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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

Jarkesy Challenges Reach State Administrative Proceedings, but Seventh Amendment Still Stops at Federal Line

The post-Jarkesy litigation landscape is developing as anticipated. Litigants are increasingly invoking the Supreme Court’s decision in SEC v. Jarkesy (No. 22-859) to challenge the constitutionality of state administrative...more

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Prediction Markets And Public Power: Senate Restricts Trading, But Constitutional Questions Linger

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Confronted with public controversy surrounding insider trading in prediction markets, the United States Senate has taken action both symbolically powerful and substantively modest: it has prohibited its own members, officers...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Expert rule: There are reviewable non-final agency actions

In a decision addressing the scope of constitutional challenges to agency action, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed a district court’s injunction barring an investigation by the US...more

A&O Shearman

Climate policy: Germany’s highest civil court clarifies the boundaries between legislative discretion and judicial intervention

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BGH rejects claims for early combustion engine phase-out and clarifies the limits of judicial intervention, legislative discretion and corporate responsibility. On 23 March 2026, the German Federal Court of Justice...more

Fisher Phillips

Supreme Court Picks Up Sun Valley Farms Case: How a Family Farm’s Fight Against H-2A Penalties Could Be a Win for All Employers

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The Supreme Court just agreed to hear a case that will decide whether the US Department of Labor (DOL) is allowed to impose financial penalties on agricultural employers for alleged violations of the H-2A temporary visa...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Restitution of Nazi-Looted Modigliani Painting Ends 11-Year Court Battle

A New York State Supreme Court judge has ordered the restitution of “Seated Man with a Cane” (1918) by Amedeo Modigliani to the heirs of Oscar Stettiner, a Jewish art dealer who fled Paris in 1939 as Nazi forces advanced,...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Retired Judges File Amicus Brief in Support of Judge Newman

A distinguished groups of retired judges* filed an amicus brief supporting Judge Pauline Newman’s Petition for Certiorari over the unwillingness of the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to rule on her complaint regarding...more

BakerHostetler

[Podcast] AD Nauseam: False Advertising on Trial – Inside the Intuit Decision

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On today’s episode of AD Nauseam, Amy and Daniel unpack the Fifth Circuit’s Intuit decision, which vacated an FTC cease‑and‑desist order and held that the FTC’s administrative process violates constitutional...more

Lewitt Hackman

IEEPA Tariff Refunds: What Business Owners Need to Know

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If your business paid duties under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) tariffs imposed in 2025, you may be entitled to a refund. On February 20, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court in Learning Resources, Inc....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Constitutional Collision: Questions to Assess the 2026 National AI Framework

Building on Section 8 of the December 2025 Executive Order, the Trump administration’s “National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence,” (the “Framework”) released on March 20, 2026, provides a formal legislative...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The Third Circuit Joins the FCA Constitutionality Debate

The Third Circuit recently heard oral argument on the ongoing question regarding the constitutionality of the qui tam provision of the False Claims Act (FCA)....more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: FINRA Under Fire: New Lawsuit Challenges the Constitutionality of Its Enforcement Power

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's (FINRA) enforcement framework is again under scrutiny, as Boustead Securities, Sutter Securities, and former CEO Keith Moore filed a constitutional challenge in the U.S. District...more

Venable LLP

Intuit v. FTC Reshapes Deceptive Advertising Enforcement Authority

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On March 20, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the administrative adjudication of deceptive advertising claims by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) violates the constitutional separation of powers, which grants...more

Wiley Rein LLP

ICYMI: Developments in Anthropic Challenges to Department of War Supply Chain Risk “Designation”

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Federal contractor Anthropic PBC was recently the subject of social media “directives” issued by the President and the Secretary of War that sought to designate the company a supply chain risk following unsuccessful...more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - April 2026 - Supreme Court Clarifies Separation of Powers in IEEPA Tariffs Decision

OVERVIEW The Supreme Court’s Feb 20, 2026, decision holding that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) (50 U.S.C. §§ 1701–1707) does not authorize the President to impose tariffs is best understood not as a...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Judicial Conduct and Disability Committee Has Its Say, Denies Judge Newman’s Latest Request for Review – Patent Docs

The course of the proceedings involving the attempts to remove Judge Pauline Newman from the Federal Circuit is long, and in many senses tragic (see links below).  Just when you might think the last Act has begun (see “Judge...more

Cooley LLP

Fifth Circuit Holds FTC Adjudication of Deceptive Advertising Claims Is Unconstitutional

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On March 20, 2026, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit delivered a major decision in Intuit, Inc. v. FTC, holding that the Federal Trade Commission’s internal administrative adjudication of deceptive advertising...more

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Fifth Circuit Considers Waning Role of Administrative Agency Tribunals

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In Friday's decision in Intuit, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission, the Fifth Circuit considered a question with wide-ranging implications: May enforcement actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against companies...more

BakerHostetler

From AMG To Intuit: Has The Path For Redress in Section 5 Cases Disappeared?

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit seemingly handed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or the Commission) yet another setback, this time squarely in the agency’s bread‑and‑butter area of false advertising...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Fifth Circuit Vacates FTC’s Cease-and-Desist Order Against Intuit, Holding Internal Adjudication of Deceptive Advertising Claims...

In a significant decision with wide-ranging implications for FTC enforcement on Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the FTC’s cease-and-desist order against Intuit, Inc. and held that the agency’s...more

Morgan Lewis

Third Circuit Considers Constitutionality of False Claims Act Qui Tam Provisions

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A US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit panel heard oral argument on March 18, 2026 in an appeal of a 2025 District of New Jersey decision upholding a jury verdict in favor of qui tam relators, presenting an opportunity...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Judge Newman Seeks Recourse from Supreme Court

The course of the proceedings involving the attempts to remove Judge Pauline Newman from the Federal Circuit is long and in many senses tragic (see links below).  Last week the latest, and likely last, Act of this sad drama...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses Sue Texas Comptroller over Contracting Program’s Conversion + Cancellation

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Four minority- and women-owned Texas small businesses and a minority contractor trade association filed suit against Acting Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Kelly Hancock on March 2, 2026, alleging that the comptroller...more

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Judicial Safety, Judicial Independence, and the Rule of Law

At Legalweek 2026, one of the most consequential conversations did not focus on AI roadmaps, platform consolidation, or the future of litigation workflows....more

Carlton Fields

No, We’re Good. Florida DCA Confirms That Zoning Hearings Are Quasi-Judicial

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No, we’re good. Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal has confirmed what land use lawyers have been saying for decades: zoning hearings are still quasi‑judicial. Back in August 2024, we wrote in “Zoning Appeals: Have We...more

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