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SEC, sa国际传媒 Rulemaking Agendas Show Deregulatory Push

By Aislinn Keely

Federal regulators overseeing the financial services sector on Thursday unveiled new rulemaking agendas that they say will return their agencies to their core missions with policies to define authority and limit compliance burdens.

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Trump Says 'Century-Old' Precedent Backs Fed Gov.'s Firing

By Rae Ann Varona

President Donald Trump on Thursday hit back at Federal Reserve Board Gov. Lisa Cook's motion seeking to block her termination from the central bank, telling a Washington, D.C., federal court that Cook was ignoring "century-old" U.S. Supreme Court precedent that he says forecloses review of her removal for cause.

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Democrats Press Trump's Fed Pick On His Independence

By Jessica Corso

Stephen Miran, a close ally of President Donald Trump, was sharply questioned by Democratic senators on Thursday about his ability to independently carry out a leadership role at the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors after he said he would refuse to resign from the president's Council of Economic Advisers if confirmed.

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Beer, Wings, Patents: Tackling The Latest IP Football Fights

By Theresa Schliep

As this NFL season kicks off, a copyright fight stemming from the statue of a famed Detroit Lions player and a suit from a former New York Jets player over his portrayal in the sports documentary series "30 for 30" are brewing in the courts.

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Which GCs Sold Stock In August? Carlyle Group And More

By Sue Reisinger

General counsel Jeffrey W. Ferguson, who has been with the Carlyle Group for 26 years, cashed in some $19 million worth of stock in August.

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Cathay Bank Denies Knowledge Of $20M NFT Scam Suit

By Sydney Price

California-based Cathay Bank asked a federal judge to throw out claims alleging it ignored red flags from scammers and enabled a $17 million romance scam, arguing the victim did not allege the bank even knew about the alleged fraud.

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Borrowers Sue Over Lender's Repeat 'Tribal Lending Scheme'

By Emilie Ruscoe

Customers of a short-term loan company have accused their lender and its associates of engaging in a so-called tribal lending scheme by touting the company's association with a North Dakota-based Native American tribe in an effort to avoid scrutiny for lending at rates as high as 490%, exceeding state interest rate caps.

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Coinbase Fights Password Co.'s IP Claims Over Login Method

By Sydney Price

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has sued password solutions company DynaPass Inc. seeking a declaratory judgment that Coinbase's secure sign-in method does not infringe on Dynapass' two-factor authentication method it patented nearly 20 years ago.

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Returning SPAC Teams Kick Off Fresh IPOs Totaling $400M

By Al Barbarino

One SPAC targeting growth-focused U.S. businesses began trading on Thursday while another focused on the natural resources and decarbonization sectors was set to begin trading Friday, with the two having raised a combined $400 million in initial public offerings.

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MIT Bros.' Crypto Charges Provide Fraud Test Case For Gov't

As U.S. v. Peraire-Bueno, involving cryptocurrency fraud charges against brothers who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, moves forward after surviving a motion to dismiss, the case provides an early example of how the government might use the federal fraud statutes to regulate decentralized networks, say attorneys at ArentFox Schiff.

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What New sa国际传媒 Oversight Limits Would Mean For 4 Markets

As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continues to centralize its resources, proposals to alter the definition of larger market participants in the automobile financing, international money transfer, consumer reporting and consumer debt collection markets would reduce the scope of the bureau's oversight, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Teaching Trial Advocacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

Teaching trial advocacy skills to other lawyers makes us better litigators because it makes us question our default methods, connect to young attorneys with new perspectives and focus on the needs of the real people at the heart of every trial, say Reuben Guttman, Veronica Finkelstein and Joleen Youngers.

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Axinn Veltrop Raises Salaries, Offers Bonuses Up To $25K

By Kevin Penton

Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP is bumping up its pay scale for its associates by $25,000 along with paying them special bonuses of up to $25,000, the firm announced Thursday.

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Admonished For 'Entitlement,' Pillsbury Atty Ducks Sanction

By Bryan Koenig

A Nevada federal judge opted against sanctions for Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP partner Mark Krotoski, and instead issued a formal admonishment on the "entitlement" behind "misleading arguments and representations" about the reason an expert witness was unavailable during a wage-fixing and wire fraud trial.

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'Tone Matters,' Justice Kavanaugh Tells Fellow Judges

By Carolyn Muyskens

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the judiciary should recommit to using cool-headed and civil language in their writing and spoke about the difficulties the court faces in handling a flood of emergency relief cases at a conference Thursday. 

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Geragos Strikes At $100K Verdict Over Nike Extortion Role

By Craig Clough

Celebrity attorney Mark Geragos asked a California judge to strike a $100,000 jury verdict that found he aided and abetted disbarred lawyer Michael Avenatti in a failed attempt to extort Nike, saying award of damages without an underlying finding of liability "is impermissible as a matter of law."

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OnlyFans' Parent Says AI-Tainted Briefs Are Unsalvageable

By Adrian Cruz

The online platform OnlyFans' parent company said that a bid to correct legal briefs in a proposed class action against the company should be denied, arguing that the decision to use artificial intelligence to create mistake-riddled documents is severe misconduct and the briefs should be struck instead.

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Ex-Pandemic Office Inspector General Tapped To Be US Atty

By Courtney Bubl茅

Brian Miller, the former special inspector general for pandemic recovery, has been quietly tapped to be a U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. 

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Ex-Judicial Nominee To Challenge Senator Who Blocked Him

By Courtney Bubl茅

A district attorney in Mississippi who was nominated for a federal judgeship, but blocked by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., has launched a Senate bid against her.

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Atty Can't Duck TCPA Suit Over Camp Lejeune Calls

By Jonathan Capriel

A North Carolina federal judge will not trim a proposed class action accusing a plaintiffs firm of making unsolicited calls to a number on the National Do Not Call Registry in an effort to secure a client in the Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune toxic drinking water case, saying it doesn't matter if the lead plaintiff "invited" later calls.

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Why The Harvard Funding Case Is 'Clear As Mud' On Appeal

By Chris Villani

A sweeping Harvard University victory in a suit challenging President Donald Trump's block on $2.2 billion in grant funding tees up a high-stakes appeal that experts say may turn on a wonky jurisdictional issue on which the U.S. Supreme Court seems to lack any sort of consensus.

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Courts' Curb Of Fast Removals Shows Due Process Concerns

By Britain Eakin

Two D.C. federal court rulings that curbed the Trump administration's use of an expedited process to deport noncitizens, as well as high court rulings on removals in general, show judges are keen to preserve due process rights for immigrants.

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EEOC Hit With LGBTQ+ Bias Charge From Ex-Official

By Anne Cullen

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's walkback on enforcing sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination protections has fostered a hostile environment for LGBTQ+ people within the agency, a former commission senior official said in a discrimination charge announced Thursday.

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Donna Adelson Found Guilty Of Plotting To Murder Law Prof

By David Minsky and Carolina Bolado

A Florida state court jury on Thursday convicted Donna Adelson of killing law professor Dan Markel, finding her guilty of masterminding a plot to have hit men commit the murder in 2014.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Bryan Koenig

The Justice Department settled a challenge to UnitedHealth's $3.3 billion home hospice acquisition while Democrats called for a judge to reject a different government settlement and the Federal Trade Commission moved against medical technologies transactions for heart valves and device coatings.

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EPA Touts 'Ambitious' New Deregulatory Agenda

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday laid out its regulatory agenda for the coming months, and said it intends to revisit or roll back Biden-era initiatives in several areas, including water, climate change and chemical regulations.

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