A Washington state court judge has blocked Kalshi from offering event contracts to state residents in most of its prediction market categories while the attorney general's legal challenge unfolds, setting deadlines for the platform to institute location-based geofencing, while spurning the company's bid to maintain operations pending appeal.
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Kalshi Must Suspend Most Wash. Offerings, Install Geofencing

By Rachel Riley

A Washington state court judge has blocked Kalshi from offering event contracts to state residents in most of its prediction market categories while the attorney general's legal challenge unfolds, setting deadlines for the platform to institute location-based geofencing, while spurning the company's bid to maintain operations pending appeal.

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SEC Scraps Friday Meeting To Propose Crypto Regulations

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday canceled closely watched plans to hold a public meeting Friday to potentially issue a proposed rule outlining a path forward for the trading of cryptocurrency assets under the agency's oversight.

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CFTC Flags Lapses In Event Contract Filings On Incentives

By Sarah Jarvis

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission staff have said they've noticed an uptick in deficiencies in applications for incentive programs on event contracts and have laid out steps it believes exchanges or platforms must fulfill when self-certifying such programs.

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'Jump Must Litigate': 7th Circ. Clarifies Arb. Enforcement Rule

By Dorothy Atkins

The Seventh Circuit rejected trading firm Jump Trading LLC's bid to arbitrate a putative securities class action Thursday, finding that courts, not arbitrators, must decide whether disputes belong in arbitration when the parties haven't signed an arbitration agreement, furthering a circuit split and holding that "Jump must litigate."

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Fed Shouldn't Have State Banking 'Veto,' High Court Told

By Katryna Perera

Custodia Bank has received support from a pair of current and former senators and two other digital asset organizations in its fight with the Federal Reserve pending before the U.S. Supreme Court over a "master account."

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POLICY & REGULATION

CFPB Brass Accused Of 'Sham' Probe Of Union Leader

By Emily Brill

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is conducting a "sham" investigation into an employee who is active in the staff's union, the union's president said, taking the agency's new leader to task for its probe of the data scientist and National Treasury Employees Union local activist.

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LITIGATION

Fla. Law Firm Cost Bank's $134M BP Oil Spill Claim, Suit Says

By Katryna Perera

An Ohio bank holding company has sued a Florida law firm in Ohio federal court for more than $134 million in damages, alleging the firm missed key filing deadlines while representing the bank in litigation tied to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, costing the bank its chance to recover millions in losses.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Complying With Calif. Crypto License Law's 11th-Hour Rewrite

Financial businesses that applied early for the digital asset license now required in California should check their filings and compliance decisions against last-minute updates to the law and its rules, as overlooked changes could leave companies budgeting for nonexistent bonds, relying on an outdated exemption or racking up steep fines, say attorneys at Astraea Counsel.

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3 Ways The SEC's Retail Fraud Reboot Raises The Bar

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent revival of the retail fraud working group with an expanded mandate, scope and experienced senior leadership points to a stronger incarnation of the task force with concrete implications for firms managing retail-accessible alternative investments, say attorneys at Fried Frank.

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Series

Going To Hardcore Shows Makes Me A Better Lawyer

While government contracts law and the hardcore scene may seem entirely unrelated, in my experience, both are about community, focus, being prepared for the unexpected and managing chaos, says Isaac Natter at Fluet.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Anti-DEI Group Asks FTC To Probe Law Fellowship Program

By Dorothy Atkins

An advocacy organization against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives filed an antitrust complaint with the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday, accusing Sponsors for Educational Opportunity of engaging in anticompetitive practices by allegedly colluding on DEI metrics and falsely advertising its program.

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Baker Botts Atty Cleared Of Defamation In Inventor's Suit

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Thursday tossed a defamation claim against a Baker Botts LLP patent attorney after agreeing with a magistrate judge's conclusion that an inventor had not shown that the lawyer's comments to a reporter were defamatory.

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NYC Bar Committee Calls For Nationwide AI Rules Framework

By Andrea Keckley

A New York City Bar Association committee concluded in a policy paper published Wednesday that artificial intelligence tools "may assist legal work but cannot substitute for professional legal judgment," calling for a national framework to be built into the Model Rules of Professional Conduct governing its use.

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Trump Picks Ex-Arkansas SG, Walmart Lawyer For 8th Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump has announced that he's looking to elevate Judge Lee Rudofsky of the Eastern District of Arkansas to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

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State Farm Attys Admit Filing Motions Full Of AI Hallucinations

By Jonathan Capriel

A law firm representing State Farm has admitted that its pretrial motions contained citations to nonexistent cases and legal quotes, errors that were seemingly "hallucinations" generated by AI software designed for lawyers and caught by the plaintiff's attorneys as they prepared for trial in a California state court case about fire damage coverage.

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DOJ Fraud Division To Reach 500 Staffers This Month

By Courtney Bublé

By the end of the month, there will be about 500 attorneys and staff in the U.S. Department of Justice's new fraud division, with more to come as time goes on.

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JP Ward Attorney Exodus Delays Pa. Labor Trafficking Suit

By Matthew Santoni

A "staffing disruption" at the Pittsburgh law firm J.P. Ward & Associates led the firm to request a stay of a labor-trafficking case against hotels in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, after the firm was reduced to one attorney and two staff members, according to court filings.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Allegheny Health Network

FTI Consulting Inc.

GeoComply Solutions Inc.

Jump Trading LLC

Kalshi Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

National Public Radio Inc.

National Treasury Employees Union

New York City Bar Association

Park National Corp.

Rent-A-Center Inc.

Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc.

Starbucks Corp.

Walmart Inc.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alston & Bird

Avyno Law

Baker Botts

Comber Miller

Cooley LLP

Corr Cronin

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

Cummins & White

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Debevoise & Plimpton

Fluet & Associates PLLC

Foley Hoag

Fried Frank

Gibson Dunn

Ice Miller

J.P. Ward & Associates

Jones Day

Jones Walker LLP

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kobre & Kim

Latham & Watkins

Levin Papantonio

Milbank LLP

Morgan Lewis

Musick Peeler

Patterson Belknap

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

SML Avvocati

Selendy Gay

Wachtell Lipton

White & Case

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Winston Taylor

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Los Angeles Superior Court

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense Office of General Counsel

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

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

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

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 Southern District of Ohio

Washington Attorney General's Office