Recently, the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) in California issued a consent order against Coinme Inc., a company operating digital financial asset kiosks, commonly known as Bitcoin ATMs, across the…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 8, a panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued a significant decision in the case of Custom Communications, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The panel vacated the FTC’s amended Negative…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection
On June 20, the Supreme Court concluded that marketing denial orders (MDOs) issued by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can be challenged not only by the applicants (typically, the manufacturer or importer of the products),…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Communications & Media Law, Health
On Jan. 14, Patriot Bank, based in Stamford, Connecticut, entered into an agreement with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to address and rectify several alleged unsafe or unsound practices and violations of law…
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/ Finance & Banking
In Part Two of this FAQ series, we continue to break down Virginia’s Senate Bill 754, Consumer Protection Act; prohibited practices, etc., reproductive or sexual health information (Act), which amends the Virginia Consumer…
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/ Consumer Protection, Health, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Consignments may be governed by either common law or Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, the latter of which requires the consignor to comply with various procedures in order to perfect its security interest in the…
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/ Bankruptcy, Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions
In the past two weeks, six federal permitting agencies — the U.S. Departments of Interior (USDOI), Agriculture (USDA), Energy (DOE), Commerce (DoC), Defense (DoD), and Transportation (USDOT) — withdrew most of their National…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
On July 7, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (the Order) once again extending the temporary suspension of reciprocal tariffs that were originally set forth in his April 2 “Liberation Day” Executive Order 14257 and…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics, International Law & Trade
The U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division (DOJ) has announced a new initiative aimed at enhancing the detection and prosecution of antitrust violations…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Criminal Law, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
On July 3, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued a final rule revising its regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to remove references to the recently rescinded…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
There has been a flurry of recent activity in a case originally filed by six air ambulance companies claiming $20 million in unpaid emergency services invoices…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Health, Insurance
In this special crossover edition of Payments Pros and The Consumer Finance Podcast, Carlin McCrory and Jason Cover are joined by their colleague Caleb Rosenberg to explore the evolving landscape of small business financing…
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/ Finance & Banking, Consumer Protection
On July 7, 2025, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro enacted a new Digital Forgery Law by signing SB 649 into law, which will take effect in 60 days. SB 649 creates “new criminal penalties for anyone who uses artificial…
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/ Criminal Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the formation of a new working group in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) focused on the enforcement of the False Claims Act…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Remedies, Health
On July 4, 2025, H.R. 1 — the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the OBBBA) was enacted into law. We discussed the version of the bill that passed in the House in May (the House bill) in our previous update. On July 1, the Senate…
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/ Energy & Utilities, International Law & Trade, Taxation
