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Delaware Supreme Court revives insurers' contract claims against Blackbaud over ransomware breach
The court reversed lower‑court dismissals, allowing insurers to pursue breach‑of‑contract claims against Blackbaud for its 2020 ransomware incident. Blackbaud previously paid a $3M SEC fine and $49M settlements to state attorneys general for misleading breach disclosures.
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that the FDA has still not finalized the financial conflicts‑of‑interest (COI) guidance for its advisory committees, despite a law mandating it 13 years ago. The agency also fails to publicly disclose how it evaluates potential conflicts for panel members or guest speakers. GAO recommends the FDA set a clear deadline, publish the guidance, and disclose its decision‑making process in the interim. Implementing these steps would increase transparency around the FDA’s advisory panels.
Today the Supreme Court is hearing a case about the future of who gets to be an American citizen and which babies born in the US get that privilege. In light of Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, I wrote something...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit against a Texas Kroger store for revoking a previously granted ADA accommodation for an employee with neuropathy. The employee had been allowed to use a walker and take frequent sitting breaks,...
Australia has introduced its first orphan works scheme, allowing libraries and museums to digitise and share works whose copyright owners are unknown or unlocatable. The framework lets owners reclaim exclusive rights if they later surface, while mandating a searchable registry...
Cetera Financial and Ameriprise are facing class‑action lawsuits after data breaches exposed client personally identifiable information. Cetera’s breach stemmed from an unauthorized email account access, leaking names, Social Security numbers and account details. Ameriprise was hit by the ShinyHunters ransomware...
Federal prosecutors in California have charged ten foreign nationals from four crypto market‑making firms with orchestrating wash‑trading and pump‑and‑dump schemes that artificially inflated token prices. CEOs of Vortex and Contrarian were arrested in Singapore and extradited to Oakland, where they...
The Puerto Rico Supreme Court ruled in Friger Salgueiro v. Mech‑Tech College that commercial image rights can be transferred only through a written agreement, regardless of whether the individual is an employee or contractor. Verbal consent or implied permission does...
At the ABA Techshow, Texas Judges Xavier Rodriguez and Roy Ferguson outlined practical eDiscovery guidance for litigators. They urged attorneys to engage opposing counsel early about data production and to use short depositions to expose missing documents before involving the...
Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Michele Bullock announced a ban on merchant surcharging for card payments. The decision follows a two‑decade review of Australia’s electronic payments market, which regulators say has been exploited by banks and multinational schemes. The ban...
Verlata Consulting has partnered with data‑discovery specialist ActiveNav to offer law firms a joint solution for locating, governing, and securing unstructured content stored outside traditional document‑management systems. ActiveNav Cloud scans network shares, cloud storage and local drives, classifying files and...
Indiana enacted House Bill 1200, requiring all commercial driver’s license (CDL) applicants to demonstrate English proficiency and restricting license ownership to drivers with established domicile. Effective April 1, the state’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles began revoking licenses of roughly 2,000...
The Federal Circuit’s 2025 decision in Lashify, Inc. v. ITC broadened the economic prong of the domestic‑industry requirement, allowing all U.S. labor and capital—including warehousing, marketing and distribution—to count toward eligibility for Section 337 relief. This change enables more patent owners...
President Trump signed an executive order directing DHS to create state‑by‑state lists of adult U.S. citizens for upcoming federal elections, aiming to curb mail‑in voting. Experts argue the federal government lacks reliable data to compile accurate citizenship and residency records,...
The FTC settled with Match Group’s OkCupid over the undisclosed transfer of roughly three million user photos, demographic and location data to AI startup Clarifai for facial‑recognition training. The settlement contains no monetary fine but imposes a 20‑year permanent injunction...
A federal appellate court declined to revive a challenge to Minnesota's 2023 deep‑fake law, leaving the 8th Circuit's earlier ruling intact. The law criminalizes realistic AI‑generated videos of politicians unless they are clearly labeled as parody. Plaintiffs Christopher Kohls and...
A New Brunswick labour board ruled on Jan. 8, 2026 that Versatile Training Solutions illegally terminated commercial‑vehicle instructor Evan Theriault after his concussion symptoms resurfaced, ordering the company and its manager to pay $22,440 (≈ $16,400 USD) in damages. The board found the employer’s refusal...
The European copyright lobby is intensifying legal attacks on virtual private networks (VPNs) across the EU, with Denmark’s draft law, French court orders, and a Spanish ruling all targeting VPN providers. In France, courts have compelled major services such as...
Kevin Lauri of Jackson Lewis highlighted a noticeable rise in client requests for alternative fee arrangements (AFAs) in a recent Law.com article. Although demand is climbing, roughly 60% of clients revert to traditional hourly billing after an initial trial. Lauri...
Former NTIA administrator John Kneuer told a Federalist Society webinar that the Ligado lawsuit is unlikely to destabilize the certainty surrounding FCC spectrum auctions. Ligado is pursuing roughly $40 billion in damages, claiming the Defense Department’s secret use of L‑band spectrum...
Cincinnati property owners are now liable for removing graffiti within 30 days, or the city will contract the cleanup and bill them. Unpaid bills can become liens and potentially trigger foreclosure, with one homeowner facing an $18,000 charge. Similar nuisance‑abatement...
Nintendo's U.S. patent on character‑summoning battle mechanics was rejected by the USPTO in a non‑final decision, jeopardizing its legal leverage against Pocketpair's Palworld. The patent, granted in September 2025 and covering 26 claims, aimed to protect the summon‑and‑fight loop popularized...
OnlyOffice has terminated its eight‑year partnership with Nextcloud after the latter launched a fork called Euro‑Office without securing approval. OnlyOffice alleges the fork breaches its AGPL‑based license by omitting required attribution and branding, and accuses Nextcloud of poaching staff and...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous Cox Communications ruling, which bars liability for internet providers unless they actively induce infringement, is now being leveraged by Elon Musk’s X Corp to seek dismissal of a music‑publisher copyright case. X’s lawyers argue that...
The Trump administration has filed a court request to dismiss over half of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s remaining staff, scaling back from earlier plans to cut 90% and shut down the agency. Acting director Russell Vought, who halted most...
Administration sues Morris Township, NJ - population 23,000 - to preempt a 2022 ordinance that bans natural gas in new apt buildings.
New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez filed a mandamus petition with the state Supreme Court to void Otero County’s $283 million intergovernmental service agreement with ICE, arguing it lacks required state approval and violates the Immigrant Safety Act. The contract, re‑approved...
Alabama Power can keep charging steep rooftop solar fee, judge rules #energysky -- via Canary Media: https://t.co/6jCLTmK7pW
Republican Senator Bernie Moreno announced plans to broaden the U.S. ban on Chinese electric vehicles, targeting not only the cars themselves but also associated software, components, and joint‑venture partnerships. The proposal would reinforce the existing 100% tariff regime and aim...
We need a debt control law where the objective is to shrink not grow it!
We would all have been much better off if we had made paying a ransom to ransomware criminals illegal. Tough for the first few victims, but then better for all.
A federal judge in New York ruled that the plaintiff’s civil‑conspiracy allegations against American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and its student arm, National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP), are sufficient to survive a motion to dismiss. The complaint alleges...
Workable has launched built‑in Form I‑9 and E‑Verify capabilities for its U.S. onboarding platform, integrating the federal employment eligibility verification directly into its workflow. The new feature, powered by a partnership with Workbright, lets candidates complete Section 1 digitally while HR...
The Moon’s south‑pole water ice is emerging as the first truly valuable commercial resource, promising a propellant depot that could slash deep‑space mission costs. While the 1967 Outer Space Treaty bars sovereignty claims, it remains silent on extraction, prompting a...
“the main moat for these tools are (1) the case law database” 👀 - reconcile this with the fact that the law is supposed to be free https://t.co/oETBD2q80h
New allergen disclosure laws in California and New York are set to reshape menu transparency for restaurants in 2026. California’s Senate Bill 68, effective July 1, requires chains with 20 or more locations to list the nine major allergens on...
NEW: Voice of America's employees have been in limbo for a year. A federal appeals court just ensured they'll stay there a little longer, halting a plan to return them to work. https://t.co/WKldxnoAs7
Swiss Finance Minister Karin Keller‑Sutter has filed criminal defamation and insult charges after an X post displayed vulgar, misogynistic remarks generated by Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot. The remarks, prompted by an unidentified user, were deemed not protected speech but...
The Department of Justice filed a March 24 letter admitting that the May 2025 ICE memorandum never applied to immigration‑court arrests, effectively labeling those actions illegal. The admission overturns the administration’s long‑standing claim that courthouse arrests were authorized by policy. It...
The Financial Conduct Authority has approved higher award limits for the Financial Ombudsman Service, effective 1 April 2026. The maximum payout for complaints arising from actions on or after 1 April 2019 will rise to £455,000 (approximately $580,000), while older complaints will see a...
On April 1, 2026 the Bank of England and the Prudential Regulation Authority issued a formal response to a joint letter from the Chancellor, the Secretary for Science, Innovation and Technology, and the Secretary for Business and Trade. The BoE/PRA pledged to...
On 1 April 2026 the FCA and PRA released a joint Consultation Paper proposing to scrap the 15% high loan‑to‑income (LTI) cap for individual lenders while keeping the aggregate exposure at roughly 15%. The regulators suggest firms can set their own high‑LTI...
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a law that will raise Brazil's paid paternity leave from five days to up to 20 days, phased in over the next few years. The reform, backed by a coalition of women’s groups...
Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr warned that the current deregulatory push, especially cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, could trigger a systemic "race to the bottom." He highlighted that the CFPB has lost roughly one‑third of its workforce, eroding...
The U.S. Treasury has opened a notice‑and‑comment rulemaking to solicit feedback on implementing the GENIUS Act, which legalizes payment stablecoins. The agency proposes that issuers with up to $10 billion in outstanding stablecoins may be regulated at the state level if...
The Supreme Court heard oral argument in the newly filed case Trump v. Barbara, in which the Trump administration argues that the Fourteenth Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants. The hearing was notable because a...
The EDRM GenAI Working Group surveyed 19 senior legal professionals to gauge how generative AI is being applied across the eDiscovery workflow. Respondents, mainly lawyers at large U.S. firms, report strong success with text‑summarization and document‑drafting, while results for full‑scale...
On April 22, 2026, legal experts hosted a one‑hour webinar covering New York’s complex wage‑and‑hour statutes. The session examined split‑shift rules, call‑in and travel‑time pay, overtime exemptions, independent‑contractor criteria, and the state’s varied minimum‑wage thresholds. It also highlighted record‑keeping obligations, prohibitions...
Interesting development with AJ from Lucid Trading hinting at a regulatory role 👀 The prop trading landscape keeps evolving - always important to stay informed about who's overseeing what. Check https://t.co/pKoy2KH6Y5 for the full picture on all firms and their...
HCW Biologics Inc. filed an appeal to Nasdaq over a minimum bid‑price compliance notice and announced that Phase 1 results for its lead immunotherapy HCW9302 are slated for the first half of 2026. The appeal follows a 5.56% drop in the...
On March 17 the House Education and Workforce Committee advanced H.R. 7661, dubbed the Stop the Sexualization of Children Act and informally called the National Book Ban Bill. The resolution would prohibit Title I federal funds for schools that provide or...
