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February 03, 2025
Canadian Man Charged With $65M Crypto Hacking Scheme
A Canadian man was charged Monday in Brooklyn federal court with exploiting vulnerabilities in two cryptocurrency finance systems to steal about $65 million worth of investor funds.
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February 03, 2025
Attys For Blake Lively, Baldoni Warned Over Media Statements
Lawyers representing feuding actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in their "It Ends With Us" damages litigation agreed Monday to rein in public statements, after a Manhattan federal judge cited their duty not to taint a potential future jury pool.
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January 31, 2025
Ex-NC Lt. Gov. Drops Defamation Suit Against CNN
Ex-North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson dropped his federal defamation suit against CNN and a former porn-store clerk on Friday, saying in a post on social media site X that "costly litigation and political gamesmanship by my detractors makes clear that continuing to pursue retribution from CNN is a futile effort."
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January 31, 2025
LinkedIn Member Scraps Claims Over Use Of Data To Train AI
A LinkedIn subscriber has dropped his recently filed proposed class action accusing the company of unlawfully sharing the sensitive contents of paid users' private messages with third parties to train generative artificial intelligence models, a practice that the company has asserted it "never did."
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January 31, 2025
Small Biz Attys Jump Into 4th Circ. Shell Co. Law Challenge
A business group has urged the Fourth Circuit to stop the U.S. Department of the Treasury from enforcing a law that requires companies to disclose personal identifying information about their beneficial owners and applicants to the agency, saying the law exceeds the limit of Congress' power to regulate intrastate economic activity.
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January 31, 2025
Supreme Court Eyes Its 'Next Frontier' In FCC Delegation Case
A case about broadband subsidies will give the U.S. Supreme Court the chance to revive a long-dormant separation of powers principle that attorneys say could upend regulations in numerous industries and trigger a power shift that would make last term's shake-up of federal agency authority pale in comparison. And a majority of the court already appears to support its resurrection.
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January 31, 2025
Apple Wants Google Search Case Paused For Appeal
Apple filed an emergency motion asking a Washington, D.C., federal court to pause the landmark monopolization case targeting Google's search dominance while it appeals a decision refusing to allow the company to participate in the upcoming remedies trial.
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January 31, 2025
FCC Urged To Restrict Call Blocking Based On Content
A marketing group has asked the Federal Communications Commission to adjust its safe harbor rules for junk call and text blocking to ensure that businesses can try to contact consumers without being stymied based on the content of their messages.
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February 07, 2025
Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2025 Editorial Boards
Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2025 editorial advisory boards.
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January 30, 2025
Amazon 'Siphoned' App Users' Location Data, Suit Claims
Amazon is secretly collecting "incredibly sensitive" information about millions of consumers' precise location and movements through software-building tools embedded on third-party mobile apps, according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court Wednesday.
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January 30, 2025
Ex-FCC Member Wants Stiffer Penalties For Broadband Sabotage
There's a broadband equipment vandalism problem that no one is doing much about, a Republican former Federal Communications Commission member said in a new opinion piece, arguing that "certain criminal elements" view the theft as a path to "fast cash."
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January 30, 2025
Calif. AG Asks 9th Circ. To Block Meta's MDL Discovery Win
The California attorney general urged the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday to block orders requiring third-party state agencies to respond to Meta Platforms' discovery demands in multidistrict litigation over social media's alleged harms, arguing in a mandamus petition the "clearly erroneous" ruling "runs roughshod" over the state's constitutional divisions of power.
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January 30, 2025
Google Judge Leery Of Administration Of $90M Antitrust Deal
A California federal judge overseeing Google's $90 million antitrust deal with Play Store developers expressed "doubt" Thursday about the decision of counsel representing smaller developer plaintiffs to stay with an administration company handling the settlement distribution, two months after criticizing the administrator's work as "the worst performance I've seen."
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January 30, 2025
Circle K Gas Franchise Hit With Data Breach Class Action
Gas and convenience store chain Circle K was hit with a proposed class action in Georgia federal court over allegations that it failed to adequately safeguard the sensitive personal information of its employees during a May 2024 data breach.
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January 30, 2025
Ancestry.com Beats Proposed Privacy Class Action, Again
An Illinois federal judge granted summary judgment Wednesday to Ancestry.com in a proposed class action accusing the online company of stealing yearbook photos and identities to advertise its services without consent, finding no evidence that the information was publicly used or displayed.
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January 30, 2025
Nutrisystem Hit With Privacy Suit In Philly
Philadelphia-based diet food company Nutrisystem has been hit with a potential class action alleging that it shared customer information with a web tracking company without users' consent.
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January 30, 2025
NC Biz Court Bulletin: Sanctions Miss, Philip Morris Refund
In the second half of January, the North Carolina Business Court tussled with sanctions against a biogas company, heard claims an insurer tried to deliberately embarrass Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP and ordered an $11 million tax refund for Philip Morris.
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January 30, 2025
Storage Co. Says Rothman Gordon Left Behind Files, Big Bills
The defunct Pittsburgh law firm Rothman Gordon PC has left thousands of file boxes in storage at a contractor's warehouse without paying, and is insisting that the contractor go through the stored records to return files to former clients, according to a lawsuit the storage company filed in Pennsylvania state court.
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January 29, 2025
Apple Will Appeal Denial Of Bid To Defend Google Search Deal
Apple said Wednesday that it will appeal an order refusing to let it intervene in the government's search monopolization case against Google to defend a multibillion-dollar revenue-sharing deal that makes Google the default search engine for the Safari browser.
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January 29, 2025
Calif. Privacy Agency Keeps Up Pressure On Data Brokers
The California Privacy Protection Agency continued to build on its scrutiny of data brokers Wednesday, announcing a settlement with a Connecticut-based company that allegedly failed to comply with the registration requirements of a groundbreaking state data deletion law.
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January 29, 2025
Dentons Taps SEC Enforcement Vet From Morrison Cohen
Dentons has brought on a former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement attorney from Morrison Cohen LLP, where his work made headlines when he won a rare sanctions order against the regulator over its handling of a case against a client, the crypto project known as Debt Box.
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January 29, 2025
Del. Justices Mull 'Nuanced' T-Mobile Data Breach Claims
Delaware's chief justice pressed an attorney for T-Mobile Corp. stockholders Wednesday on what the attorney called a "nuanced" derivative claim that the company's board wrongly failed to pursue damages for massive data breaches after its controlling stockholder pressed for adoption of a vulnerable data sharing program.
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January 29, 2025
USPTO Backlog 'Unacceptable,' Trump's Commerce Pick Says
Commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick said at his confirmation hearing Wednesday that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's backlog of unexamined patent applications is "unacceptable," and pledged to work to reduce it so that patents are issued more quickly.
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January 29, 2025
6th Circ. Doubts Free Speech Flouted By Deer Hunt Drone Ban
Sixth Circuit judges sounded skeptical on Wednesday that a drone company can challenge a Michigan law barring drone use to hunt deer by claiming the law violates their free-speech ability to use the devices to locate and communicate about fallen game, with the judges suggesting the statute seems to regulate conduct rather than speech.
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January 29, 2025
4 Questions About Trump's Federal Worker Resignation Policy
President Donald Trump’s offer of letting federal workers resign with several months of paid administrative leave raises questions about its legality and whether workers will actually get paid, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores four questions that stem from the policy.
Expert Analysis
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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025
Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.
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Predicting Where State AGs Will Direct Their Attention In 2025
In 2025, we expect state attorneys general will navigate a new presidential administration while continuing to further regulate and police financial services, artificial intelligence, junk fees and antitrust, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.
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3 Noteworthy Effects Of The 2025 NDAA
The 2025 defense budget includes further restrictions on semiconductor sales to Huawei, requiring companies to rethink customer-base oversight, but other provisions are likely to broaden procurement contract opportunities, say attorneys at Miles & Stockbridge.
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The Blueprint For A National Bitcoin Reserve
The new administration has the opportunity to pave the way for a U.S.-backed crypto reserve, which could conceptually function as a strategic asset akin to traditional reserves like gold markets, hedge against economic instability, and influence global crypto adoption, say attorneys at Duane Morris.
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FTC Privacy Enforcement Takeaways From 2024
In 2024, the Federal Trade Commission distinguished three prominent trends in its privacy-related enforcement actions: geolocation data protections, data minimization practices, and artificial intelligence use and marketing, say Cobun Zweifel-Keegan at IAPP and James Smith at Dechert.
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Student Loan Entities In Hot Seat After CFPB Goes To College
While the direction of student loan servicer oversight in the new presidential administration is unclear, recent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau actions still signal heightened regulatory scrutiny at both the federal and state levels of college institutional loan programs, along with their service providers, says attorney Jonathan Joshua.
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Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win
Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.
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How DOGE's Bite Can Live Up To Its Bark
All signs suggest that the Department of Government Efficiency will be an important part of the new Trump administration, with ample tools at its disposal to effectuate change, particularly with an attentive Republican-controlled Congress, say attorneys at K&L Gates.
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2024 Was A Significant Year For HIPAA Compliance
The Office of Civil Rights' high level of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act activity in 2024 and press releases about its specific focus on certain cybersecurity issues make it abundantly clear that the OCR is not going to tolerate widespread compliance complacency, says Nathan Kottkamp at Williams Mullen.
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Small Biz Caught In Corporate Transparency Act Crossfire
Despite compliance being put on hold due to a nationwide preliminary injunction, small businesses have been caught in the middle of the legal battle over the Corporate Transparency Act — and confusion over the law's requirements could result in major penalties, say attorneys at Snell & Wilmer.
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5 Notable Information Security Events In 2024
B. Stephanie Siegmann at Hinckley Allen discusses 2024's largest and most destructive data breaches seen yet, ranging from ransomware disrupting U.S. healthcare systems on a massive scale, to tensions increasing between the U.S. and China over cyberespionage and the control of U.S. data.
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Series
Playing Rugby Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My experience playing rugby, including a near-fatal accident, has influenced my legal practice on a professional, organizational and personal level by showing me the importance of maintaining empathy, fostering team empowerment and embracing the art of preparation, says James Gillenwater at Greenberg Traurig.
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Looking Back At 2024's Noteworthy State AG Litigation
State attorneys general across the U.S. took bold steps in 2024 to address unlawful activities by corporations in several areas, including privacy and data security, financial transparency, children's internet safety, and other overall consumer protection claims, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.
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What Broker-Dealers Must Know Before Selling Bitcoin ETPs
Interest in bitcoin exchange-traded products is already high, and only expected to grow in light of the incoming Trump administration's pro-crypto stance, but broker-dealers must still consider numerous regulatory requirements before recommending a bitcoin ETP to a client, say Frank Weigand and Justine Woods at Cahill Gordon.
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Cyber Disclosure Is A Mainstay In 2025 SEC Exam Priorities
Despite a new administration and a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chair incoming, the SEC's 2025 examination priorities signal that cybersecurity disclosures and risk management practices will remain important due to the growing threat of cyberattacks, says Anjali Das at Wilson Elser.