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Top 5 SEC Enforcement Developments for May 2025

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 6/25/2025

On May 14, 2025, Deputy Enforcement Director Antonia Apps told those gathered at an anti‑money laundering conference in Washington, D.C. to expect a more measured approach from SEC Enforcement. That may include, she...more

U.S. Sanctions Enforcement: 2024 Lessons Learned and 2025 Expectations

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 4/25/2025

As the third month of the second Trump administration comes to a close, the lack of any public enforcement action by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctions watchers...more

DOJ: ‘False Claims Act + Cybersecurity’ Is Here To Stay

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 4/3/2025

Amid ongoing policy shifts in Washington, the federal government’s interest in pursuing civil cyber-fraud cases appears to be here to stay. In October 2021, the Department of Justice (DOJ) initiated its Civil Cyber-Fraud...more

SEC Enforcement Action Against Church & Dwight Director: Lessons for Outside Directors

Foley & Lardner LLP on 1/2/2025

The SEC’s settlement with James R. Craigie, former CEO, chairman, and director of Church & Dwight Co. Inc., for violating proxy disclosure rules by standing for election as an independent director without disclosing his close...more

SEC Reels in Fishy NFT Project

Latham & Watkins LLP on 9/23/2024

In its third action involving NFTs, the SEC targets a restaurant membership token tied to fundraising and promises of potential price appreciation for buyers....more

First Case Where FTC Charges Company in Gig Economy With Violating the Business Opportunity Rule

Hinch Newman LLP on 7/11/2024

On July 2, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is taking action against a gig work company for allegedly misleading consumers about the money they could make on the company’s platform and marketing its...more

Minnesota Court Denies Substitution Motion: Implications for Litigation Funders

Troutman Pepper Locke on 3/7/2024

A new decision may cut back on attempts by third-party litigation lenders to control settlements. Earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota refused to permit the substitution of a legal...more

FTC Announces Enforcement Actions Against Amazon’s Alexa and Ring Divisions for Violations of User Privacy

WilmerHale on 6/7/2023

On May 31, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) announced two separate enforcement actions against Amazon—one involving its cloud-based voice service, Alexa, and the other involving Ring, its smart doorbell...more

“Ding Dong” -- FTC-Drizly Data Breach Settlement Will follow CEO Personally for a Decade

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 10/31/2022

The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced on Monday that it is settling a case against Drizly and its CEO stemming from a 2020 data breach that impacted roughly 2.5 million consumers. The proposed order not only...more

NYDFS Announces Cybersecurity Settlement, Addresses Multi-Factor Authentication Rules

Alston & Bird on 4/19/2021

On April 14, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) announced a settlement with National Securities Corporation (“National Securities”), a licensed insurer, in connection with claims under the NYDFS...more

Despite Appeals Win, Google Agrees To Eur 1B Settlement To Avoid Criminal Prosecution

McDermott Will & Schulte on 2/11/2020

The Paris Court of Appeal affirmed that Google Ireland does not have a French permanent establishment in a high-profile tax controversy over a double Irish arrangement. But with independent criminal proceedings for tax...more

3 FCPA Compliance Lessons From Microsoft's Settlement

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 10/10/2019

Microsoft’s recent settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) sheds light on the DOJ’s new Corporate Enforcement...more

HIPAA Breach Settles for $1M in First Settlement Involving State Attorneys General

Poyner Spruill LLP on 6/6/2019

Last week, Indiana based Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. (MIE) agreed to pay $100,000 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR). MIE provides electronic health record and related...more

Top 10 Key Class Action Points for 2019

Balch & Bingham LLP on 3/6/2019

Some legal commentators and lawyers have pronounced the death of class actions in light of significant changes in the law in the last fifteen years, including the passage of the Class Action Fairness Act and the Supreme...more

Directors and Officers Settle Over Yahoo Hack: A New Chapter in Derivative Litigation?

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 1/10/2019

Yesterday, a Superior Court judge in Santa Clara, California approved what is believed to be the first monetary award to a company in a data breach-related derivative lawsuit....more

When a Disclosure Form Must “Stand Alone”: Recent Cases Hold Companies Liable for Including Too Much on FCRA Disclosures

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 4/26/2018

Let’s face it. The hiring process involves mounds of regulations, disclosures, authorizations, and then more disclosures. The last thing an employer – or applicant – wants to see is a higher stack of documents filled with...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - January 2018

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 2/2/2018

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we discuss Poland's potential exemptions from the new EU data law and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's recommendations for U.S. banks faced with...more

Plaintiffs’ Lawyer Predicts $1 Billion Settlement in Data Breach Case – But Where’s the “Harm”?

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 10/16/2017

This week, a high profile plaintiffs’ firm (Edelson) stated that “if done right,” the data breach class actions against Equifax should yield more than $1 billion in cash going directly to more than 143 million consumers...more

Class Action Roundup: Summer 2017

Alston & Bird on 8/31/2017

Welcome to our second Roundup of 2017, where we feature the cases litigated and settlements finalized during the second calendar quarter of the year. It was a very active quarter in almost all of the categories we monitor,...more

Latest Target Data Breach Settlement Reminds Companies Of The Importance Of Data Security: Do It Right Or Subject Yourself To...

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass on 5/30/2017

Pursuant to a settlement agreement with the Attorneys General of nearly all 50 states1, Target Corporation will pay $18.5 million to settle claims brought by the state Attorneys General arising from the November 2013 data...more

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