Legal News and Headlines
Legal News and Headlines
George Gile, a former J.P. Morgan wealth advisor, filed a federal lawsuit alleging sex and sexual orientation discrimination and retaliation after refusing to market LGBTQ‑focused materials. The complaint claims the firm weaponized FINRA compliance rules, cut his travel budget, reassigned his office, and withheld resources, leading to loss of a $590 million client portfolio and severe health issues. Gile seeks compensatory and punitive damages, back and front pay, and a dismissal of related FINRA claims. The case is pending in the Northern District of Texas.
Congressional Republicans advanced two bills—the App Store Accountability Act and the KIDS Act—that would require parental consent for minors to install apps and use direct‑messaging features. The measures expand parental control beyond the existing COPPA framework, applying to both for‑profit...
The Winter 2026 eDiscovery Pricing Survey of 53 practitioners reveals stable forensic collection rates at $250‑$350 per hour, while data processing and hosting are increasingly commoditized except for analytics‑enabled tiers. Document review pricing remains anchored at $0.50‑$1.00 per document, but GenAI‑assisted...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning‑letter close‑out to APS BioGroup, Inc. on April 5, 2018, confirming that the company’s corrective actions addressing the July 2017 warning letter were satisfactory. The agency stressed that this closure does not relieve APS BioGroup...
The FDA issued Warning Letter #588155 to Health Pharma USA LLC after a May‑June 2019 inspection uncovered multiple CGMP violations at its Rahway, New Jersey facility. Major deficiencies included a dysfunctional quality‑control unit that released products before review, incomplete batch...
Offerpad received a second NYSE delisting warning within 11 months after its share price fell to $0.73, staying below the $1 minimum for 30 consecutive trading days. The company now has six months to restore compliance by maintaining an average...
The federal government has moved to dismiss the National Digital Inclusion Alliance’s lawsuit challenging the termination of the Digital Equity Act’s funding. The motion argues the program’s race‑based grant criteria violate the Fifth Amendment’s equal‑protection clause and that the district...
A Florida district court concluded that Leapfrog Group employed deceptive practices in its hospital safety rating system, finding the organization misrepresented how scores were calculated. The ruling highlighted that several hospitals received inflated safety grades based on opaque criteria. Leapfrog...
On Thursday the European Commission convened its first expert panel to discuss age‑restriction policies for social media, gaming, messaging apps and AI. Simultaneously, the EU is piloting its privacy‑preserving Age Verification app in five member states—Denmark, Greece, Spain, France and...
AIFMD 2.0 takes effect on 16 April 2026, tightening disclosure and reporting rules for EU‑authorized alternative investment fund managers and non‑EU AIFMs that market in the EU. The directive adds a mandatory fee‑allocation disclosure in pre‑contractual documents and revises Annex IV reporting, with a...
The March 2026 spotlight reviews recent challenges to rituximab patents—including Rituxan®, Truxima®, Ruxience®, and Riabni®—in both Inter‑Partes Review (IPR) proceedings and federal litigation. Patent owners report that each claim is counted per case, meaning identical claims appear multiple times across...
The Venable LLP update clarifies what constitutes a biosimilar litigation, focusing on disputes between biosimilar applicants or manufacturers and reference‑product sponsors, as well as conflicts among biosimilar applicants themselves. It explicitly excludes lawsuits between two reference‑product sponsors, non‑practicing entities, universities,...
The Justice Department has eliminated the "further restricted" classification for its senior political appointees, allowing them to engage in campaign activities under the Hatch Act. For decades, DOJ leaders were subject to stricter limits to preserve impartiality in election‑related investigations...
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit remanded Ligado Communications' claim that the Department of Defense’s use of spectrum interferes with its FCC‑granted license, citing insufficient factual detail to decide whether such licenses constitute property rights. The panel...
The March 2026 Venable LLP analysis dissects ongoing patent challenges to insulin glargine products such as Lantus®, Basaglar®, Semglee® and Rezvoglar®. It details the types of claims contested in Inter‑Partes Review (IPR) proceedings and traditional litigation, and explains how each claim...
Six Democratic lawmakers filed an amicus brief in federal court to block President Trump’s proposed 250‑foot Independence Arch on federal parkland in Washington, D.C. The brief cites the Commemorative Works Act and 40 U.S.C. § 8106, which require explicit congressional authorization for any...
A federal judge, Randolph D. Moss, issued an injunction halting the Trump administration's proposed rule that would automatically dismiss immigration appeals unless the Board of Immigration Appeals voted to reconsider within ten days. The court found the administration violated the...
Ontario Superior Court in Liggett v. Veeva invalidated RSU and stock option termination clauses that tied loss of equity to the employee’s last active workday. The decision held that such language breaches the Employment Standards Act, that discretionary termination definitions...
New Hampshire lawmakers approved House Bill 1655 on the House floor, proposing an annual $100 fee on waterfront properties adjacent to state‑owned dams and $50 for deeded waterfront access. The fee aims to fund the roughly $414 million needed to rehabilitate...
Squire Patton Boggs has elevated Lauren Trialonas to partner in its public and infrastructure finance group after 18 years at the firm. Trialonas, based in New York, advises conduit issuers, healthcare providers, and higher‑education institutions. Her promotion is part of a broader wave that...
Indonesia will ban social‑media access for users under 16, deactivating accounts on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads, YouTube, Bigo Live and Roblox starting March 28. The policy follows the 2025 Regulation No. 17 on electronic system governance and aligns the country with...
Steve Croman, a once‑convicted landlord, is facing four new foreclosure lawsuits filed by Dalan Real Estate over nine Manhattan rental buildings spanning Harlem to the Lower East Side. The suits allege Croman defaulted on $43.4 million in Axos Bank mortgages after...
Nothing Technology Ltd received a First Gazette notice after failing to file its 2024 accounts, triggering a potential strike‑off process that could dissolve the company within two months. The overdue filing was due by 31 December 2025, and the latest publicly available...
Justice Neil Gorsuch issued a lone dissent when the Supreme Court declined to review Jaron Burnett's petition challenging the use of a pre‑ponderance standard for supervised‑release violations that extended his incarceration beyond the statutory maximum. Burnett, originally sentenced to 105...
The European Union adopted two regulations in February that create a list of "safe" countries of origin and introduce the notion of safe third countries. The list currently includes Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, Kosovo, India, Morocco and Tunisia, and permits automatic...
The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) now mandates that all non‑exempt CAN‑connectable products meet cybersecurity requirements by December 11 2027. Because CAN protocols lack built‑in security, manufacturers must perform system‑level risk assessments and adopt IEC 62443 security levels, ranging from physical‑access controls for...
Data integrity remains a critical bottleneck in residential conveyancing, with 43% of transactions requiring extra enquiries due to incomplete or inaccurate information. Conveyancers report spending 41% of their workday chasing updates, directly eroding productivity and client confidence. Adoption of automation...
The 11th District Court of Appeals affirmed a four‑year prison term for Jason Slepsky, who pleaded no contest to aggravated vehicular homicide after his 2023 collision with a South Central Ambulance District (SCAD) ambulance killed a patient and injured two...
Governor Kathy Hochul’s 2026 budget proposes exempting many New York City housing projects from the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), aiming to curb costly lawsuits that delay construction. The exemption applies to projects with up to 500 units in...
UK collecting society PRS has filed a lawsuit against Valve’s Steam platform, alleging that Steam distributes games containing music by PRS members without securing the required "making available" licences. PRS argues that while game publishers obtain sync licences for in‑game...
A lawsuit filed Monday challenges a State Department policy that barred visas for foreign experts who advocate stronger social‑media regulation. The policy, announced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, denied entry to five European scholars last year, labeling their work...
Honda Development and Manufacturing of America agreed to a $2.3 million settlement to resolve wage‑and‑hour lawsuits stemming from a Kronos time‑keeping outage caused by a 2021 ransomware attack. Employees claimed the company failed to accurately track hours, resulting in unpaid overtime...
The Government Accountability Office released a second report highlighting how overlapping federal cybersecurity regulations are creating redundant work for owners of critical infrastructure. Industry participants cited duplicated requirements, conflicting definitions, and inconsistent incident‑reporting mandates as major pain points. While agencies...
The German financial regulator BaFin has issued a warning about Liechtenstein‑based gold dealer TGI AG, which markets gold purchases with up to a 72 % discount conditioned on a three‑year delivery delay. BaFin indicated there are indications the firm is offering investment...
Compliance is reframed as a growth engine rather than a cost centre, with early legal infrastructure enabling faster approvals from banks, app stores and investors. The article outlines a modular legal architecture—holding company plus operating subsidiaries, centralized IP ownership, standard...
Anthropic PBC has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense after the Pentagon labeled the company a supply‑chain risk and ordered its AI work to be moved to other providers. The designation, typically reserved for firms from adversarial...
A 58‑year‑old former Syrian Air Force Intelligence officer has been charged in the UK with crimes against humanity, including three counts of murder and three counts of torture, for actions during the 2011 Damascus protests. The charges, brought under the...
India’s securities regulator SEBI has created a high‑level expert working group to draft both short‑term and long‑term technology roadmaps for the market ecosystem. The group will address growing trading volumes, digital participation, and operational complexity, while SEBI simultaneously rolls out...
Germany’s collecting society GEMA sued AI music generator Suno, alleging the platform trained on and reproduced copyrighted recordings without permission. The Munich court heard oral arguments on March 9 and set a decision date for June 12, 2026. The case follows GEMA’s earlier...
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a public warning about Elite Option Experts, operating at eliteoptionexperts.com, for offering unauthorised investment services. The regulator flagged the site as non‑compliant, highlighting that it is not authorised to provide financial advice...
Edison International, the parent of Southern California Edison, secured a dismissal of a shareholder lawsuit alleging fraud over the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. U.S. District Judge Otis Wright found the utility’s statements about its Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) program too...
Sixteen years after the Tier 4 visa launch, UKVI compliance in UK higher education remains largely reactive, with specialist teams often handling both operational checks and assurance tasks. The article argues that this blended model blurs responsibility lines and hampers clear...
Wisconsin’s Assembly Bill 1034, passed 95‑1, and companion Senate Bill 1075 would allow the University of Wisconsin system to pay athletes for name, image and likeness (NIL) while granting a sweeping exemption from the state’s open records law for all...
Ontario Superior Court Justice J. Glick ordered Richardson International and former employee Peter Robinson to each bear their own pre‑trial costs, leaving the core dispute unresolved. Robinson alleges he was dismissed not for alleged theft of a case of toilet...
British culture minister Lisa Nandy announced a review of Axel Springer’s £575 million purchase of the Telegraph Media Group under the UK’s public‑interest and foreign‑state‑influence media‑mergers regime. The EU is set to sign defence partnerships with Australia, Iceland and Ghana, while France...
Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court on March 9 rejected Kloop’s appeal, confirming the October 2025 ruling that labeled the investigative outlet as extremist. The court’s rapid review, conducted without summoning Kloop’s representatives, raised concerns about judicial independence and procedural fairness. Kloop’s lawyer accused judges...
US Supreme Court declined to hear the 2018 Ed Sheeran copyright appeal, but a second lawsuit filed by Structured Asset Sales in 2020 remains pending in the Southern District of New York. Sheeran’s attorneys argue the case should be dismissed...
Swedish District Court dismissed former Avicii manager Arash “Ash” Pournouri’s defamation lawsuit against the DJ’s estate and family on procedural grounds. Pournouri alleged that a Netflix documentary and two posthumous biographies portrayed him as responsible for Tim Bergling’s mental illness...
Healthcare employers are facing heightened labor activity, especially in unionized hospitals across the Northeast and New York City, prompting concerns over staffing ratios, wages, and broader workforce strategy. Littler Law is hosting a webinar on April 16, 2026, to dissect...
Law firms are facing mounting anti‑money‑laundering (AML) obligations as regulators view them as the weakest link in the compliance chain. Criminals increasingly exploit legal transactions, from onboarding to conveyancing, to mask illicit funds. The article argues that relying on banks’...
