As the nation closely watches the election results coming in, the majority of votes counted in California suggest that the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020...

On October 22, 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology ("NIST") published NIST Technical Note (TN) 2111, "An Empirical Study on Flow-based Botnet Attacks Prediction".

On August 19, 2020, the California State Assembly on Appropriations ordered to a second reading Assembly Bill ("AB") 1281...

Ascension Data & Analytics LLC, a data analytics company for the mortgage industry, has entered into a proposed settlement agreement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...

On October 7, 2020, The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency ("OCC") announced that it had assessed a $400 million civil penalty against Citibank, N.A. regarding alleged deficiencies...

The federal courts have been struggling for several years to clarify Article III standing law.

Plaintiffs contend the CARES Act and implementing regulations require lenders to pay them "agent fees" for preparing loan applications.

On September 1, 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") issued an order departing from its longtime standard used to determine a generating facility's "power production capacity"...

Twice this year, Balch & Bingham reported on the wave of "Agent Fee" class actions against lenders who made PPP loans under the CARES Act.

Earlier this year, Balch & Bingham reported on the wave of "Agent Fee" class actions against lenders who made PPP loans under the CARES Act.

On October 12, 2020, California's Attorney General proposed a third set of modifications to California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") regulations.

This lawsuit was the first of its kind. Sixty copy-cat lawsuits followed in more than a dozen federal courts across the country.

Last night, Congress passed a new COVID-19 stimulus package containing an important amendment to the CARES Act which should foreclose any possibility the Plaintiffs in the Agent Fee class...

Last week, the Tennessee Court of Appeals became the first appellate court to affirm the dismissal of one of these cases.

On September 22, 2020, President Trump signed an executive order titled "Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping" (the EO) which prohibits federal contractors...

This Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed course on an emerging trend of case law concerning the ascertainability standard for class actions under...

We reported in April that a Tuscaloosa shoe store and a Mountain Brook restaurant had filed the first Alabama business interruption cases.

On September 18, 2020, Brazil's data protection law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais, or "LGPD") became retroactively effective August 16, 2020.

In early November, we wrote about a new Eleventh Circuit decision on Article III standing law which directly held that it was not enough to allege a statutory violation

This past June, in Barnes v. U.S. National Bank, No. 2180699, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals held that a mortgagee's notice of acceleration failed to strictly comply with the notice provisions...