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June 08, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

The dismissal comes fives months after a Washington federal appeals court upheld the CFPB's power structure as constitutional but tossed the penalty against New Jersey-based PHH, sending the case back to the bureau for further action.

By C. Ryan Barber

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June 07, 2018 | National Law Journal

The dismissal comes fives months after a Washington federal appeals court upheld the CFPB's power structure as constitutional but tossed the penalty against New Jersey-based PHH, sending the case back to the bureau for further action.

By C. Ryan Barber

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June 06, 2018 | Daily Report Online

"The cease and desist order contains no prohibitions. It does not instruct LabMD to stop committing a specific act or practice. Rather, it commands LabMD to overhaul and replace its data-security program to meet an indeterminable standard of reasonableness. This command is unenforceable,” the appeals court said.

By C. Ryan Barber

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June 06, 2018 | Law.com

Business advocates are pressing their wishes to end or restrict the CFPB's consumer complaint database. Plus: Get the inside story behind Sanofi's viral tweet responding to Roseanne Barr. And: scroll down for who got the work in some big cases making headlines.

By C. Ryan Barber

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June 05, 2018 | National Law Journal

ZTE USA Inc. hired Hogan Lovells regulatory partner Aaron Cutler and former Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman of Minnesota, now a senior counsel at the firm, to lobby on national security issues, a U.S. lobbying disclosure shows.

By C. Ryan Barber |

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June 01, 2018 | National Law Journal

The two FTC lawyers did not violate rights of LabMD's chief-executive, the D.C. Circuit said Friday, because the agency's enforcement action against had an alternative cause: a data breach that exposed a file containing the personal information of nearly 10,000 patients.

By C. Ryan Barber

1 minute read

May 31, 2018 | National Law Journal

Chan Lee, the North America general counsel to drugmaker Sanofi, explains how the company's now-famous social media response to Roseanne Barr came about. "The approval of that tweet was a fairly easy one for me," Lee says.

By C. Ryan Barber

6 minute read

May 31, 2018 | National Law Journal

“Discovery also threatens to prejudice individuals who have been or will be indicted, by potentially requiring them to sit for civil depositions despite their privilege against self-incrimination,” Jones Day partner Michael Carvin said in a new filing in Washington's federal trial court.

By C. Ryan Barber |

1 minute read

May 31, 2018 | Legaltech News

'Discovery also threatens to prejudice individuals who have been or will be indicted, by potentially requiring them to sit for civil depositions despite their privilege against self-incrimination,' Jones Day partner Michael Carvin said in a new filing in Washington's federal trial court.

By C. Ryan Barber |

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May 30, 2018 | National Law Journal

“These defensive actions may very well have adverse consequences for some third parties. But that does not make them unconstitutional,” U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington said in her ruling Wednesday against Kaspersky Lab Inc.

By C. Ryan Barber |

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