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Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Industry Pushback Against FINRA: A Growing Challenge to Its Authority

Over the last few years, broker dealers and financial advisors have filed a flurry of legal actions seeking both: (1) to strip the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) of its power to adjudicate customer and...more

White & Case LLP

The Long and Winding Road: Two Decades of Antitrust Enforcement in Spain

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"Competition forces you to evolve. When everything is easy, you don't improve". ― Rafael Nadal Parera, 1st Marquis of Llevant de Mallorca Introduction - Over the past two decades, Spain's competition enforcement journey...more

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Indian Tribe Fights With ATF Over Applicability of PACT Act to Its Cigarette Sales

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In 2023, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) placed Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians (Twenty-Nine Palms), a federally recognized Indian tribe that sells cigarettes on sovereign reservations...more

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Potential Federal Court Circuit Split Increases Uncertainty Around FCC's Enforcement Authority

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A potential federal court circuit split is developing over the constitutionality of the enforcement authority of federal agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)....more

Stevens & Lee

FTC Requests Additional 60 Days to Consider Dropping Defense of Noncompete Ban

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A reconstituted Federal Trade Commission (Commission) has asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to grant it a 60-day continuance to consider whether to drop the defense of its rule banning noncompetes. As previously...more

Carlton Fields

U.S. Supreme Court Denies Alpine’s Petition Challenging Constitutionality of FINRA Enforcement Proceedings

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On June 2, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for writ of certiorari filed by Alpine Securities Corp. in Alpine Securities Corp. v. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. In doing so, the Supreme Court declined...more

DLA Piper

FTC “Click-to-Cancel” Rule to Take Effect May 14

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In October 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized significant updates to the Negative Option Rule, which are slated to take effect on May 14, 2025. A negative option is a contract term under which a buyer agrees...more

Holland & Knight LLP

CFPB Seeks Dismissal of Pending UDAAP Examination Manual Litigation

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The CFPB on April 30, 2025, filed a joint stipulation to dismiss its appeal pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit regarding an agency policy that expands the scope of antidiscrimination oversight....more

Cranfill Sumner LLP

Fifth and Eleventh Circuits Grant FTC’s Motion to Stay Appeals Challenging Non-Compete Ban

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On March 15, 2025, the Fifth Circuit granted the FTC’s motion for a 120-day stay of the agency’s appeal of the district court decision to block its proposed ban on non-competes. The Eleventh Circuit followed suit on March 20,...more

Cozen O'Connor

Eleventh Circuit Strikes Down FCC Order Interpreting the TCPA

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On January 24, the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision clarifying the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) limited authority to expand businesses’ obligations under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). This...more

Carlton Fields

Piecing Alpine Together

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Is FINRA constitutional? According to the D.C. Circuit’s November 2024 opinion in Alpine Securities Corp. v. FINRA, FINRA proceedings may be unconstitutional in one narrow set of circumstances. ...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Kalshi v. CFTC Challenges Contracts on Political Events

On Jan. 17, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (D.C. Circuit) heard oral argument in KalshiEx v. CFTC. At issue is KalshiEx LLC’s (Kalshi) ability to list political event contracts for...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: FINRA’s Enforcement Arm Under Fire

Recent case developments in Alpine Sec. Corp. v. FINRA before the D.C. Circuit cast further uncertainty on the future of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)’s enforcement arm....more

A&O Shearman

Fifth Circuit Limits OFAC Authority Over Certain Cryptocurrency Products

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On November 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) exceeded its authority by adding an entity that pools and anonymizes crypto transactions to OFAC’s...more

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