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Update on Legal Challenges to President Trump's Presidential Actions

Since President Trump took office on January 20, 2025, he has issued an unprecedented number of presidential actions, including 62 executive orders and numerous declarations, proclamations, announcements, memoranda, grants of...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Update: The Corporate Transparency Act Put On Hold

As an update to our post on the Corporate Transparency Act, on December 3, 2024, a federal district court issued a nationwide preliminary injunction pertaining to the Corporate Transparency Act in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v....more

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Corporate Transparency Act: Preliminary Injunction & FinCen’s Response

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The Corporate Transparency Act (31 U.S.C. § 5336, the CTA), which went into effect on January 1, 2024, requires a broad range of corporations, limited liability companies, and other entities (“reporting companies”) to file...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

TikTok on the Chopping Block: Will the U.S. Ban the Popular Social Media App?

On September 16, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard oral arguments in the seminal case of TikTok, Inc. v. Garland, which centers around the potential ban of TikTok under the Protecting...more

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Florida Enjoined from Enforcing Law Targeting Some Social Media Platforms

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Earlier this year, Florida enacted Senate Bill 7072 - The Stop Social Media Censorship Act - which imposed requirements and prohibitions on some, but not all, social media platforms relating to the speech hosted on their...more

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Ninth Circuit Finds that the TCPA Debt Collection Exception Violates the First Amendment

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Last month, in Duguid v. Facebook, Inc., 17-15320, 2019 WL 2454853 (9th Cir. June 13, 2019), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) held that the debt collection exception to the Telephone...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

First Amendment Rights of California Public Agencies Affirmed by Appellate Court - Anti-SLAPP Motion Successful in Dispute

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A court of appeal dismissed a challenge to a county’s characterization of stored chemicals as hazardous waste, holding that by making that determination and forwarding it to the district attorney, the county had engaged in...more

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Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - November 2017

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we discuss a Washington state court decision allowing a data breach lawsuit to move forward on a negligence claim, a Ninth Circuit ruling regarding releasing...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Court Says Glassdoor Must Disclose Anonymous Reviewers’ Information in Grand Jury Proceedings

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In a case with free speech implications, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on November 8, 2017, affirmed the denial of Glassdoor, Inc.’s motion to quash a grand jury subpoena for the identities of the Glassdoor...more

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Intellectual Property Bulletin - Winter 2017

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A Smooth Patch in a Rough Road? Governmental Transition and Intellectual Property - Whenever a new Congress convenes, some IP issues come to the fore while others take a back seat. Transition to a new administration in the...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Trademark, Copyright &...

Of Slants, Skins and Signs: No Relief For Trademark Applicant Until Supreme Court Weighs In

As part of our continuing monitoring of this issue, we bring you the latest chapter in the saga over the registration of THE SLANTS trademark. After the en banc Federal Circuit struck down Section 2(a) as facially...more

Butler Snow LLP

Defeating “Libel Tourism” under Mississippi law and the SPEECH Act

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In Trout Point Lodge, Ltd. v. Handshoe, 729 F.3d 481 (5th Cir. 2013), the Fifth Circuit became the first appellate court in the country to interpret the Securing the Protection of Our Enduring and Established Constitutional...more

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