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January 14, 2025
Fla. Judge Won't Toss CFTC Suit Over $283M Trading Scheme
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday declined to dismiss the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's claims accusing an agent of financial firm Algo FX Capital Advisor LLC of helping The Traders Domain orchestrate a $283 million commodity transactions scheme.
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January 14, 2025
Equifax To Pay $725K For Inaccurate Credit Score Reporting
Equifax Information Services LLC has agreed to a $725,000 settlement with the New York Attorney General's Office to resolve claims that the credit reporting agency inaccurately reported tens of thousands of New Yorkers' credit scores to lenders between March and April 2022, causing inflated costs for loans and other products.
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January 14, 2025
Startup Drops Patent Case Against Google Ahead Of Trial
An Oregon startup has agreed to drop its patent infringement case against Google, a month before the dispute was set to go before a jury in Waco, Texas.
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January 14, 2025
CFPB Says Capital One Stiffed Savings Customers Out Of $2B
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday sued Capital One in Virginia federal court, alleging the bank avoided paying $2 billion in interest to customers by keeping them in a lower-yield savings account product.
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January 13, 2025
CFPB Eyes Rule To Rein In 'Forced' Financial Contract Terms
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday floated a new rule that calls for banning financial companies from using contractual fine print to limit consumers' legal rights or restrict their free expression.
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January 13, 2025
Quinn Emanuel Scoops Up SDNY Securities Fraud Chief
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP announced Monday that it has hired the former chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York's securities and commodities fraud task force as a partner in its Manhattan office.
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January 13, 2025
Robinhood Users Oppose Arbitration Of 'Meme Stock' Claims
Stock trading platform Robinhood has failed to lay the groundwork for sending user disputes to arbitration, seven users of the platform claimed Monday in a bid to keep their claims in federal court over the company's 2021 suspension certain so-called meme stock trades.
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January 13, 2025
SEC Fines Robinhood $45M For Recordkeeping, Cyber Woes
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday that Robinhood's broker-dealer units will pay a combined $45 million to settle a host of claims ranging from an alleged failure to file timely suspicious activity reports and address cybersecurity risks to alleged failures concerning data retention and recordkeeping.
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January 13, 2025
NYDFS Launches Staff Exchange With Bank Of England
The New York Department of Financial Services on Monday launched an international secondment program to allow the department to exchange staff with other regulators, starting with a digital assets-focused exchange with the Bank of England next month.
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January 13, 2025
Binance Can't Get High Court To Review Class Cert. Decision
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday passed on a petition from crypto exchange Binance Holdings Ltd. and its former CEO to consider whether transactions on its platform were beyond the reach of U.S. securities laws after a Second Circuit decision found enough stateside ties to revive a suit from the exchange's users.
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January 13, 2025
Fintech Partner Banks Face Suit Over Synapse Financial Collapse
Banks that partnered with financial technology companies face mounting proposed class action allegations over the "inexplicable" loss of $85 million on the heels of the bankruptcy of intermediary software company Synapse Financial Technologies Inc.
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January 13, 2025
Shift4 To Pay SEC $750K For Undisclosed Family Payments
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said payment processing firm Shift4 Payments Inc. will pay $750,000 to settle allegations it failed to report over $4 million in payments it made to immediate family members of the company's executives and directors.
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January 13, 2025
Fed. Circ. Affirms Crypto Exec Doesn't Belong On Mining IP
A Delaware federal judge properly found that a cryptocurrency company's founder shouldn't be added as an inventor onto a rival company's energy consumption patent, the Federal Circuit affirmed Monday.
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January 13, 2025
SEC To Collect $63M In Latest Recordkeeping Sweep
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday that subsidiaries of Blackstone Inc. and Charles Schwab Corp. were among those swept up in the latest round of recordkeeping fines, promising to collect over $63 million from 12 firms whose employees are accused of discussing business through their personal devices.
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January 13, 2025
DOJ Litigator Who Tried Google Antitrust Case Joins Weil
A U.S. Department of Justice attorney who was part of the government's team challenging alleged monopolization practices by Google has moved to Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, the firm announced Monday.
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January 13, 2025
SEC Must Explain Coinbase Crypto Rule Denial, 3rd Circ. Says
A Third Circuit panel delivered a partial win to Coinbase on Monday when it ordered the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to provide "a more complete explanation" of why it denied the crypto exchange's request for rulemaking on how securities laws apply to digital assets.
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January 10, 2025
FDIC's Hill Calls For 'New Direction' In Preview Of Agenda
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Vice Chairman Travis Hill signaled Friday that he intends to steer the agency in a "new direction" when he takes over as its acting chief later this month, mapping out plans for a more tech-friendly, lighter-touch approach.
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January 10, 2025
Infosys Files Antitrust Counterclaims In Trade Secrets Suit
Healthcare payments software company Infosys has hit back with antitrust counterclaims against Cognizant TriZetto Software Group's Texas federal court suit accusing Infosys of abusing its system access to develop competing services.
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January 10, 2025
4 Trends That Will Shape Venture Capital Funding In 2025
Venture capital funding appears primed to improve in 2025 as market participants shake off the effects of a post-pandemic crash, with surging demand for artificial intelligence, expectations of friendlier government policies, and more exits through public listings and acquisitions.
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January 10, 2025
CFPB Floats Protections For Crypto, Video Game Payments
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday proposed to make clear that cryptocurrency and video game transactions are covered under existing rules codifying consumers' rights in situations of fraudulent transfers, hacks and stolen funds.
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January 10, 2025
Fed. Circ. Skeptical Ioengine Can Overcome On-Sale Bar
A Federal Circuit panel seemed doubtful Friday that none of the hundreds of people who downloaded a firmware upgrade affiliated with an early flash drive used it, which Ioengine LLC would need to prove to beat an on-sale bar invalidation of its patents.
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January 10, 2025
SafeMoon CEO Wants 'Misleading' Reddit Post Explained
The CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency asset company SafeMoon LLC asked a Brooklyn federal judge Friday to order the government to explain whether it had a role in a social media user's "misleading" post that promised to connect SafeMoon investors with the U.S. government.
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January 10, 2025
Feds Say Russians Behind North Korea-Linked Crypto Mixers
Georgia federal prosecutors on Friday announced money laundering and unlicensed money transmission charges for three Russian nationals who allegedly operated crypto mixing services previously sanctioned over their apparent use by North Korean hackers and other cybercriminals.
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January 10, 2025
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen legal services group RBG Holdings face a winding-up petition from founder Ian Rosenblatt amid soured talks about the group's leadership, J.P. Morgan file a fresh claim against WeRealize, retailer Asda face an intellectual property claim over a specific type of mandarin and financier Nathaniel Rothschild sue German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst and his investment vehicle Tennor International. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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January 10, 2025
Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Davis Polk, Wachtell
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Constellation acquires Calpine, Cintas seeks a deal with UniFirst Corp., Stryker Corp. acquires Inari Medical Inc., and Paychex Inc. buys Paycor.
Expert Analysis
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Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity
Cases can appear complex for several reasons — due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources — but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
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Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.
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Federal Embrace Of Crypto Regs Won't Lower State Hurdles
Even if the incoming presidential administration and next Congress focus on creating clearer federal regulatory frameworks for the cryptocurrency sector, companies bringing digital asset products and services to the market will still face significant state-level barriers, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.
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SEC Prioritized Enforcement Sweeps As Cases Slowed In '24
Following three consecutive years of increasing activity, fiscal year 2024 marked the lowest number of cases the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has brought since Gary Gensler assumed office in April 2021, buttressed by some familiar enforcement sweeps, say attorneys at Covington.
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Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review
For attorneys — new ones especially — there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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2 Cases Show DAOs May Face Increasing Legal Scrutiny
Two ongoing cases that recently survived motions to dismiss in California federal courts concerning Compound DAO and Lido DAO threaten to expand the potential liability for activity attributed to decentralized autonomous organizations — and to indirectly create liability for their participants, say attorneys at Cahill Gordon.
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3 Changes Community Banks Should Expect Under Trump
A second Trump administration promises a sea change for regional and community banks, including shifts in the regulatory environment, Community Reinvestment Act rules and the M&A landscape, say attorneys at Manatt.
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5 Ways SEC's Crypto Approach Could Change Under Trump
Given the Trump campaign's procrypto stance, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could take a number of different approaches to crypto policy in the next administration, including pausing registration-only enforcement actions and proposing tailored rules that take into account the differences between crypto-assets and traditional securities, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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Flying Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Achieving my childhood dream of flying airplanes made me a better lawyer — and a better person — because it taught me I can conquer difficult goals when I leave my comfort zone, focus on the demands of the moment and commit to honing my skills, says Ivy Cadle at Baker Donelson.
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With Precautions, AI Can Help With Suspicious Activity Filings
While artificial intelligence can enhance suspicious activity report processes, financial services firms should review applicable expectations and areas of deficiencies that can lead to enforcement actions before using AI to help write SARs, say attorneys at Jenner.
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How Crypto Cos. Can Take Advantage Of 'Mini-IPOs'
Against the backdrop of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement in the crypto space, mini-initial public offerings, with less burdensome requirements than full registration, can serve as an alternative way for token issuers to raise funds, say attorneys at O'Melveny.
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Takeaways From Final Regulations For China Investment Ban
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s final rule banning U.S. investment in emerging Chinese technology clarifies some key requirements, includes additional exceptions for covered transactions and attempts to address concerns that the rule will put U.S. businesses at a competitive disadvantage, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.
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Nvidia Supreme Court Case May Not Make Big Splash
The skeptical tenor of the justices' questioning at oral argument in Nvidia v. Ohman Fonder suggests that the case is unlikely to alter the motion to dismiss pleading standard in securities class actions, as some had feared, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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AI Monitoring And FCRA: Employer Compliance Essentials
As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission signal determination to treat AI-based workplace surveillance as a potential Fair Credit Reporting Act issue, employers must commit to educating HR and compliance staff on these quickly evolving regulatory expectations, say attorneys at Sheppard Mullin.
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Circus Arts Make Me A Better Lawyer
Performing circus arts has strengthened my ability to be more thoughtful, confident and grounded, all of which has enhanced my legal practice and allowed me to serve clients in a more meaningful way, says Bailey McGowan at Stinson.