The Internal Revenue Service has reached a settlement, subject to court approval, that would permit political speech in houses of worship. Background -
Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code defines an organization…
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/ Constitutional Law, Nonprofit Law, Taxation
In a significant move, on June 27, 2025 the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an order granting banks and their subsidiaries an exemption from the Customer Identification…
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/ Finance & Banking, Privacy, Taxation
A district court in Illinois has ruled that an amendment to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) regarding a limitation on damages does not apply retroactively.
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Plaintiff filed a class action…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Privacy
On June 23, 2025, U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer of the Central District of California sentenced a former Chairman and CEO of a behavioral healthcare company to 42 months in federal prison. This conviction represents the…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
SCOTUS Says: Hobbs Act Does Not Bind a District Court to the FCC’s Interpretation of a Statute -
On May 1, 2025, the American Arbitration Association’s new amendments to the Consumer Arbitration Rules officially went into…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
On June 17, 2025, the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island dismissed pro se plaintiffs’ claims against the Rhode Island Housing and Mortgage Finance Corporation (R.I. Housing) for alleged violations of…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Residential
In a case of first impression, the Fifth Circuit in Reyes v. Equifax Information Systems, L.L.C., joined the First, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits in affirming the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas’s decision…
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/ Civil Remedies, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
The Northern District of New York recently granted a motion to dismiss a putative class action on the grounds that the defendant honored the named class representative’s request to opt out of text messages within a reasonable…
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/ Civil Procedure, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Products Liability
The 5th Circuit recently reversed a district court’s decision to remand a case before ruling on a pending motion to compel arbitration. This is because the remand motion did not challenge the district court’s jurisdiction;…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts
On June 18th, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two rulings determining where challenges to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) actions under the Clean Air Act must be filed.
The Court held challenges to EPA actions that are…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
Following in the wake of last years’ Loper Bright and Relentless, Inc. decisions that ended agency deference, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday in McLaughlin Chiropractic Assoc., Inc. v. McKesson Corp. that the Hobbs Act…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection
In employment law, we traditionally think of discrimination as applying to minority groups: African Americans, women, homosexuals, or other legally protected groups. In analyzing discrimination claims, one of the first questions…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
The decision for a company to self-disclose potential criminal misconduct to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is always complex. This is particularly true during periods of administration transitions when DOJ policies and…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Criminal Law
In a unanimous opinion, the Ohio Supreme Court held that a trial court is not required to first hold an oral hearing on a motion to compel arbitration under Ohio’s Arbitration Act (R.C. 2711 et. seq.) if no party requests a…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure
In a landmark ruling issued May 29, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the D.C. Circuit in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, sharply limiting the scope of environmental review under…
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/ Construction Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Transportation, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
