“Plaintiffs lack a protectable First Amendment interest in speech that is prohibited by the Contractors Order because they lack an interest in speech that is prohibited by federal antidiscrimination law.” Denying a request by five organizations whose members include government contractors to preliminarily enjoin an executive order issued by President Trump in March 2026—which directs executive departments and agencies to ensure that agreements with contractors and subcontractors include…

The appellate panel split from other circuits in holding that the contracts are not swaps under the CFTC’s exclusive jurisdiction. Kalshi is asking the Sixth Circuit to rehear a case involving state oversight of sports-related event contracts. A panel of that court ruled that the contracts are not “swaps” and do not fall within the CFTC’s exclusive jurisdiction. According to Kalshi, rehearing or rehearing en banc is appropriate because the court split from sister circuits and erred in its…

The Trump administration should take a more active role in pre-deployment testing of AI (artificial intelligence) systems to prevent rogue AI from engaging in cyber attacks and other malicious activities or being used by hackers, according to Sens. Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Mike Rounds (R., S.D.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee’s cybersecurity subcommittee. “Recent AI security incidents should serve…

None of the benefits alleged between the providers were the types of prohibited kickback “remuneration” as defined in Sixth Circuit caselaw. A qui tam relator failed to plead enough specific facts to show that a group of health care providers facially violated either the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) or the Stark law, found the federal district court in Columbus, Ohio, in holding for dismissal of the relator’s False Claims Act (FCA) complaint. Because AKS or Stark law violations were the…

FinCEN credited a separate OCC civil money penalty of $750 against its $1.2 billion assessment. The Treasury Department announced coordinated enforcement actions imposing more than $1.21 billion in penalties against Bank of America in Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), anti-money laundering (AML), and sanctions matters. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) imposed a $1.2 billion civil money penalty but credited the bank’s $750 million OCC payment , leaving $450 million payable to…

The court rejected the defendant’s affirmative defenses that the plaintiff had licensed her works and that the claims were barred by the statute of limitations. The federal district court in Washington, D.C. found an American social media content firm liable for infringing the copyright of an Icelandic influencer, with damages to be determined later. The court concluded that the firm, Tripscout, Inc., unlawfully reposted the influencer’s social media content after she revoked her consent for…

The consumers distinguished the relevant online marketplace as a “two-sided” online platform mediating sales transactions between willing sellers and buyers. Two consumers, one a resident of Texas, the other a resident of the State of Washington, have brought a putative class action against Apple Inc. and Amazon.com, Inc. under Section 1 of the Sherman Act. The consumers allege that Apple and Amazon unlawfully agreed to eliminate or at least substantially reduce the competitive threat posed by…

The serviceman failed to establish that either contractor designed, manufactured, or supplied asbestos-containing materials to which he was exposed during military service. In an action brought by a former Air Force nuclear weapons specialist diagnosed with mesothelioma, a federal district court in Louisiana granted summary judgment to two contractors involved in the United States’ nuclear weapons program. The court found insufficient evidence that the insulation used in tritium shipping…

An outlier among other circuits that have considered the question, the Eleventh Circuit overruled its practice of imposing an administrative exhaustion requirement for ERISA breach of fiduciary duty claims. Revisiting its decision in Mason v. Continental Group, Inc. , 763 F.2d 1219 (11th Cir. 1985), which imposed a mandatory administrative exhaustion requirement for all statutory claims brought under ERISA, the Eleventh Circuit, sitting en banc , overruled Mason and its progeny to the extent…