Feb 25, 2023 Section 230 Narrowing in the Future? By Chris Cole This past week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google. The petitioners are a family that unsuccessfully sued...
Feb 23, 2023 Ever-Expanding BIPA Damages: Illinois Supreme Court Holds Each Collection or Dissemination of Biometric Data Constitutes a Separate Violation of BIPA By Janet Widmaier Charles DeVore In an eagerly-awaited decision in Cothron v. White Castle System, Inc, the Illinois Supreme Court recently held, by a 4-3 margin, that a...
Feb 22, 2023 SEC Shortens Settlement Cycle By James Brady On February 15, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rule changes to shorten the standard settlement cycle for most...
Feb 16, 2023 Reading the Tea Leaves: Illinois’ Highest Court is Poised to Make Impactful BIPA Claim Accrual Determination By Charles DeVore In early February, the Illinois Supreme Court made the first of two crucial rulings defining the scope of Illinois’ Biometric Information...
Feb 16, 2023 SEC Proposes Amendments to the Custody Rule By Adam Bolter Alex Kim On February 15, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 4-1 to propose amendments to the Custody Rule under the Advisers Act...
Feb 14, 2023 California Regulator Approves the Proposed CPRA Regulations and Targets April Effective Date By Trisha Sircar The California Privacy Protection Agency ("CPPA") Board unanimously voted 4-0 to finalize the proposed final California Privacy Rights...
Feb 14, 2023 The European Union and Singapore Launch Digital Partnership By Trisha Sircar In a statement released on February 1, 2023, the European Union ("EU") and Singapore strengthened their cooperation as strategic...
Feb 13, 2023 What happens if companies miss carbon targets? By Chris Cole The Wall Street Journal published an excellent article today regarding corporate net zero pledges, referring as well to data published in...
Feb 13, 2023 President Biden Urges Congress to Prioritize Children's Online Privacy and Focuses on Transparency By Trisha Sircar At the State of the Union on February 7, President Biden reiterated the need to protect children online and address social media's mental...
Feb 10, 2023 SEC’s ESG Task Force Strikes Again By Johnjerica Hodge Ryan Meyer India Williams Activision Blizzard Workplace Misconduct Allegations Transformed into Securities Violations In another victory for the Securities and...
Feb 09, 2023 But Is It Art? New York Jury Says No - It's Trademark Infringement in the Metaverse By Cynthia Martens Karen Artz Ash To quote a headline from French daily Libération, “Hermès 1, NFT 0.” On February 8, a federal jury in New York sided with France’s...
Feb 09, 2023 Delaware Court of Chancery Ruling Imposes a Fiduciary Duty of Oversight on Corporate Officers By Sarah Eichenberger Jonathan Rotenberg Danette Edwards On January 26, 2023, the Delaware Court of Chancery resolved a long-standing ambiguity in Delaware law, clarifying, for the first time,...
Feb 08, 2023 Broker-dealer/FCMs! You need to have a talk with your clients about AEX Index Futures By Stephen Morris Last month, Euronext published a notice to clients that will be of interest to US broker-dealers and FCMs who facilitate client execution...
Feb 07, 2023 The FTC and Protection of Health Care Data By Lisa Prather Most people, and especially health care providers, are familiar with HIPAA and its relation to protecting the privacy and security of a...
Feb 06, 2023 The Unprecedented Events of March: The Oliver Wyman Report By Stephen Morris Jacob Setton Thankfully, futures clearinghouses do not fail often; it’s happened three times in history, most recently in 1987. But last year, in the...
Feb 06, 2023 Half of all States Sue DOL over ESG Rule, Foreshadowing Challenges to the SEC’s ESG Agenda By Danette Edwards Johnjerica Hodge Ifedapo Benjamin On January 26, 2023, twenty-five states, plus a publicly traded energy company with a subsidiary that is a fiduciary and trustee under...