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July 30, 2025
EPA Extends Compliance Deadlines For Methane Control Rule
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is extending certain compliance deadlines for a Biden-era rule that imposed sweeping new methane control requirements for oil and gas infrastructure.
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July 30, 2025
UFC Fighters Seek Penalty For Discovery Delays In Wage Spat
Fighters suing UFC over allegations of wage suppression have asked a Nevada federal judge to impose terminating sanctions on the organization and its parent company, TKO Operating Co. LLC, for failing to turn over court-ordered documents.
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July 30, 2025
ImmunityBio Investors Nab Initial OK On Derivative Suit Deal
A California federal judge has granted initial approval to a deal ending derivative claims that ImmunityBio executives failed to disclose manufacturing deficiencies that doomed the company's lead cancer drug application.
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July 30, 2025
TD Bank Can't Beat Suit Over $3B AML Fine, Investors Say
TD Bank investors have urged a New York federal judge not to toss their class action over stock price drops the Canadian bank suffered after U.S. authorities announced a $3 billion settlement covering anti-money laundering compliance failures, saying it is undisputed that TD "vastly underinvested in AML compliance efforts" for over a decade.
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July 30, 2025
GTCR Denied Rival's Old Sales Prospects Data In FTC Case
An Illinois federal judge refused Tuesday to force a rival medical device coatings company to cough up old sales projections data so private equity firm GTCR BC Holdings can defend against a Federal Trade Commission challenge to its $627 million purchase of Surmodics.
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July 30, 2025
Gov't Contracting Policies To Watch In The 2nd Half Of 2025
A planned overhaul of the Federal Acquisition Regulation and the implementation of a fee-shifting provision for unsuccessful U.S. Government Accountability Office bid protests headline a slate of policy initiatives for government contractors to watch for during the second half of this year.
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July 30, 2025
Amazon Denied 'Mini-Trial' Against Shoppers' Proposed Class
A Washington state federal judge summarily refused Wednesday to let Amazon interrogate the expert witness backing a bid for class action status covering tens of millions of consumers, finding that the proposal for evidentiary hearing, with cross-examination, is unneeded.
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July 30, 2025
Cable Industry Seeks Bar On Rate Regulation Under BEAD
Independent cable providers are urging the U.S. Department of Commerce to guard against policies that could be construed as rate regulation as it continues a revamp of more than $42 billion in broadband funding to states and territories.
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July 30, 2025
Fla. AG Allowed To Drop Sandoz Generics Price-Fixing Claims
After several months of wrangling over the terms of a $10 million generic drug price-fixing settlement, a Connecticut federal judge on Wednesday granted Florida's request to permanently drop its claims against Sandoz, finding that it would be an abuse of discretion to hold up the resolution any longer.
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July 30, 2025
DC Judge Demands More Details On Atty's Fake Citations
In a minute order entered Wednesday, the Washington, D.C., federal judge presiding over a former executive's qui tam False Claims Act suit against a government contractor ordered plaintiff's counsel to provide more information on how nine citation errors came to be included in a motion last week, calling explanations to date "wholly inadequate."
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July 30, 2025
Trump Official Denies Shutting Down FEMA Disaster Program
The administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told a Massachusetts federal judge that President Donald Trump's administration has not decided whether to end the agency's flagship natural disaster protection program, despite a lawsuit by 20 states claiming it had been shut down.
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July 30, 2025
Housing Groups Want $30M Grant Case Kept In District Court
A coalition of housing advocacy groups challenging the termination of $30 million in federal antidiscrimination grants asked the First Circuit on Wednesday to let the Massachusetts federal district court keep jurisdiction over the case, if only to keep it alive long enough to figure out next steps.
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July 30, 2025
OCC Hires Top Skadden Banking Atty As New Chief Counsel
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Wednesday that it is bringing on one of the leaders of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's bank regulatory practice to serve as the agency's new top lawyer.
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July 30, 2025
RealPage, Landlords Ask To Toss NJ's Antitrust Case
RealPage and a group of building owners urged a New Jersey federal court to toss a case brought by state enforcers accusing them of scheming to use software to raise rents, calling it one in a series of "baseless" lawsuits that fails to allege there was any kind of conspiracy.
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July 30, 2025
Honeywell, Fund's $1.2M Liability Dispute Sent To Arbitration
A Washington federal judge has paused a union pension fund's suit seeking nearly $1.2 million after, the suit says, Honeywell International Inc. stopped contributions and withdrew from the fund, ordering the parties to arbitrate over when the company received notice for its withdrawal liability.
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July 30, 2025
Ore. Clarifies Info Disclosure For Enterprise Zone Tax Breaks
Oregon specified which of a business's records are exempt from disclosure when applying for an enterprise zone property tax exemption and clarified eligibility requirements under a bill signed by the governor.
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July 30, 2025
Landlords Not Covered For Lead Exposure Suit, Insurer Says
An insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify property owners accused of negligently renting out an apartment with hazardous levels of lead that injured a child, the carrier told an Illinois federal court, saying the owners' policy bars coverage for bodily injury caused by lead.
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July 30, 2025
Apple Says DOJ Attacking Legitimate 'Design Choices'
Apple leaned on a familiar playbook of privacy, security and independent choice in its answer to the U.S. Department of Justice monopolization lawsuit in New Jersey federal court, arguing the government "fundamentally misunderstands" the restrictions it imposes on iMessage, smartwatch compatibility, mobile wallets, cloud gaming and more.
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July 30, 2025
Samourai Wallet Execs Cop To Money-Transmitting Charges
Two Samourai Wallet executives told a Manhattan federal judge Wednesday that they facilitated bitcoin transfers derived from criminal activity, pleading guilty to scheming to use their crypto-mixer as an unlicensed money transmitter but avoiding a more serious money-laundering conspiracy count.
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July 29, 2025
States Sue To Block Feds' Demand For Benefit Recipient Data
Nearly two dozen state attorneys general are fighting the USDA's directive for states to turn over private information about millions of food assistance benefit recipients, arguing in a new lawsuit filed in California federal court that this demand violates multiple privacy laws and the U.S. Constitution.
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July 29, 2025
sa国际传媒 Plans 'Accelerated' Push To Revamp Open Banking Rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday persuaded a Kentucky federal judge to stay a banking industry legal challenge to its Biden-era open banking rule, saying it now plans to rewrite the rule on an "accelerated" basis and expects to start next month.
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July 29, 2025
Tornado Founder Rests Case In $1B Crypto Laundering Trial
Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm on Tuesday rested his defense case, without taking the stand, in a trial over allegations that he and others facilitated the laundering of more than $1 billion via the cryptocurrency tumbler and ran afoul of U.S. sanctions on North Korea.
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July 29, 2025
Axos Wants Justices To Undo Auditor's $1.5M Retaliation Win
BofI Federal Bank, now operating as Axos Bank, has taken its dispute with a former auditor to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to vacate a Ninth Circuit decision upholding a $1.5 million jury verdict in favor of the auditor, who claimed he was fired for whistleblowing.
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July 29, 2025
Oil Co. Misled Investors Prior To $295M Offering, Suit Says
Oil and gas company Sable Offshore Corp. is facing a proposed investor class action alleging the company hurt investors by overpricing a secondary public offering after misrepresenting it had restarted oil production at a field off the coast of California.
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July 29, 2025
5th Circ. Allows Challenge To Nonprofit Political Pro Bono Ban
The Fifth Circuit said Monday a free speech nonprofit has the right to sue members of the Texas Ethics Commission in an attempt to conduct pro bono work for a political organization, saying the commissioners do not have sovereign immunity in their official roles and must face the suit.
Expert Analysis
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Open Banking Is On Ice As sa国际传媒 Seeks To Toss Its Own Rule
Even as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's efforts to toss its open banking rule play out in Kentucky federal court, it remains statutorily required to effectuate consumer access to data, raising questions about how it would replace the previously finalized standard, say attorneys at Cooley.
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SEC, FINRA Obligations In Changing AI Regulatory Landscape
Despite the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent withdrawal of its proposed artificial intelligence conflict rules, financial regulators remain focused on firms developing the correct AI compliance framework, as well as continuously testing and supervising them to ensure they're fit for purpose, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.
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Trump Air Emissions Carveouts Cloud The Regulatory Picture
President Donald Trump's new proclamations temporarily exempting key U.S. industries from air toxics standards, issued under a narrow, rarely-used provision of the Clean Air Act, will likely lead to legal challenges and tighter standards in some states, contributing to further regulatory uncertainty, say attorneys at GableGotwals.
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Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at聽Swift Currie.
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What US Medicine Onshoring Means For Indian Life Sciences
Despite the Trump administration's latest moves to onshore essential medicine manufacturing, India will likely remain an indispensable component of the U.S. drug supply chain, but Indian manufacturers should prepare for stricter compliance checks, says Jashaswi Ghosh at Holon Law Partners.
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How US Cos. Should Prep For Brazil's Int'l Data Transfer Rules
Brazil's National Data Protection Authority's new rules concerning the processing and storing of Brazilians' personal data carry significant reputational risks for the e-commerce, financial services, education and health sectors, so U.S. companies with business in Brazil should prepare ahead of the Aug. 23 compliance date, says Juliane Chaves Ferreira at Guimar茫es & Vieira de Mello.
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APA Relief May Blunt Justices' Universal Injunction Ruling
The Administrative Procedure Act鈥檚 avenue for universal preliminary relief seems to hold the most promise for neutralizing the U.S. Supreme Court鈥檚 decision in Trump v. CASA to limit federal district courts' nationally applicable orders, say attorneys at Crowell.
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Wells Fargo Suit Shows Consumer Protection Limits In Mass.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court's May decision in Wells Fargo Bank v. Coulsey underscores that consumer rights are balanced against the need for closure, and even the broad protections of state consumer protection law will not open the door to relitigating the same claims, say attorneys at Greenberg Traurig.
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Ohio Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q2
Ohio's financial services sector saw several significant developments in the second quarter of 2025, including a case that confirmed credit unions' setoff rights, another that established contract rights between banks and cardholders, and the House passage of a digital asset bill, say attorneys at Frost Brown.
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Building Better Earnouts In The Current M&A Climate
In the face of market uncertainty, we've seen a continued reliance on earnouts in M&A deals so far this year, but to reduce the risk of related litigation, it's important to use objective standards, apply company metrics cautiously and ensure short time periods, among other best practices, say attorneys at White & Case.
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Managing Risks As State AGs Seek To Fill Enforcement Gap
Given an unprecedented surge in state attorney general activity resulting from significant shifts in federal enforcement priorities, companies must consider tailored strategies for navigating the ever-evolving risk landscape, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.
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A Deep Dive Into 14 Nixed Gensler-Era SEC Rule Proposals
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last month formally withdrew 14 notices of proposed rulemaking, including several significant and widely criticized proposals that had been issued under former Chair Gary Gensler's leadership, signaling a clear and definitive shift away from the previous administration, say attorneys at Dechert.
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Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion
In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.
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A Look At Trump 2.0 Antitrust Enforcement So Far
The first six months of President Donald Trump's second administration were marked by aggressive antitrust enforcement tempered by traditional structural remedies for mergers, but other unprecedented actions, like the firing of Federal Trade Commission Democrats, will likely stoke heated discussion ahead, says Richard Dagen at Axinn.
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FCA Working Group Reboot Signals EHR Compliance Risk
The revival of the False Claims Act working group is an aggressive expansion of enforcement efforts by the Justice Department and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services targeted toward technology-enabled fraud involving electronic health records and other data, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.