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Justices to Consider Whether Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act Creates a Federal Cause of Action

In its October 2025 Term, the Supreme Court will decide whether Section 47(b) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (“ICA”) creates a federal cause of action for private plaintiffs seeking rescission of contracts that are...more

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A SHARP DISSENT: A Review Of The Dissent’s Take On The Supreme Court’s Ruling In McLaughlin.

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In McLaughlin Chiropractic Assocs., Inc. v. McKesson Corp., No. 23-1226, 2025 WL 1716136 (U.S. June 20, 2025), the Supreme Court determined that the Hobbs Act does not bind district courts in civil enforcement proceedings to...more

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Supreme Court Declines To Hear Constitutional Challenge To FINRA’s Enforcement Powers

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On June 2, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge brought by a member firm against the enforcement power given to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”). The Court’s decision to turn away...more

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Supreme Court Decision Endorses Fraudulent-Inducement Theory Under Federal Wire Fraud Statute, Resolving Circuit Split And...

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On May 22, 2025, in a significant decision that clarifies the scope of the federal wire fraud statute and resolves a circuit split, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a pair of wire fraud convictions that had been premised on a...more

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Kickbacks and Causation: Supreme Court Could Soon Settle the Question of Anti-Kickback Statute and False Claims Act Causation...

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A decision by the First Circuit Court of Appeals has deepened the legal debate surrounding False Claims Act (FCA) actions based on violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS). This decision has increased speculation that...more

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The Supreme Court Clarifies Definition of “Defendant’s Profits” Under the Lanham Act

On February 26, the U.S. Supreme Court in Dewberry Group, Inc. v. Dewberry Engineers Inc. unanimously held that an award of “defendant’s profits” under the Lanham Act in a trademark infringement suit is only ascribable to the...more

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Client Alert: US Supreme Court Rules Trademark Plaintiffs Cannot Recover Profits from Defendants’ Affiliates, Overturns $43M Award...

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On February 26, 2025, in a unanimous opinion, the US Supreme Court vacated a $43 million trademark infringement award and ruled that trademark plaintiffs cannot recover profits from defendants’ affiliates when those...more

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The Supreme Court Update - February 21, 2025

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued three decisions today: Wisconsin Bell, Inc. v. United States, ex rel. Heath, No. 23-1127: This case considers whether reimbursement requests submitted to the Federal...more

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CTA Update: Supreme Court Temporarily Lifts Injunction, but Requirements Remain Blocked

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On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that appears to settle – for now – a nearly two-month-long legal battle over the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which began with a nationwide preliminary...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Provisionally Reinstates the Corporate Transparency Act

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The U.S. Supreme Court issued an order on January 23, 2025, which provisionally reinstates the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) while a legal challenge to it continues. This brief order, which stayed an injunction against the...more

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CTA Enforcement on Hold

Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the ​“CTA”) reporting requirements was once again put on hold over the holidays. On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an order...more

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Out With the Old, In With the Statutes and Caselaw (Again): FTC and DOJ Withdraw Competitor Collaboration Guidelines in Favor of...

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On the heels of President-Elect Trump’s announcement of the appointment of Mark Meador to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and designation of current Republican Commissioner Andrew Ferguson as the agency’s chair, the FTC...more

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Is the Corporate Transparency Act Going To Be Brought Back to Life?

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On December 5, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ), filed a Notice of Appeal in response to a U.S. District Court’s recently issued, nationwide preliminary injunction stopping the reporting obligations under the Corporate...more

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Badgerow Enforced: District Court Lacks Independent Jurisdiction to Enforce Arbitration Award

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The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed and remanded a district court’s arbitration award because the district court lacked proper subject matter jurisdiction, independent from the Federal Arbitration Act...more

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Eighth Circuit Rules That the Voting Rights Act Does Not Include a Private Right of Action, Impacting Potentially Numerous Pending...

On Monday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit held that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act lacks a private right of action. The court affirmed an Arkansas federal district court’s holding that only the...more

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Texas Court Strikes Down CFPB UDAAP Policy

On September 8, a Texas federal judge ruled that the CFPB exceeded its authority by adopting a sweeping anti-discrimination policy last year. The CFPB adopted the policy in March 2022, via an update to its exam manual,...more

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Second Circuit Holds That the Syndicated Term Loans in Kirschner Are Not Securities

On August 24, 2023, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued its much-anticipated decision in Kirschner v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, holding that the syndicate term loans at issue were not securities. As noted in our earlier...more

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FINRA Facts and Trends: July 2023

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Welcome to the latest issue of Bracewell’s FINRA Facts and Trends, a monthly newsletter devoted to condensing and digesting recent FINRA developments in the areas of enforcement, regulation and dispute resolution. This month,...more

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RICO Statute May Be Used To Enforce Arbitration Awards by Foreign Nationals Says U.S. Supreme Court

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On June 22, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly known as the RICO statute, may be used to enforce a foreign arbitration award. The Court’s opinion in...more

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Enforcing a Foreign Arbitration Award against a Foreign Party under RICO

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On April 25, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument on whether a foreign plaintiff can state a civil claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”) against a foreign defendant based on...more

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Another U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Erodes Traditional FTC Enforcement Authority Amounting to a Win for Digital Advertisers

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On April 14, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court afforded defendants the ability to directly challenge the structural constitutionality and existence of the Federal Trade Commission (and the Securities and Exchange Commission) in...more

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The Future of the 340B Program: 2023 Key Decisions

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Critical decisions are pending before courts and legislators in 2023 that promise to shape the future of the 340B Drug Pricing Program (340B Program), which provides discounts on outpatient drugs for certain health care...more

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How State “Sore-Loser” Laws Make It Impossible For Trump To Run A Successful Third-Party Campaign If He Loses The Republican...

Donald Trump and his allies have insisted that he can and should run as a third-party candidate in the general election if he fails to win the Republican nomination. The authors, practicing lawyers specializing in political...more

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Government Signals Contractor Vaccine Mandate Updates Coming Soon

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On October 18, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals entered as its judgment its August 26, 2022 opinion limiting the scope of a nationwide injunction of the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal...more

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Sow What Now?: Cal. Hispanic Chambers of Commerce et. al. v. Ross et. al., The U.S. Supreme Court, and California’s Proposition 12

If you are in the business of buying or selling pork-based products, then you have probably heard of California’s Proposition 12. As it pertains to pork, the law requires that pig confinement systems are large enough to...more

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