6/13/2025 7:46:07 PM Updated FCPA Guidance By Johnjerica Hodge Shortly after taking office President Trump signed an executive order titled, “Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to...
6/10/2025 10:11:04 PM Justice Kavanaugh Signals Conservative Vote Toward Imposing a Pre-Certification Standing Requirement Under FRCP 23 By Ted Huffman Eric Hail Eric Werlinger Christopher Vazquez +1 more... Show less On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court declined to decide the question, certified in Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Davis, as to...
6/10/2025 3:22:31 PM Fifth Circuit Affirms Party's Strategic Maneuver to Compel Arbitration From Federal Court Even When Forum Clause Required Remand By Ted Huffman In a notable clarification of removal and arbitration procedure, the Fifth Circuit in Odom Industries, Inc. v. Sipcam Agro Solutions,...
5/30/2025 5:46:47 PM Texas Supreme Court Clarifies Usury Law: Maximum Interest Must Be Calculated Using the Actuarial Method Resulting in Lower Interest Charges as Principal Balance Declines By Ted Huffman Eric Hail Commercial lenders in Texas should be made aware of the Texas Supreme Court’s new decision in American Pearl Group, LLC v. National...
5/13/2025 7:49:50 PM Continued Developments in the Anti-Bribery/Anti-Corruption Sector: A Potential Expansion of the International Anti-Corruption Prosecutorial Taskforce on the Horizon By Johnjerica Hodge Taylor Quinlan There have been a number of developments in the anti-bribery/anti-corruption sector following the start of President Trump’s second term....
5/9/2025 3:03:56 PM Second Circuit Sets Precedent Limiting VPPA in Facebook Pixel Cases By Ted Huffman Over the past several years, class action litigants have flooded federal dockets with Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) cases against...
4/21/2025 6:09:39 PM Summer Concert (Seizure) Season By Matthew Messina David Halberstadter The summer concert season is almost here. As the weather warms, artists and fans alike are gearing up for highly anticipated tours, like...
4/21/2025 4:23:41 PM OFAC Issues Updated Guidance to Shipping and Maritime Sector Regarding Evasion of Iranian Oil Sanctions By Jacques Semmelman On April 16, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued an update to its Sept. 2019...
2/21/2025 11:36:50 PM D.C. Court Finds A Piggyback Statute Of Limitations In Segway-Crash Case By Joseph Fiorill According to court filings, on October 11, 2019, a Segway struck Marilyn Kubichek and Dorothy Baldwin as they strolled along a D.C....
2/18/2025 8:02:46 PM Condo Association’s Foreclosure On More Than Six Months’ Worth Of Assessments Will Leave Lender's Lien In Place Under D.C. Amendments By Joseph Fiorill Courts have long interpreted the D.C. Condominium Act as creating a super-priority lien on a condo unit, in favor of the condo...
2/18/2025 7:23:19 PM President Trump Imposes Sanctions on the International Criminal Court By Alex San Martin On February 6, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled "Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court"...
2/11/2025 7:23:47 PM President Trump Pauses FCPA Enforcement By Jacques Semmelman On February 10, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled "Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to...
2/10/2025 8:30:51 PM U.S. Attorney General Issues Memorandum Redirecting FCPA Enforcement Away From U.S. Businesses By Jacques Semmelman In a memorandum dated Feb. 5, 2025, U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi has instituted a novel approach to enforcing the Foreign Sovereign...
1/16/2025 6:51:34 PM OFAC Sanctions Russia's Energy Sector By Jacques Semmelman In an effort to reduce Russian energy revenues being used to fund the war against Ukraine, on January 10, 2025, the United States...
1/8/2025 10:02:41 PM U.S. Eases Economic Sanctions on Syria By Jacques Semmelman In the aftermath of the overthrow of the Assad government on December 8, 2024, the United States has eased (but has not lifted) its...
11/25/2024 4:50:18 PM OFAC Warns Foreign Financial Institutions Against Joining Russian Financial Messaging Center By Jacques Semmelman On November 21, 2024, the United States Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") issued an alert cautioning...