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Daily Business Review

Miami Attorney Gets $12.6M Payout for USS Cole Bombing Victims

Andrew C. Hall helped change the law to make it possible to sue a state sponsor of terrorism in U.S. federal court.
6 minute read

National Law Journal

GAO's Fintech Report Highlights Data Security, Lack of Clarity on Regulatory Oversight

A new GAO report highlights data security as an issue for fintech and its band of many regulators.
10 minute read

The American Lawyer

Top Treasury Department Official to Join S&C in DC

Sullivan & Cromwell snags Adam Szubin, a former acting under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at the Treasury Department, as of counsel for its financial services group in Washington, D.C. Szubin was a key architect of the Obama administration's controversial nuclear deal with Iran.
12 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Former Execs Agree to Penalties in Hungarian Telecom FCPA Case

The U.S. government's bribery case involving Hungary's largest telecommunications company closes after two former executives Monday agreed to pay penalties and accept a five-year bar on serving as an officer or director.
3 minute read

The Recorder

Adobe Wins Ruling on Secret Record Requests From Feds

Adobe Systems Inc. has won a First Amendment challenge to an indefinite gag order prohibiting the company from disclosing a U.S. government request for customer information stored in the cloud.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

When the Second Circuit Says It's OK to Call Your Boss a 'Nasty Mother F---er'

Is this the death of workplace civility? Open season against employers on Facebook? If you add “#Union” to a post, are you now free to say whatever horrible things you like? Calm down, not so fast. The Second Circuit offered a far more nuanced answer in upholding a controversial decision by the NLRB.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Becerra, Filling Key Lawyer Posts, Draws From Federal Agencies

Attorney General Xavier Becerra has filled top posts in his office with civil rights and federal agency lawyers, a nod to his 24 years in Congress and his new role as a Trump administration antagonist.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

DC Circuit Rejects CFPB Subpoena Targeting For-Profit College Accreditor

A Washington federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's attempt to investigate an embattled accreditor of for-profit colleges, upholding a trial judge's ruling that faulted the Obama-era agency for straying outside its jurisdiction.
11 minute read

National Law Journal

Capitol Painting Lawsuit Doomed, Legal Scholars Say

Experts say the case pitting government speech against free speech seems more like a scenario that would play out in a law school exam question.
10 minute read

Corporate Counsel

DOJ Names Larry Thompson as Corporate Monitor for VW

Former deputy U.S. attorney general Larry Thompson was named independent corporate monitor overseeing compliance reforms at Volkswagen AG for the next three years by the U.S. government on Friday.
7 minute read

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