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The SEC’s litigation against the largest digital asset exchanges in America has been unfolding for over a year, beginning with the agency suing various Binance entities in June 2023, followed by actions against Coinbase Inc./Coinbase Global Inc. (collectively “Coinbase”), and Payward, Inc./ Payward Ventures, Inc. (collectively “Kraken”) shortly thereafter….By: Polsinelli

In a recently published Request for Information (RFI), the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) seeks public comment on options to potentially streamline and reduce the regulatory burden for modified microbes consistent with current APHIS regulations at 7 C.F.R. Part 340 covering the movement of organisms modified or produced…

On June 21, 2024, the US Department of the Treasury issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Proposed Rule”) to implement Executive Order 14105 (“EO”) establishing a new Outbound Investment Program (“OIP”) to prohibit or require notification of certain outbound US investments to China (including Hong Kong and Macau) in several technology sectors relevant to military,…

Chairwoman Rosenworcel announced at the FCC’s July 16 open meeting that the Commission is considering adoption of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”) seeking comment on proposals to regulate AI-generated robocalls. The draft NPRM, released this afternoon, is the outgrowth of a November 2023 Notice of Inquiry and follows several recent FCC actions intended to…

State v. Rodner, 2024 WL 832307 – The defendant-appellant appealed his conviction for failure to yield the right of way after a trial de novo in the Law Division, arguing that the responding officer provided impermissible expert testimony, among other arguments, for the appeals court’s consideration….By: Marshall Dennehey

Galloway v. Lux Credit Consultants, LLC, — N.Y.S.3d —-, 2024 WL 820922, 2024 N.Y. Slip Op. 01003 – In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appealed an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County, which granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint….By: Marshall Dennehey

As we reported in April, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit certified a question on California’s Learned Intermediary Doctrine in Himes v. Somatics, LLC, 2022 WL 989469 (9th Cir. Apr. 1, 2022). The California Supreme Court has now decided the issue in a way that walks the middle ground. On the…

On July 17, 2024, Loumar Inc. filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Massachusetts after discovering that a cybersecurity incident impacted the security of certain data stored on the company’s computer network. In this notice, Loumar explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to access consumers’ sensitive…