The digital landscape has always posed a twin challenge: how to protect children online while also preserving robust free speech rights for adults consistent with the First Amendment. This tension reached a logical zenith with the Supreme Court’s June 27, 2025,...
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Industry Pushback Against FINRA: A Growing Challenge to Its Authority
Over the last few years, broker dealers and financial advisors have filed a flurry of legal actions seeking both: (1) to strip the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) of its power to adjudicate customer and industry disputes through FINRA’s arbitration...
AI and Legal Regulation: State-Led AI Laws Are Creating a Compliance Maze for U.S. Businesses
In previous articles we have examined both the lead-role states are taking in regulating cybersecurity and privacy, as well as the inefficiencies and costs created by the failure of the federal government to create law that would abolish the resulting patchwork...
Client Alert: Executive Order Suspends Enforcement of Foreign Bribery Law
On February 10, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order pausing enforcement actions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), citing concerns that excessive enforcement was harming American businesses and national security interests. The order...
Take This Seriously: State Enforcement Actions of Privacy Laws Is Happening
The enforcement landscape of recently enacted state consumer privacy laws in the United States is beginning to take shape, with state attorneys general (AGs) or designated specialized enforcement agencies leading the charge. The absence of comprehensive federal...
Is Your Internet Bill About to Skyrocket While Your Service Gets Worse?
The Sixth Circuit's January 2, 2025, decision in Ohio Telecom Association et al. v. Federal Communications Commission et al. may reshape the future of the Internet, delivering a significant blow to the concept of net neutrality and altering the regulatory landscape...
The Current and Evolving Landscape of AI in the United States: What’s Next?
The explosive growth and widespread adoption of generative machine learning and artificial intelligence technology solutions (collectively, AI) have left the U.S. in pressing need of comprehensive regulations governing the creation, use, and disclosure of AI. Much...
What Happens When the Court That Ordered Arbitration Lacked Jurisdiction In the First Place?
Once is legally interesting, twice is a trend, and three times is a message. In the last seven years, at least three federal appeals courts (two very recently) have held, following an arbitration ordered by a district court, that the lower court had no jurisdiction...
The Quilt Is Filling Up: Patchwork State Privacy Laws Continue to Pass Without Federal Action
In an era defined by rapid digital transformation and heightened concerns over personal data security, the landscape of consumer data privacy laws in the United States has evolved significantly. As of this writing, a patchwork of eighteen (18) similar, but unique,...
Will the US Congress Actually Pass a Law That Will Make Life Easier for Businesses?
PLEASE SIT DOWN BEFORE READING THIS Is it actually possible that the United States Congress is on its way to enacting legislation that will potentially make regulatory compliance easier for businesses? Over the last half-a-dozen years, while the EU has enacted unified...