Law 360

DECEMBER 21, 2023

WAITING FOR PA - In 2024, federal and state agencies are expected to introduce a plethora of new rules regulating per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, with private litigation sure to follow — but in-house counsel should first weigh the risks and benefits before companies proactively investigate their historical PFAS use, say attorneys at Stinson.

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JURIST

MAY 7, 2021

The state Qatar News Agency announced Thursday that the Qatari attorney general has ordered the arrest of Finance Minister Ali Sharif al-Emadi on charges related to the abuse of his office. The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Ali bin Ahmed Al-Kuwari, was announced as al-Emadi’s immediate replacement.

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Law 360

AUGUST 14, 2023

Federal Housing Finance Agency improperly amended stock purchase agreements related to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2012 to allow the U.S. Treasury to sweep up the companies' net profits, and awarded the companies' shareholders $612.4 A Washington, D.C., federal jury on Monday found the U.S. million in damages.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The CFPB is the main agency enforcer for many consumer-finance laws, and, as a financial regulator, its self-funded structure is in good company with agencies like the Federal Reserve and Federal Housing Finance Agency, but the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel argues CFPB is different.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Money laundering and unregistered money services companies will also be targeted by the new enforcement team. The program will be housed within the DOJ’s Criminal Division. However, regulating the cryptocurrency industry poses several challenges as noted earlier this year by JURIST commentator Matt Belenky.

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FDA Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2024

House of Representatives ( H.B. This proposed legislation should be of interest to any biotechnology companies that want to do business with the federal government in the future. Departments of Defense (DoD) and Commerce actions against several specific Chinese biotechnology companies. 7085 ) and Senate ( S.B.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

But the agency does not actually own the cutting-edge facility located in the Carlyle neighborhood near the Potomac riverfront. When the agency first moved in, hoteling and work-from-home examiner programs were in place, but not the expectation. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has called their 2.4

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JURIST

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The final allegation concerns TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, which is based in China. In March, TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified in front of the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce about national security concerns regarding its consumer privacy and data collection practices.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Unlike his Fannie Mae counterpart, Freddie Mac's former chief financial officer believed the Federal Housing Finance Agency's decision to amend stock purchase agreements and allow the U.S. federal jury Wednesday.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Fannie Mae's former chief financial officer saw the Federal Housing Finance Agency's decision to amend stock purchase agreements and allow the U.S. Treasury to sweep up Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's net worths as an effort to prevent the companies from recapitalizing, according to testimony read to a D.C.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

federal jury continued deliberating Wednesday in spite of a COVID-19 scare and request for a mistrial in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders' lawsuit accusing the Federal Housing Finance Agency of improperly amending stock purchase agreements to allow the U.S. Department of the Treasury to sweep up the companies' net profits.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The Federal Housing Finance Agency warned a D.C. Department of the Treasury sweep up the companies' net worths, encouraging the panel to step into officials' shoes during deliberations.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 19, 2022

federal jury on Wednesday repeatedly heard witnesses read portions of a Federal Housing Finance Agency 2008 FAQ sheet about the government's bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as shareholders sought to establish the deal's original intent, which they claim the U.S.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The former president attempted to claim a mistake in invoicing by Bygmalion communications agency during his re-election campaign. ” Bygmalian’s lawyer claim UMP pressured the company to mislabel invoices as being for party conventions when they were for Sarkozy’s campaign rallies.

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JURIST

JULY 29, 2021

This is another attempt at closing a different loophole that currently lets companies skate through with merely confirming whether they meet the content threshold. The White House noted that this rule would be just the first set of proposed reforms to procurement policy under the Biden-Harris Administration, and that more will be on the way.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

federal judge on Tuesday scheduled for late July the retrial of a lawsuit brought by shareholders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who accuse the Federal Housing Finance Agency of improperly amending stock purchase agreements, allowing for the U.S. Treasury Department to sweep up the companies' net worths.

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SCOTUSBlog

AUGUST 19, 2022

This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether the federal government’s decision to essentially nationalize the country’s largest federal backed mortgage-securities companies in the wake of the Great Recession was an unconstitutional “taking” of private shareholders’ assets.

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Law 360

AUGUST 8, 2023

Former Federal Housing Finance Agency acting Director Edward DeMarco seemingly altered aspects of his testimony Tuesday in the retrial of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shareholders' claims that the federal government improperly amended stock purchase agreements in 2012 to allow the U.S. Treasury to sweep up the companies' net worths.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The issues being assessed in this case are whether the structure of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) violates the separation of power doctrine, and whether “the courts must set aside a final agency action that FHFA took when it was unconstitutionally structured and strike down the statutory provisions that make FHFA independent.”

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

They can also find positions on the State level, such as the Attorney General’s Office, and finally, opportunities exist at the Federal level with various agencies such as the Department of Justice, Military, Courts, Social Security Administration, CIA, Department of Transportation, and IRS to name a few. Here in Illinois, www.2.illinois.gov

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JURIST

MAY 22, 2021

According to the USPS , “other federal agencies and most private sector companies use a ‘pay-as-you-go’ system, by which the entity pays premiums as they are billed.” The Act would also do away with the prefunding requirement, a health care system that costs the postal service 5.5 billion to 5.8

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JURIST

JULY 31, 2023

person query conducted by an authorized user of an intelligence agency is not only impractical because there would be too many requests to process, preventing intelligence agencies from detecting threats in a timely manner, it is unjustified. However, the US Supreme Court has declined to hear the case.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 25, 2021

federal agencies have flouted White House sanctions with a new campaign targeting cloud service companies, Microsoft Corp. Russian spies behind a cyberattack on software provider SolarWinds that led to breaches at nine U.S. said Monday.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on the Capitol Thursday released its final report. Urging congress to evaluate media company policies that effectively radicalize their consumers, such as what occurred in the lead up to January 6.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Biotechnology company Illumina Inc. told members of the Federal Trade Commission in a brief that the agency's in-house judge was right to reject the commission's challenge of its Grail Inc. acquisition, contending that the "lifesaving transaction" will revolutionize cancer screening.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 31, 2022

federal jury was told Monday the Federal Housing Finance Agency's decision to amend Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac stock purchase agreements and let the U.S. Treasury sweep up the companies' net worths made their stocks essentially worthless, dashing shareholders' hopes of receiving dividends.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2021

California’s Department of Fair Employment Housing (DFEH) Monday announced a settlement to resolve allegations of systemic gender discrimination and harassment by Riot Games, a popular game developer and publisher in the US market.

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The Estrin Report

MARCH 23, 2022

Law firms and in-house legal departments are coming at us with request upon request upon request (ok, you get it) for corporate paralegals all over the country. Staffing agencies are turning business away. Trust me, while it’s nice, most agencies didn’t ask for that. I have never witnessed a job market quite like this one.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 28, 2021

California’s Department of Fair Employment Housing (DFEH) Monday announced a settlement to resolve allegations of systemic gender discrimination and harassment by Riot Games, a popular game developer and publisher in the US market.

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Patently O

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

by Dennis Crouch The White House this week issued a new executive order focusing on a variety of aspects of regulating artificial intelligence, some of which focuses on IP issues. Beyond the stated goals, the order has a number of requirements — most of them directed to the various Federal executive agencies.

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LawSites

APRIL 29, 2021

Previous LawX projects have resulted in the development of SoloSuit , to help consumers respond to debt collection lawsuits, and which spun off as a private company , and Hello Landlord , designed to help tenants more effectively communicate with their landlords about issues that can lead to eviction. An Electronic Toolkit.

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Law 360

APRIL 23, 2021

Federal Trade Commission staffers challenging Illumina's $8 billion plan to buy cancer testing company Grail are eager to get the case moving both in federal court and via the agency's in-house process, urging an administrative law judge Friday not to delay his part because of potential overlap.

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Gravel2Gavel

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, has written to newly confirmed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Rohit Chopra, asking him to review companies in the tenant screening industry for possible Fair Credit Reporting Act violations and other violations of U.S.

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Intelligize Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The agency announced settlements and sanctions in September alone against a trio of companies for $225,000, $375,000 and $10 million. The companies were tagged for violating Rule 21F-17 connected to conditions of employees’ work and/or separation agreements. Notably, the SEC charged that even though the agreements issued by J.P.

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LawSites

JUNE 13, 2022

The company announced the launch of the product today at the annual meeting of The Copyright Society of the USA in Chicago. As part of its service for artists, the company maintains an international network of attorneys that artists can connect with to protect their copyrights. Example of an altered image ImageRights detected.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) has documented the existence of 48 Class “C” violations, which are hazardous conditions requiring immediate attention (along with over 200 lesser violations). And absent compliance therewith, the judgment may be taken as a lien against the building.

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The Estrin Report

AUGUST 26, 2021

A Virtual Assistant can choose two options: you can be an employee for a company or you can start your own business. “I I worked as a paralegal “in-house” for 11-years, she says, “and although I found it very rewarding, I chose a different career path as a paralegal in the wireless telecommunications industry for about one-year.

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