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Wells Fargo Strikes $110M Settlement Deal in Fake Accounts Cases

The agreement comes in a California case just before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation heard arguments that the suits should be coordinated before a single judge.
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National Law Journal

Mylan Taps Ex-SEC Commissioner as Top Lawyer

EpiPen maker Mylan N.V. announced Tuesday that Daniel Gallagher has been appointed chief legal officer, effective April 17. Gallagher served as a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from late 2011 to late 2015. He previously held various staff roles at the agency, including as counsel to two commissioners.
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Legaltech News

NY AG Settles With 3 Mobile Health App Makers on Misleading Claims Charges

The settlement represents the latest government oversight of a section of the health care industry that is growing in popularity but, in some cases, is not easily regulated, legal experts say.
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The Recorder

NY AG Settles With 3 Mobile Health App Makers on Misleading Claims Charges

The developers of three popular health-related mobile apps have agreed to settle allegations that they potentially harmed consumers by making misleading claims about the accuracy of the technologies' results, the New York Attorney General's Office announced Thursday.
11 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

State Can't Seek Restoration Under Consumer Protection Law

The state of Pennsylvania is not a "person in interest" who can recover restoration under the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law, a split Commonwealth Court en banc has ruled in a case of first impression, tossing out a suit filed by then-Attorney General Kathleen Kane against a statewide operator of skilled nursing facilities.
12 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Suit Against Cosmetics Website Held Futile Without Showing of Harm

A suit asserting violations of New Jersey's Truth in Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act by cosmetics website LushUSA.com has been dismissed because the plaintiff did not suffer any actual harm, according to the court opinion tossing the case.
9 minute read

National Law Journal

Gibson Dunn's Ted Olson, on Capitol Hill, Smacks CFPB

As members of Washington's legal elite gathered Tuesday morning for the second day of Judge Neil Gorsuch's confirmation hearing, the veteran appellate litigator Ted Olson wasn't there—but he was close. Olson, a former U.S. solicitor general and now a Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher partner, appeared on Capitol Hill to assail an Obama-era agency that he's also fought in the courts: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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The Recorder

Syed v. M-I, LLC

By | March 20, 2017
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New York Law Journal

Trump's Justice Department Abandons Defense of CFPB

The U.S. Justice Department argued Friday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be stripped of its independence, a reversal of an earlier stance that the president only had the power to remove the Obama-era agency's director for cause, not at will.
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Corporate Counsel

Beware the W-2 Phishing Scam

In 2016, numerous businesses fell victim to a surge of phishing scams involving W-2 forms. In response, the IRS sent a broad consumer alert regarding these schemes after seeing an approximate 400% surge in phishing and malware attacks during the 2016 season. As the tax filing season ramps up for 2017, we have already seen a number of successful attempts to obtain W-2 forms from unsuspecting employees.
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