At the end of May, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the formation of a Civil Rights Fraud Initiative to “utilize the False Claims Act to investigate and, as appropriate, pursue claims against any recipient of federal…
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/ Civil Rights, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting, Health
Maine’s Gambling Control Unit (GCU) has issued a formal warning regarding the proliferation of illegal interactive gaming (“iGaming”) platforms operating within the state. The warning emphasized that while certain forms of…
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/ Administrative Law, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Consumer Protection
Leonard Lipsky and Carly Eisenberg Hoinacki from Sheppard Mullin’s Healthcare Team recently sat down with Nick Francia and Sarah Bothner of The Capital ESOP Group at UBS Financial Services Inc., to explore the ins and outs of…
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/ Business Organizations, Health, Mergers & Acquisitions
The California Court of Appeal issued an important decision clarifying that an employee cannot recover damages for a defamation claim that is derivative of a wrongful termination claim. Defamation causes of action are often…
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/ Business Torts, Civil Remedies, Labor & Employment Law
On June 5, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously held in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services that the standard for establishing a Title VII claim is the same for all individuals, regardless of whether…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Congress is weighing a sweeping proposal that could significantly reshape how artificial intelligence (AI) is regulated across the United States. At the end of May, the United States House of Representatives passed, by a vote of…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
On June 6, 2025, the Trump Administration released a new Executive Order (“EO”) on cybersecurity, Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Amending Executive Order 13694 and Executive Order 14144…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Science, Computers, & Technology, Government Contracting
We have previously posted on some of the recent legal issues with social casino sweepstakes. See Social Casino Sweepstakes Model is Under Fire – What Game Companies, Payment Processors and App Stores Need to Know. Various states…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Criminal Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
Amendments to California’s Automatic Renewal Law (ARL) will take effect on July 1, 2025. Enacted in September 2024 through Assembly Bill No. 2863, the amendments expand disclosure, consent, and cancellation obligations for…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection
On June 2, the California State Assembly unanimously passed Assembly Bill 1180, which now moves to the California Senate for consideration. The bill would require the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) to…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology
On April 7, the FDIC and the Maryland Office of Financial Regulation terminated two consent orders against a regional bank headquartered in Maryland. The termination concludes joint federal and state enforcement actions that…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
On April 30, the FTC filed a stipulated order for a permanent injunctive relief and a monetary judgment against a Georgia-based debt collection company and its owner, which the court granted on May 9, to resolve allegations that…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Remedies, Consumer Protection
On May 30, the CFPB and a national pawn store operator filed a joint status report in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas announcing that they have reached an agreement to resolve a 2021 Bureau lawsuit…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Military Law
Since our last coverage of “headless PAGA lawsuits”—i.e., lawsuits in which a plaintiff disavows his individual PAGA claim and opts to pursue the claim only on behalf of others—significant developments have further complicated…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
In Ezrasons, Inc. v. Rudd, 2025 NY Slip Op. 03008, 2025 N.Y. LEXIS 717 (N.Y. May 20, 2025), the New York Court of Appeals reaffirmed the fundamental and controlling nature of the internal affairs doctrine as it relates to the…
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/ Business Organizations, Conflict of Laws, International Law & Trade
