After a similar proposal was withdrawn in 2021, the agency has finalized regulations requiring attorneys to use its electronic filing system in most administrative cases. The U.S. Department of Labor has finalized a rule requiring electronic filing in administrative proceedings before its Office of Administrative Law Judges, adopting a proposal first issued in 2021 despite concerns raised by practitioners about the agency's filing system. The final rule, scheduled for publication November 9,…

The CFTC announcement arises from location-based restrictions related to ongoing litigation involving state oversight of prediction markets. Amid increasing state moves to limit prediction markets trading, the CFTC has instructed designated contract markets (DCMs) to cease any geographic restrictions that violate impartial access requirements within 30 days, or else explain to the Division of Market Oversight why compliance is not feasible. DCMs must similarly ensure that intermediaries…

The top priority for Rep. Bennie Thompson (D., Miss.) if, as expected, he regains the chairmanship of the House Homeland Security Committee will be rebuilding the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, according to a statement shared with CPR today. Rep. Thompson was the committee’s ranking member when it was established as a standing committee in 2005. Since then, he has been either ranking member or chair of the committee during every session of Congress, and he’s likely to become…

The district court’s injunction stands against the state to mandate adequate explanation for termination decisions. A federal district court in Florida did not err when it determined that Florida’s agencies providing termination of Medicaid benefits notices violated the due process rights of certain enrollees because the notices did not provide adequate explanation and information for the enrollee to object to the determination, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled. The…

CoinFlip, one of the California’s largest cryptocurrency ATM companies, was ordered to pay over $4.8 million to California victims after failing to adequately protect them from financial fraud. The California Commissioner of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) has entered into a Consent Order with GPD Holdings LLC dba CoinFlip (CoinFlip) under which CoinFlip agreed to pay over $4.8 million to California victims after failing to adequately protect them from financial fraud. Additionally,…

The relevant factors overwhelmingly show that the WORLDLE mark for geography games is likely to cause confusion with the popular WORDLE mark for word games. Concluding that the WORLDLE mark for geography games is likely to cause confusion with the WORDLE owned The New York Times Company for word puzzle games, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has denied the application to register the proposed WORLDLE mark and sustained the objection from the newspaper publisher. The Board concluded that…

The court ruled that a settlement is not prejudicial if it does not prevent later assertion of a non-settling party’s claims, even if, in this instance, the U.S. must start a second lawsuit to pursue injunctive relief. The United States Departmetn of Justice cannot participate in a final fairness hearing about a series of proposed settlements in the wage suppression antitrust class action against 15 meat processors, ruled the federal district court in Denver, Colorado. The court held that…

Only the victim’s design defect theory alleging inadequate mechanisms for reporting sex trafficking survived as it did not require monitoring third-party content, while the other claims were barred. In an action brought against a social media platform by a sex-trafficking victim for allegedly facilitating and failing to warn about the risks of sex trafficking, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part the dismissal of the victim’s claims. Her claims…

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, however, was entitled to summary judgment on the employee’s discriminatory termination claims and it survived summary on two of its three counterclaims. Although a senior employee of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board failed to show her termination, purportedly for performance issues and her excessive travel, was actually due to her race, national origin, and political affiliation, her Title VII and DCHRA hostile work environment claims…