On January 7, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) imposed a record $5.6 million civil penalty on crude-oil producers XCL Resources Holdings, LLC, Verdun Oil Company II LLC, and EP Energy LLC...

A putative class of Connecticut citizens is alleging that Hartford HealthCare has amassed monopoly power to "extract higher prices from insurers, employers, and patients."

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On September 27, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced civil penalties against several officers, directors...

On December 17, I blogged on the new Proposed Regulations on the changes to Code Section 162(m) made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. Today, I will focus on just one aspect of the proposed regs:

Last month, we published an alert about the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) order providing exemptive relief for covered investment advisers (Covered IAs)...

Back in April, we wrote about Texas House Bill 3749 (H.B. 3749 or the "Bill"), a bill that sought greater physician oversight of medical spas through...

On December 13, we reported that Judge Albright granted summary judgment for Facebook in USC IP Partnership on section 101 grounds.

Plaintiff Foras Technologies Ltd. filed suit against BMW and Bosch on May 19, 2023, alleging infringement of the '958 Patent, which claims systems and methods for addressing silent data corruption.

On March 28, 2022, Defendant Realtek Semiconductor Corporation ("Realtek") filed a renewed motion to dismiss under Rule 12(b)(2) asserting that Plaintiff Bandspeed...

At the very end of the series Mad Men, the yoga instructor encourages his class, which includes the show'sprotagonist, Don Draper, with the following words: "A new day. New ideas. A new you."

Judge Albright issued two amended standing orders, which are now published on the Western District of Texas website here and here.

On March 18, President Donald Trump fired the Federal Trade Commission's two remaining Democratic commissioners, Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that Tornado Cash's immutable smart contracts are not the "property" of a foreign national or entity, meaning:

On June 8, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Examinations (EXAMS) issued a risk alert (the Risk Alert) informing the industry that the SEC's staff will focus...

The AMG Capital decision was certainly a win for the direct sales channel, removing the primary tool the FTC has used over the past several decades to win money on behalf of consumers in court, § 13(b) of the FTC Act

The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division announced on Friday, February 3, that it is withdrawing three longstanding policy statements providing guidance concerning its enforcement of the antitrust laws...

Jury selection was slated to begin today in the long-anticipated jury trial in the patent matter VLSI Technologies v. Intel in the Western District of Texas in Waco before Judge Albright.

In a recent press release, the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that seven directors resigned from corporate board positions in response to the DOJ's...

On October 16, 2023, Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas (Houston Division) granted the intervenor-defendant American Petroleum Institute's...