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  • May 16, 2025

    Reading Tea Leaves In High Court's Criminal Law Decisions

    The criminal justice decisions the U.S. Supreme Court will announce in the coming weeks will reveal whether last term’s fractured decision-making has continued, an important data point as the justices’ alignment seems to correlate with who benefits from a case’s outcome, says Sharon Fairley at the University of Chicago Law School.

  • May 16, 2025

    EEOC's Take On Trans Rights Conflicts With Law, Judge Says

    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission exceeded its authority when it laid out its worker-friendly take on the U.S. Supreme Court's Bostock opinion, a Texas federal judge found, striking down parts of agency anti-harassment guidance that interpreted the landmark ruling's implications for gay and transgender workers.

  • May 16, 2025

    Hints Of Where Enforcement May Grow Under New CFPB

    Though the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has significantly scaled back enforcement under the new administration, states remain able to pursue Consumer Financial Protection Act violators and the CFPB seems set to enhance its focus on predatory loans to military members and fraudulent debt collection and credit reporting practices, say attorneys at MoFo.

  • May 16, 2025

    DC Circ. Orders Closer Look At FTC's $5B Meta Privacy Deal

    A D.C. Circuit panel ordered a lower court on Friday to take another look at the Federal Trade Commission's bid to modify a $5 billion privacy deal with Meta after the court found it lacked jurisdiction to review the changes the first time around.

  • May 16, 2025

    Ex-Labor Secretary Tom Perez Joins Mayer Brown In DC

    Tom Perez, a former secretary of labor and assistant U.S. attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division under President Barack Obama, has joined Mayer Brown LLP's public policy, regulatory and government affairs practice in Washington, D.C., the firm announced Friday.

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