9th Circ. Won't Rethink Apple App Store Injunction
By Dorothy Atkins
The Ninth Circuit on Monday refused Apple's bid to reconsider part of a panel decision in Epic Games Inc.'s favor that largely affirmed an injunction blocking Apple from charging developers "prohibitive" commissions on iPhone app purchases made outside its payment systems, declining to clarify what fees Apple can charge.
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State Privacy Enforcers Broadening Work As Resources Grow
By Allison Grande
Privacy regulators from California, Connecticut and two other states said Tuesday that their behind-the-scenes enforcement work will soon yield public actions that focus not only on established topics such as consumer opt-outs and transparency, but also fresh issues like harms stemming from artificial intelligence and ensuring fines are more than just "a cost of doing business."
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POLICY & REGULATION
LITIGATION
DEALS
REAL ESTATE
ENFORCEMENT
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
EXPERT ANALYSIS
In First For DOJ, Action Signals New CFIUS Enforcement Era
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking judicial enforcement of a divestment order, an unprecedented action for the agency that ushers in a new phase for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, one in which judicial proceedings complement administrative oversight and presidential divestment orders may be enforced through litigation, says attorney Sohan Dasgupta.
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OCC Rule Tests Nonfiduciary Powers Of Trust Banks
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's updates to its final rule on national bank chartering, effective April 1, may augur a showdown between the OCC, states and traditional banking institutions over both the authority of national trust banks to engage in nonfiduciary activities under the National Bank Act, and the scope of federal preemption, says Audrey Carroll at Stinson.
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PRACTICAL GUIDANCE
LEGAL INDUSTRY
Blumenthal Presses DHS Chief To Scrap ICE Warrant Memo
By Courtney Bublé
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., a top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, is looking for assurances from the newly installed secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, that he will honor his apparent pledge to rescind a policy that allows immigration agents to enter private property without a judicial warrant.
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'Construction Has To Stop!': Judge Blocks Trump's Ballroom
By Dorothy Atkins
A Washington, D.C., federal judge Tuesday granted a historical preservation nonprofit's request for a preliminary injunction halting President Donald Trump's plans to turn the White House's East Wing into an "enormous" 89,000-square-foot ballroom, saying "unless and until Congress blesses this project through statutory authorization, construction has to stop!"
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