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New York Law Journal

Financial Services Dept. Delays Portion of New Title Insurance Regulation

The DFS posted on its website Tuesday night that it would delay enforcing a certain section of the regulation that deals with prohibition on inducements for future title insurance business and permitted expenses.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

The Late Justice Joseph Story Trumps Louis Brandeis in CFPB Honors Program

The bureau's press statement offers some hints about why Joseph Story, a justice from 1811 to 1845, is being honored, but not about why Louis Brandeis, formerly a pro-consumer litigator, was sidelined.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas County Turns to Plaintiffs Firms for Big-Deal Opioid Suit

Harris County decided to use a tried-and-true strategy of hiring plaintiffs firms to handle litigation the county filed against manufacturers and distributors of opioids.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Judge Rebuffs Bid for Temporary Freeze of Tezos Assets

U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg said investor Bruce MacDonald had failed to show that he'd be irreparably harmed without a temporary restraining order freezing funds in the stalled ICO.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Cryptocurrency Startup Centra Faces Class Action Over $30M Coin Offering

Miami-based Centra Tech has advertised itself as building debit-card system for cryptocurrency and drawn endorsements from the boxer Floyd Mayweather. But a new suit alleges its fundraiser violated federal securities law.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Hobby Lobby, Resisting State Subpoena, Is Drawn Into New Birth Control Suit

"The state of Washington has no business demanding nationwide data from some of the biggest private companies in the country," lawyers for Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. tell a federal judge in Tacoma, Washington.
3 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

A Legal Gem in Connecticut's Litchfield Hills

There are about 35,000 museums in the world, but only one that has law as its subject. Located 46 miles northwest of Hartford, it's the American Museum of Tort Law, in the small Litchfield County town of Winsted.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Justices Take Up Energy Distributor's Appeal of Record PUC Fine

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to review whether the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission's record-high fine against an energy distribution company that allegedly overcharged customers during the 2014 polar vortex was impermissibly excessive.
4 minute read

The Recorder

9th Circuit Strikes Constitutional Challenge to the Arbitration Act

The ruling upheld a decision routing a case into arbitration that brought false advertising claims against AT&T over its “unlimited” service plans.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Panel Upholds License Suspension for Psychiatrist Who Keyed Car

A related penalty, that psychiatrist Zeinab Elbaz be evaluated by a professional medical conduct committee to determine whether she should undergo a psychiatric evaluation herself, was also not disproportionate.
3 minute read

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