On September 22, 2022, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a complaint against Ooki DAO, a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), ...

On July 17, 2024, the Financial Services and Treasury Bureau (FSTB) and Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) jointly issued a legislative proposal on stablecoin regulation...

The Federal Improvement in Technology Procurement Act (FIT Procurement Act) was introduced by Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) in late March 2024.

On February 1, 2021, the Federal Circuit determined Judge Albright's delay in issuing a ruling on Defendants' motion to transfer "amounted to egregious delay"

Following his inauguration on Monday, January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump held off on issuing an executive order instituting additional tariffs of any form. Later that evening during an Oval Office signing ceremony.

On September 22, Lina Khan, the recently confirmed chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), released a memo to FTC staff and her fellow commissioners outlining her "Vision and Priorities for the FTC."

The third quarter of 2021 was one of the busier quarters for Judge Albright on transfer orders. For 3Q 2021, we reviewed the judge's transfer-related orders and procedures. Here are our observations:

On February 16, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a proposed rule (the Proposed Rule) requiring certain persons involved in U.S.

President Biden's Executive Order (Order) promoting competition and the corresponding "Fact Sheet" include a number of directives with broad implications for the tech sector.

On January 1, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) brought its BOI E-Filling System online and began accepting Beneficial...

As we previously noted, a legal challenge to California's climate disclosure laws has made its way to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which stayed enforcement of one of the laws pending appeal.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) recorded its first criminal indictment for wage fixing on December 9, 2020. The two-count indictment was filed in the Eastern District of Texas against...

Today, November 12, 2024, marks the 50-day countdown to January 1, 2025.

Lobbyists for the American Hospital Association and American Medical Association became the latest to file a lawsuit in the DC federal district court challenging the Biden administration's interim final rule...

Last year in September, we published an alert about the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) final rule, which would have imposed certain...

Dish Network LLC v. Broadband iTV, Inc., Case IPR2020-01332, Paper 14; Case IPR2020-01333, Paper 14 (PTAB January 27, 2021).

A pair of suits from designers Nike and Hermes are raising new questions regarding how Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) intersect with trademark protections.

Over the past 12 months, we witnessed two new comprehensive privacy laws in Virginia and Colorado, demonstrating the continued appetite for consumer privacy protections in the United States.

On April 25, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (the Department) published the Retirement Security Rule: Definition of an Investment Advice Fiduciary (the 2024 Fiduciary Rule).

The March 2026 pooling of Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) standard debentures was priced at 4.626%. This most recent semiannual pricing of SBIC standard debentures reflected...