Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told House lawmakers Tuesday that a forthcoming plan to revamp big-bank leverage limits won't exempt U.S. Treasuries from their calculation, a potential disappointment for financial-sector lobbies that hope to resurrect the pandemic-era carveout. 
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Powell Says Leverage Rule Revamp Won't Exclude Treasuries

By Jon Hill

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told House lawmakers Tuesday that a forthcoming plan to revamp big-bank leverage limits won't exempt U.S. Treasuries from their calculation, a potential disappointment for financial-sector lobbies that hope to resurrect the pandemic-era carveout. 

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Visa Can't Duck DOJ's Debit Card Monopoly Case

By Matthew Perlman

A New York federal court has refused to throw out the U.S. Department of Justice's case accusing Visa of illegally maintaining a monopoly over debit card networks, rejecting arguments about the market at issue, discounts offered and the scope of deals with would-be competitors.

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NJ Bank, DOJ Push To End Redlining Deal Amid Opposition

By Sydney Price

Lakeland Bank and the U.S. Department of Justice urged a New Jersey federal judge to reject a brief from three fair housing groups opposing the early termination of the bank's $13 million redlining settlement, arguing the groups' call for housing discrimination accountability is irrelevant to the settlement's termination.

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Ex-Inmate's Debit Fee Class Action Cleared For Trial

By Rachel Riley

A jury should decide if a former jail inmate was forced to accept a prepaid debit card and pay related fees when his money was returned to him upon release, a Washington federal magistrate judge said on Tuesday, advancing a class action against Central Bank of Kansas City.

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POLICY & REGULATION

GOP Senators Unveil Crypto Market Framework Principles

By Sarah Jarvis

Senate Republicans on Tuesday morning released a set of principles to guide the development of digital asset market structure legislation, their latest push toward regulating the cryptocurrency space following their passage of stablecoin legislation last week.

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State AGs Sue Trump Admin To Stop Billions In Grant Cuts

By Rae Ann Varona

A coalition of 21 states and the District of Columbia filed suit Tuesday in Massachusetts federal court, accusing the Trump administration of unlawfully using a single clause "buried in federal regulations" to nix billions of dollars in federal grant funding to the states.

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DEALS

CoastalSouth Bank Targets $59M IPO, Guided By 2 Firms

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

CoastalSouth Bancshares Inc., the bank holding company for South Carolina state-chartered commercial bank Coastal States Bank, on Tuesday announced the launch of its initial public offering with plans to raise $58.5 million.

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Amundsen Davis Guiding First Financial On Westfield Buy

By Al Barbarino

Amundsen Davis LLC is advising First Financial Bancorp on a new agreement to purchase Westfield Bancorp for $325 million, while SquirePatton Boggs (US) LLP is representing the seller, Westfield parent Ohio Farmers Insurance Co.

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PEOPLE

Simpson Thacher Grows In Houston With Ex-Latham Atty

By James Boyle

An attorney with expertise on financial transactions in the energy and infrastructure industries has moved his practice to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's Houston office after nearly 12 years with Latham & Watkins LLP.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Shareholder Takeaways From NY Internal Affairs Doctrine Suit

A May New York Court of Appeals decision in Ezrasons v. Rudd involving Barclays — affirming the state's "firmly entrenched" internal affairs doctrine — is a win for all corporate stakeholders seeking stability in resolving disputes between shareholders and directors and officers, say attorneys at Sadis & Goldberg.

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Move Beyond Surface-Level Edits To Master Legal Writing

Recent instances in which attorneys filed briefs containing artificial intelligence hallucinations offer a stark reminder that effective revision isn’t just about superficial details like grammar — it requires attorneys to critically engage with their writing and analyze their rhetorical choices, says Ivy Grey at WordRake.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Kasowitz Rebrands Amid Shift To Streamlined Firm Names

By Andrea Keckley

Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP announced Tuesday that it is rebranding to Kasowitz LLP, becoming the latest firm to shorten its name.

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3rd Circ. Pick Told DOJ To Defy Courts, Whistleblower Says

By Courtney Bublé

A top career official at the U.S. Department of Justice who was fired has come forward with a whistleblower complaint alleging Third Circuit judicial nominee Emil Bove, who was acting deputy attorney general at the beginning of the year, sought to defy court orders.

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Judiciary Warns Congress Of Cyber Risks To PACER

By Courtney Bublé

PACER, the online public repository of federal court documents, is vulnerable to cyberthreats, a top judiciary official told members of Congress on Tuesday.

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Former DOJ Antitrust Official Joins Latham

By Bryan Koenig

Latham & Watkins LLP on Wednesday announced the addition of a new D.C.-based antitrust partner with the hiring of Andrew Forman, a former deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division who is rejoining private practice after three years of helping lead civil competition enforcement.

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Winston & Strawn Sues Hunter Biden For 'Unpaid Legal Fees'

By Alison Knezevich

Winston & Strawn LLP is suing Hunter Biden in Washington, D.C., alleging he owes the BigLaw firm more than $50,000 for legal work related to his federal criminal case in Delaware and other matters.

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Another Musk Case, Another Judge Recusal

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal magistrate judge on Tuesday became the latest federal judge to recuse from a case involving Elon Musk, this time stepping down from handling his lawsuit challenging OpenAI's now-abandoned transition to a for-profit enterprise.

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ABA Announces New Research Into Attorney Mental Health

By Emma Cueto

The American Bar Association announced Tuesday it is launching a national research project on attorney mental health, which will provide an updated benchmark of the issue nearly a decade after its 2016 study.

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Trump Hones Immunity Argument In 2nd Circ. Carroll Appeal

By Pete Brush

Counsel for President Donald Trump told the Second Circuit on Tuesday that he did not "unequivocally and explicitly" waive presidential immunity before a jury awarded writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in their defamation battle, refining the theory that he cannot be held liable.

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Analysis

Anthropic Copyright Ruling May Spur More AI Licensing Deals

By Ivan Moreno

The first federal court decision on the fairness of taking copyrighted material to train generative artificial intelligence is a mixed outcome for tech companies and content creators that could prompt both parties to seek coexistence, according to attorneys, with the judge concluding that while the technology is "spectacularly" transformative, using pirated material is inexcusable.

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Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

Bank Policy Institute

Barclays PLC

Coinbase Global Inc.

Copyright Alliance

Cornell University

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.

First Financial Bancorp.

First Financial Holdings, Inc.

Government Accountability Project

Harvard University

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Janney Montgomery Scott LLC

KBW, Inc.

MasterCard Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

National Fair Housing Alliance

National Futures Association

Numi Financial

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Paypal Holdings Inc.

Provident Financial Services Inc.

ROSS Intelligence

SIFMA

Scottish Re Group Limited

Southwest Bancorp, Inc.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Stanford University

T-Mobile US Inc.

Tesla Inc.

The New York Times Co.

Thomson Reuters Corp.

Visa Inc.

Westfield Insurance Co. Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alston & Bird

Amundsen Davis

Arnold & Porter

CM Law PLLC

Cadwalader Wickersham

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Dechert LLP

Duane Morris

Fox Rothschild

Gilbert Employment Law

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Kasowitz Benson

Latham & Watkins

Martin LLP

Morrison Foerster

Paul Weiss

Russ August

Sadis & Goldberg

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Sirianni Youtz

Thompson Coburn

Toberoff & Associates

Troutman

Wachtell Lipton

Wilkinson Stekloff

Winston & Strawn

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

City and County of San Francisco, California

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

House Committee on Agriculture

Judicial Conference of the United States

National Foundation on the Arts & Humanities

National Science Foundation

New York Supreme Court, New York County

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of State

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United States District Court for the District of Colorado