• 08.03.17

    Manatt Hosts Panel on Changes, Challenges in Financial Industry

    At a recent event hosted by the Washington Business Journal and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, partner Joseph Passaic shared his thoughts on issues ranging from the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act to potential changes presented by the pending Financial CHOICE Act to the challenges of financial ...

  • 08.03.17

    Will the CFPB’s Arbitration Rule Survive?

    As previously reported, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its new rule prohibiting the use of mandatory arbitration clauses that foreclose group lawsuits.

  • 08.03.17

    U.K. to Ban Gender Stereotypes in Ads

    Gender stereotypes in advertising will be banned as a result of new guidelines that will be promulgated by the main advertising regulators in the United Kingdom and go into effect in 2018.

  • 08.01.17

    DOMINICAN REPUBLIC—Potential New Conditions for CDEEE-Related PPAs for Renewables

    Last May, the Corporación Dominicana de Empresas Eléctricas Estatales (CDEEE), the governmental entity required by law (Law No. 57-07 of Renewable Energy Incentives and Special Regimes and related Regulations) to enter into power purchase agreements (PPAs) with developers of renewable energy ...

  • 07.31.17

    Fast Intro to Cryptocurrency

    What is cryptocurrency? This is an important question to address because it is a digital technology that is quietly transforming our financial landscape in a very big way.

  • 07.31.17

    Union Posters Crossed the Line, Eighth Circuit Rules

    A group of Jimmy John’s workers lost the protection of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) with a disloyal poster campaign, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled, refusing to enforce the order of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that the employer ran afoul of the ...

  • 07.31.17

    Supreme Court Limits SEC’s Disgorgement Power

    On June 5, 2017, the Supreme Court held in Kokesh v. SEC that the five-year statute of limitations found in 28 U. S. C. §2462 with respect to actions for civil monetary penalties applies equally to actions for disgorgement.

  • 07.28.17

    Is the Party Over? SEC Concludes Cryptocurrency Offering Required Registration

    In an investigative report and investor bulletin, the SEC concludes that offers and sales of cryptocurrency coins and tokens may be subject to federal securities laws.

  • 07.27.17

    ‘World’s Best’ Is Puffery, Not Objectively Provable Claim

    The claim “World’s Best Glass Cleaner” is puffery, the National Advertising Division decided in a challenge brought by S. C. Johnson & Son Inc. against advertiser PLZ Aeroscience Corporation.

  • 07.27.17

    SCOTUS Limits Reach of Fair Debt Collection Practices Act

    In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court narrowly interpreted “debt collector” under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act to exclude debt purchasers engaging in collection efforts for their own accounts.

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