Litigation against banks and other financial services firms is always evolving. This mid-year 2025 update discusses trends from recent case filings and decisions and highlights the importance of awareness of new legal theories,…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Privacy
In a record-setting enforcement action under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Attorney General (AG) announced a $1.55 million settlement with Healthline Media, a popular online publisher of health and…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
On July 3, 2025, Congress passed the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (the Act), which makes permanent certain provisions of 2017's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the 2017 TCJA) that would have expired this year and introduces significant…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Taxation
Recent Supreme Court decisions underscore how viewpoint-based refusals of trademark applications are unconstitutional. But can these viewpoint-based refusals survive under the "failure-to-function" doctrine instead?…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property
The Florida Supreme Court amended Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.280(f) (Timing and Sequence of Discovery) to resolve an ambiguity in the Rule that practitioners had been unreasonably using to thwart or delay the commencement…
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/ Civil Procedure
Generative AI is rewriting how lawyers work at record speed, but is also quietly flooding Courts with phantom citations and invented case law along the way. In recent months, a number of judges across the country have sanctioned…
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/ Civil Procedure, Law Practice Products & Services, Professional Malpractice, Science, Computers, & Technology
Only a few months ago, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware ruled that the use of "headnotes" in a legal search tool, for the purpose of training a competing legal tool driven by artificial intelligence (AI), did…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
Employers can relax and enjoy the Florida sunshine. Here is why: On April 24, 2025, the Florida Legislature passed the Florida Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth (CHOICE) Act. Not…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
A recent wave of consumer class action lawsuits is targeting food and beverage makers that use "all natural," "no preservatives," or similar labels on their products. One common group of targeted products are those which contain…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection, Insurance
The laws in Florida concerning how to deal with undesirable and non-paying public lodging guests were recently updated and clarified. Prior to the enactment of Senate Bill 606, establishment managers and operators were often…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Real Estate - Commercial
With the ease of apps and websites for planning activities, whether it be vacations, business trips, or shopping, we open ourselves to multiple sources of being followed across devices by collecting, analyzing, and sharing our…
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/ Communications & Media Law, International Law & Trade, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has rescinded its 2022 guidance and accompanying letter that reinforced hospitals' obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) to provide emergency…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Health
On March 21, 2025, a unanimous Supreme Court overturned a false statement conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 1014 holding that the statute requires false, and not merely misleading, statements to certain federal agencies including…
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/ Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Finance & Banking
The Florida Consumer Collection Practices Act (FCCPA) – Florida's state-law version of the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) – has long been the subject of consumer protection lawsuits, including, in recent…
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/ Bankruptcy, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
In February, the White House issued an Executive Order "pausing" Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement for 180 days, to "further American economic and national security."1 On June 9, Deputy Attorney General Todd…
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/ Administrative Law, Criminal Law, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
