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Camela Theeler and Eric Schulte, both of Sioux Falls, were nominated by President Joe Biden and supported by Republican Sens. John Thune and Mike Rounds.

BDO USA LLP is urging the Second Circuit not to reconsider a decision that freed the firm from private litigation over AmTrust Financial Services Inc.'s financial restatements, saying the court should not heed "misdirected concerns" from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission about the ruling's supposed impact on shareholders' ability to sue public company auditors.

The Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") has filed an amicus brief in Teva Branded Pharmaceuticals Products R&D, Inc. v. Amneal Pharmaceuticals of New York, LLC to further the agency's...

On February 20, 2024, the Supreme Court finally brought the curtain down on the Kirschner v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. et al., action when it denied Plaintiff's petition for certiorari that challenged the Second Circuit Court of Appeal's determination.

The maker of Craftsman vacuum cleaners, Stanley Black & Decker, got a big win from the Second Circuit recently in a putative class action involving its product packaging.

On April 4, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued its opinion in CCST v. U.S. Dept. of Education, reversing the order of the U.S. District Court for the Western...

On April 2 and 3, 2024, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair, Gary Gensler, Division of Enforcement Director, Gurbir Grewal, and other senior SEC officials convened at the SEC...

This is the ninth in our 2024 Year in Preview series examining important trends in white collar law and investigations in the coming year... The government had another...

Sen. Bob Menendez’s (D-N.J.) bribery trial will be separated from his wife Nadine Menendez’s, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Judge Sidney H. Stein ruled that Menendez’s trial will begin May 6 as previously scheduled, but his wife’s trial has now been tentatively pushed back to July, The Associated Press (AP) reported. This comes as lawyers…

The legal landscape of consumer reporting continues to evolve with courts, federal regulators and state legislatures all playing roles in shaping this area of the law. ...