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
A federal judge in D.C. recently ruled in favor of the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”), an administrative agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), by finding that drug…
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/ Administrative Law, Health
This Federal Circuit Opinion analyzes invalidity based on anticipation and obviousness, more specifically based on implicit claim construction of the claim limitation and inherent disclosures…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on May 22, 2025 by a narrow vote of 215-214. OBBBA includes a new U.S. tax provision that could significantly increase taxes on foreign…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Taxation
On Tuesday May 20, 2025, U.S. District Judge for the District of Oregon, Michael H. Simon issued a decision in Casala LLC, d/b/a Bubble’s Hash and Rec Rehab Consulting LLC, d/b/a Ascend Dispensary v. Tina Kotek, in her official…
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/ Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
On Thursday, May 22, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a budget reconciliation bill introduced by House Republicans, by a 215-214 vote. The bill extends key provisions of the…
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/ Elections & Politics, Health, Taxation
On May 28, 2025, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) unanimously struck down the extensive tariffs imposed by President Trump under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). The CIT…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, International Law & Trade
In a significant shift in international policy, the United States, European Union, and United Kingdom have each taken steps to ease sanctions on Syria, aiming to support the country’s reconstruction and political transition…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
On March 14, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated the dismissal of a lawsuit alleging a failure to reasonably investigate a disputed debt.
The lawsuit concerned a consumer who disputed a debt that she…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
