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California’s Expansive New Children’s Online Privacy Law Faces First Amendment Challenge

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The protection of children's online privacy has emerged as one of the most important data privacy issues in the United States. With the existing U.S. framework for protecting children's online privacy widely criticized as...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Developments in Association Law 2019 – 2020

A review of key legal developments for nonprofit organizations at the federal and state levels in 2019 and 2020. Antitrust enforcement continues against nonprofits. Nonprofits have litigated in other areas, including...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Consumer Crossroads

Federal Court Hears Oral Argument in ACA's TRO Petition Seeking to Enjoin Massachusetts's Emergency Debt Collection Regulations

On May 1, 2020, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts Judge Richard Stearns heard oral arguments in ACA International's suit to halt the emergency debt collection regulations enacted in Massachusetts, which...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

ACA International v. Healey - Will Massachusetts' Debt Collection Freeze Hold Up To Constitutional Heat?

A number of states have issued executive orders or other emergency declarations to provide relief from certain debt collection practices in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Such measures include ceasing new wage attachments...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Consumer Crossroads

Collection Industry Trade Group Sues Massachusetts Attorney General to Halt Emergency Regulations

We recently reported on Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey's implementation of temporary regulations halting collection of debt from Massachusetts' consumers in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. With certain...more

Nilan Johnson Lewis PA

Federal Courts Turn Away Challenges to FDA's e-Cig Regulations

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On Monday, December 16, 2019, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi granted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by trade organization United States Vaping...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Credit reporting trade association seeks injunction to block NJ law requiring credit reports to be made available in multiple...

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The Consumer Data Industry Association (CDIA), the world’s largest trade association whose members include consumer reporting agencies operating in the United States and throughout the world, has filed a lawsuit against the...more

Snell & Wilmer

Five Lawsuits Filed Against DOL’s Fiduciary Rule (so far)

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As we previously discussed in our May 19, 2016 SW Benefits Update, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) recently issued final regulations on fiduciary conflicts of interest in retirement programs. Since 2010 when the DOL first...more

Clark Hill PLC

Increased Regulations Spawn New Trade Associations

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The 1st Amendment of the Constitution provides for the right of the people to peaceably assemble. Embedded in that right is the freedom of association; the right or ability of people to come together and collectively express,...more

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