Lauren Klosinski | November 20, 2019 | Compliance and Enforcement for Organizations
On Nov. 5, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release announcing the formation of the new Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) focusing on deterring, detecting, investigating and prosecuting antitrust crimes, such as bid-rigging conspiracies and...
Daniel Solove | July 13, 2018 | Data Privacy
In the period of just a week, California passed a bold new privacy law — the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. This law was hurried through the legislative process to avoid a proposed ballot initiative with the same name. The ballot initiative was the...
Michael P. Daly and Ashley M. Super | September 26, 2017 | Consumer Contracts
The Ninth Circuit recently affirmed an order compelling individual arbitration of deceptive pricing claims in a putative class action against Amazon. See Wiseley v. Amazon.com, Inc., No. 15-56799 (9th Cir. Sept. 19, 2017). The decision is notable because it rejects a...
Stephen E. Henderson | September 22, 2017 | Data Privacy, Policing, Sentencing
As with most new things, the big data revolution in criminal justice has historic antecedents—indeed, a 1965 Presidential Commission called for some of the same data analysis that police departments and courts are today developing and implementing. But there is no...
Michael P. Daly | August 25, 2017 | Consumer Contracts
Last year, the Southern District of New York refused to enforce Uber’s Terms of Service because it believed that the agreement’s placement was inconspicuous and the consumer’s acceptance was ambiguous. Last week, the Second Circuit vacated that order and found that...
