3/4/2026 4:48:24 PM New Texas Summary Judgment Rules Are Now In Effect: Expedited Action and Challenges for Litigants to Navigate By Ted Huffman Will Davis At the behest of the State Legislature (SB 293), the Texas Supreme Court recently finalized and adopted amendments to Rule 166a of the...
3/4/2026 4:04:45 PM Reimagining Securities Arbitration: FINRA Launches Broad Review of Arbitration Rules and Requests Comment on Modernization Initiative By Zachary Schmitz David Goldberg Susan Light Wayne Aaron Christian Kemnitz +2 more... Show less Responding to concerns raised and longstanding debates over how the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA) arbitration forum...
3/4/2026 3:55:58 PM FINRA Unveils Changes to Enforcement Program to Increase Transparency and Efficiency By Zachary Schmitz Susan Light David Goldberg Richard Marshall +1 more... Show less The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced changes to its enforcement program on March 2, as part of its broader...
2/26/2026 8:08:44 PM SEC Enforcement Gets a Refresh: Updates to Enforcement Manual Focus on Transparency and Fairness By Zachary Schmitz Peter Wilson Ben Levine Casey McClaren +1 more... Show less For the first time in nearly a decade, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) updated its Enforcement Manual (Manual), which has...
2/26/2026 3:38:29 PM Know the Outcome? Don't Trade: CFTC Puts Prediction Markets on Notice By Zachary Schmitz Carl Kennedy Matt Kluchenek Alex Kim +1 more... Show less In an unusual move, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC or Commission) Division of Enforcement (Division) issued an advisory...
2/18/2026 5:47:59 PM From Indictment to Dismissal By Brandon McCarthy Most people are arrested and charged within a day of an offense being committed. Here, the DOJ charged my client with its most recent...
1/20/2026 5:59:32 PM Supreme Court to Decide Fate of SEC’s Disgorgement Power By Nicholas Liotta Scott Resnik The U.S. Supreme Court is set to resolve a critical circuit split over whether the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) must prove...
1/14/2026 3:13:59 PM Serving as a Fiduciary for Sanctioned Clients? OFAC’s Recent Enforcement Action is a Warning Shot By Michael Rosensaft Nicholas Liotta Recent enforcement actions signal the Office of Foreign Assets Control's (“OFAC”) increased scrutiny of professionals, including...
11/4/2025 4:55:44 PM Court Dismisses Overly-Technical Claim That FDCPA Applies to Communications With Vendors Mailing Collection Letters By Ted Huffman The Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) imposes various requirements on debt collectors aimed to protect consumers’ privacy rights...
9/30/2025 5:16:14 PM FTC’s Landmark $2.5 Billion Amazon Settlement Highlights Ongoing Focus on “Dark Patterns” By Catherine O'Brien Chris Cole Updated 9/30/2025 Three days into trial, Amazon agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleging that the...
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,...
5/15/2025 7:19:45 PM Increased Clarity for White-Collar Clients: The Department of Justice Unveils its Revised Corporate Self-Disclosure Policy By Nicholas Liotta Scott Resnik Alan Brudner Michael Rosensaft +1 more... Show less What should U.S. businesses take from the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) revisions to its Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary...
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...
4/30/2025 2:30:32 PM SCOTUS Considers Article III Questions with Significant Implications on Class Action Certification By Ted Huffman Christopher Vazquez Eric Hail Eric Werlinger +1 more... Show less The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) heard oral argument this week in Labcorp v. Davis (No. 24-304) to determine “[w]hether a...
3/27/2025 1:47:49 PM Will Texas Become the First State To Enact a “Mini-CFIUS” Review Process? By Jonathan Rotenberg On March 13, 2025, the Texas Legislature introduced HB 5007, which, if enacted, could establish the first US state regime tasked with...
6/28/2024 7:48:09 PM 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...