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September 16, 2025
FCC Tells 1st Circ. It Will Revamp Prison Phone Caps In Oct.
The First Circuit has declined to hold off a court challenge to the Federal Communications Commission's recently adopted prison phone rate caps despite the agency saying it plans to rework the rules in October.
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September 16, 2025
Deaf Renters Secure Class Cert. In Building Safety Suit
A New York federal judge on Tuesday certified two classes of hearing-impaired or deaf residents at adjacent Manhattan buildings, amid a tenant's claims that the owners failed to install critical safety measures at the properties designed to house hearing-impaired residents.
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September 16, 2025
DC Circ. Asked To Look At ADA Injunction In Segregation Case
Washington, D.C., wants the D.C. Circuit to narrow an injunction commanding the district to help people in Medicaid-funded nursing homes move out of those facilities and into less restrictive forms of care, as the litigation approaches its 15th birthday.
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September 16, 2025
Feds Seek Toss Of DC Hemp Store's Home-Rule Challenge
The United States government on Monday urged a federal judge to dismiss a challenge to federal policy restricting the nation's capital from regulating marijuana and hemp sales, saying the local retailer that brought the action lacked standing to sue.
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September 16, 2025
Rev Up Mobile Data Speed Standards, Rural Carriers Say
The federal target for mobile broadband speeds should be based on coverage provided to moving vehicles rather than to outdoor stationary devices, a trade group for rural wireless carriers told the Federal Communications Commission.
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September 16, 2025
Dems Renew Push To Ban Credit Checks In Hiring
Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation that would bar employers from requiring job applicants to disclose their credit history as part of the hiring process, saying the bill would remove a barrier that disproportionately hurts women and minority workers.
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September 16, 2025
US Asks Court To Sink Vermont Climate Superfund Law
The Trump administration, Republican-led states and business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and American Petroleum Institute on Monday asked a Vermont federal court to kill the state's climate Superfund law.
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September 16, 2025
Twitter Stock Maven Tells Jury He Was 'Addicted' To Trading
An Ohio salesman accused of securities fraud told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday that he was hooked on trading penny stocks, after a rough morning of testimony during which a lawyer from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission forced him to admit his goal was to move share prices.
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September 16, 2025
Plant Bailout Cost Approvals Were Premature, FERC Told
Environmental and consumer advocates say the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission jumped the gun in approving plans to charge power consumers for the continued operation of retiring power plants that the Trump administration has controversially ordered to remain open.
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September 16, 2025
FTC Chair Pledges 'Action' Against Late Merger Fixes
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson vowed Tuesday to take unspecified "action" against tactics by merging companies to propose fixes only after antitrust enforcers bring a transaction challenge, a strategy he called "bad for the system."
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September 16, 2025
FCC Seeks Feedback On Call For Better Signal Booster Regs
The Federal Communications Commission is mulling a nonprofit's proposal to update its industrial signal booster rules, which the group says "left significant implementation gaps" when they were put in place over a decade ago.
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September 16, 2025
USDOT Orders Scuttling Of Delta-Aeromexico Joint Venture
The Trump administration has ordered Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico to scuttle their joint venture by Jan. 1, saying they gained an unfair advantage in the market after the Mexican government abruptly restricted flights from other carriers at Mexico City's primary airport.
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September 16, 2025
Senate Democrats Urge Chamber Not To Recriminalize Hemp
A group of Democratic U.S. senators on Tuesday urged the chamber's leaders not to adopt language in an appropriations bill that would drastically redefine the definition of legal hemp and which they say could ruin the nationwide hemp industry.
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September 16, 2025
Lowe's Skirts NC Class Actions Over Alleged False Discounts
A North Carolina federal judge threw out two proposed consumer class actions alleging Lowe's tricks customers into thinking they're getting a good deal with falsely advertised discount prices on products, finding the alleged harm for potential class members is too speculative.
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September 16, 2025
TikTok Accused Of Withholding Docs On Anorexic Influencer
Personal injury plaintiffs have told a California magistrate judge presiding over discovery in multidistrict litigation that TikTok is refusing to hand over more information about the app's relationship with Eugenia Cooney, a TikTok influencer with anorexia and 2.8 million followers, according to a document unsealed on Monday.
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September 16, 2025
Mother Claims Aquaphor Healing Ointment Contains Allergen
A California mother of two is suing Beiersdorf Inc. in federal court, alleging that its infant and children's healing ointments contain a common allergen despite being marketed as hypoallergenic.
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September 16, 2025
Fla. Sues Porn Sites For Violating Age-Verification Law
Florida's attorney general has sued several online pornography platforms in state court, claiming they are openly violating a state law that requires them to verify users' ages before allowing access.
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September 15, 2025
FTC Dem Urges Justices Not To Disturb Her Reinstatement
U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court not to block her reinstatement, arguing lower courts were correct in finding that President Donald Trump violated the law when he removed the Democrat from her post without cause.
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September 15, 2025
Google Consumers' Attys Seek $85M In Fees For $700M Deal
Attorneys who helped consumers reach a still-pending $700 million antitrust deal with Google in 2023 have urged a California federal judge to grant them $85 million in attorney fees, saying the settlement, reached alongside state attorneys general, was an "exceptional" result obtained in the "face of substantial litigation uncertainty."
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September 15, 2025
Uber Riders Use Service 'At Their Own Risk,' Senior VP Says
An Uber Technologies Inc. executive testified Monday during a bellwether trial over sexual assault allegations against the ride-hailing giant that Uber passengers accept rides with its drivers "at their own risk."
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September 15, 2025
Ch. 11 Plan Faces Blowback From 23andMe Breach Claimants
More than 30,000 individuals who elected to pursue arbitration rather than sign on to a proposed class settlement over a data breach at 23andMe are urging a Missouri bankruptcy judge to reject the DNA testing company's notice of its reorganization plan, arguing that the disclosure provides misleading and inflated information about the company's agreement with these claimants.
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September 15, 2025
Roblox Safety Failures Hurt Both Kids And Parents, Suit Says
Roblox's alleged safety failures not only endanger children, it forces parents to either abandon money they already spent on the gaming platform's digital currency or spend additional money on safety tools to protect children who continue to use it, according to a proposed class action filed in California federal court.
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September 15, 2025
Rocket Mortgage Can't Defeat DOJ's Racial Bias Suit
A Colorado federal judge has declined to toss the federal government's race discrimination suit against Rocket Mortgage, an appraisal management company and an appraiser, finding, among other things, that Rocket could have requested correction of the appraisal at the heart of the suit.
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September 15, 2025
Ex-Voyager CEO To Pay $750K To Resolve CFTC Action
A New York federal judge signed off on a deal Monday that will have the former CEO of Voyager Digital pay $750,000 to resolve the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's claims he misled investors about the safety of the crypto lender prior to its collapse.
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September 15, 2025
Social Media Apps Can't Toss Mental Health Suit In Mass Tort
A California state judge denied a bid from Meta Platforms, Snap and TikTok on Monday to toss a suit from consolidated litigation alleging the companies harm users' mental health, saying a jury can decide if the plaintiff should have been put on notice about her alleged injuries from news articles.
Expert Analysis
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Regulating Online Activity After Porn Site Age Check Ruling
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding an age verification requirement for accessing online adult sexual content applied a lenient rational basis standard, raising questions for how state and federal courts will determine what kinds of laws regulating online activity will satisfy this standard going forward, say attorneys at Hogan Lovells.
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White House Report Strikes An Optimistic Note On Crypto
Taking seriously President Donald Trump's pledge to adopt a pro-innovation mindset toward digital assets and blockchain technologies, a recent benchmark White House report on crypto provides a comprehensive regulatory framework that takes into account the products' novel characteristics within the high-tech ecosystem, say attorneys at Davis Wright.
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Series
Law School's Missed Lessons: Negotiation Skills
I took one negotiation course in law school, but most of the techniques I rely on today I learned in practice, where I've discovered that the process is less about tricks or tactics, and more about clarity, preparation and communication, says Grant Schrantz at Haug Barron.
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AG Watch: Texas Embraces The MAHA Movement
Attorneys at Kelley Drye examine Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's actions related to the federal Make America Healthy Again movement, and how these actions hinge on representations or omissions by the target companies as opposed to specific analyses of the potential health risks.
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DOJ Whistleblower Program May Fuel Criminal Antitrust Tack
A recently launched Justice Department program that provides rewards for reporting antitrust crimes related to the U.S. Postal Service will serve to supplement the department’s leniency program, signaling an ambition to expand criminal enforcement while deepening collaboration across agencies, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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How Community Banks Can Limit Overdraft Class Action Risk
With community banks increasingly confronted with class actions claiming deceptive overdraft fees, local institutions should consider proactively revising their customer policies and agreements to limit their odds of facing costly and complicated consumer litigation, say attorneys at Jones Walker.
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Opinion
Bar Exam Reform Must Expand Beyond A Single Updated Test
Recently released information about the National Conference of Bar Examiners’ new NextGen Uniform Bar Exam highlights why a single test is not ideal for measuring newly licensed lawyers’ competency, demonstrating the need for collaborative development, implementation and reform processes, says Gregory Bordelon at Suffolk University.
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Location Data And Online Tracking Trends To Watch
Regulators and class action plaintiffs are increasingly targeting companies' use of online tracking technologies and geolocation data in both privacy enforcement and litigation, so organizations should view compliance as a dynamic, cross-functional responsibility as scrutiny becomes increasingly aggressive and multifaceted, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.
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A Simple Way Courts Can Help Attys Avoid AI Hallucinations
As attorneys increasingly rely on generative artificial intelligence for legal research, courts should consider expanding online quality control programs to flag potential hallucinations — permitting counsel to correct mistakes and sparing judges the burden of imposing sanctions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl and Connors.
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DOJ Consumer Branch's End Leaves FDA Litigation Questions
With the dissolution of the U.S. Department of Justice's Consumer Protection Branch set to occur by Sept. 30, companies must carefully monitor how responsibility is reallocated for civil and criminal enforcement cases related to products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, say attorneys at Foley & Lardner.
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Surveying The Changing Overdraft Fee Landscape
Despite recent federal moves that undermine consumer overdraft fee protections, last year’s increase in fee charges suggests banks will face continued scrutiny via litigation and state regulation, says Amanda Kurzendoerfer at Bates White.
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Tracking The Evolving Legal Landscape Of Music Festivals
The legal infrastructure behind music festivals is anything but simple, so attorneys advising clients in this space should be prepared for a wide range of legal challenges, including the unexpected risks that come with live events, says Meesha Moulton at Meesha Moulton Law.
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The Evolving Legal Landscape For THC-Infused Beverages
A recent Eighth Circuit ruling, holding that states may restrict the sale of intoxicating hemp-derived products without violating federal law, combined with ongoing regulatory uncertainty at both the federal and state levels, could alter the trajectory of the THC-infused beverage market, say attorneys at Pashman Stein.
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Antitrust Scrutiny Heightens In The Cannabis Industry
Two ongoing antitrust cases signal intensified scrutiny of pricing practices, distribution restraints and exclusionary conduct in the cannabis sector, says Robin Crauthers at McCarter & English.
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Series
Creating Botanical Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Pressing and framing plants that I grow has shown me that pursuing an endeavor that brings you joy can lead to surprising benefits for a legal career, including mental clarity, perspective and even a bit of humility, says Douglas Selph at Morris Manning.