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October 25, 2024
NCAA Creating Cloudy Future As It Clings To Control
Experts speaking at a symposium from Temple University's Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia drove home the point that the NCAA's multibillion-dollar court settlement providing damages and revenue to past and future college athletes falls far short of settling the remaining challenges to its control of college sports.
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October 25, 2024
Adams Rips Feds, Calling Explanation For Leaks 'Far-Fetched'
Attorneys for New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Friday renewed their claims that the prosecutors handling his bribery and corruption case leaked secret grand jury information to the press, arguing that the alternative explanation that either Adams or his co-defendants made the leaks was a "far-fetched claim."
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October 25, 2024
Ore. Church Rightly Denied Property Tax Break, Court Says
An Oregon religious organization was correctly denied a property tax exemption after its lease to another tax-exempt organization ended and it failed to reapply for the break before a statutory deadline, the state's tax court ruled.
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October 25, 2024
EEOC Gets $110K Default Win In Fired Atty's Retaliation Suit
A government contractor has been ordered to pay its former attorney more than $110,000 in back pay, interest and compensatory damages after a Maryland federal judge found the contractor's CEO retaliated against the lawyer after she turned down his sexual advances.
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October 24, 2024
Trump Again Argues Jack Smith's Appointment Was Illegal
Former President Donald Trump on Thursday said a D.C. federal court should throw out prosecutors' election interference case, repeating the argument he made in the classified documents case against him in Florida and contending that the appointment of special prosecutor Jack Smith was illegal.
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October 24, 2024
Colo. Says Grocers' Execs Get Paid, No Matter The Fallout
Colorado told a state judge Thursday that consumers bear the risk in a proposed $24.6 billion merger between Kroger Co. and Albertsons, arguing grocery executives will still get their multimillion-dollar payouts even if prices go up or stores close.
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October 24, 2024
LinkedIn Hit With €310M Irish Fine For Targeted Ad Practices
Ireland's data protection commission has handed down a €310 million ($335 million) penalty against LinkedIn for allegedly failing to have an adequate legal basis for processing European Union users' personal data for targeted advertising purposes, the regulator announced Thursday.
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October 24, 2024
2nd Circ. Largely OKs Gun Control Law After High Court Order
The Second Circuit on Thursday stood by its previous decision that largely vacated an order enjoining several of New York's gun restrictions, saying a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling the high court told it to consider on remand had "little direct bearing" on its prior conclusions.
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October 24, 2024
Colo. Justices Grill State On Biz Names, ID Theft Law
Colorado Supreme Court justices pressed state prosecutors Thursday on why a man's reversed conviction for identity theft should be reinstated, saying the identity theft law's use of "name" as a type of personal information seems to suggest the law refers only to people and not corporations.
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October 24, 2024
High Court Asked To Toss Texas Stay Of Green Card Rule
An immigrant rights group asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to wipe out a Texas order freezing a new program that would allow certain noncitizen relatives of U.S. citizens to stay in the country while seeking green cards, arguing the court improperly used a procedural tool to effectively issue injunctive relief.
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October 24, 2024
Bank Groups Appeal Loss In Suit Over CFPB Small Biz Rules
Lender trade groups that sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over its reporting requirements for small businesses have appealed to the Fifth Circuit after a Texas federal judge granted the bureau's request for summary judgment in August.
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October 24, 2024
USPTO Is Using AI — And More IP Takeaways From Vidal
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal fielded tough questions before a crowd of attorneys Thursday to start the American Intellectual Property Law Association annual meeting, covering topics from her agency's cybersecurity challenges to the backlog of patent and trademark applications.
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October 24, 2024
Think Tank Fights DOJ Pandemic Loan Investigation
The Center for Immigration Studies Inc. is asking a D.C. federal judge to stop the U.S. Department of Justice from demanding its internal documents in a probe into whether the organization misrepresented itself to obtain a pandemic relief loan.
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October 24, 2024
Hemp Shops Sue DC Over Cannabis Raids
Washington, D.C.'s cannabis authority is unjustly targeting two hemp retailers, preventing them from selling a number of their products and pushing them to the "brink of collapse," after incorrectly assuming they sell illicit marijuana, according to a lawsuit filed in D.C. superior court.
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October 24, 2024
Atty Jim Walden Launches Campaign To Be NYC Mayor
Jim Walden of Walden Macht Haran & Williams LLP entered the New York City 2025 mayoral race this week as a new challenger to the recently indicted incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, running on a vow to fight corruption in the city.
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October 24, 2024
7th Circ. Doubts Satanic Temple Can Wage Abortion Fight
A Seventh Circuit panel appeared skeptical Thursday that the Satanic Temple had standing to challenge Indiana's near-complete abortion ban, with questioning turning contentious when one judge pointed out that the religious organization would be blocked from providing abortion drugs through telehealth appointments even without the law.
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October 24, 2024
Seneca Foods Must Pay Steel Duties On Tin Imports
The country's largest vegetable canner must pay Section 232 tariffs to import tin, after the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled that the U.S. Department of Commerce justified its belief that the company could source the steel domestically.
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October 24, 2024
ICE Agrees To Enforce 2009 Parole Policy For Asylum-Seekers
A Washington, D.C., federal judge gave preliminary approval Thursday to an agreement between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and asylum-seekers to resolve a suit alleging immigration officials in New Orleans wrongfully refused to release them on parole.
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October 24, 2024
Biden To Issue Apology For US Role In Boarding Schools
President Joe Biden is expected to issue a formal apology Friday for the federal government's Indian boarding schools during a trip to Arizona's Gila River Indian Community, the first such apology from a sitting president in response to U.S. policies that inflicted trauma on generations of Indigenous communities.
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October 24, 2024
Judges Doubt 'Troublesome' Comments Warrant New Trial
Washington appellate judges appeared skeptical Thursday that a handful of comments could've triggered jury bias and tainted the trial of a Palestinian woman's medical malpractice case, though one judge called it "troublesome" that defense counsel told jurors the accused doctor was "from this part of the world."
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October 24, 2024
CFPB Cautions Over 'Unchecked Surveillance' Of Workers
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Thursday it is taking action to protect consumers from "unchecked surveillance" in the labor force, issuing guidance that warns companies to get consent from workers when using algorithmic hiring scores or other outside profiling data for employment purposes.
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October 24, 2024
Survivors Say They Were Excluded From Tulsa Committee
The two remaining survivors of one of the deadliest incidents of mass race violence in the country's history say the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has excluded them from a commission geared toward recommending how reparations can be made for the 1921 destruction of a once-thriving Black community in Indian Country.
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October 24, 2024
Va. Judge Won't Block Feds' Nonprofit Disclosure Law
A Virginia federal judge on Oct. 24 refused to stop the U.S. Department of the Treasury from enforcing a law that requires nonprofits such as community associations to disclose personal identifying information about their beneficial owners and applicants to a Treasury agency that focuses on stopping financial crimes.
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October 24, 2024
Wash. High Court Lets Anti-Tax Ballot Measure Show Impact
Elections officials are permitted to place financial disclosure information next to a Washington state ballot measure that would repeal the state's tax on capital gains, the Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday, upholding a trial court.
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October 24, 2024
DOJ, DOT Launch Inquiry Into Air Travel Competition
The U.S. departments of Justice and Transportation said Thursday that they're launching a joint inquiry into the state of competition in air travel, the latest in a run of Biden administration competition- and consumer-driven initiatives.
Expert Analysis
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How States Are Approaching AI Workplace Discrimination
As legislators across the U.S. have begun addressing algorithmic discrimination in the workplace, attorneys at Reed Smith provide an overview of the status, applicability and provisions of 13 state and local bills.
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SBA Proposal Materially Alters Contractor Recertification
The Small Business Administration's new proposed rule on recertification affects eligibility for set-aside contracts, significantly alters the landscape for mergers and acquisitions in the government contracts industry, and could have other unintended downstream consequences, says Sam Finnerty at PilieroMazza.
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Series
After Chevron: Conservation Rule Already Faces Challenges
The Bureau of Land Management's interpretation of land "use" in its Conservation and Landscape Health Rule is contrary to the agency's past practice and other Federal Land Policy and Management Act provisions, leaving the rule exposed in four legal challenges that may carry greater force in the wake of Loper Bright, say Stacey Bosshardt and Stephanie Regenold at Perkins Coie.
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A Preview Of AI Priorities Under The Next President
For the first time in a presidential election, both of the leading candidates and their parties have been vocal about artificial intelligence policy, offering clues on the future of regulation as AI continues to advance and congressional action continues to stall, say attorneys at Mintz.
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DOJ Must Overcome Hurdles In RealPage Antitrust Case
The U.S. Department of Justice's recent claims that RealPage's pricing software violates the Sherman Act mark a creative, and apparently contradictory, shift in the agency's approach to algorithmic price-fixing that will face several key challenges, say attorneys at Clifford Chance.
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What To Know About CFPB Stance On Confidentiality Terms
A recent circular from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau represents a growing effort across government agencies to address overbroad confidentiality agreements, and gives employers insight into the bureau's perspective on the issue as it relates to the Consumer Financial Protection Act, say Holly Williamson and Elizabeth King at Hunton.
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Opinion
To Lower Drug Prices, Harris Must Address Patent Thickets
If Vice President Kamala Harris is serious about her pledge to address high drug prices, she must begin by closing loopholes that allow pharmaceutical companies to develop patent thickets that can deter generic or biosimilar companies from entering the market, says Tahir Amin at the Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge.
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How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations
Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.
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ESA Ruling May Jeopardize Gulf Of Mexico Drilling Operations
A Maryland federal court's recent decision in Sierra Club v. National Marine Fisheries Service, vacating key Endangered Species Act analyses of oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico, may create a gap in guidance that could expose operators to enforcement risk and even criminal liability, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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The State Law Landscape After Justices' Social Media Ruling
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent NetChoice ruling on social media platforms’ First Amendment rights, it’s still unclear if state content moderation laws are constitutional, leaving online operators to face a patchwork of regulation, and the potential for the issue to return to the high court, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.
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What's Next For Federal Preemption In Financial Services
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's review of its preemption interpretations and growing pressure from state regulators signal potential changes ahead for preemption in U.S. financial services, and the path forward will likely involve a reevaluation of the entire framework, say attorneys at Clark Hill.
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Avoiding Corporate Political Activity Pitfalls This Election Year
As Election Day approaches, corporate counsel should be mindful of the complicated rules around companies engaging in political activities, including super PAC contributions, pay-to-play prohibitions and foreign agent restrictions, say attorneys at Covington.
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Opinion
Congress Must Do More To Bolster ERISA Protections
As the Employee Retirement Income Security Act turns 50 this month, we applaud Congress for championing a statute that protects worker and retiree rights, but further action is needed to ban arbitration clauses in plan provisions and codify regulations imperiled by the U.S. Supreme Court’s Chevron ruling, say Michelle Yau and Eleanor Frisch at Cohen Milstein.
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Increased Scrutiny Raises Int'l Real Estate Transaction Risks
Recently proposed regulations expanding the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' oversight, a White House divestment order and state-level legislative efforts signal increasing scrutiny of real estate transactions that may trigger national security concerns, say Luciano Racco and Aleksis Fernández Caballero at Foley Hoag.
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Navigating Cybersecurity Rule Changes For Gov't Contractors
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
As federal contractors evaluate the security of their IT systems, they should keep in mind numerous changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulations and the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement recently promulgated to meet new cyber threats, says William Stowe at KBR.