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September 30, 2025
Morgan Stanley Gets Fed Capital Buffer Break After Review
The Federal Reserve Board said Tuesday that it has lowered a key capital requirement for Morgan Stanley after reconsidering its stress-testing results, marking the second time a bank has successfully petitioned for such a break.
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September 30, 2025
Alphabet Judge OKs $500M Investor Deal But Slashes Fee Ask
A California federal judge gave final approval Tuesday to Google parent Alphabet Inc.'s $500 million settlement with investors to resolve claims that executives engaged in anticompetitive and monopolistic practices but granted just $37 million in fees for the plaintiffs' attorneys — less than half of the $80 million sought.
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September 30, 2025
State Telecom Roundup: Age Verification Laws
State laws requiring that websites verify the ages of users in order to access adult content have been picking up speed in recent years. Half the country now has laws on the books that require certain platforms to confirm that users are adults, a trend proponents say will protect children and that opponents have called an attack on the right to access free speech. Here, Law360 takes a look at some of those laws.
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September 30, 2025
New Petition Asks SEC To Nix Quarterly Reporting Rule
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday received a formal petition to allow companies to report their earnings on a semiannual basis, following recent comments from Chairman Paul Atkins indicating the commission was considering as much and after similar suggestions from President Donald Trump.
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September 30, 2025
Regions Bank Brass Must Face Suit Over $191M sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Fine
A Delaware chancellor ruled Tuesday that most board members of Regions Bank cannot escape a shareholder derivative suit over a $191 million fine the bank paid to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2022 for charging unlawful "surprise" overdraft fees on certain debit card transactions and ATM withdrawals.
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September 30, 2025
Credit Suisse Aided Looting Of Tech Exec's Stock, Suit Says
The co-founder of sensing-tech company Aeva Technologies says Credit Suisse provided "institutional cover" to conspirators who stole tens of millions of dollars in Aeva shares from him in what he described as a "calculated, multi-year orchestrated racketeering scheme," according to a suit filed Tuesday in New York federal court.
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September 30, 2025
9th Circ. Asked To Rethink Las Vegas Hotel Pricing Ruling
A proposed class of Las Vegas casino-hotel guests told the Ninth Circuit in a rehearing en banc petition that the entire court must reconsider its prior ruling for their antitrust claims, which alleged that hotel operators and two hospitality software companies conspired to hike up hotel room prices.
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September 30, 2025
Globe Life Can't Escape Investors' Toxic Culture Fraud Suit
A Texas federal court told life insurance company Globe Life Inc. that it cannot escape a proposed shareholder class action alleging that a short-seller report revealed that the company had been ignoring rampant sexual harassment among its employees and participating in fraudulent underwriting practices, saying the suit states plausible claims for relief.
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September 30, 2025
DC Circ. Upholds Contempt Order Against Ex-Fox Journalist
A D.C. Circuit panel on Tuesday affirmed a lower court's contempt order against a former Fox News journalist who refused to reveal a confidential source that leaked FBI investigation materials about a Chinese American scientist.
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September 30, 2025
Waters Warns sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Furloughs Would Be 'Baseless,' 'Harmful'
A senior Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives is warning the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau not to use a looming government shutdown as a "pretext" to furlough employees at the agency, arguing that such an unpaid work stoppage would be unnecessary and dangerous.
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September 30, 2025
Wash. Lake Cleanup Agencies Sued Over Enviro Review
A man whose house overlooks Capitol Lake in Olympia, Washington, is suing a slew of federal and state government agencies over an estuary restoration project near his residence, alleging they have committed millions of dollars in funds without performing an environmental review.
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September 30, 2025
FCC Pushes Prison Phone Jamming, Despite Dem's Concerns
The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday advanced a plan to let state and local prisons jam the signals of contraband cellphones, even as a Democratic commissioner voiced worries about the potential for interference with lawful communications.
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September 30, 2025
Money Damages Off Table In American Airlines ESG Battle
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday rejected American Airlines workers' bid for money damages in a class action alleging an investing emphasis on environmental, social and governance factors in their employee retirement plan violated federal benefits law, finding insufficient evidence that American's loyalty breach caused plan losses.
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September 30, 2025
FinCEN Seeks Feedback On Financial Compliance Burden
The U.S. Treasury Department's enforcement arm requested feedback Tuesday on the compliance burden for financial institutions responding to the agency's information requests "as part of its continuing efforts to reduce paperwork and respondent burden."
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September 30, 2025
SEC Gives Stamp Of Approval To Texas Stock Exchange
A Texas-based company hoping to rival the likes of the New York Stock Exchange overcame a major hurdle Tuesday when it won approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to register its stock exchange.
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September 30, 2025
SEC Beats Law Prof's Suit To Protect NFTs That 'Troll' Agency
A Louisiana federal judge Tuesday permanently tossed a pre-enforcement challenge targeting the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's treatment of nonfungible tokens from a law professor and a musician who were seeking to protect projects that "troll" the SEC.
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September 30, 2025
HHS Moves To Suspend Harvard From Funding
The civil rights office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is moving to cut off Harvard University from future funding, a maneuver legal experts say could stymie healthcare and biomedical research.
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September 30, 2025
Senate Bill Would Allow Claims Against AI Cos.
A pair of senators unveiled a bill Tuesday that would classify artificial intelligence technologies as products under the law to allow consumers to sue if an AI product causes harm, an issue testing the courts as litigation targets AI-fueled chatbots.
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September 30, 2025
FCC Aims To Remove Broadband Deployment Barriers
The Federal Communications Commission took a pair of actions Tuesday aimed at speeding up the deployment of broadband infrastructure by reducing regulatory hurdles.
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September 30, 2025
PFAS Testing Concerns End Coca-Cola Class Action
A New York federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action against Coca-Cola's Simply Orange Juice Co. subsidiary alleging its juices were falsely marketed as all-natural when they actually contain PFAS, saying that the plaintiff didn't show that the juices tested were the same as the ones he bought.
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September 30, 2025
FCC Embarks On Four-Year Media Ownership Review
The Federal Communications Commission pushed ahead Tuesday with a proposal to ease restrictions on how many TV or radio stations a single broadcaster can control in a market.
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September 30, 2025
Ga. Tech To Pay $875K To Resolve Cybersecurity FCA Suit
A research arm of the Georgia Institute of Technology has agreed to pay $875,000 to end a whistleblower suit alleging the organization knowingly failed to comply with government cybersecurity standards while working on defense contracts, the Department of Justice said Tuesday.
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September 30, 2025
DC Circ. Backs FERC Approval Of Tenn. Pipeline
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday used a recent landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision curtailing federal environmental reviews to reject a challenge to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval of a Tennessee pipeline project.
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September 30, 2025
SEC Approves Cost Cuts For Consolidated Audit Trail
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday approved a plan that it says could save at least $20 million a year by adopting new data retention standards for a key market surveillance tool, with the agency's chair promising to cut the "ballooning" costs of the market tool even further in the coming months and years.
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September 30, 2025
sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Looks To Save Renewed Experian Credit Reporting Suit
Consumer reporting agency Experian Information Solutions Inc. should not be allowed to escape certain Fair Credit Reporting Act allegations taking aim at its handling of consumer disputes, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has argued, asserting the parties made an "inadvertent mutual mistake" in leaving Experian's name off the parties' agreement to toll the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s claims.
Expert Analysis
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Unpacking The Supreme Court's Views On Judgment Finality
The U.S. Supreme Court's June opinion in BLOM Bank SAL v. Honickman reaffirmed that the bar for reopening a final judgment remains exceptionally high — even when the movant seeks to amend their complaint based on a new legal development, say attorneys at Venable.
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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.
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New Federal Worker Religious Protections Test All Employers
A recent Trump administration memorandum expanding federal employees' religious protections raises tough questions for all employers and signals a larger trend toward significantly expanding religious rights in the workplace, say attorneys at Seyfarth.
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Supreme Court's Criminal Law Decisions: The Term In Review
Though the U.S. Supreme Court’s criminal law decisions in its recently concluded term proved underwhelming by many measures, their opinions revealed trends in how the justices approach criminal cases and offered reminders for practitioners, says Kenneth Notter at MoloLamken.
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Compliance Is A New Competitive Edge For Mortgage Lenders
So far, 2025 has introduced state and federal regulatory turbulence that is pressuring mortgage lenders to reevaluate the balance between competitive and compliant employee and customer recruiting practices, necessitating a compliance recalibration that prioritizes five key strategies, say attorneys at Mitchell Sandler.
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Opinion
Privacy Bill Must Be Amended To Protect Small Businesses
While a bill recently passed by the California Senate would exempt a company's use of legally compliant website advertising and tracking technologies from the California Invasion of Privacy Act, it must be amended to adequately protect small businesses, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.
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Even As States Step Up, They Can't Fully Fill sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½'s Shoes
The Trump administration's efforts to scale down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have prompted calls for state regulators to pick up the slack, but there are also important limitations on states' ability to fill the gap left by a mostly dormant sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, say attorneys at Covington.
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Opinion
The Legal Education Status Quo Is No Longer Tenable
As underscored by the fallout from California’s February bar exam, legal education and licensure are tethered to outdated systems, and the industry must implement several key reforms to remain relevant and responsive to 21st century legal needs, says Matthew Nehmer at The Colleges of Law.
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The Int'l Compliance View: Everything Everywhere All At Once
Changes to the enforcement landscape in the U.S. and abroad shift the risks and incentives for global compliance programs, creating a race against the clock for companies to deploy investigative resources across worldwide operations, say attorneys at Dentons.
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Unpacking Notable Details From FTC's 'AI Washing' Cases
The Federal Trade Commission has brought many cases involving allegedly deceptive artificial intelligence claims over the past couple of years, illustrating overlooked aspects of AI washing generally and a few new types of AI marketing claims that may line up in regulatory crosshairs down the road, says Michael Atleson at DLA Piper.
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'Pig Butchering' Seizure Is A Milestone In Crypto Crime Fight
The U.S.' recent seizure of $225 million in crypto funds in a massive "pig butchering" scheme highlights the transformative impact of blockchain analysis in law enforcement, and the increasing necessity of collaboration between law enforcement agencies, cryptocurrency exchanges and stablecoin issuers, says David Zaslowsky at Baker McKenzie.
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Justices' Age Verification Ruling May Lead To More State Laws
The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton ruling, permitting a Texas law requiring certain websites to verify users’ ages, significantly expands states' ability to regulate minors’ social media access, further complicating the patchwork of internet privacy laws, say attorneys at Troutman.
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The Pros, Cons Of A Single Commissioner Leading The CFTC
While a single-member U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission may require fewer resources and be more efficient, its internal decision-making process would be less transparent to those outside the agency, reflect less compromise between competing viewpoints and provide the public with less predictability, says former CFTC Commissioner Dan Berkovitz.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Rulings On Relevance Redactions
In recent cases addressing redactions that parties sought to apply based on the relevance of information — as opposed to considerations of privilege — courts have generally limited a party’s ability to withhold nonresponsive or irrelevant material, providing a few lessons for discovery strategy, say attorneys at Sidley.
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Navigating Administrative Exhaustion In EEOC Charges
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Before responding to a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charge, employers should understand the process of exhausting administrative remedies and when it applies, and consider several best practices, such as preserving records and crafting effective position statements, says Matthew Gagnon at Ogletree.