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National Law Journal

'Kafkaesque Experience': Lawsuit Claims Loan Servicer 'Failed' Teachers Seeking Forgiveness

The lawsuit alleges that the servicer has created "unprecedented backlogs of borrower complaints" through "dysfunction and poor customer service."
2 minute read

The Recorder

FTC Chair Lina Khan Defends Noncompete Rule, Agency's Assertive Role as Competition Watchdog

Speaking to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Khan noted her agency's high-profile clashes with big business but insisted it's focused on "bread-and-butter" rulemaking.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Gibson Dunn Files Animal Cruelty Complaint Against USDA

Animal Legal Defense Fund accuses Yellowstone Bear World of violating the Animal Welfare Act "by charging people to bottle feed and take pictures with months-old baby bears prematurely torn away from their mothers," according to the complaint that seeks to revoke YBW's USDA-issued exhibitor license.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

FTC's Regulatory Approach Could Conflict With Other Agencies, States, Say Ex-Agency Officials, Attorneys

"I don't know that there's that same sensitivity between jurisdictional overlap between the agencies," said attorney Nina Frant.
4 minute read

The Recorder

LA Superior Court Still Grappling With Effects of Ransomware Attack

The sprawling trial court system was operating with limitations on Wednesday as questions remain about how the cyberattack happened and whether sensitive information was exposed.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

'A Change Agent': Lawyers Look Back at Kamala Harris' Legal Career in California

"As attorney general, Kamala Harris was a change agent to law enforcement in the state; as president, she will do the same in my opinion," said Jeff Tsai, who was a California special assistant attorney general from 2013 to mid-2015.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

FTC Probing Use of Browser Histories, Other Personal Info to Individualize Product Prices

"Firms that harvest Americans' personal data can put people's privacy at risk. Now firms could be exploiting this vast trove of personal information to charge people higher prices," FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Live Nation Files Motion to Transfer Venue of DOJ Antitrust Suit to D.C. Court

The DOJ and 30 state and district attorneys general sued the live events giant in May for Sherman Act violations in the U.S. District Court for the District of Southern New York. The original complaint alleged that Live Nation-Ticketmaster maintained an illegal stranglehold on the live entertainment industry through its monopolistic and anticompetitive practices.
4 minute read

The Recorder

Los Angeles Courts Reopen After Ransomware Attack Leads to 1-Day Closure

Court officials say the court will have "limited functionality" as IT professionals work to restore network services disrupted in the hack.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

With Help From 'Loper Bright,' San Francisco Says EPA Misreads Clean Water Act

The California city, locked in a legal battle with the federal agency over a permit for sewage discharge into the Pacific Ocean, invoked the Chevron deference-ending decision several times in its opening brief to the Supreme Court.
4 minute read

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