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March 19, 2025
Judge Tosses Vroom Investors' IPO Suit Due To Vague Claims
A New York federal judge has tossed a stockholder class action against Vroom Inc. over issues with its $468 million initial public offering, finding that none of the more than 50 challenged statements in the complaint made about the online car retailer's customer service or business plan are actionable.
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March 19, 2025
Greenpeace Owes More Than $660M In Dakota Pipeline Case
A jury has ordered Greenpeace to pay more than $666 million in a suit alleging the group falsely disparaged the Dakota Access Pipeline project amid environmental protests, a case the organization has called a threat to its future and an attack on free speech.
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March 19, 2025
AI Is Growing Focus For Corporate Boards, Proxy Proposals
Public companies and their investors increasingly set their sights on artificial intelligence last year, according to a report released Wednesday indicating the rapidly evolving technology was a major focus when it came to both board-level oversight and shareholder proxy proposals.
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March 19, 2025
Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2025 Editorial Boards
Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2025 Editorial Advisory Boards.
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March 19, 2025
'They're Walking Away': Ripple Labs Says SEC To Drop Appeal
Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse said Wednesday the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will drop its Second Circuit appeal of a summary judgment in its headline-grabbing enforcement action over Ripple's XRP token.
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March 19, 2025
Judge Won't Unfreeze Climate Grantees' EPA Funds
A Washington, D.C., federal judge said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hasn't provided an adequate explanation for its termination of $20 billion in grant funding for climate change projects and blocked it from taking further action — but declined to order that the money be released.
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March 18, 2025
OCC's Hood Says He Won't Tolerate 'Odious' Debanking
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's acting chief, Rodney Hood, told bankers on Tuesday that his agency won't tolerate so-called debanking, saying "lawful" businesses — including crypto firms — should be eligible for bank accounts and other services.
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March 18, 2025
BofA Must Face Parts of Pandemic Benefits Cards Suit
A Baltimore federal judge on Tuesday trimmed claims in a proposed class action alleging Bank of America mismanaged Maryland's unemployment benefits debit cards during the pandemic, ruling that the customer may keep claims relating to Maryland privacy laws and potential breaches of contract.
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March 18, 2025
Comerica Says Amended CFPB Suit Is A Delay Tactic
Comerica Bank has asked a Texas federal judge to toss a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau suit alleging the bank mismanaged a government benefit card program, arguing the agency is trying to stall the case by filing an amended complaint after the court rejected its stay bid.
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March 18, 2025
Trump Admin Asks 4th Circ. To Halt Employee Rehiring Order
The Trump administration on Monday evening asked the Fourth Circuit for an emergency stay of a Maryland federal judge's restraining order requiring the reinstatement of probationary employees who were fired from 18 federal agencies, saying the suing states don't have standing to represent the fired workers.
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March 18, 2025
10th Circ. Judge Probes Colo. On Opt-Out Law's Lender 'Focus'
A Tenth Circuit judge asked Colorado how it can claim that an interest rate opt-out provision hinges on a borrower's location when "it's pretty clear" the statute it falls under is focused on lenders, at a hearing Tuesday in banking groups' challenge to a state law capping interest rates on consumer lending.
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March 18, 2025
Citi, HSBC Ink $12M Deal To End UK Bond Price-Fixing Suit
A New York federal judge gave his preliminary blessing Monday to a $12 million settlement between investors and major financial institutions, including Citigroup and HSBC Bank, in a proposed antitrust class action accusing the banks' traders of colluding to fix the prices of U.K. government bonds through digital communications.
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March 18, 2025
PetroSaudi Says Feds' Suit Over $380M Award Must Proceed
A PetroSaudi unit is fighting the U.S. government's bid to stay its years-long suit to seize part of a $380 million arbitral award while criminal proceedings in Switzerland play out against the unit's former owner, telling a California federal court the move is a stall tactic.
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March 18, 2025
Trump Fires FTC's Democrats, But Both Vow To Fight
President Donald Trump fired the Federal Trade Commission's two Democrats on Tuesday, a move the commissioners vowed to fight and that further tees up the brewing legal battle over separation between the White House and independent agencies.
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March 18, 2025
BlackRock Calls Red States' Suit Over Coal Prices 'Farfetched'
BlackRock Inc. and two other large asset managers have urged a Texas federal judge to toss claims brought by a coalition of Republican-led states alleging the firms ran a scheme to drive up coal prices as part of an "investment cartel," saying the case "spins a farfetched theory."
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March 18, 2025
Bancorp Downplayed CRE Bridge Loan Risks, Investor Claims
An investor in The Bancorp Inc. is accusing the financial holding company in Delaware federal court of causing stock value to decline by misleading investors, including by not fully disclosing how its commercial real estate bridge loans were in danger of defaulting.
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March 18, 2025
Convicted Insurance Mogul's Co. Liable For $57M Fraud
A Malta-based advisory firm controlled by convicted insurance mogul Greg Lindberg violated the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 by helping facilitate his misappropriation of $57 million in client funds, a North Carolina federal court ruled, noting Lindberg and another firm executive already admitted to fraud in separate consent judgments.
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March 18, 2025
Bank Groups Push For Permanent Block On Ill. Swipe Fee Law
Banking industry groups moved late Monday to deliver a final blow to an Illinois state law that bans swipe fees on tax and tip portions of payment card transactions, asking a Chicago federal judge to go ahead and finish off the ban before it takes effect this summer.
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March 17, 2025
Yeti Escapes Suit Over Third-Party Info Sharing
A California federal judge has freed Yeti from a woman's proposed class action accusing the cooler and drinkware company of disclosing people's personal and financial information to a payment processor without consent, saying the woman's now twice-amended complaint didn't fix problems the court had previously highlighted.
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March 17, 2025
DOGE Wants Judge To Reconsider Records Production Order
The Department of Government Efficiency has asked a D.C. federal judge to reconsider an order requiring it to share requested records with a watchdog group, doubling down on its position that DOGE is not an agency subject to public records law.
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March 17, 2025
OCC Green-Lights SmartBiz, Centrust Fintech Bank
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced Monday it has given the green light for SmartBiz Loans to roll its new acquisition, CenTrust Bank NA, into a financial technology company called SmartBiz Bank NA.
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March 17, 2025
Wells Fargo Says OCC Has Closed Home Loan Consent Order
Wells Fargo & Co. on Monday said the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has closed a consent order related to its home lending business, marking the eleventh consent order against the bank that regulators have closed in recent years and another step forward in its regulatory rehabilitation efforts.
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March 17, 2025
4th Circ. Revives Tenant's FCRA Suit Over Disputed Debt
The Fourth Circuit has revived a tenant's lawsuit over an allegedly bogus charge from her landlord, ruling that collection agencies are not exempt from their obligation to investigate Fair Credit Reporting Act claims if they involve a legal dispute.
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March 17, 2025
9th Circ. Says Capital One Cyberattacker Sentence Too Light
A split Ninth Circuit panel Monday said a lower court judge was too lenient in sentencing a former Amazon.com Inc. coder to probation for orchestrating one of the nation's latest data breach crimes, finding that the district court judge erred in finding her actions were not "malicious."
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March 17, 2025
Florida Businessman Pleads Guilty To Hiding $20M From IRS
A Florida businessman faces up to five years in prison after he pled guilty Monday to hiding $20 million in Swiss bank accounts from the Internal Revenue Service.
Expert Analysis
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A Judge's Pointers For Adding Spice To Dry Legal Writing
U.S. District Judge Fred Biery shares a few key lessons about how to go against the grain of the legal writing tradition by adding color to bland judicial opinions, such as by telling a human story and injecting literary devices where possible.
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A Closer Look At Money Laundering Sentencing Issues
Federal money laundering cases are on the rise, often involving lengthy prison sentences for defendants who have little to no criminal history, but a closer look at the statistics and case law reveal some potentially valuable arguments that defense attorneys should keep in their arsenal, says Sarah Sulkowski at Gelber & Santillo.
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Why NY May Want To Reconsider Its LLC Transparency Law
Against the backdrop of the myriad challenges to the federal Corporate Transparency Act, it may be prudent for New York to reconsider its adoption of the LLC Transparency Act, since it's unclear whether the Empire State's "baby-CTA" statute is still necessary or was passed prematurely, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Pleading Rules At Stake In High Court Hamas Banking Case
While a case between victims of Hamas terrorist attacks and a Lebanese bank, recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, appears to ask a narrow question of which civil procedure rules apply to requests to reopen final judgments, how the justices rule could drastically change pleading strategies for future plaintiffs, say attorneys at Dorsey & Whitney.
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Expectations For SEC Exams As Private Credit Market Grows
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may rely heavily on its Division of Examinations for regulating private credit markets amid their expansion into the retail investor space, so investment advisers should be prepared to address several likely areas of focus when confronted with an exam, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Considerations As Trump Admin Continues To Curtail CFPB
Recent sweeping moves from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new leadership have signaled a major shift in the agency's trajectory, and regulated entities should prepare for broader implications in both the near and long term, say attorneys at Pryor Cashman.
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6th Circ. Ruling Paves Path Out Of Loper Bright 'Twilight Zone'
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright ruling created a twilight zone between express statutory delegations that trigger agency deference and implicit ones that do not, but the Sixth Circuit’s recent ruling in Moctezuma-Reyes v. Garland crafted a two-part test for resolving cases within this gray area, say attorneys at Wiley.
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Cos. Should Prepare For Mexican Payments Surveillance Tool
The recent designation of six Mexican cartels as "specially designated global terrorists" will allow the Treasury Department to scrutinize nearly any Mexico-related payment through its Terrorist Finance Tracking Program — a rigorous evaluation for which even sophisticated sanctions compliance programs are not prepared, says Jeremy Paner at Hughes Hubbard.
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What's Potentially In Store For CFTC Under New Leadership
Under the leadership of acting U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Caroline Pham, and with the nomination of former commissioner Brian Quintenz to serve as permanent chair, the commission is set to widely embrace digital assets and event contracts, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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Revived Executive Order Is A Deregulatory Boon To Banks
A recently reinstated 2019 executive order reveals the Trump administration’s willingness to provide unprecedented protections for regulated parties — including financial institutions — but to claim them, banks and other entities must adopt a forward-leaning posture to work with the regulators, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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2 Practical Ways For Banks To Battle Elder Financial Abuse
Federal regulators' recent statement raising awareness of elder financial exploitation provides a useful catalog of techniques that banks can employ to fight fraud, particularly encouraging older account holders to establish trusted contacts and sharing timely warnings about the latest scams with customers, say attorneys at Nutter.
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A Look At The Student Loan Case Pending At Supreme Court
The Trump administration is likely to drop the U.S. Supreme Court case of U.S. Department of Education v. Career Colleges and Schools of Texas after its review of the 2022 borrower defense to repayment rule, but any outcome will be significant for institutions participating in programs covered by Title IV of the Higher Education Act, say attorneys at Duane Morris.
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New Fla. Financial Abuse Law May See Limited Buy-In
Florida's newly effective financial protection law comes with compliance burdens and uncertainties that could discourage financial institutions from participating, even though the law aims to shield them from liability for delaying transactions when they suspect exploitation of elderly and vulnerable account holders, say attorneys at Shutts & Bowen.
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7 Tips For Associates To Thrive In Hybrid Work Environments
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
As the vast majority of law firms have embraced some type of hybrid work policy, associates should consider a few strategies to get the most out of both their in-person and remote workdays, says James Argionis at Cozen O’Connor.
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Playing Beach Volleyball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My commitment to beach volleyball has become integral to my performance as an attorney, with the sport continually reminding me that teamwork, perseverance, professionalism and stress management are essential to both undertakings, says Amy Drushal at Trenam.