17 States Sue Over Calif. Regulation Of Plastic Packaging

By Dorothy Atkins

Seventeen states and the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors sued Golden State recycling regulators in California federal court Monday seeking to block a new state law regulating plastic packaging, slamming the law as California's "blatant and unprecedented attempt to impose its own policy preferences on the entire nation."

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OECD Asks US To Fix Beneficial Ownership Transparency

By Kevin Pinner

The U.S. is only partially compliant with its obligations to ensure the availability of beneficial ownership information, weighed down by its "deficient" definition of beneficial owners in tax filings, the OECD said in a report.

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FTC Reaches 'Agreement In Principle' With Southern Glazer's

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge hit pause Monday on the Federal Trade Commission's price discrimination lawsuit against Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits LLC so the parties can hash out a tentative deal resolving the FTC's first, and now only, Robinson-Patman Act case in decades.

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Uber Board Spawned 'Serial Compliance Offender,' Suit Says

By Linda Chiem

Uber Technologies Inc. executives and board directors have fostered a culture of noncompliance and lax safety that has exposed the ride-hailing giant to thousands of sexual harassment and disability discrimination lawsuits, according to a new shareholder derivative suit in California federal court Monday.

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WaPo Wants Trump Media Sanctioned In $2.78B Suit

By Carolina Bolado

The Washington Post is asking for sanctions against President Donald Trump's social media company for what the Post alleges were repeated discovery violations in Trump's $2.78 billion defamation suit against the newspaper.

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SEC Signals Interest In Novel ETF Rulemaking

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could soon ask the public what it thinks about new types of exchange-traded funds that some companies have proposed, potentially moving a step closer to writing rules for the fund industry as prediction market ETFs await the agency's approval.

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CFTC Seeks Input On Energy Perpetual Contracts, 24/7 Trading

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is asking for public input on how it should address around-the-clock trading and perpetual contracts in the energy industry, asking how the industry developments could impact the price of commodities like crude oil.

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OCC Pitches Anti-Illicit Finance Rules For Stablecoin Issuers

By Sarah Jarvis

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a plan Monday to implement Bank Secrecy Act and sanctions compliance standards for stablecoin issuers, folding in a past plan from Treasury Department regulators and marking the latest regulatory proposal under the federal stablecoin framework known as the Genius Act.

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Cuomo To Lead OKX-NYSE Parent Crypto Joint Venture

By Hailey Konnath

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will co-chair a joint venture between cryptocurrency exchange OKX and New York Stock Exchange parent Intercontinental Exchange, a partnership aimed at developing infrastructure for "tokenized and digitally native financial products," according to an announcement made Monday.

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Supreme Court Won't Review HFC Reduction Law

By Jared Foretek

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a Georgia refrigerants company's petition to review a 2020 environmental law and subsequent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations requiring an 85% reduction in hydrofluorocarbon consumption by 2036, rejecting a chance to either modify or replace the "intelligible principle" test in nondelegation cases.

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FERC Says Texas LNG Project Is 'Environmentally Acceptable'

By Elaine Briseño

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission defended its continued approval of a liquefied natural gas project in South Texas, telling the D.C. Circuit it had addressed the court's previous concerns by expanding its analysis of the project's polluting effects.

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Navy Contractor Settles FCA Claims Over Lax Cybersecurity

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Department of Justice said an Alabama-based government contractor has agreed to pay over $500,000 to resolve claims that it knowingly failed to abide by cybersecurity requirements in support contracts for the U.S. Navy.

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Fluor Says Trafficking Claims Were Public Before FCA Action

By Ganesh Setty

Fluor Corp. is urging a D.C. federal court to not let a former federal prosecutor pursue a newly amended False Claims Act lawsuit accusing it of labor trafficking under a military logistics contract in Afghanistan, arguing his lawsuit alleges nothing new.

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Justices Seek Solicitor General's Views On Drug Pricing Law

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday asked the federal government to weigh in on whether it should hear the pharmaceutical industry's challenge to Oregon's drug pricing transparency law, which drugmakers say forces them to justify pricing decisions and risks exposing trade secrets.

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NJ Medical Center Sued Over Alleged Patient Data Tracking

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey medical center deployed third-party tracking tools on its website to collect sensitive information about users' searches for doctors and medical conditions, appointment requests and patient portal activity without users' knowledge or consent, two patients claimed in a proposed federal class action.

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States Defend Live Nation Jury Verdict In Antitrust Case

By Matthew Perlman

State enforcers have urged a New York federal court to reject Live Nation's bid to upend a jury verdict finding the company monopolized key parts of the live entertainment industry, telling the court the jury carefully considered ample evidence and should not be second-guessed.

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FTC Requires Fix For Aurobindo's $250M Lannett Deal

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission is allowing Aurobindo Pharma Ltd. to move ahead with its planned $250 million acquisition of Lannett Co. Inc., after the pharmaceutical company agreed to unload four generic drug products to prevent potential overlaps.

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House Floats Revised Kids' Safety Bill After Bipartisan Deal

By Allison Grande

A pair of influential House lawmakers on Monday introduced a revamped bipartisan version of proposed legislation to boost online safety protections for children and teens, although they drew an immediate rebuke from a U.S. senator leading a similar effort in the upper chamber, who slammed the House proposal as a "toothless and tepid capitulation" to major tech companies.

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Texas Asks Justices To Keep App Store Law In Force

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas attorney general urged the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a state law requiring app stores to block minors from downloading apps without parental consent to remain in effect, arguing Monday that a lower court "committed several errors" in pausing the measure.

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Airbnb Seeks Toss Of Calif.'s Wildfire Price-Gouging Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Airbnb Inc.'s counsel urged a California state court judge Monday to toss the Los Angeles city attorney's allegations that it price gouged Southern California residents amid the January 2025 wildfires, saying during a demurrer hearing that no case law requires it to "police" prices that hosts set using an "optional" pricing tool.

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Wash. Telecom Says Tribal Burial Site Claims Filed Too Late

By Crystal Owens

A Washington federal judge is expected to soon determine if the Lummi Nation can block a telephone company from continuing to construct a broadband project at a location where Indigenous remains have been unearthed, after the telecom argued the tribe filed its challenge too late.

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Carriers Praise Senate Passage Of Broadband Map Bill

By Christopher Cole

High-speed carriers lauded the U.S. Senate on Monday for approving bipartisan legislation pushing the government to improve maps of broadband service so that federal funding can be more precisely targeted.

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Responding To US Labeling Brazilian Gangs As Terrorist Orgs

The Trump administration's recent designation of two Brazilian criminal organizations as foreign terrorists affects companies in multiple sectors that must now assess their exposure and enhance their sanctions, know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering screening programs, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

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What Fed's Fast Track To Account Access Means For Fintechs

Fintechs, stablecoin issuers and other nonbank entities should assess eligibility, compliance demands and operational limits ahead of the Federal Reserve's potential finalization of a payment account framework proposing a faster path to direct access to key payment rails, says Stephen Aschettino at Fox Rothschild.

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Colorado's New Chatbot Law May Be Defined By Its Carveouts

What makes Colorado's conversational artificial intelligence service law worth close attention is what it leaves out, so a thorough scoping analysis may be as important as compliance planning for companies that develop, license or deploy conversational AI, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.

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Md., Colo. Climate Rulings Point To Need For Federal Solution

As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to review the Colorado Supreme Court's 2025 ruling in Boulder County v. Suncor U.S. Inc., which green-lit a state-level climate lawsuit, a recent conflicting ruling from the Maryland Supreme Court underscores why a uniform federal answer on climate litigation is needed now, says Phil Goldberg at Shook Hardy.

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Recent Cases Clarify When Risk Disclosures Trigger Liability

Several recent decisions highlight circumstances where risk disclosures can constitute actionable misrepresentations, providing clarity on how the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act's safe harbor and the common-law bespeaks caution doctrine apply to risk disclosures, and how publicly traded companies can guard against such claims, say attorneys at Katten.

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Attorney Reprimanded In $256M Defamation Case

By Rachel Rippetoe

A former Conrad & Scherer LLP managing partner must pay an Alabama coal company's attorney fees after being publicly reprimanded by an Alabama federal judge, who found he lied to the court and paid witnesses to change their testimony in his repeated lawsuits against the company.

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NJ Firm Accused Of 'Double-Dipping' On Pelvic Mesh Fees

By Daniel Connolly

Four women allege in a recently filed lawsuit that a New Jersey law firm overcharged them on legal fees related to a settlement in pelvic mesh litigation, and the recent lawsuit also relates to a long-running conflict between lawyers who formerly worked together.

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Justices Seek Input On NJ State Bar Diversity Challenge

By George Woolston

The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the federal government to weigh in on a Garden State appellate court's decision that approved a New Jersey State Bar Association system for fostering diversity in its leadership that was accused of being discriminatory.

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Blanche, Pirro Can't Be DQ'd From Trump DC Shooting Case

By Craig Clough

A D.C. federal judge held Monday that the man accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner can't disqualify U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche from prosecuting him because of their presence at the dinner.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving executive compensation, take-private transactions, books and records demands, tender offers and alleged insider misconduct.

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