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Certification of Collective Actions in the CAT

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To bring a collective competition action in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (“CAT”), a proposed class representative first has to have their claim certified by the CAT. The CAT’s approach to certification is therefore an...more

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Federal Reserve Invites Public Comment on Proposal to Publish Periodic List of Depository Institutions That Have Access to Federal...

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On November 4, the Federal Reserve invited public comment on a proposal to publish a periodic list of depository institutions that have access to Federal Reserve and payment services. These accounts are often referred to as...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Possible Anti-Trust Legislation in eCommerce and Amazon’s Plea for Opposition

Up for consideration before the 117th Congress this year is Senate Bill 2992 (S. 2992); known as the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (the eCommerce Antitrust Act). The purpose of the eCommerce Antitrust Act is to...more

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Omicron Surge Expected to Take Bite Out of January Jobs Report

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Jobs Report Friday again, and general consensus is that with the Omicron surge hitting smack dab in the middle of January hiring, these numbers are going to be weird. Very weird...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Focus on Fintech: CFPB Probes Big Tech Plans for Payments

On October 21, 2021, the CFPB sent orders to Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, PayPal, and Square requiring them to provide information about their current and planned payments products, practices, and data collection and...more

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Life and Death of Technology: 2022

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Everything has a life cycle. Bacteria, insects, people, civilizations, galaxies - all are born, live and pass into eternity eventually. So it goes with technologies....more

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Financial Daily Dose 12.14.2021 - French Court Cuts UBS Fine to $2 Billion Over Client Tax-Evasion Efforts

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A French appeals court cut a 2019 fine by more than half on Monday but still left Swiss bank UBS with a $2 billion penalty “for helping rich clients evade taxes” through what prosecutors called a “long-running scheme” that...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.3.2021 | Top Story Facebook Shuts Down Decade Old Facial Recognition System

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Prompted by concerns over privacy, “government investigation, a class-action lawsuit and regulatory woes,” Facebook is planning to “shut down its decade-old facial recognition system this month, deleting the face scan data of...more

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Financial Daily Dose 11.1.2021 | Top Story: Barclays CEO Out Over Ties to Epstein

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Barclay’s CEO Jes Staley is stepping down immediately after a two-year investigation by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Conduct Authority into Staley’s “relationship with the disgraced financier...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.29.2021 | Top Story: Delta Variant and Supply Chain Woes Slow GDP in Q3

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Q3 GDP data showed the full impact of the Delta variant and supply chain issues on America’s economic recovery, with GDP rising just 2% in the quarter ending September 30 as compared to the 6.7% it grew on an annualized basis...more

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How Epic V. Apple Ruling Might Play Out For Big Tech

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The U.S. antitrust laws are slow to keep up with technical innovation and changing marketplaces. Nowhere is that more evident than in the tech sector, where companies and other players in the market do not fit neatly into...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.6.2021 | Top Story: Whistleblower Urges Lawmakers to Regulate Facebook

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Recapping Facebook whistleblower’s testimony before the Senate on Tuesday, in which she “gave lawmakers an unvarnished look into the inner workings of the world’s largest social network . . . and detailed how the company was...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.4.2021 | Top Story: Ozy Media Collapses After Week of Scandals

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And like that [poof], Ozy Media is no more, shutting down on Friday after an incredible 5-day period in which reporting from Ben Smith “raised questions about the company and its leadership team” after a phone call in which a...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.15.2021 | Top Story: CPI Shows Slowing Price Increases in August

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In welcome news for the Fed and anxious economists who have so-far stuck to their “transitory” inflation guns, Tuesday’s Department of Labor CPI release showed that “price increases for key products—like cars—were beginning...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.14.2021 | Litecoin Surges Then Plummets After Walmart-Partnership Hoax

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The team behind cryptocurrency Litecoin is scrambling after an employee “retweeted what turned out to be an untrue announcement about a partnership with Walmart Inc,” a move that briefly sent Litecoin and other cryptos...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.2.2021 | Top Story: NY Judge Provisionally Approves Purdue Pharma Dissolution, Sackler Liability Shield

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A New York federal bankruptcy judge provisionally approved an opioid settlement plan on Wednesday that will dissolve Purdue Pharma and require members of the Sackler family (which owns Purdue) to “turn over billions of their...more

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The Wu Khan Clan Enters the Battle Arena

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Columbia University Law Professor Tim Wu has written profoundly and persuasively for decades about anti-competitive behavior in the U.S. tech industry - from Western Union’s telegraph monopoly in the 1860s forward toward the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 4.29.2021 | Top Story: Fed Stays Course on Rates, Sees Improving Economy

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The Fed’s Open Market Committee meeting broke yesterday leaving rates at near-zero and pledging to “continue buying government-backed bonds at a steady pace as it tries to support the economy’s recovery from the coronavirus...more

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No Estoppel in the Name of Different Interests and Claims

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The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that 35 USC § 314(d) did not bar its review of a Patent Trial & Appeal Board determination that a petitioner was not estopped from maintaining inter partes review (IPR)...more

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Reviewability of PTAB Estoppel Decisions

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UNILOC 2017 LLC v. FACEBOOK INC. Before Lourie, Wallach, and Chen. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) does not preclude Federal Circuit review of the Patent Trial and Appeal...more

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IPR Joinder Estoppel? Federal Circuit Says “It Depends”

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On March 9, 2021, the Federal Circuit affirmed several inter partes review (IPR) decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) related to the estoppel provision 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(1). Uniloc 2017 LLC v. Facebook Inc....more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.16.2021 | Top Story: WTO Names First Woman, First African as Org President

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After more than half a year without a leader, the WTO is poised to welcome its “first woman and first African” to the role in the form of Nigerian economist and former finance minister Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. ...more

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Social Media and Divorce

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last fifteen (15) years, it is hard to imagine a force that has had a more significant impact on day to day life than social media. I know personally, my screen time alerts from...more

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State Attorney General Insider – Winter 2020-2021, Issue No. 3: Notable Cases

Notable Cases - Here are a few of the major cases of interest within the state Attorneys General community that are receiving significant press coverage. ...more

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Financial Daily Dose 2.2.2021 | Top Story: CBO Projects Faster US Recovery But Lagging Employment

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New CBO projections suggest that even without additional Congressional aid, the “American economy will return to its pre-pandemic size by the middle of this year.” While encouraging, the report offers cold comfort for the...more

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