National Law Journal

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/Law.com The Trump administration has rushed to the U.S. Supreme Court in a bid to pause a lower court's urgent deadline to reexamine a key Federal Communications Commission policy on political advertising ahead of the November midterm elections.

Credit: lassedesignen - Fotolia A trend among stock exchanges to delist small companies is noticeably at odds with the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission’s push to have more companies go public, securities lawyers say. Exchanges like Nasdaq, New York Stock Exchange, and NYSE American have introduced rules in recent months to create a minimum market value of listed companies and minimum trading prices to exclude small market companies from listing.

U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ Law.com The U.S. Supreme Court expressed doubt Wednesday about an "odd" environmental challenge over a site on Guam where the Air Force has long disposed of World War II bombs and other munitions waste. A local nonprofit on the U.S. territory says the Air Force's detonations of unexploded ordnance on a beach have released toxic contaminants into the air and water supply.

The front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) will not be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court this term, to the disappointment of at least one observer who suspects the justices will eventually have to decide if the corporate disclosure requirements are constitutional. The Supreme Court denied a challenge to the CTA on Monday, without any legal explanation, as is customary for decisions issued through its orders list.

Intel headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Credit: JHVEPhoto/Adobe Stock The U.S. Supreme Court appears ready to end legal claims accusing Intel Corp. of making bad investment decisions with its retirement plans, costing employees millions of dollars in potential gains. Former Intel employees have argued that the company's plan managers flouted their fiduciary duty to act with "prudence" in pursuing their investment strategy for Intel's retirement plans.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig. Photo: Eric Lee/Bloomberg The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is proposing to bring certain margined and leveraged cryptocurrency transactions and exchanges under CFTC oversight, weeks after Congress failed to codify a crypto regulatory structure.

Rod Rosenstein (left) and Allison Murphy, co-chairs of Baker McKenzie's congressional investigations practice. Courtesy photo Baker McKenzie has brought on Allison Murphy to co-chair its congressional investigations practice, arriving from Kirkland & Ellis. Her move comes as more Big Law firms deepen their congressional investigations benches ahead of the midterm elections.

U.S. Supreme Court courtroom. Credit: Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress Energy giants ExxonMobil and Suncor faced a skeptical U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in their effort to end to state climate lawsuits threatening the companies with potentially tens of billions of dollars in damages.

Richard T. Choi of Carlton Fields. Courtesy photo Carlton Fields has elected Richard Choi, the firm's managing partner of its Washington, D.C. office, as the firm’s next chief executive officer. He will succeed longtime president and CEO Gary Sasso beginning Jan. 1, 2028. Sasso has served as president and CEO for the past 20 years and plans to retire at the end of next year, he said. Carlton Fields, founded in Tampa, Florida, is No. 155 in the Am Law 200.

Adam J. Levitt, founding partner of DiCello Levitt. Courtesy photo Call something a “transparency” measure and half the argument is already won. Transparency sounds neutral, disclosure sounds harmless, and anyone opposing either can be made to sound as though they have something to hide. That framing is doing considerable work in the latest campaign to require plaintiffs using third-party litigation funding to turn their financing agreements over to their opponents.