Kalshi is taking aim at a Minnesota ban on prediction markets that it says would turn it into a felon for operating in the state, filing a suit that follows a similar bid by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to block the state law.
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Kalshi Targets Minnesota Prediction Market Ban In New Suit

By Aislinn Keely

Kalshi is taking aim at a Minnesota ban on prediction markets that it says would turn it into a felon for operating in the state, filing a suit that follows a similar bid by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to block the state law.

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CFTC Seeks To Join Kalshi Fight Over Rhode Island Ban

By David Steele

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission asked a Rhode Island federal judge to join Kalshi in its suit against the state of Rhode Island on Thursday, extending the commission's campaign to assert its regulatory authority over prediction markets.

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Ex-NBA Player Sues Crypto Co. After $2M Publicity Deal Sours

By Dorothy Atkins

Former NBA player Tristan Thompson sued cryptocurrency firm World Mobile Group Ltd. in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing the company of manufacturing bogus allegations to get out of its obligations under his $2 million brand ambassador deal while continuing to use his name, image and likeness.

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CFPB's Return-To-Office Plan Could Spur More Exits

By Jon Hill

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is moving forward with a return-to-office plan that will involve shifting to new headquarters, ending most telework and requiring field employees to relocate to the Washington, D.C., area starting this summer, Law360 has learned.

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POLICY & REGULATION

SEC OKs Paxos As 1st 'Blockchain-Native' Clearing Agency

By Aislinn Keely

Blockchain infrastructure firm Paxos said Thursday that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has signed off on its clearing agency registration for blockchain-based settlement in what Paxos said is a first-of-its-kind approval.

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Bilt Faces Dem Grilling Over Bank Partner Transition 'Turmoil'

By Sarah Jarvis

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Thursday that she wants answers from Bilt Rewards on reports that customers of the rent payment reward business have experienced transaction and payment issues stemming from the company's transition between bank partners.

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ENFORCEMENT & COMPLIANCE

SEC Says AI Crypto Trading Bot Was $12M Ponzi Scheme

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday accused a Texas man of lining his pockets with millions of dollars in investor funds that he falsely promised would be used to trade cryptocurrency using an artificial intelligence-operated bot.

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Paxton Says Mass. Court Can't Halt ActBlue Case In Texas

By Carolyn Muyskens

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton urged a Massachusetts federal judge to toss a lawsuit claiming his fraud allegations against Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue are politically motivated, saying the Bay State court cannot interfere in his Texas case.

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LITIGATION

Mark Cuban Beats Bid To Move Crypto Investor Suit To Texas

By Emilie Ruscoe

A Miami federal judge won't send dismissed crypto promotion claims against Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks to Texas, noting the investors seeking to move the suit strenuously fought the move earlier in the litigation and now "decline to explain why their current about-face should be excused."

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Brief

GMO Trust Investors Get Final OK For $6.8M Deal

By Sydney Price

GMO-Z.com Trust and buyers of the GYEN stablecoin have received final approval of a $6.8 million deal to end the buyers' claims they suffered losses when the coin was "de-pegged" from the Japanese yen.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Visa's Agentic Payment Rules Expose Compliance Tensions

Visa's recently released framework clarifying how payments driven by artificial intelligence can occur without consumer-merchant interaction exposes compliance risks under disclosure and fee transparency laws that may require merchants and payment providers to rethink consumer protection as agentic commerce expands, say attorneys at Stinson.

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How SEC, CFTC Proposal Would Ease Private Fund Reporting

While the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s recent proposal to streamline and lighten certain confidential reporting requirements could bring welcome changes for many private fund advisers, sponsors should consider important nuances of its potential impact, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

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Series

Studying Foreign Languages Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Studying Italian and Japanese has shown me that learning a new language can benefit a legal career in several ways, including by demonstrating the importance of approaching problems from a fresh perspective and the value of practicing patience with colleagues and clients, says Anna King at Genworth Financial.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Florida High Court Adopts AI Policy For Lawyers

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday amended the state's rules to require those filing court documents to check any artificial intelligence-generated content for accuracy, and allow for sanctions if the content contains errors.

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Goldstein Says Bad Jury Instructions Warrant New Trial

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein said that the prosecutors who convicted him on 12 tax and mortgage fraud charges in February are now contradicting arguments they made at the end of his trial in their attempt to deny him a bench acquittal or new trial.

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King & Spalding Blocked From Exiting $300M Fraud Lawsuit

By Brian Steele

King & Spalding LLP and Lennon Murphy & Phillips LLC can't withdraw from representing clients in consolidated litigation over an alleged $300 million stock swindle, a Connecticut state court judge has ruled, saying the firms' motions ahead of a June trial lack good cause.

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Fla. Court Refers Atty To Bar Over Bogus Case Citations

By Madison Arnold

A Florida state appeals court has referred an appellant's attorney to the state's bar for disciplinary proceedings after filing a petition that appears to be generated by artificial intelligence and "raises frivolous arguments, misstates the law, and cites non-existent case law."

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Parents Demand 'Bad Faith' Sanctions In Camp Mystic Case

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic in Texas' Hill Country should be sanctioned over "bad faith" conduct in litigation over flooding deaths last summer, including purported misrepresentations to courts and regulators and an alleged remark by one of its attorneys to a plaintiffs' lawyer that he would "burn in hell," a state court has been told.

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Trump Considers Tech Entrepreneur For DOJ Grants Post

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump appears poised to nominate a real estate attorney turned tech entrepreneur for a top U.S. Department of Justice post that oversees grants and criminal justice programs.

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Dem Sens. Ask DOJ To Preserve Trump-IRS Settlement Docs

By Jack McLoone

Two Democratic Senate leaders asked the U.S. Department of Justice to preserve any records related to the settlement of President Donald Trump's suit against the IRS in a letter published Thursday, signaling that further investigations may be coming.

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Roundup

Injury Law Roundup: Freight Brokers, Uber Lose Key Cases

By Y. Peter Kang

The U.S. Supreme Court's green light of negligent hiring claims against freight brokers in highway crash cases and an adverse verdict against Uber in the sexual assault multidistrict litigation lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.

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Ex-Fla. Chief Justice Fred Lewis Dies At 78

By Carolina Bolado

Former Florida Chief Justice R. Fred Lewis, who spent two decades on the bench of the Florida Supreme Court, has died at 78, the court announced Thursday.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Gupta Wessler's Deepak Gupta

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

In the decade and a half since starting his own firm, Deepak Gupta has argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, has won matters in state high courts from coast to coast, and has become a mainstay in federal appellate courts while building his plaintiff-side litigation boutique into a sought-after juggernaut.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ActBlue LLC

Alliance for Cooperative Energy Services

Audi AG

Banyan

Boston University

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

CATIC Financial Inc.

Citigroup Inc.

Cleveland Cavaliers

Coinbase Global Inc.

Council on Criminal Justice

Credit Suisse Group AG

Dallas Mavericks Inc.

Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.

Evolve Bank & Trust NA

Genworth Financial Inc.

Gerald Holdings LLC

Google LLC

Harvard University

LinkedIn Corp.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Merck & Co. Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Monsanto Co.

NVIDIA Corp.

National Treasury Employees Union

Quince

Robinhood Markets Inc.

Snap Inc.

Stavvy Inc.

The Florida Bar

TikTok Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

University of Miami

Volkswagen AG

Wells Fargo & Co.

YouTube Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Fried Goldberg

Allegaert Berger

Arnold & Itkin

Berman Tabacco

Boies Schiller

Brown Rudnick

Carlton Fields

Castagna Scott

Cleary Gottlieb

Cohen Milstein

Cooley LLP

DLA Piper

David Boies

Erickson Kramer

Fowler White Burnett

Freiwald Law

Gilmartin Magence

Greene Espel

Gupta Wessler

Hinckley Allen

King & Spalding

Lawson Huck

Lennon Murphy

Ligris & Associates

McCarter & English

Milbank LLP

Morgan & Morgan PA

Munger Tolles

Nix Patterson

Ross LLP

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Stinson LLP

Townsend Law Firm

Watts Law Firm

Wiggin & Dana

WilmerHale

Wright Close Barger & Guzman

Yetter Coleman

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Trade Commission

Florida Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

Minnesota Attorney General's Office

Office of Justice Programs

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.

Supreme Court of Nevada

Texas Attorney General's Office

Texas Health and Human Services Commission

Texas Tenth Court of Appeals

U.S. Army

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

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

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

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

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

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court