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Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

40 State AGs Urge Congress to Adopt Senate KOSA Bill

On February 11, 2026, a bipartisan coalition of 40 state attorneys general sent a letter to Congressional leadership expressing support for the Senate version of the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), S. 1748....more

Hogan Lovells

Court temporarily blocks enforcement of Texas SB 25’s warning label requirement

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A federal district court in the Western District of Texas granted a preliminary injunction temporarily halting enforcement of one section of Texas SB 25, which requires foods containing any of 44 listed ingredients to display...more

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2025 Cannabis Litigation Retrospective

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2025 had no shortage of litigation impacting both cannabis and hemp businesses. Looking back at the past year: the hemp industry drew regulatory and legislative actions to limit or control hemp products across the nation; the...more

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Court Holds That A Trust Should Be Construed Under Connecticut Law Due To A Choice-Of-Law Clause And Reverses the Dismissal of...

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In Litoff v. Case, a beneficiary sued a trustee regarding a trust modification claim and a claim for an accounting. No. 03-24-00400-CV, 2025 Tex. App. LEXIS 3645 (Tex. App.—Austin May 29, 2025, no pet.). The trial court had...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Court rules Illinois may enforce interchange fee ban, blocks data provision for banks and federal credit unions

On February 10, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted in part and denied in part cross-motions for summary judgment in a challenge to the Illinois Interchange Fee Prohibition Act (IFPA). ...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

AI Law Center January 2026 Updates

AI Regulatory Landscape: Three Things to Know What does New York’s new AI law require from frontier model developers? How are state Attorneys General responding to potential federal preemption of AI laws? What do startups...more

BakerHostetler

Copyright Termination Without Borders: Worldwide Recapture Rights Affirmed in Vetter v. Resnik (5th Cir. 2026)

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Do U.S. copyright termination rights expand beyond the border? In a twist of copyright imperialism, the Fifth Circuit answered in the affirmative, holding that U.S. copyright termination rights can unwind a “worldwide”...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Uncertainty Continues in California on CIPA Section 638.51 Claims

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The wave of California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) Section 638.51 cases (i.e., pen register or trap-and-trace claims) against companies using web tracking technologies such as Meta and TikTok pixels shows no sign of...more

ArentFox Schiff

Protecting Overseas Suppliers From US Courts: Personal Jurisdiction, Market Selection, and Product Liability Risk

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The US market is both coveted and feared by overseas consumer‑product suppliers. Coveted for its scale and purchasing power, with fear that US product‑liability litigation inevitably follows sales....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

A newly devised clause to strengthen cross-border enforcement of monetary judgments

Enforcing monetary judgments across borders remains a significant challenge for international businesses. Even where a final court judgment has been obtained, recovery can be delayed or frustrated by inconsistent recognition...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Still No Certainty In Forum Selection for Derivative Litigation

Issuers facing threats of securities litigation have been trying to obtain as much certainty as possible concerning their potential exposure in such lawsuits for years. The effort has included attempts to have securities and...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

State attorneys general oppose OCC’s new escrow and preemption rules

In a January 29 letter to the OCC, the attorney general of New York, along with other state attorneys general and state banking regulators, called for the OCC to abandon two proposed rules that serve to reinforce federal...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Second Circuit Holds That the Hague Service Convention Prohibits Email Service on Mainland China-Based Defendants

In Smart Study Co., Ltd v. Shenzhenshixindajixieyouxiangongsi, — F.4th —, No. 24-313 (2d Cir. Dec. 18, 2025), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit addressed a question of first impression at the federal...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Legislative Memorandum regarding the application of Israeli law to foreign dealers and international companies

The Ministry of Justice published a new legislative memorandum (Draft Bill) for public comments a few days ago, which seeks to regulate the application of Israeli law to foreign dealers who target customers in Israel. The...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

State Compounding Legislation: Federal Preemption, State Limits and Patient Impact

Legislative sessions are underway in most states, and some have introduced novel legislation to regulate compounded medications, including those specific to weight loss....more

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The Tort of Deceit, Double Actionability and Renvoi; the decision in Bidzina Ivanishvili & Ors v Credit Suisse Life (Bermuda) Ltd...

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On 24 November 2025 the Privy Council handed down a judgment in a Bermudian claim for breach of contractual and fiduciary duties and fraudulent misrepresentation, issued by a high-net-worth individual Bidzina Ivanishvili...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

New York Amends Shield Law

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The New York “Shield Law” refers to several statutes intended to protect patients and providers seeking or offering services concerning gender-affirming care or abortion. These statutes were enacted in response to certain...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

New York’s New AI Guardrails on AI Generated Performers and Postmortem Digital Replicas: What Institutions of Higher Education...

New York has enacted two significant AI-related laws aimed at “protecting consumers and boosting AI transparency” as part of the state’s AI regulatory agenda at the very moment the federal government is asserting a contrary,...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Colorado Files Opposition to Plaintiffs’ Rehearing Petition in Opt-Out Litigation

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As we reported previously, a petition for rehearing en banc was filed by the plaintiff bank trade associations in National Association of Industrial Bankers v. Weiser. In that case, the panel’s 2-1 decision held that a loan...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

UPC Key Documents – Legislation And Guidance (UPDATED)

A collection of easy links to the key pieces of legislation and rules governing the Unified Patent Court and unitary patent...more

K&L Gates LLP

Has the Texas Two-Step Become the Thames Two-Step?

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In the first of its kind, a US company with no prior connection to the United Kingdom, has financially restructured via a Part 26A Companies Act (UK) Restructuring Plan (the RP), in respect of which it also achieved Chapter...more

Alston & Bird

FTC Reverses Rytr Consent Order Amid Push for Federal AI Standards

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On December 22, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) set aside its 2024 consent order against Rytr, a generative AI-powered company, concluding that the original complaint “failed to satisfy the legal requirements of the...more

Proskauer - The Patent Playbook

Updates on APEX-related Personal Jurisdiction Considerations Since SnapRays

Last year we discussed the implications of the Supreme Court’s choice not to review the Federal Circuit’s SnapRays decision for patent owners that rely on the Amazon Patent Evaluation Express (“APEX”) program. A recent case...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Colorado argues against en banc review in DIDMCA opt-out legislation challenge

On January 21, representatives from Colorado filed a response in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit opposing a petition for rehearing en banc in a case involving the state’s opt-out from federal interest rate...more

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U.S. Artificial Intelligence Law Update: Navigating the Evolving State and Federal Regulatory Landscape

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The U.S. artificial intelligence regulatory landscape in 2026 is defined by a complex and evolving patchwork of state laws in the absence of comprehensive federal AI legislation....more

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