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February 27, 2025
NC Pharmacy Settles Feds' Suit Over Opioid Records
A North Carolina pharmacy has agreed to pay $204,000 to resolve allegations that it violated federal recordkeeping requirements for controlled substances, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina announced Thursday.
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February 27, 2025
Underdog Sports Runs Disguised Betting Platform, Suit Says
Four users of Underdog Sports, which does business as Underdog Fantasy, have sued the company in New York federal court, alleging it is running an unlicensed sports betting site disguised as a platform for fantasy sports.
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February 27, 2025
DraftKings To Pay $10M In NFT Proposed Class Settlement
DraftKings Inc. will pay $10 million to users of the sports betting site who owned nonfungible tokens offered through its marketplace, according to a proposed settlement in the putative class action.
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February 27, 2025
US Senate Panel Advances Trump's Labor Secretary Pick
A U.S. Senate committee voted Thursday to move forward the nomination of former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer to lead the U.S. Department of Labor.
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February 26, 2025
High Court Halts Trump's Wed. Night Deadline To Restore Aid
The U.S. Supreme Court late Wednesday paused a Washington, D.C., federal judge's late-night deadline ordering the Trump administration to restore nearly $2 billion in foreign assistance funding.
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February 26, 2025
Apple Comms Director's Texts Reveal Criticisms Of Judge
An Apple communications director's text messages came to light Wednesday on the last day of a high-stakes hearing into whether Apple complied with a 2021 antitrust injunction, revealing the director had criticized the judge extensively when the hearing began in May.
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February 26, 2025
DOJ Drops Suits Over Police, Firefighter Discriminatory Hiring
The U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday it was dropping lawsuits across the country over allegedly discriminatory practices for hiring police officers and firefighters, saying the litigation "unjustly targeted fire and police departments for using standard aptitude tests."
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February 26, 2025
Arkansas Hits GM With Suit Over 'Deceptive' Driver Data Sales
Arkansas' attorney general has become the latest to take aim at General Motors Co. over its data privacy practices, filing a lawsuit in state court Wednesday accusing the automaker of padding its profits by deceptively collecting and selling drivers' private data, which purchasers would then resell to insurance companies.
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February 26, 2025
Bank Directors Back Ex-Rabobank Exec's High Court Bid
A bank director advocacy group has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a former Rabobank compliance chief's challenge against the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, arguing the agency engages in a practice of "regulation-by-dismissal" to the detriment of the banking industry.
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February 26, 2025
Merck, Glenmark Trim United Healthcare's Zetia Antitrust Suit
A Minnesota federal judge has trimmed a United Healthcare unit's antitrust suit claiming that Merck and Glenmark conspired to delay a generic version of the anti-cholesterol drug Zetia, throwing out non-Minnesota state-law claims he called a "bare and conclusory pleading."
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February 26, 2025
Trump's CFPB Pick Says Agency's 'Past Excesses' Must End
President Donald Trump's nominee to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will tell senators on Thursday that a "crisis of legitimacy" plagues the beleaguered agency, casting it as an out-of-control regulator that needs to be brought to heel.
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February 26, 2025
Trump Orders Fed Agencies To Plan For Large Layoffs
The White House is telling federal agencies to submit plans for "large-scale" layoffs by mid-March, accusing them of siphoning funding for "unproductive and unnecessary programs" and "not producing results for the American public."
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February 26, 2025
NJ Tech Co. Misled Investors On NASA Partnership, Suit Says
Computer chip manufacturer Quantum Computing Inc. was hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging it overhyped its business relationships, including its partnership with NASA, and lied about its revenues and the progress it made in building a foundry.
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February 26, 2025
Calif. AG's Hiring Of Lieff Cabraser In Climate Suit Challenged
California Attorney General Rob Bonta improperly hired Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP to assist with the state's climate deception suit against fossil fuel companies when attorneys in his office were capable of handling the litigation, the union representing the public lawyers contended in a newly filed state court complaint.
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February 26, 2025
Ga. Judge OKs Deal To End Feds' Apartment Access Probe
A Georgia federal judge has signed off on a series of consent orders resolving a civil suit brought by the federal government against a Savannah apartment complex and a local housing authority over allegations that they denied a disabled resident an accessible apartment in spite of her repeated accommodation requests.
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February 26, 2025
Trump CFTC Shifts Enforcement Stance From Stick To Carrot
In a sign that it is backing off a more aggressive tone on enforcement during the second Trump administration, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has provided what it says is first-of-its-kind guidance on how much money regulated entities can expect to save for cooperating with agency investigations.
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February 26, 2025
Debt Collectors Accused Of Preying On Fla. Military Members
Two debt collectors operating in Florida are accused of repeatedly violating the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by filing lawsuits to collect consumer debt from military service members after the statutes of limitation expired on claims, according to a proposed class action filed Wednesday in federal court in Jacksonville.
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February 26, 2025
Trump Order May Affect Trader's FCPA Conviction, DOJ Says
Federal prosecutors say an oil trader from Connecticut should not win his bid to undo his overseas bribery conviction, but noted that the case's future is uncertain given President Donald Trump's executive order pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act cases.
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February 26, 2025
Senators Want Federal Broadband Money To Be Tax-Exempt
Telecom companies set to collectively receive billions in federal dollars aimed at subsidizing the build-out of broadband infrastructure won't have to pay taxes on those funds, if a bipartisan group of senators gets its way.
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February 26, 2025
Broadcasters Say Next-Gen TV Transition Must Move Faster
It's time to finish up the transition to the next generation of television broadcasting, and the Federal Communications Commission should move things along or the "realistic window for implementation could pass," broadcasters are telling the agency.
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February 26, 2025
EPA's Enviro Justice Reset Upending Community Relations
The Trump administration's undertaking to root out environmental justice staffers, programs and funding has sown confusion and ruptured relationships with communities that had worked more closely with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in recent years.
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February 26, 2025
Dewberry Ruling May Lead To More Defendants In TM Fights
Plaintiffs in trademark disputes likely will consider including multiple defendants in their complaints when it's unclear who holds the profits from the alleged infringement, according to intellectual property attorneys, after the U.S. Supreme Court remanded a case because nonparty affiliates of a defendant were ordered to pay an award that reached nearly $47 million.
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February 26, 2025
Chicago Nonprofit Sues Trump Over Anti-DEI Orders
A Chicago-based women's trade group sued the Trump administration in Illinois federal court Wednesday, claiming his recent executive orders restricting federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs are unconstitutional and unlawfully chill the organization's free speech.
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February 26, 2025
Ex-CFTC Chair Says Congress 'Can Do Better' On Stablecoins
Senate Democrats questioned the consumer protection provisions included in recently proposed stablecoin legislation at a Wednesday digital asset subcommittee hearing, which saw a former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission chair argue that lawmakers "can do a lot better" than the existing proposals.
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February 26, 2025
King & Spalding Alum Confirmed As Trade Rep, 56-43
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved President Donald Trump's pick to be U.S. trade representative in a vote almost entirely across party lines.
Expert Analysis
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Reviewing 2024's Evolving EdTech Privacy Regulations
Lawmakers are trying to keep up with the privacy and security risks of the increasingly prevalent education technology, with last year's developments including the Federal Trade Commission's proposed amendments to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and the U.S. Senate passing two new children's privacy acts, say attorneys at McDermott.
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Nippon, US Steel Face Long Odds On Merger Challenge
Following the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' review of Japan's Nippon Steel's proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel, the companies face a formidable uphill battle in challenging the president's exercise of authority to block the deal on national security grounds, say attorneys at Kirkland.
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Opinion
No, Litigation Funders Are Not 'Fleeing' The District Of Del.
A recent study claimed that litigation funders have “fled” Delaware federal court due to a standing order requiring disclosure of third-party financing, but responsible funders have no problem litigating in this jurisdiction, and many other factors could explain the decline in filings, say Will Freeman and Sarah Tsou at Omni Bridgeway.
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The Compliance Trends And Imperatives On Tap In 2025
The corporate ethics and compliance landscape is rapidly evolving, posing challenges from conflicting stakeholder expectations to technological disruptions, and businesses will need to explore human-centered, data-driven and evidence-based practices, says Hui Chen at CDE Advisors.
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Series
Calif. Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q4
Douglas Thompson at Snell & Wilmer highlights a number of recent and pending issues, actions and potentially pivotal federal regulatory and legislative developments on deck that will affect California banks and financial institutions.
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Hydrogen Regs Will Provide More Certainty — If They Survive
Newly finalized regulations implementing the Section 45V clean hydrogen tax credit allow producers more flexibility, and should therefore help put the industry on more solid footing — but the incoming Trump administration and Republican Congress will have multiple options for overturning or altering the regulations, say attorneys at Steptoe.
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Top 10 Noncompete Developments Of 2024
Following an eventful year in noncompete law at both state and federal levels, employers can no longer rely on a court's willingness to blue-pencil overbroad agreements and are proceeding at their own peril if they do not thoughtfully review and carefully enforce such agreements, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.
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5 E-Discovery Predictions For 2025 And Beyond
In the year to come, e-discovery will be shaped by new and emerging trends, from the adoption of artificial intelligence provisions in protective orders, to the proliferation of emojis as a source of evidence in contemporary litigation, say attorneys at Littler.
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NY Plastic Pollution Verdict May Not Bode Well For Other Suits
The dismissal of New York state's public nuisance complaint against PepsiCo over pollution of the Buffalo River with the company's single use plastic bottles may not augur well for similar lawsuits filed by Baltimore and Los Angeles County, although tort law varies from state to state, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.
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Key Ethical Issues For Gov't Attys Moving To Private Practice
Transitioning from government service to private practice presents complex ethical challenges for attorneys, including navigating conflicts of interest, confidential information rules and post-employment restrictions, say attorneys at HWG.
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Climate Disclosure Spotlight Shifts To 2 Calif. Laws
With Donald Trump's election spelling the all-but-certain demise of the proposed federal climate disclosure rules, new laws in California currently stand as the nation's only broadly applicable climate disclosure requirements — and their brevity is both a blessing and a curse, say attorneys at Davis Polk.
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A Deep Dive Into DOJ's Proposed FARA Shake-Up
The U.S. Department of Justice's recently published and long-awaited proposed amendments to the Foreign Agents Registration Act's implementing regulations, if adopted, would mark dramatic changes to the commercial exemption and new requirements for labeling informational materials, says Tessa Capeloto at Wiley.
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What's Ahead As Transparency Act Comes To A Crossroads
Synthesizing the contrasting federal district and appellate court rulings on the Corporate Transparency Act’s validity reveals several main areas of debate that will likely remain at issue as challenges to the law continue winding through the courts, say attorneys at Farella Braun.
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What 2024 Tells Us About Calif. Health Transaction Reviews
Looking back at the California Office of Health Care Affordability's first year accepting notices for material healthcare transactions reveals critical lessons on what the OHCA's review process may mean for the future of covered transactions in the state, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.
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Final Hydrogen Tax Credit Regs Add Flexibility For Producers
The recently released final regulations implementing the Inflation Reduction Act's clean hydrogen production tax credit offer taxpayers greater flexibility, reducing risk and creating more certainty for investments in the industry, thus diminishing — but not eliminating — the risk of legal challenges to the regulations, say attorneys at Steptoe.