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Federal Judge Dismisses Edmund Burke School Shooting Victims' Negligence Suit Against Assault Rifle Manufacturers

"The complaint does not suggest defendants control such evidence of shooter's reliance and does no more than speculate that shooter, like other young men in Virginia, observed defendants' advertisements," wrote U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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The Legal Intelligencer

CFPB Proposes Ban on Medical Debt Credit Reporting

Approximately 15 million Americans have medical debt on their credit reports, according to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) estimates. This…
6 minute read

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

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

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

Corporate Counsel

'This Is Not Going Away': Smackdown in Novel Cybersecurity Case Unlikely to Send SEC Into Retreat

In tossing most of the case against software maker SolarWinds, Judge Paul Engelmayer "creates the notion that the SEC isn't just going to be able to do whatever it wants going forward and serve as an 'overzealous' regulator," said Scott Kannry, CEO of the cyber risk firm Axio.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Attorneys Brace for Wave of CrowdStrike Litigation

"In some ways, I think it really set off a big nuclear bomb of legal actions across a lot of different players in the industry," Beth Waller, a principal and chair of the cybersecurity and data privacy practice at Woods Rogers, said.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Eleventh Circuit Issues Problematic FCRA Decision

The court created a new legal standard that appears to conflict with the FCRA and Congress's legislative intent when enacting it, and produced a holding that is at odds with the facts before it.
8 minute read

National Law Journal

FTC Will Keep Sharp Eye on Companies Suspected of Hindering Consumers' 'Right to Repair,' Say Regulatory Lawyers

A warning letter "reminds a lot of other companies to take a close look at the warranties, the language in there, and to make sure they're not engaged in similar conduct," said Daniel Kaufman, a partner at Baker & Hostetler.
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