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.…

Both letters suggest the SEC is obliging the crypto industry. Two comment letters urge the SEC to repropose or outright withdraw Regulation Crypto Assets, the proposed framework for non-security crypto assets subject to an investment contract. A group of law professors known as the “Shadow SEC” says that while the proposal does some things right, it suffers from two fundamental overreaches when it carves out crypto assets from certain registration and disclosure rules. Better Markets says that…

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…

A recent D.C. Circuit opinion made clear that not every Medicare payment rule is a final Medicare payment determination, and the hospitals in this matter failed to challenge a Notice of Program Reimbursement final payment determination. Disproportionate share hospitals that challenged the calculation of their Medicare reimbursements under a 2023 HHS final rule filed premature administrative appeals with the HHS Provider Reimbursement Review Board (PRRB), held the federal district court in…

Beginning Jan. 7, 2027, large institutional investors are generally prohibited from purchasing single-family homes under the ROAD to Housing Act. The Treasury Department has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) that would clarify which large institutional investors and single-family home purchases fall under Section 1001 of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, including rules for exceptions, passive-investor status, and maximum penalties. The Act’s requirements and prohibitions, which…

However, the company’s motion for injunctive relief was denied. The U.S. District Court of Arizona at Phoenix denied the defendant insurance company GEICO’s motion to dismiss a Polish start-up gifting company’s pleas for declaratory relief based on a reverse-domain-hijacking theory and a claim of tortious interference with contract under Arizona law. However, citing the gifting company’s failure to show a likelihood to succeed on the merits of its case, the court denied its motion for a…

Refocusing and narrowing of market definitions in amended complaint did not cure the infirmities of initial complaint that failed to plausibly plead antitrust individuals' standing. The federal district court in Oakland, California has dismissed the amended private challenge complaint to Paramount Skydance Corp.'s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Even as amended, the complaint failed to support the plaintiffs' antitrust standing. Having found the antitrust injury allegation…

The gasoline maker failed to establish that the trial court abused its discretion in upholding the jury’s compensatory damages award or that the award violated due process. In an action brought against a gasoline manufacturer by a man who developed leukemia after occupational exposure to gasoline decades earlier, the Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed a judgment against Exxon Mobil Corporation. The manufacturer’s claim that the $725 million compensatory damages award was excessive and…

“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…