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We are closely tracking the newly released Senate Bill 254 (Becker, 2025) Study Report, prepared by the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) as Administrator of the Wildfire Fund. While the report outlines several pathways...more
While California’s wiretapping statute, the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), tends to dominate the conversation about the recent rise in wiretapping litigation, plaintiffs are also turning to other states’...more
Classic equity doctrine. By the 1940s, it was settled law that a funded revocable inter vivos trust with multiple beneficiaries was a true trust. See Nat’l Shawmut Bnk v. Joy, 53 N.E.2nd 113 (1944). It was not merely a failed...more
Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives announced in March 2026 their intention to bring a bill to the floor to extend, for 18 months, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's (FISA) Section 702...more
ironSource Ltd. v. Digital Turbine, Inc., Appeal No. 2024-1831 (Fed. Cir. April 7, 2026) - In its only precedential patent opinion last week, the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal from a post-grant review in which...more
On February 20, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, Inc. that certain tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”) were...more
The Town of Carrboro is a small place with big legal ambitions about combatting climate change. It’s been hard at work seeking to reduce its own carbon emissions, and reports adoption of policies it hoped would encourage...more
The White House proposed significant budget cuts to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), reducing its funding by nearly 17% for fiscal year 2027 to the lowest level since 2007....more
The qui tam provision of the False Claims Act has turned whistleblowing into a $6.8 billion-a-year industry. But now, the FCA's constitutionality is under question. Host Matt Adams is joined by his Fox Rothschild...more
The use of a real person’s likeness within a broader creative work is permissible, according to a California Court of Appeal opinion that reaffirms the broad shield of First Amendment protection for artistic expression....more
Last week, the Ninth Circuit issued a published decision striking down California’s Assembly Bill 290 (“AB 290”) on First Amendment grounds. See Fresenius Med. Care Orange Cnty., LLC v. Bonta, No. 24-3654 (9th Cir. Apr. 7,...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission quietly changed the name of the compliance and disclosure interpretations to corporation finance interpretations (CFIs)....more
Below is this week’s congressional update by BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team. We’ll continue to post in weeks when both chambers of Congress are in session....more
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On April 7, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued a final rule to remove “reputation risk” from their supervisory and examination frameworks and...more
On March 20, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the administrative adjudication of deceptive advertising claims by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) violates the constitutional separation of powers, which grants...more
A coalition of 21 AGs led by Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Washington filed an amicus brief in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals backing four law firms challenging what the states describe as retaliatory executive...more
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FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson has sent letters to four major financial services providers warning them that they may not engage in debanking—disqualifying potential and current customers from receiving services based on...more
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