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C. Ryan Barber, based in Washington, covers government affairs and regulatory compliance. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter: @cryanbarber
November 23, 2015 | National Law Journal
An Atlanta-based medical testing company that claims to have been put out of business under the weight of a Federal Trade Commission data-privacy investigation is now suing three agency attorneys for allegedly bringing a case based on "fictional" evidence.
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November 20, 2015 | National Law Journal
A nonprofit consumer advocate on Thursday challenged extensive redactions and sealed filings in MetLife Inc.'s lawsuit in Washington federal court over the company's designation by financial regulators as "too big to fail." Better Markets said MetLife's lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and the Justice Department attorneys for the oversight panel "have created a litigation record largely shrouded in secrecy."
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November 20, 2015 | Legal Times
The Harvard University police are investigating as a hate crime the placement of black tape over the portraits of some African American faculty at Harvard Law School. The Massachusetts attorney general will propose regulations for the fantasy sports industry. And a case concerning law school debt reaches the U.S. Supreme Court. This is a daily roundup from ALM and other publications.
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November 17, 2015 | National Law Journal
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission brought fraud charges Tuesday against nine people who allegedly carried out a $78 million "pump-and-dump" scheme with stock of Jammin' Java Corp., a coffee company that was founded by one of Bob Marley's sons and uses trademarks of the late reggae legend.
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November 16, 2015 | National Law Journal
As the Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr team prepared for arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, the odds seemed stacked against them.
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November 15, 2015 | National Law Journal
For Allyson Ho and her team at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, the most satisfying win of 2014 may have been convincing the U.S. Supreme Court just to consider a retirement benefits case between their client, M&G Polymers USA LLC, and its retired workers.
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November 13, 2015 | Legal Times
Gina McCarthy, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, must sit for a deposition in an energy company's federal suit in West Virginia. The Ninth Circuit rules against a challenge to California's death penalty system. And prosecutors seek a 12.5-year prison sentence for Jared Fogle, the former Subway pitchman. This is a news roundup from ALM and other publications.
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November 10, 2015 | National Law Journal
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently took the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools to court over the company's refusal to comply with a so-called civil investigative demand. In taking the rare step of going to court, the consumer-protection agency has begun a legal battle that could test its investigative authority at a time when corporate lawyers and critics on Capitol Hill are trying to roll back the bureau's jurisdiction. The accreditor contends the CFPB doesn't have jurisdiction over its industry.
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November 10, 2015 | National Law Journal
A federal trial judge in Washington this week awarded legal fees to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission amid a discovery dispute with the company Intrade The Prediction Market. Intrade's lawyers, fighting the fee request, had argued that senior-level CFTC attorneys billed for low-level tasks. The dispute required the CFTC attorneys, who both formerly worked in Big Law, to assess their hourly rates.
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November 6, 2015 | Legal Times
Prosecution star, prankster, private practice: Remembering Tim Coleman, the Freshfields partner who died Tuesday after falling from a building in downtown Washington. Justice Sonia Sotomayor gets personal—on the bench. And nearly 100,000 same-sex couples have wed since the Supreme Court's landmark marriage ruling in late June. This is a roundup from ALM and other publications.
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