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September 01, 2017 | National Law Journal

Our latest weekly roundup of big news on the regulatory and compliance front, featuring: NLRB takes on Tesla for alleged unfair labor practices. Prosecutors open an early inquiry into whether Uber violated foreign-bribery laws. Richard Cordray, the CFPB director, isn't opening up about any plans to leave the agency before his term expires in July. Home Depot's big settlement with product-safety regulators portends changes at the agency, and lawyers for Google this week told EU regulators how the company will comply with an order requiring it to stop giving improper preference.

By C. Ryan Barber

8 minute read

August 31, 2017 | National Law Journal

"We recommend that you DO NOT use this product to view the sun or the eclipse," Amazon reportedly told consumers who bought certain special glasses to watch the Aug. 21 solar eclipse. Amazon is now the target of a class action in a Charleston, South Carolina, federal district court, where five law firms teamed up to sue the online retail giant over its alleged inadequate recall notification before the Aug. 21 eclipse.

By C. Ryan Barber

3 minute read

August 30, 2017 | National Law Journal

U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling can ask, and ask, and ask again. But Richard Cordray, director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has no plans of telling the Texas Republican whether he plans to resign anytime soon to pursue his rumored interest in the Ohio governorship.

By C. Ryan Barber

6 minute read

August 29, 2017 | Texas Lawyer

"He's a litigator by nature, and a fighter," a former law partner of Sylvester Turner, the Houston mayor, once recalled. Turner, a Harvard Law School graduate who previously worked at then-Fulbright & Jaworski, before co-founding his own firm, is the public face now of Houston's response to Hurricane Harvey. His resiliency is being tested in ways his law partner couldn't have envisioned. Catastrophic flooding from the storm has crippled courts and shuttered law firms. Here are highlights from Turner's ties to the law.

By C. Ryan Barber and Cheryl Miller

6 minute read

August 29, 2017 | National Law Journal

Home Depot USA Inc. has reached a $5.7 million settlement with federal product safety regulators over claims that the retailer, in a span of four years, sold thousands of products that had previously been recalled due to dangerous defects. The Consumer Product Safety Commission's acting chairwoman, Ann Marie Buerkle, voted to reduce the penalty to $1 million.

By C. Ryan Barber

5 minute read

August 28, 2017 | National Law Journal

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has prevailed in its latest standoff with a law firm, as a federal judge ordered the California-based Seila Law to respond to the agency's demand for records related to debt relief services. A judge wasn't impressed with what she called a law firm's "cleverly" use of ellipses in the attack against the subpoena.

By C. Ryan Barber

4 minute read

August 25, 2017 | National Law Journal

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's internal watchdog has cleared Commissioner Michael Piwowar of claims raised from four Democratic U.S. senators that he undermined the regulator's mission while serving as interim chairman.

By C. Ryan Barber

3 minute read

August 25, 2017 | National Law Journal

Here's a weekly roundup of big regulatory news, including CFPB Director Richard Cordray taking to the NYT op-ed pages to defend his agency's new anti-arbitration rule; Colorado telling the feds to be more chill on marijuana; and ex-Uber engineer Susan Fowler, who exposed hostile-work complaints, taking her story to the U.S. Supreme Court.

By C. Ryan Barber

10 minute read

August 24, 2017 | Inside Counsel

Out of the uproar over Wells Fargo’s admission that it opened up to 2.1 million accountswithout customers’ knowledge or consent, the bank…

By C. Ryan Barber

6 minute read

August 24, 2017 | Inside Counsel

Four years ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told companies it would look fondly on industry players that police themselves, promptly make…

By C. Ryan Barber

3 minute read