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NAAG 2025 Presidential Initiative Summit: Building on Opioid Litigation Success to Tackle Evolving Drug Threats

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This year’s NAAG Presidential Initiative Summit held August 5-6, 2025 in Portsmouth, NH, was hosted by New Hampshire AG and NAAG President John Formella, brought together state AGs, law enforcement officials, federal...more

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Legal Repercussions Of Posting Insults On Social Media

With the rise in social media usage and the comfort with which people are expressing their thoughts and views on social media, many users do not realize the real-life implications of their online activities. Time and again,...more

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What Is Swatting? And How Can You Prevent It?

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What happens when online harassment crosses the digital divide? For a decade, the practice of swatting has been on the rise, and featured in news stories the world over.  Swatting is a weaponized form of harassment that turns...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Bipartisan Take It Down Act Becomes Law

On Monday, May 19, 2025, President Donald Trump signed the “Take It Down Act” into law. The Act, which unanimously passed the Senate and cleared the House in a 409-2 vote, criminalizes the distribution of intimate images of...more

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Covered Platforms Face Strict Deadlines Under the Take It Down Act

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A new federal law criminalizes nonconsensual intimate imagery and gives covered websites, mobile applications, and other online platforms merely 48 hours to comply with requests to take down such materials. On May 19, 2025,...more

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The Bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act Is Now Federal Law

President Donald Trump has signed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a new federal law aimed at curbing the spread of non-consensual AI-generated pornography. The law makes it a criminal offense to create or share explicit deepfake images...more

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New Federal Law Criminalizes Nonconsensual Intimate Imagery and Mandates Swift Online Takedowns

On May 19, 2025, President Donald Trump signed into law the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act, commonly referred to as the Take It Down Act (S.146) (the...more

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First of Its Kind Federal Legislation Addressing AI-Generated Deepfakes Signed Into Law

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On May 19, 2025, President Trump signed into law the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes Act, also known by the backronym the TAKE IT DOWN Act  (the “Act”), to combat deepfake revenge...more

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What Will the Art of Jury Selection Look Like During Trump’s Second Presidency?

For those of us who select juries in state and federal courts throughout the United States, we wonder out loud how this process will evolve after President Trump’s trials and appeals are all concluded or terminated.  Many of...more

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The Foreign Agents Registration Act: 2024 Year in Review and Outlook for 2025

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Executive Summary - We entered 2025 with the world in turmoil, a new American administration in the White House, and various global actors—friends and foes alike—still actively vying for the attention of the American public. ...more

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Going Mobile: Mobile Device Data in Criminal Investigations

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While data from mobile devices is more frequently responsive in civil litigation than ever before, “true crime” aficionados know it’s routinely useful in criminal investigations. We take our devices with us and use them...more

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The Challenge of Fair Trials in the Age of Media Saturation

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Social media’s influence on American society carries major implications for the public’s perception of current events. With headlines reaching millions of consumers within minutes, public outrage over racially charged crimes,...more

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Likes to liability: UK FCA cracks down on 'finfluencers'

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"Promotions aren't just about the likes, they're about the law," is the caption that accompanies the UK Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) recent decision to charge nine influencers in connection with the promotion on social...more

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The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 33 - Framing the Narrative: Journalism's Influence on the Presumption of Innocence

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In this insightful episode, Pulitzer-nominated journalist Mark Di Ionno talks candidly about how the media can affect the court of public opinion for defendants facing criminal accusations. Throughout Mark’s 40+ years of...more

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United States and France- Reputational Repair After an INTERPOL Win: Online Reputation (Part 3 of 3)

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Our last two posts in this series discussed how a Red Notice can have a residual effect on an individual. Those posts detailed the effects on a person’s financial abilities and lasting inaccurate data within a government’s...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 9.10.2020 | Top Story: EU Regulators Challenge Facebook Data Transfers

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New concerns from Ireland’s Data Protection Commission about Facebook’s protection of information from American government surveillance may soon force the social networking giant to “overhaul its operations to keep data on...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.24.2020 | Top Story: Fed’s “Unlimited” QE Promise Doesn’t Reassure Markets Amid D.C. Deadlock

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A promise of “unlimited” QE from the Fed Monday morning briefly turned the tides on Dow futures but wasn’t enough to overcome another day of COVID-19-related fears and DC gridlock over the $1.8 trillion stimulus package III...more

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message

Ask the Court to Help You Look for Stealth Jurors

When Trump associate Roger Stone was sentenced last month for obstruction of Congress and witness tampering, there was some pushback from media, Stone’s legal team, and the President himself targeting the jury’s foreperson, a...more

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Current Developments in the US: White-Collar Enforcement and trends for 2020

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In the following article we will discuss the current developments and trends for 2020 and outline what EU-based companies with a US presence should look out for in 2020 regarding US white-collar and compliance trends in the...more

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Financial Daily Dose 1.21.2020 | Top Story: World Economic Forum Kicks Off in Davos

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As it kicked off its 50th annual gathering today, the World Economic Forum in Davos is facing some hard questions—both about the state of the ideals it has long espoused (“open borders, liberal democracy and free borders,” to...more

Holland & Hart - Your Trial Message

De-Stealth Your Potential Juror

Harvey Weinstein goes to trial this week. Out of approximately eighty women accusing the former Hollywood mogul of sexual misconduct over the past few decades, two assault cases will be heard by a jury this week in Manhattan....more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.31.2019 | Top Story: Fed Delivers Expected Interest Rate Cut

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As universally expected, the Fed’s Open Market Committee delivered its third interest rate cut of 2019 yesterday, though it did so while signaling that it’s likely to pause before taking action again and “is now shifting into...more

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Germany's Draft Bill on IT Security 2.0 – Extended BSI Authorities, Stricter Penalties and New Obligations on Providers

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On March 27, 2019, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior (GMI) proposed a new bill (the "Draft Bill") for a so-called IT Security Act 2.0 (IT-SiG 2.0). In an effort to take a front-runner role in Europe, Germany has...more

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Fight Fire With Fire: Using Artificial Intelligence to Find Discoverable Information Online

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Here’s a scenario that might be common enough in your day-to-day life: imagine that you’ve misplaced your wallet. (Apparently, Americans do this a lot. Statistics show we spend two and a half days each year looking for...more

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Trouble in Paradise: Fyre Festival Trustee Has its Eyes on Third Parties by Carly Kessler

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By now, most of you have seen both or one of Netflix or Hulu’s documentaries detailing the ill-fated music festival that was supposed to take place on the island of Great Exuma in the Bahamas during the spring of 2017. ...more

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