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Wire Fraud Litigants Beware: Fourth Circuit Ruling Protects the Banks — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Solicitors General Insights: The Tale of Two Washingtons — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
How confidential is a request to access or challenge information in INTERPOL’s files?
Understanding the Impact of IPR Estoppel and PTAB Discretionary Denials — Patents: Post-Grant Podcast
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 64 - Cages We Built: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Solicitors General Insights: The Legal Frontlines in Iowa and Indiana — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
The Briefing: The Ninth Circuit Puts the Brakes on Eleanor’s Copyright Claim
The Briefing: No CTRL-ALT-DEL For the Server Test
Navigating PTAB’s New Approach to IPR and PGR Discretionary Denial - Patents: Post-Grant Podcast
Solicitors General Insights: A Deep Dive With Mississippi and Tennessee Solicitors General — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Update on the State of Non-compete Restrictions (LaborSpeak)
UPIC Audits
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Prominent Journalist, David Dayen, Describes his Reporting on the Efforts of Trump 2.0 to Curb CFPB
#WorkforceWednesday®: Federal Contractors Alert - DEI Restrictions Reinstated by Appeals Court - Employment Law This Week®
5 Key Takeaways | Building a Winning Evidentiary Record at the PTAB (and Surviving Appeal)
Exploring Procedural Justice | Judge Steve Leben | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Handling Post-Conviction Death Penalty Cases Pro Bono | McKenzie Edwards | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
Inside the Fourth Court of Appeals’ Clerk’s Office | Michael Cruz | Texas Appellate Law Podcast
In this episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast, Chris Willis is joined by veteran litigators and Troutman Pepper Locke Partners Mary Zinsner and Heryka Knoespel to dissect a groundbreaking Fourth Circuit decision on bank...more
Hello all. Below is the May 2025 edition of the Fifth Circuit criminal and civil case summaries, with a special focus on cases of interest to white-collar practitioners. This past month, the Fifth Circuit issued published...more
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals recently vacated and remanded a District Court opinion that denied qualified immunity to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer. In Belton v. Loveridge, the appellate court held the trial...more
The Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in four cases today: Bost v. Illinois State Board of Elections, No. 24-568: This case involves an Illinois law that required mail-in ballots to be counted as long...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued one decision today: Barnes v. Felix, No. 23-1239: This criminal procedure case concerns the proper scope of analysis for Fourth Amendment excessive force claims....more
Earlier this year, we wrote on the Fourth Circuit's en banc rehearing in United States v. Chatrie, a criminal appeal addressing whether a geofence warrant used to locate the defendant in a bank robbery trial was a...more
In U.S. v. Chatrie, __ F. 4th __, 2025 WL 1242063 (4th Cir. Apr. 30, 2025)(en banc), the Court issued a per curiam affirmance of the District Court’s geofence decision. Fourteen judges joined in that decision. There were...more
On April 21, 2025, a Ninth Circuit en banc panel revived (by a 10-1 decision) a putative class action against Shopify, Inc. alleging violations of privacy and data rights via use of cookies. In reversing both the district...more
U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals - Kinsale v. Pride of St Lucie - (Fla law) insurance, bad faith, duty to initiate settlement - Pipkins v. Hoover Ala - Fourth Amendment, deadly force - Vargas v. Lincare - False...more
This is the first of a continuing series of summaries written by Jackson Walker partner, Joe Magliolo, and his colleagues, of new, published Fifth Circuit criminal opinions, with occasional forays into other subjects of...more
Key Points: Use of Deadly Force: The court upheld the police officers’ use of deadly force, which is relevant for insurance coverage in similar incidents. Municipal Liability: No liability for the defendant as there was no...more
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
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
On December 3, 2024, the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction suspending enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), less than a month before the deadline. The ruling temporarily...more
Seldom in the law is there a last word on any topic, but the Eleventh Circuit’s latest word in United States v. Campbell on appellate forfeiture and waiver principles by the en banc court is comprehensive and important....more
In a 9-0 opinion by Justice Thomas, the Supreme Court held that the “community caretaking” exception does not extend to the home, narrowing police powers to search homes without a warrant and repudiating the First Circuit’s...more
The 21st Century law enforcement officer serves a variety of public service functions, only some of which involve the enforcement of criminal laws. From some of those non-criminal public service roles, the courts have...more
In a new decision, the Michigan Court of Appeals has held that when it comes to privacy and aerial surveillance, a landowner has a greatly enhanced expectation of privacy when unmanned aircraft are involved. The decision,...more
In a closely watched decision, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit confirmed the government’s expansive authority to search cell phones, laptops, and other electronic devices at the border. On February 9, 2021, the...more
Virtual currency has been around for a number of years now, and yet many still believe virtual currency transactions provide a level of anonymity and privacy not afforded by other types of monetary transactions. That simply...more
In a recent case, a seventh grade boy was written up by his teacher because she saw him selling candy in class. The student told an assistant principal that he had hidden the candy in the bottom of a garbage can, and a later...more
On February 25, 2020, the Supreme Court decided Hernandez et al. v. Mesa, No. 17-1678, declining to extend a judicially created damages remedy for a constitutional violation by a federal employee, a U.S. Border Patrol agent...more
A while back I wrote about the collateral order doctrine as discussed by the Fourth Circuit in Williams v. Strickland. Williams involved an alleged excessive force claim against a law enforcement officer and an...more
Municipalities that rely on chalking cars and sidewalks as part of their parking enforcement should change their practices after a recent ruling....more
On August 16, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals issued its decision in Naperville Smart Meter Awareness v. the City of Naperville finding that smart meter data collection is a "search" under the 4th Amendment, but allowable...more