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    Legal Dive to stop publishing

    On Feb. 22, 2025, Legal Dive will stop publishing. We hope our daily coverage of the legal space was helpful to you.

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    Acting SEC Chair asks court not to schedule climate rule arguments

    “The Commission’s briefs previously submitted in the cases consolidated in the Eighth Circuit do not reflect my views,” Acting Chair Mark Uyeda said.

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    Employer allegedly created ‘exculpatory paper trail’ to justify firing pregnant HR employee

    The lack of documented discipline against the employee before she disclosed her pregnancy raised a trial question over the true reason she was fired, the court said.

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    Black workers and workers with disabilities are seeking flexible jobs in record numbers

    More workers want fully remote jobs or “fully flexible hours,” allowing them to choose when their workdays begin and end, according to a Flexa report.

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    Opinion

    Shielding your organization from AI-related liability

    There are some basic building blocks to ensure your insurance strategy is adequate. 

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    CFPB’s future hangs in the balance after a wild weekend

    Headquarters-based staff will work remotely this week after a new acting chief halted agency supervision and enforcement and told the Fed he wouldn't take any unappropriated funding next quarter.

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    Wave of GC and CLO retirements continues, BarkerGilmore says

    Half of new general counsel and chief legal officers appointed last year were the result of in-house leaders leaving the workforce, the search firm’s legal-hiring analysis of Fortune 500 companies finds. 

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    Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s early resignation offer to feds

    The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts will hear additional arguments in a lawsuit brought by federal labor unions on Monday, Feb. 10.

  • DOJ Sues To Block Penguin Random House's Acquisition Of Rival Simon And Schuster
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    Publishing giants sue Idaho over state law enabling book bans

    The plaintiffs allege HB 710 is unconstitutional and forces schools and public libraries to guess if any member of the public might object to any book.

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    Former energy drink VP pleads guilty to insider trading

    The ex-finance executive made $1.6 million trading on non-public data starting three days after he left Celsius Holdings, federal prosecutors alleged.

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    DeepSeek surge hits companies, posing security risks

    The Trump administration is scrutinizing the AI app, Italy and Taiwan have banned it, and companies have blocked it.

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    Opinion

    DOJ’s rental price-fixing suit is following a misguided path

    Regulators would like to think that RealPage’s price suggestions are rate mandates, but they only speak to a hypothetical price status at a given point in time. 

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    Deep Dive

    It’s not just workplace raids. Mishandled electronic I-9s could be a costly immigration threat for employers under Trump.

    A group of legal experts is sounding the alarm that noncompliant electronic Form I-9 vendors could put unsuspecting employers at risk.

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    GM subsidiary resubmits lender charter application

    GM Financial withdrew its application in June after a 3½-year wait – perhaps in anticipation of eased regulation under a Trump administration.

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    Q&A

    Agiloft GC discusses legal inflation and the future of billable hours

    In-house teams must “actively” manage their outside firms to avoid rising costs and achieve the best impact from their budgets, Laura Richardson says.

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    Trump tariffs present untested legal areas for trade litigation

    The president’s first use of emergency national security powers to impose tariffs poses a legal question about how much deference courts decide to show, experts say.

  • A sign marks the location of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Local Office in Savannah, Georgia on September 17, 2022.
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    EEOC tells its workers to halt LGBTQ+ discrimination claim processing

    The news comes just days after the Trump administration’s controversial purge of Democratic officials at the commission.

    Updated Jan. 31, 2025
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    Vanguard dilutes diversity guidelines for US board proxy voting

    The updated policies exclude a recommendation that boards “at a minimum, represent diversity of personal characteristics, inclusive of at least diversity in gender, race and ethnicity.”

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    Firing of EEOC commissioners may test 90-year-old SCOTUS ruling on presidential powers

    Legal experts predict litigation may lead to the overturning of a 1935 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that protects members of independent government boards from being removed by the president at will.

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    FTC to refund Fashion Nova customers $2.4M

    The agency accused the fast fashion company of suppressing negative consumer reviews.

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    Opinion

    Federal ‘AI washing’ enforcement likely to continue

    Although the Trump administration is unlikely to push AI-specific regulation, companies overstating their claims about the technology face laws against fraud and misrepresentation.   

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    In first Trump antitrust move, DOJ sues to block $14B HPE-Juniper merger

    The acting antitrust chief followed through on an action started under the Biden administration. 

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    Spirit Airlines rejects fresh Frontier merger offer amid bankruptcy

    The two budget carriers had been discussing a combination for months, with Spirit rejecting a post-Chapter 11 proposal as “woefully insufficient” for creditors.

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    Republican officials urge SEC, DOL to adopt anti-ESG, DEI rules

    The letter signed by 22 Republican state finance officials cited American Airlines’ recent legal loss as evidence that fiduciaries are breaching their duty to loyalty with regards to ESG and DEI.

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    Meta’s HR changes reflect widely touted aspirational approach to DEI

    Eliminating hard inclusivity goals won’t protect against reverse discrimination complaints but it will help, legal specialists say.