The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) is once again being put on hold as the court assesses its constitutional validity. The CTA is a law that is purposed for requiring businesses to disclose the identities of their beneficial owners. Read More
A U.S. Court of Appeals court ruled that Nasdaq can no longer enforce its board diversity rules, vacating the Securities and Exchange Commission’s approval of a rule that requires disclosure of each board member’s racial, gender, and LGBTQ+ identification. The court found that the SEC went beyond the scope of Read More
In April 2023, the Federal Trade Commission announced that that it would be banning noncompete agreements in order to promote competition. Although this historic announcement was meant to change the entire landscape of the employment industry within the U.S., the FTC’s push to ban these agreements raised much skepticism from Read More
In a landmark trial case, a federal judge ruled that Google violated antitrust law when it spent billions of dollars to have its search engine dominate the industry. The decision, issued after a 10-week bench trial, represents a significant victory for the effort to challenge the dominance of a few Read More
The social media giant, Meta, agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of illegally capturing biometric data from its users without their consent. Meta will pay a historic amount of $1.4 billion over the course of the next five years. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and McKool Smith, which Read More
A Virginia federal court permitted a lawsuit against SiriusXM for alleged unpaid royalties to proceed in New York federal court. The lawsuit was filed by SoundExchange, the top digital royalty collection and distribution agency for the music industry to recover nearly $150 million in unpaid royalties. In its lawsuit, SoundExchange Read More
The U.S Department of Justice announced that Boeing has agreed to plead guilty to single charge of conspiracy to defraud the FAA about its 737 Max 8’s development. This agreement resulted from two crashes of the aerospace’s 737 Max jetliners that occurred in 2018 and 2019 and resulted in the Read More
In a landmark case, the Supreme Court has struck down the Securities and Exchange Commission’s authority to use in house-tribunals when seeking civil penalties against those accused of securities fraud. The Court, in the case of SEC v. Jarksey, ruled that when the SEC seeks civil penalties from defendants for Read More
In a major judicial ruling, the Supreme Court overruled a long-standing doctrine that permitted courts to defer to federal agencies on the interpretations of ambiguous laws. In the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Court invalidated the “Chevron Deference” doctrine which effectively shifts the power to interpret complex Read More
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that UBS Securities must pay $900,000 in back-pay to a former analyst who filed a claim against the company, asserting that he should have been afforded whistleblower protection. Trevor Murray, a former research analyst at UBS, sued the firm in 2012 claiming that he was Read More
