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NY Judge Axes $110M Mango Markets Trader's Fraud Verdict
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday granted a crypto trader's request to overturn a conviction for defrauding platform Mango Markets out of roughly $110 million, finding that prosecutors didn't link his conduct to New York and failed to show he duped the platform.
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August 11, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
Nielsen Holdings Ltd. and consumer intelligence spinoff Nielsen Consumer IQ agreed to end their dispute, a sole investor asked the court to name him lead plaintiff in a suit challenging Endeavor's $13 billion take-private deal, and the Chancery Court announced a new, automated case assignment regime. Here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court.
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August 11, 2025
FTX Customers Aim To Beef Up Case Against Fenwick & West
New information that has emerged since customers of the now-collapsed cryptocurrency trading platform FTX Trading Ltd. sued Fenwick & West LLP over the firm's alleged role in that collapse justifies updating the complaint against the firm, those customers told a Florida federal court Monday.
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August 11, 2025
Rising Star: Latham's Jack McNeily
Jack McNeily of Latham & Watkins LLP defended the former chief technology officer of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX in one of the U.S. government's flagship crypto enforcement cases, earning him a spot among the fintech attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 11, 2025
Crypto Co. Kraken's Litigation Lead Departs After 6 Years
The deputy general counsel who headed litigation at crypto exchange Kraken is stepping down from the role after helping steer it through multiple battles with federal regulators.
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August 11, 2025
Terraform Founder Set To Plead Out Of $40B Fraud Case
Terraform founder Do Kwon is on track to enter a guilty plea in his $40 billion criminal fraud case, a Manhattan federal judge said Monday, in an order that comes ahead of a scheduled 2026 trial and amid weeks of talks between his lawyers and prosecutors.
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August 11, 2025
Photographer Says Media Co. Misued His Bitcoin Photo
A professional photographer sued financial media company Benzinga on Monday in Michigan federal court, accusing it of wrongfully using one of his copyrighted photos featuring bitcoin iconography in its online content.
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August 08, 2025
CFPB Preps Complaint Against Failed Fintech Firm Synapse
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is getting ready to file a complaint against bankrupt Synapse Financial Technologies on allegations it failed to properly keep track of consumer funds and left as much as $90 million in consumer funds unrecovered, the fintech firm's trustee has told a bankruptcy judge in California.
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August 08, 2025
Frank Founder, Exec Can't Undo JPMorgan Fraud Convictions
Charlie Javice, the startup founder convicted of lying to JPMorgan Chase ahead of its $175 million purchase of her college-aid website Frank, and her former colleague have failed to show good reasons why they should now be acquitted, the judge on her case has found.
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August 08, 2025
Ripple Exits SEC Case With An Injunction Still Over Its Head
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's long-running case against Ripple Labs has finally come to an end with both sides agreeing to drop competing appeals, but the crypto firm's inability to shake a court-ordered judgment leaves it potentially vulnerable to future enforcement actions.
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August 08, 2025
Tornado Cash Case Far From Over With Jury's Mixed Verdict
The split verdict in the Tornado Cash trial likely won't encourage prosecutors to go after crypto projects for failing to register as money transmitters, but it may still leave software developers open to liability if they seem aware of others' misuse of their creations.
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August 08, 2025
GOP Sens. Call For Overhaul Of Bank Supervisory Warnings
Republican senators are pressing federal regulators for an overhaul of how they flag and track supervisory concerns at banks, warning that the current system of confidential notices lacks legal grounding and is "increasingly opaque, ineffective and inconsistent."
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August 08, 2025
Doxo Can't Send Customer Class Action To Arbitration
A Washington federal judge declined to toss a suit against online bill-pay service Doxo Inc., saying the company waited too long — nearly a year — to try to enforce a newly added arbitration clause, and thus waived its right to compel arbitration in the suit alleging it deceived customers by not disclosing fees upfront.
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August 08, 2025
CFTC Blesses Another Event Betting Website
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission staff has announced they will not pursue enforcement actions against a prediction market company set to launch as a designated contract market, allowing the company to move forward with permitting users to bet on real-world events, such as entertainment and public policy.
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August 08, 2025
Google Loses Bid To Send Patent Case From WDTX To Calif.
A Western District of Texas magistrate judge has refused to ship to California a lawsuit accusing Google of infringing patents covering ways to safely do financial transactions on a mobile device, finding the tech giant failed to show the Golden State was more convenient.
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August 07, 2025
CFPB Mulls Cuts To Oversight Reach In 4 Nonbank Markets
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is considering formally scaling back the reach of its nonbank oversight, floating a series of early stage proposals that contemplate sharply reducing the number of firms it would supervise in four key financial services markets.
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August 07, 2025
Crypto Buyers Win Class Cert. Against Kardashian, Celebs
EthereumMax buyers accusing celebrities of promoting the cryptocurrency allegedly used in a pump-and-dump scheme can certify subclasses in four states, but not their nationwide class, a federal judge ruled, agreeing with famed boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. that there's a risk of California and Florida securities laws being inappropriately applied outside those states.
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August 07, 2025
ND Judge Strikes Down Fed's Debit Card Fee Regulation
A North Dakota federal judge has invalidated the Federal Reserve's regulation limiting certain debit card fees charged in merchant transactions, ruling in favor of a truck stop and convenience store in finding that the Fed had attempted to "improperly repackag[e] the defunct-Chevron deference under a different name."
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August 07, 2025
Fintiv Says Apple's 'Trojan Horse' Stole Mobile Wallet Tech
Fintiv Inc. upped the ante Wednesday in its mobile wallet technology litigation against Apple Inc., accusing it in a new lawsuit of "theft and racketeering of monumental proportions" just days after a Texas federal judge called off a looming patent trial between the companies.
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August 07, 2025
Trump Taps Economic Adviser Miran For Fed Board Vacancy
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has chosen Stephen Miran, the chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, to fill a vacancy on the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors until early 2026 while continuing to search for a permanent replacement.
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August 07, 2025
Binance Partner To Pay $48.5M For Compliance Failure Claims
Cryptocurrency trust Paxos Trust Co. has agreed to pay a $26.5 million fine and place $22 million into beefing up its compliance program in a settlement with a New York regulator over its anti-money laundering policies and other alleged due diligence failures related to its stablecoin partnership with crypto exchange Binance.
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August 07, 2025
Crypto Biz Ripple Snags VC-Backed Rail In $200M Deal
Enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions company Ripple on Thursday unveiled plans to buy venture capital-backed global payments platform Rail in a $200 million deal.
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August 07, 2025
Trump 'Debanking' Order Calls For Scrutiny Of Bank Practices
President Donald Trump on Thursday directed federal regulators to investigate and potentially punish banks if they have turned away customers based on their political or religious beliefs, escalating his administration's crackdown on so-called debanking.
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August 07, 2025
Trump Greenlights Private Equity, Crypto 401(k) Investing
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that aims to make it easier for retirement plans to invest in a wider range of assets, including cryptocurrency, private equity and real estate.
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August 06, 2025
Pomerantz Tapped To Lead MicroStrategy Securities Suit
Pomerantz LLP will serve as lead counsel and Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC as liaison counsel for the proposed class of investors in a suit in Virginia federal court alleging that analytics software company MicroStrategy downplayed the risk of major financial losses that followed an update to its crypto accounting methodology.
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August 06, 2025
Crypto.com Seeks Win Over Nev. Regulators In Betting Brawl
The derivatives platform owned by Crypto.com asked a Nevada federal judge to permanently block the state's gambling regulators from taking action over its sports event contracts, which it argues are exclusively overseen by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Expert Analysis
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A Simple Way Courts Can Help Attys Avoid AI Hallucinations
As attorneys increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence for legal research, courts should consider expanding online quality control programs to flag potential hallucinations — permitting counsel to correct mistakes and sparing judges the burden of imposing sanctions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl and Connors.
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Surveying The Changing Overdraft Fee Landscape
Despite recent federal moves that undermine consumer overdraft fee protections, last year’s increase in fee charges suggests banks will face continued scrutiny via litigation and state regulation, says Amanda Kurzendoerfer at Bates White.
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The Road Ahead For Digital Assets Looks Promising
With new legislation expected to accelerate the adoption of blockchain technology, and with regulators taking a markedly more permissive approach to digital assets, the convergence of traditional finance and decentralized finance is closer than ever, say attorneys at Dechert.
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How Securities Defendants Might Use New Wire Fraud Ruling
Though the Second Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Chastain decision — vacating the conviction of an ex-OpenSea staffer — involved the wire fraud statute, insider trading defendants might attempt to import the ruling’s reasoning into the securities realm, says Jonathan Richman at Brown Rudnick.
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Series
Creating Botanical Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Pressing and framing plants that I grow has shown me that pursuing an endeavor that brings you joy can lead to surprising benefits for a legal career, including mental clarity, perspective and even a bit of humility, says Douglas Selph at Morris Manning.
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Compliance Is A New Competitive Edge For Mortgage Lenders
So far, 2025 has introduced state and federal regulatory turbulence that is pressuring mortgage lenders to reevaluate the balance between competitive and compliant employee and customer recruiting practices, necessitating a compliance recalibration that prioritizes five key strategies, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.
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Even As States Step Up, They Can't Fully Fill CFPB's Shoes
The Trump administration's efforts to scale down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have prompted calls for state regulators to pick up the slack, but there are also important limitations on states' ability to fill the gap left by a mostly dormant CFPB, say attorneys at Covington.
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Opinion
The Legal Education Status Quo Is No Longer Tenable
As underscored by the fallout from California’s February bar exam, legal education and licensure are tethered to outdated systems, and the industry must implement several key reforms to remain relevant and responsive to 21st century legal needs, says Matthew Nehmer at The Colleges of Law.
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'Pig Butchering' Seizure Is A Milestone In Crypto Crime Fight
The U.S.' recent seizure of $225 million in crypto funds in a massive "pig butchering" scheme highlights the transformative impact of blockchain analysis in law enforcement, and the increasing necessity of collaboration between law enforcement agencies, cryptocurrency exchanges and stablecoin issuers, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.
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The Pros, Cons Of A Single Commissioner Leading The CFTC
While a single-member U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission may require fewer resources and be more efficient, its internal decision-making process would be less transparent to those outside the agency, reflect less compromise between competing viewpoints and provide the public with less predictability, says former CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Relevance Redactions
In recent cases addressing redactions that parties sought to apply based on the relevance of information — as opposed to considerations of privilege — courts have generally limited a party’s ability to withhold nonresponsive or irrelevant material, providing a few lessons for discovery strategy, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Opinion
Section 1983 Has Promise After End Of Nationwide Injunctions
After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice.
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How Banks Can Harness New Customer ID Rule's Flexibility
Banking regulators' update to the customer identification process, allowing banks to collect some information from third parties rather than directly from customers, helps modernize anti-money laundering compliance and carries advantages for financial institutions that embrace the new approach, say attorneys at Bradley Arant.
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Series
Playing Soccer Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Soccer has become a key contributor to how I approach my work, and the lessons I’ve learned on the pitch about leadership, adaptability, resilience and communication make me better at what I do every day in my legal career, says Whitney O’Byrne at MoFo.
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Opinion
The SEC Should Embrace Tokenized Equity, Not Strangle It
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission should grant no-action relief to firms ready to pilot tokenized equity trading, not delay innovation by heeding protectionist industry arguments, says J.W. Verret at George Mason University.