According to the school psychologist, she considered the term to be a derogatory term for white women. A school secretary’s reference to a white psychologist as a “Karen” prior to a meeting with an assistant principal, together with the assistant principal’s aggressive behavior toward the psychologist at the meeting, was not enough to constitute adverse employment action, a federal court in New York held, granting summary judgment against the psychologist’s Title VII race discrimination claim.…

Fiscal Year 2026 SEC enforcement actions show a 57 percent decline from the FY18–FY25 annual average. The Brattle Group, a global consulting firm specializing in economics and finance, has published a report on SEC enforcement activity for Fiscal Year 2026 which shows that the SEC filed an estimated 308 enforcement actions, down 57 percent from the FY18-FY25 annual average and, despite a rise in filings in the second half of the year, those remained below every comparable period from…

The Council of the European Union has rejected the European Commission’s proposal to amend the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by narrowing the definition of “personal data.” The commission last year unveiled “targeted amendments” to GDPR that included a proposal to redefine personal data to exclude pseudonymized data that can’t be easily used to identify an individual (CPR , Nov. 19, 2025 ). But the council recommended keeping the old definition in a proposal released yesterday…

Consumers in putative class action met pleading requirements for breach of warranty, but some state law issues were dismissed. A group of six consumers who purchased juices from Joe & The Juice at locations throughout the United States adequately pleaded that the company had breached the express warranty to overcome the company’s motion to dismiss the claim in a putative class action based on the alleged misrepresentation of the olive oil ingredient listed on the drink’s menu, a federal…

Additional investments worth no more than one percent of capital and surplus could avoid both prior approval and after-the-fact notice under specified conditions. The New York Department of Financial Services has proposed repealing and replacing its current banking regulation governing investments in operating subsidiaries and other entities (3 NYCRR Part 14) with a risk-based framework for bank investments in operating subsidiaries and other entities. According to a regulatory impact…

The court found ownership of the software was transferred in the acquisition agreement. Software developers who sold an artificial intelligence market-research platform could not pursue copyright and Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims against the purchaser because the acquisition agreement transferred ownership of the software at signing, a federal court in New York held. The court also found that an unjust-enrichment claim was preempted by federal copyright law. However, the court…

The court rejected the price-cost test in favor of the rule of reason because the evidence suggested price was not the predominant exclusion mechanism. The FTC and state attorneys general survived a motion for summary judgment in their ongoing antitrust dispute with multiple Syngenta entities in connection with the Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC crop pesticides rebate loyalty program, known as the Key Active Ingredients or “Key AI” program. The federal district court in Winston-Salem, North…

The probe examined potential PFAS presence in the company’s activewear. Lululemon USA Inc. has agreed to maintain chemical safety standards and oversight of materials used in its products under a settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton following an investigation into potentially harmful chemicals in clothing (Texas Attorney General News Release (Oct. 22, 2026)). Investigation. Paxton launched the investigation in April 2026 to determine whether Lululemon had misled consumers about…

“At least a few courts throughout the country have concluded that a jury could find that a plaintiff was constructively discharged when they were subject to an unsafe or dangerous working environment.” A sheriff’s deputy with a hearing impairment—who had been assigned to train in the jail setting and who resigned after having been denied her requested accommodations—sufficiently established that her working conditions were so intolerable that a reasonable person in her position would have had…