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Sick of ALJs? The New Right to Federal Court During Agency Prosecutions

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Practitioners and scholars all agree that last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court overhauled the administrative state. And no, not simply by overturning Chevron, which was undoubtably the most significant decision of the Supreme...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

EnforceMintz —Could the Supreme Court’s Decision in Jarkesy Mean the End to HHS Civil Monetary Penalty Authorities as We Know...

Last June, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, which holds that the Seventh Amendment entitles a defendant to a jury trial when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

FERC Settles Decade-Old Enforcement Allegations

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In 2016, a new play called Hamilton was dominating Broadway, Pokémon Go was all the rage, and the Summer Olympics were held in Rio. Also that year, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“Commission” or “FERC”) issued an...more

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DSIR Deeper Dive: Tracking the Crackdown on Tracking/Pixel Technologies: Web Litigation and Regulatory Landscape - Part 2

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In the first part of this blog post, we looked into the OCR and FTC’s focus on third-party tracking technologies. We also reviewed the AHA Lawsuit and its impact for the use of tracking technologies. In this blog post, we...more

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Two U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Will Affect the Securities Industry

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The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) recently issued two opinions that are likely to have a longer-term effect on the way securities industry matters are handled. Juries, not the Securities Exchange Commission...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Two Blockbuster U.S. Supreme Court Decisions May Spell End of NLRB’s Expansion of Reach of NLRA as Well as How Agency Prosecutes...

The U.S. Supreme Court issued two blockbuster decisions last week, both of which likely will curtail the ability of federal agencies, including the NLRB, to prosecute cases and expand the law. In a 6-3 decision announced...more

Mintz - Consumer Product Safety Viewpoints

CPSC’s Zen Magnets Mandatory Recall Reversed: A Mixed District Court Decision Gives Zen Magnets a New Life and the CPSC Favorable...

The consumer product safety community is rarely provided guidance by federal court decisions. On Tuesday, however, Judge R. Brooke Jackson of the Federal District Court for the District of Colorado issued an opinion in the...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

The Tenth Circuit Rules SEC Administrative Judges Are Unconstitutional, Setting Up Potential Supreme Court Review

The constitutionality of the SEC’s in-house administrative proceedings is in doubt following the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in Bandimere v. SEC. In Bandimere, a three-judge panel held, by a 2-1 decision, that SEC...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

DC Circuit: No Jurisdiction For Suits Re SEC Forum Selection Choice

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Suits challenging the SEC’s forum selection decisions continue to proliferate. As the trend has unfolded the Commission posted a memo on its website discussing the issue of forum selection and has proposed modifications to...more

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PHH Wins Stay of $109M CFPB Enforcement Penalty

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On August 5, 2015, PHH Corp. (“PHH”) won a stay of the $109M penalty handed down by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) director Rich Cordray. Cordray’s aggressive legal reasoning and the harsh penalties he imposed,...more

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