A non-U.S. firm agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle SEC charges that it had misled investors into trading binary options over the internet.

The SEC Office of Investor Education and Advocacy issued an Investor Bulletin on the risks associated with Simple Agreements for Future Equity ("SAFE") that are offered through crowdfunding.

A federal judge denied a Motion to Dismiss fraud charges brought by the SEC against a former trader.

The ERISA Industry Committee has voiced strong support for proposed legislation that would prohibit pharmacy benefit managers from paying kickbacks to brokers and consultants.

It is no secret that last summer the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed substantial amendments to the white collar exemption regulations.

SEC commissioner Michael Piwowar filed a public comment letter with the Department of Labor that criticized the Obama-era Fiduciary Rule governing retirement investment advisers.

The economic regulation of major energy infrastructure assets (e.g., oil and natural gas pipelines and electricity transmission) determines how utilities set...

The North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources announced that the drilling rig count in the state had fallen to 29 – the lowest count since October 2005.

Late last month, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued an immediate stop-work order for Revolution Wind, Ørsted's $6.2 billion, 65-turbine offshore wind power project located 15 miles south of Rhode Island.

Offensive disclosure leans towards obvious exhibition and expression in public. It invites engagement, for the purpose of obtaining from clients (and demonstrating to regulators) informed consent.

President Trump's nominee to replace Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General appears to have a softer stance on state-legal marijuana companies than his predecessor.

A July 19 article in Bloomberg BNA's Health Care Fraud Report and other publications, "Nurses Hit Hardest by Medicare and Medicaid Exclusions," discussed the exclusion of nurses and physicians from participation in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.

Maybe I'm just becoming a cranky middle-aged man. But the seeming confusion over Memorial Day, especially when we've lost almost 7,000 American servicemen and women in the wars we've been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan ..

In Amgen Inc. v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, IPR2025-00603, Paper 8 (PTAB Jul. 24, 2025), the Acting USPTO Director Coke Morgan Stewart denied institution...

Monica Grewal and Michael Smith, in an article published in the American Constitution Society's (ACS) blog, discuss proceedings which have been a matter of debate over...

Litigants relying on testifying experts can look to federal or state court rules in determining what they must disclose or may withhold.

The breached companies – themselves the victims of cyberattacks – often face putative class actions by consumers whose nonpublic financial and health information was allegedly compromised in the breach.

The defendant also argued that indemnity should not apply to the plaintiff as a former employee and that most of her legal bills were incurred after her termination.

A district court judge in Texas sentenced a former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director to 46 months in jail for hacking into the Houston Astros computers.

The EPA has been proposed, yet failed to pass, in prior legislative sessions, but proponents of the bill are hopeful that the time is right for these privacy protections to be put into place.