Jun 28, 2024 U.S. Supreme Court Removes Nonconsensual Releases From The Bankruptcy Plan Quiver By Julia Winters On June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court announced a 5-4 decision rejecting the nonconsensual releases of the Sackler family in the Purdue...
May 24, 2024 SCOTUS Resolves New (Fourth) Layer of Arbitration Contract Disputes By Ted Huffman Eric Werlinger The US Supreme Court gave us another arbitration decision on May 23 — the second in the span of a week. This one is Coinbase v. Suski,...
Apr 24, 2024 Sentencing Guidelines Amendment Prevents Judges From Considering Acquitted Conduct at Sentencing By Scott Resnik Michael Rosensaft Nicholas Liotta Since the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Watts, 19 US 148 (1997), judges have been permitted to consider acquitted conduct...
Apr 23, 2024 Whistleblower Rewards Program Update: DOJ Explains and Expands Pilot Program for Voluntary Disclosures By Ryan Meyer Ryan Dean On April 15, the Department of Justice (DOJ) publicly released a memorandum fleshing out its previously announced corporate whistleblower...
Apr 15, 2024 Supreme Court Rejects 'Pure Omissions' Liability Under Rule 10b-5 By Sarah Eichenberger Kevin Broughel On April 12, a unanimous Supreme Court held that issuers are not liable under Rule 10b-5(b) for “pure omissions.” The Court’s decision...
Apr 15, 2024 Senate Budget Committee Calls for More IRS Criminal Referrals to the DOJ By Ryan Dean According to Law360, the Senate Budget Committee recently held a hearing regarding offshore tax evasion where senators made clear that,...
Apr 08, 2024 Fifth Circuit Says Not so Fast, Reverses the Transfer of CFPB/Credit Card Fee Litigation and Endorses Regulatory Challenge in Texas By Eric Hail Ted Huffman Background: Agency Rulemaking Challenges in the Fifth Circuit In recent years, Texas federal courts and the US Fifth Circuit Court of...
Apr 04, 2024 Unraveling the Legal and Regulatory Maze of Generative AI: 10 Areas to Watch By Kristin Achterhof Michael Justus During the ANA Advertising Law One Day Conference at Katten’s New York office on March 20, Intellectual Property Partners Kristin...
Mar 27, 2024 Tennessee Expands Right-of-Publicity Statute to Cover AI-Generated Deepfakes By Amelia Bruckner On March 21, 2024, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed into law the Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act of 2024 or the ELVIS...
Sep 21, 2023 Humanitarian Channel in Qatar to Administer $6 Billion in Funds Transferred Under Deal Releasing U.S. Citizens Wrongfully Held in Iran By Jacques Semmelman In connection with the recently negotiated deal releasing five U.S. citizens wrongfully imprisoned by the government of Iran, on...
Aug 28, 2023 The Second Circuit Agrees: Loans are Not Securities By Amanda Segal Lori Jacobs In a highly anticipated decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the District Court’s decision in...
Jul 18, 2023 Greater Obstacles for Section 11 Plaintiffs Given Recent US Supreme Court Ruling on 'Slack Technologies v. Pirani' By Danette Edwards Brandon Bucio On June 1, 2023, the US Supreme Court held in a unanimous decision in Slack Technologies LLC v. Pirani that Section 11 of the Securities...
Jul 17, 2023 SEC Sends Ominous Warning to CISOs and Cybersecurity Professionals With Wells Notice Concerning SolarWinds Breach By Trisha Sircar Danette Edwards On June 23, 2023, SolarWinds disclosed in its most recent Form 8-K filing that “certain current and former executive officers and...
Jul 10, 2023 Implications of 'Students for Fair Admissions' for Private Employers By Johnjerica Hodge India Williams Loren Lee Catherine O'Brien +1 more... Show less Late last month, the Supreme Court delivered a significant ruling on affirmative action in the jointly decided cases Students for Fair...
Jun 28, 2023 U.S. Government Issues Africa Gold Advisory By Jacques Semmelman On June 27, a broad lineup of U.S. government departments and agencies issued an “Africa Gold Advisory.” The 29-page Advisory, jointly...
Jun 23, 2023 If Amazon's Online PRIME Cancellation Process Is Found to Be a Prohibited 'Dark Pattern,' Lots of Other Advertisers Should Be Worried By Chris Cole The FTC made news yesterday by filing suit against Amazon for allegedly "tricking" consumers into signing up for the company's Prime...