Ad Seller Can't Shake Wiretap Suit Over Temu Data Transfers

By Allison Grande

An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing a global advertising technology company of breaking federal wiretap law by transmitting Americans' sensitive information to Chinese e-commerce giant Temu, finding it plausibly alleged the conduct violated a U.S. Department of Justice regulation restricting bulk data transfers to foreign adversaries.

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Madison Square Garden Sued Over ShinyHunters Data Breach

By Gina Kim

Madison Square Garden has been hit with a proposed class action in New York federal court alleging a ransom-driven cyberattack executed by ShinyHunters exposed more than 26 million records containing facial biometric data, threat assessment ratings and detailed profiles of guests, including actor Ben Stiller.

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FTX Exec's Wife Must Face Campaign Finance Charges

By Hailey Konnath

A New York federal judge Wednesday refused to throw out an indictment accusing crypto lobbyist Michelle Bond of campaign finance crimes, rejecting her argument that prosecutors previously promised her husband, a former FTX executive, that his guilty plea would mean she's in the clear.

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Trump Halts Clayton Director Hearing Over Blue-Slip Dispute

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump directed Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, not to appear for his confirmation hearing Wednesday on his nomination to be director of national intelligence, in part over a blue-slip issue.

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Hilton Facing Class Action Over Marketing Calls

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Hilton Grand Vacations is facing a proposed class action in Washington federal court alleging it flooded customers on the National Do Not Call Registry with telemarketing calls.

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Dykema Adds Privacy Pro In San Antonio From Quadrant Law

By Lynn LaRowe

Dykema Gossett PLLC has fortified its corporate finance and data privacy and cybersecurity practice groups in Texas with a San Antonio-based senior counsel who came aboard from Quadrant Law Group LLP.

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Trump's AI Order Is Strategic, Not Merely Deregulatory

Although the framework presented in President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on artificial intelligence is styled as voluntary and innovation-friendly, it creates a new soft-power mechanism for bringing the most capable AI systems into closer alignment with federal security priorities, says Jesse Lemon at The Beckage Firm.

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HHS Enforcement Restructuring Signals Compliance Risks

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' recent restructuring of its Office for Civil Rights suggests that, while Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act enforcement remains central, its priorities have expanded to encompass civil rights, conscience and religious freedom, and data and cybersecurity issues, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

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Opinion

Rule Of Law Requires Gov't Engagement With Bar, Not Retreat

A federal agency's absence from national and local bar conferences, most recently illustrated by the U.S. Department of Justice's withdrawal from a New York City Bar Association white collar conference, disserves the bar, the government lawyers themselves and, ultimately, the administration of justice, says Muhammad Faridi at Linklaters.

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Full Fed. Circ. To Hear Immigration Judges' Firing Challenge

By Ganesh Setty

The Federal Circuit on Wednesday agreed to conduct en banc review over the firing of two immigration judges, after the Merit Systems Protection Board ruled that they constituted inferior officers who are subject to at-will removal by the president.

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No Discipline For DOJ Atty's 'Lapse Of Judgment' In ICE Case

By Emily Sawicki

A Rhode Island federal prosecutor who knowingly withheld information about a detainee's criminal history at the behest of immigration enforcement, leading to an "unfounded attack" against a federal judge by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the detainee's release, violated his duty of candor but will not face discipline, the district's chief judge determined.

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Maya Kowalski Sues Ex-Atty Over Fees, Funding Loan

By Carolina Bolado

Maya Kowalski, the subject of the Netflix documentary "Take Care of Maya," filed a malpractice suit against her former attorney on Wednesday, accusing him of charging excessive fees and improperly orchestrating an advance funding loan after winning a $213 million judgment.

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Sanctioned IP Atty Tells Fed. Circ. 'Integrity' On The Line

By Elliot Weld

An attorney who was sanctioned in a trade dress infringement case due to what a judge said were his repeated misrepresentations has asked the Federal Circuit to lift the penalties against him and his client, saying his "professional and personal integrity, and my family, depends on it."

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Bosch Receives First DOJ Declination Under New Policy

By Sarah Jarvis

German technology company Bosch on Wednesday became the first company to avoid criminal prosecution under a new U.S. Department of Justice enforcement policy after it cooperated with the federal government and agreed to pay $36 million to settle allegations it improperly exported technology products to sanctioned Chinese company Huawei.

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DOJ's Pot Shift Leaves Key Questions For Cannabis Industry

By Sam Reisman

The Trump administration's recent moves to relax federal restrictions on marijuana through the administrative process will have unclear ramifications for all industry players unless Congress steps in to rewrite cannabis law, attorneys heard Wednesday.

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