The Learned Concierge - Welcome to your monthly legal insights on the trends impacting the Retail, Hospitality, and Food & Beverage Industries…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, International Law & Trade, Labor & Employment Law, Privacy
In Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard Coll., 600 U.S. 181 (2023), the Supreme Court all but ended affirmative action and held, inter alia, that race-conscious admissions policies in higher…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Education Law
UPDATE: At 10:41 Monday morning President Trump posted on Truth Social announcing that the tariffs with respect to Mexico will be delayed by one month. “I just spoke with President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico. It was a very…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, International Law & Trade
On Jan. 24, the Illinois Supreme Court, in Petta v. Christie Business Holdings Company, PC, affirmed the dismissal of a putative class action following an alleged data breach because the named plaintiff failed to allege any…
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/ Civil Procedure, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Can you protect a personal “aesthetic” or “vibe?” Social media influencer Sydney Nicole Gifford believes so, as she recently sued fellow social media influencer Alyssa Sheil in Texas Federal Court, in what is now known as the…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Business Torts, Intellectual Property
2024 was another active year in cybersecurity, with high-profile vulnerabilities and data breaches, and government and private sector responses to them. Examples include pervasive ransomware attacks targeting the healthcare,…
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/ Government Contracting, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
On Jan. 23, President Trump issued an executive order entitled “Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology.” The order signals a sea change in the federal government’s treatment of Bitcoin and other…
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/ Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
Clark Hill’s Financial Services and Regulatory Compliance Group has authored a whitepaper for debt settlement companies considering engaging a third-party payment processor for managing accounts and handling financial…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently finalized and issued a new rule governing negative option features, like subscription or membership agreements with automatic renewal and recurring payment options. The rule, nicknamed…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection
The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently published a Letter and Resolution Agreement vindicating a male student we represented in a complaint against Notre Dame. As set forth in the published…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law
On Jan. 21, the “Executive order that grants tax incentives to support the national strategy called “Plan Mexico” to encourage new investments, dual training programs, and promote innovation” (the “Decree”) was published in the…
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/ Business Organizations, Science, Computers, & Technology, Taxation
On Jan. 23, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the Dec. 5 nationwide injunction in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland (E.D. Tex.) that had halted Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) enforcement nationwide. The stay of this injunction…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking
On Jan. 16, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced long-awaited and significant updates to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, the first revisions since 2013. These updates apply to online operators…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
In a case of first impression, the Washington Supreme Court interpreted Washington law regarding noncompete agreements to broadly protect employees who earn less than twice the state minimum wage from unreasonable restrictions…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
On Jan. 21, the New York Senate approved a groundbreaking health privacy bill, S-929. The legislation, modeled on Washington state’s My Health My Data Act, aims to extend protections over personal health information beyond the…
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/ Health, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
