24 Oct, 2024 Answer Your Lawyer's Emails By Joseph Fiorill A recent opinion of the D.C. Court of Appeals is, on the surface, about procedural doctrines on service of process and court notices. ...
28 Jun, 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...
24 May, 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,...
24 Apr, 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...
23 Apr, 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...
15 Apr, 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...
15 Apr, 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,...
08 Apr, 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...
04 Apr, 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...
21 Sep, 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...
28 Aug, 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...
18 Jul, 2023 Greater Obstacles for Section 11 Plaintiffs Given Recent US Supreme Court Ruling on 'Slack Technologies v. Pirani' By 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...
17 Jul, 2023 SEC Sends Ominous Warning to CISOs and Cybersecurity Professionals With Wells Notice Concerning SolarWinds Breach By Trisha Sircar On June 23, 2023, SolarWinds disclosed in its most recent Form 8-K filing that “certain current and former executive officers and...
10 Jul, 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...
28 Jun, 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...
23 Jun, 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...