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September 16, 2025
Feds Seek Toss Of DC Hemp Store's Home-Rule Challenge
The United States government on Monday urged a federal judge to dismiss a challenge to federal policy restricting the nation's capital from regulating marijuana and hemp sales, saying the local retailer that brought the action lacked standing to sue.
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September 16, 2025
Rev Up Mobile Data Speed Standards, Rural Carriers Say
The federal target for mobile broadband speeds should be based on coverage provided to moving vehicles rather than to outdoor stationary devices, a trade group for rural wireless carriers told the Federal Communications Commission.
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September 16, 2025
Dems Renew Push To Ban Credit Checks In Hiring
Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation that would bar employers from requiring job applicants to disclose their credit history as part of the hiring process, saying the bill would remove a barrier that disproportionately hurts women and minority workers.
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September 16, 2025
U.S. Asks Court To Sink Vermont Climate Superfund Law
The Trump administration, Republican-led states and business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and American Petroleum Institute on Monday asked a Vermont federal court to kill the state's climate Superfund law.
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September 16, 2025
Twitter Stock Maven Tells Jury He Was 'Addicted' To Trading
An Ohio salesman accused of securities fraud told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday that he was hooked on trading penny stocks, after a rough morning of testimony during which a lawyer from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission forced him to admit his goal was to move share prices.
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September 16, 2025
Plant Bailout Cost Approvals Were Premature, FERC Told
Environmental and consumer advocates say the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission jumped the gun in approving plans to charge power consumers for the continued operation of retiring power plants that the Trump administration has controversially ordered to remain open.
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September 16, 2025
FTC Chair Pledges 'Action' Against Late Merger Fixes
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson vowed Tuesday to take unspecified "action" against tactics by merging companies to propose fixes only after antitrust enforcers bring a transaction challenge, a strategy he called "bad for the system."
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September 16, 2025
FCC Seeks Feedback On Call For Better Signal Booster Regs
The Federal Communications Commission is mulling a nonprofit's proposal to update its industrial signal booster rules, which the group says "left significant implementation gaps" when they were put in place over a decade ago.
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September 16, 2025
USDOT Orders Scuttling Of Delta-Aeromexico Joint Venture
The Trump administration has ordered Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico to scuttle their joint venture by Jan. 1, saying they gained an unfair advantage in the market after the Mexican government abruptly restricted flights from other carriers at Mexico City's primary airport.
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September 16, 2025
Senate Democrats Urge Chamber Not To Recriminalize Hemp
A group of Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday urged the chamber's leaders not to adopt language in an appropriations bill that would drastically redefine the definition of legal hemp and which they say could ruin the nationwide hemp industry.
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September 16, 2025
Lowe's Skirts NC Class Actions Over Alleged False Discounts
A North Carolina federal judge threw out two proposed consumer class actions alleging Lowe's tricks customers into thinking they're getting a good deal with falsely advertised discount prices on products, finding the alleged harm for potential class members is too speculative.
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September 16, 2025
TikTok Accused Of Withholding Docs On Anorexic Influencer
Personal injury plaintiffs have told a California magistrate judge presiding over discovery in multidistrict litigation that TikTok is refusing to hand over more information about the app's relationship with Eugenia Cooney, a TikTok influencer with anorexia and 2.8 million followers, according to a document unsealed on Monday.
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September 16, 2025
Mother Claims Aquaphor Healing Ointment Contains Allergen
A California mother of two is suing Beiersdorf Inc. in federal court, alleging that its infant and children's healing ointments contain a common allergen despite being marketed as hypoallergenic.
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September 16, 2025
Fla. Sues Porn Sites For Violating Age-Verification Law
Florida's attorney general has sued several online pornography platforms in state court, claiming they are openly violating a state law that requires them to verify users' ages before allowing access.
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September 15, 2025
FTC Dem Urges Justices Not To Disturb Her Reinstatement
U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court not to block her reinstatement, arguing lower courts were correct in finding that President Donald Trump violated the law when he removed the Democrat from her post without cause.
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September 15, 2025
Google Consumers' Attys Seek $85M In Fees For $700M Deal
Attorneys who helped consumers reach a still-pending $700 million antitrust deal with Google in 2023 have urged a California federal judge to grant them $85 million in attorney fees, saying the settlement, reached alongside state attorneys general, was an "exceptional" result obtained in the "face of substantial litigation uncertainty."
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September 15, 2025
Uber Riders Use Service 'At Their Own Risk,' Senior VP Says
An Uber Technologies Inc. executive testified Monday during a bellwether trial over sexual assault allegations against the ride-hailing giant that Uber passengers accept rides with its drivers "at their own risk."
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September 15, 2025
Ch. 11 Plan Faces Blowback From 23andMe Breach Claimants
More than 30,000 individuals who elected to pursue arbitration rather than sign on to a proposed class settlement over a data breach at 23andMe are urging a Missouri bankruptcy judge to reject the DNA testing company's notice of its reorganization plan, arguing that the disclosure provides misleading and inflated information about the company's agreement with these claimants.
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September 15, 2025
Roblox Safety Failures Hurt Both Kids And Parents, Suit Says
Roblox's alleged safety failures not only endanger children, it forces parents to either abandon money they already spent on the gaming platform's digital currency or spend additional money on safety tools to protect children who continue to use it, according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court.
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September 15, 2025
Rocket Mortgage Can't Defeat DOJ's Racial Bias Suit
A Colorado federal judge has declined to toss the federal government's race discrimination suit against Rocket Mortgage, an appraisal management company and an appraiser, finding, among other things, that Rocket could have requested correction of the appraisal at the heart of the suit.
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September 15, 2025
Ex-Voyager CEO To Pay $750K To Resolve CFTC Action
A New York federal judge signed off on a deal Monday that will have the former CEO of Voyager Digital pay $750,000 to resolve the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's claims he misled investors about the safety of the crypto lender prior to its collapse.
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September 15, 2025
Social Media Apps Can't Toss Mental Health Suit In Mass Tort
A California state judge denied a bid from Meta Platforms, Snap and TikTok on Monday to toss a suit from consolidated litigation alleging the companies harm users' mental health, saying a jury can decide if the plaintiff should have been put on notice about her alleged injuries from news articles.
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September 15, 2025
California Judge Denies Smoke Shops' Bid To Halt Fresno Law
The California city of Fresno can enforce its new restrictions on smoke shops, including limiting their number and banning them from selling flavored tobacco and cannabis products, a California federal judge has ruled, rejecting arguments for a preliminary injunction after determining that the controls are probably constitutional.
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September 15, 2025
Discord Says Suit Over Abuse Of Girl Must Be Arbitrated
The messaging platform Discord urged a Texas federal judge to compel arbitration in a suit by a teenage girl who alleges that she was groomed by a child predator there and on the gaming site Roblox, saying Friday that it doesn't matter that she was a minor when she agreed to their terms of service.
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September 15, 2025
FTC Commissioner Says Antitrust Moment Has Been Building
Federal Trade Commissioner Mark R. Meador said Monday the current interest in antitrust enforcement has been building for the last several decades as corporate boardrooms increasingly take control over the economic lives of Americans.
Expert Analysis
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Considerations For Cos. Amid Wave Of CFPB Vacatur Bids
As some entities look to vacate prior voluntary agreements with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, there are several considerations companies should take into account before seeking to vacate their settlements in the current legal and regulatory environment, says Jasmine Jean-Louis at Goodwin.
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7 Document Review Concepts New Attorneys Need To Know
For new associates joining firms this fall, stepping into the world of e-discovery can feel like learning a new language, but understanding a handful of fundamentals — from coding layouts to metadata — can help attorneys become fluent in document review, says Ann Motl at Bowman and Brooke.
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FTC Actions Highlight New Noncompete Enforcement Strategy
Several recent noncompete-related actions from the Federal Trade Commission — including its recent dismissal of cases appealing the vacatur of a Biden-rea noncompete ban — reflect the commission's shift toward case-by-case enforcement, while confirming that the agency intends to remain active in policing such agreements, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Senate Bill Could Overhaul Digital Asset Market Structure
The Senate Banking Committee's draft Responsible Financial Innovation Act would not only clarify the roles and responsibilities of financial institutions engaging in digital asset activities but also impose new compliance regimes, reporting requirements and risk management protocols, say attorneys at Troutman.
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Stablecoin Committee Promotes Uniformity But May Fall Short
While the Genius Act's establishment of the Stablecoin Certification Review Committee will provide private stablecoin issuers with more consistent standards, fragmentation remains due to the disparate regulatory approaches taken by different states, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.
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Avoiding Unforced Evidentiary Errors At Trial
To avoid self-inflicted missteps at trial, lawyers must plan their evidentiary strategy as early as their claims and defenses, with an eye toward some of the more common pitfalls, says Nate Sabri at Perkins Coie.
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FTC's Reseller Suit Highlights Larger Ticket Platform Issues
Taken together, the recent Federal Trade Commission lawsuit and Ticketmaster's recent antitrust woes demonstrate that federal enforcers are testing the resilience of antitrust and consumer-protection frameworks in an evolving, tech-driven marketplace, says Thomas Stratmann at George Mason University.
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Agentic AI Puts A New Twist On Attorney Ethics Obligations
As lawyers increasingly use autonomous artificial intelligence agents, disciplinary authorities must decide whether attorney responsibility for an AI-caused legal ethics violation is personal or supervisory, and firms must enact strong policies regarding agentic AI use and supervision, says Grace Wynn at HWG.
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Sweeping US Tax And Spending Bill May Bolster PE Returns
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act stands to benefit private equity sponsors and their investors as it alters existing law, including at the portfolio company level, making it crucial to reevaluate historic tax planning and optimize for the new tax regime, say attorneys at Paul Hastings.
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Parsing Trump Admin's First 6 Months Of SEC Enforcement
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement results for the first six months of the Trump administration show substantially fewer new enforcement actions compared to the same period under the previous administration, but indicate a clear focus on traditional fraud schemes affecting retail investors, say attorneys at King & Spalding.
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HSR Compliance Remains A Priority From Biden To Trump
Several new enforcement actions from the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice illustrate that rigorous attention to Hart-Scott-Rodino Act compliance has become a critical component of the U.S. merger review process, even amid the political transition from the Biden to Trump administrations, say attorneys at Baker McKenzie.
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The Consequences Of OCC's Pivot On Disparate Impact
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's recent move to stop scrutinizing facially neutral lending policies that disproportionately affect a protected group reflects the administration's ongoing shift in assessing discrimination, though this change may not be enough to dissuade claims by states or private plaintiffs, says Travis Nelson at Polsinelli.
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Being A Professional Wrestler Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Pursuing my childhood dream of being a professional wrestler has taught me important legal career lessons about communication, adaptability, oral advocacy and professionalism, says Christopher Freiberg at Midwest Disability.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Adapting To The Age Of AI
Though law school may not have specifically taught us how to use generative artificial intelligence to help with our daily legal tasks, it did provide us the mental building blocks necessary for adapting to this new technology — and the judgment to discern what shouldn’t be automated, says Pamela Dorian at Cozen O'Connor.
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Ch. 11 Ruling Voiding $2M Litigation Funding Sends A Warning
A recent Texas bankruptcy court decision that a postconfirmation litigation trust has no obligations to repay a completely drawn down $2 million litigation funding agreement serves as a warning for estate administrators and funders to properly disclose the intended financing, say attorneys at Kleinberg Kaplan.