Marketing

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    Recent amendments to the Fair Credit Reporting Act prohibiting the sale of trigger leads mark a significant shift in the regulatory landscape for mortgage lenders, third-party lead generators and their legal counsel, who should reevaluate lead generation strategies and compliance protocols, say Joel Herberman, Rob Robilliard and Leah Dempsey at Brownstein Hyatt.

  • Privacy Policy Lessons After Google App Data Verdict

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    In Rodriguez v. Google, a California federal jury recently found that Google unlawfully invaded app users' privacy by collecting, using and disclosing pseudonymized data, highlighting the complex interplay between nonpersonalized data and customers' understanding of privacy policy choices, says Beth Waller at Woods Rogers.

  • How Hyperlinks Are Changing E-Discovery Responsibilities

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    A recent e-discovery dispute over hyperlinked data in Hubbard v. Crow shows how courts have increasingly broadened the definition of control to account for cloud-based evidence, and why organizations must rethink preservation practices to avoid spoliation risks, says Bree Murphy at Exterro.

  • CFPB Proposal Defining Consumer Risk May Add Uncertainty

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    Though a recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposal would codify when risks to consumers justify supervisory intervention against nonbanks, furthering Trump administration plans to curtail CFPB authority, firms may still struggle to identify what could attract supervisory designation under the new rule, say attorneys at Steptoe.

  • Targeting Execs Could Hurt SEC's Probusiness Goals

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    While many enforcement changes under the Trump administration’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have been touted by commission leadership as proinnovation and probusiness, a planned focus on holding individual directors and officers responsible for wrongdoing may have the opposite effect, say attorneys at MoFo.

  • Navigating The Risks Of Employee-Influencers, Side Gigs

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    Though companies may be embracing employee-influencer roles, this growing trend — along with an increase in gig employment — presents compliance risks, particularly around employee classification, compensation and workplace policies, as the line between work, influence and outside employment becomes increasingly blurred, say attorneys at Squire Patton.

  • Assessing Potential Ad Tech Remedies Ahead Of Google Trial

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    The Virginia federal judge tasked with prying open Google’s digital advertising monopoly faces a smorgasbord of potential remedies, all with different implications for competition, government control and consumers' internet experience, but compromises reached in the parallel Google search monopoly litigation may point a way forward, say attorneys at MoloLamken.

  • Earned Wage Access Providers Face State Law Labyrinth

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    At least 12 states have established laws or rules regulating services that allow employees to access earned wages before payday, with more laws potentially to follow suit, creating an evolving state licensing maze even for fintech providers that partner with banks, say attorneys at Venable.

  • Strategies To Get The Most Out Of A Mock Jury Exercise

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    A Florida federal jury’s recent $329 million verdict against Tesla over a fatal crash demonstrates how jurors’ perceptions of nuanced facts can make or break a case, and why attorneys must maximize the potential of their mock jury exercises to pinpoint the best trial strategy, says Jennifer Catero at Snell & Wilmer.

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    Writing Musicals Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My experiences with writing musicals and practicing law have shown that the building blocks for both endeavors are one and the same, because drama is necessary for the law to exist, says Addison O’Donnell at LOIS Law.

  • What Prop 65 Ruling Means For Cosmetics, Personal Care Biz

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    A California federal court's recent decision on Proposition 65 warnings is good news for companies in the cosmetics and personal care space, as it will relieve businesses of the need to apply such warnings to products containing titanium dioxide and likely stop a wave of pending failure-to-warn litigation, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Genius Act Poses Strategic Hurdles For Community Banks

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    ​​​​​​​The pace of change in digital asset policy, including the recent arrival of the Genius Act, suggests that strategic planning should be a near-term priority for community banks, with careful attention to customer relationships, regulatory developments and the local communities they serve, say attorneys at Jones Walker.

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    Adapting To Private Practice: From Va. AUSA To Mid-Law

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    Returning to the firm where I began my career after seven years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Virginia has been complex, nuanced and rewarding, and I’ve learned that the pursuit of justice remains the constant, even as the mindset and client change, says Kristin Johnson at Woods Rogers.

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