U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals -
Hicks v. Middleton - vicarious liability, employment, course and scope -
UHS v. Sec’y of Labor - OSHA, workplace violence, employer -
JF v. Carnival - negligence, cruise, sexual…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law
On June 12, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a release announcing that it was withdrawing 14 notices of proposed rulemaking issued between March 2022 and November 2023 and stating that it “does not intend to…
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/ Administrative Law, Securities Law
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals -
Scott v. Miami - probable cause -
USA v. Ferretiz-Hernandez - immigration, reentry prohibition, constitutionality -
Jekyll Island v. Polygroup Macau - personal jurisdiction,…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law
Internal investigations have long been a valuable tool for companies and their executives to manage civil, regulatory, and criminal liability. By investigating potential corporate misconduct with the help of counsel, a company…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, International Law & Trade
Currently available in approximately 40 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) is a locally administered financing program that provides commercial…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Commercial, Taxation
On May 29, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, a case concerning the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) that limits judicial review of…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Transportation, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
In a 26-page decision, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejected an effort by a hedge fund manager to derail an ongoing SEC in-house “follow-on” enforcement proceeding…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Constitutional Law, Securities Law
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a concept release on June 4, 2025, seeking feedback on whether the SEC should amend the definition of “foreign private issuer” (FPI). In the release, the SEC asks whether…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Securities Law
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals -
Roth v. Russell - ’34 Act, §16(b) -
Sweet Additions v. Meelunie Am - sales contract -
USA v. Dubois - Second Amendment, felons with firearms..…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Family Law
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a challenge to a FINRA arbitration award after concluding that federal courts lacked jurisdiction over the matter…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking
Reginald “Andre” Andre is the dynamic founder and CEO of ARK Solvers. A chance encounter at a CompUSA store sparked a series of events that eventually created ARK Solvers — now one of South Florida’s fastest-growing IT and…
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/ Business Organizations, Communications & Media Law, Electronic Discovery, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
In A Priori Family Office LLC v. Valley Forge Insurance Co., the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut found the undefined term “surface water” in an all-risk insurance policy’s water exclusion ambiguous, so…
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/ Civil Remedies, Commercial Law & Contracts, Insurance
On June 2, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by Alpine Securities Corp. in Alpine Securities Corp. v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. In doing so, the Supreme Court declined to…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Securities Law
On June 5, 2025, in Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings v. Davis, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed as improvidently granted a case presenting the question of whether a certified class properly may include both injured and…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Rights
With bitcoin hitting its all-time high of $112,000 in May 2025, and President Trump’s ongoing vocal support for cryptocurrency, it is worth examining the establishment of a strategic digital asset reserve. Executive Order 14233,…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
