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Client Alert April 25, 2023
FSOC Proposes Overhauling Its Standards for Designating Nonbank Companies as Systemically Important
Our lawyers review changes proposed by the Financial Stability Oversight Council on how it would designate nonbank financial companies as systemically important financial institutions.
Client Alert January 27, 2021
First Circuit Narrows Scope of the Wire Act, Reversing Office of Legal Counsel Opinion
In a decision with far-reaching implications for the online gaming industry, on January 20, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held that the prohibition on the transmission of interstate wagers under the Wire Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1084, applies only to bets and wagers placed on sporting events, and not, as the Office of Legal Counsel within the United States Department of Justice had opined, to all types of bets and wagers.
Client Alert May 19, 2020
Recent Constitutional Litigation Challenging Governmental Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Gibson Dunn lawyers describe some of the Spring 2020 cases challenging COVID-19-related governmental actions on constitutional grounds.
Client Alert April 15, 2020
Constitutional Implications of Rent- and Mortgage-Relief Legislation Enacted in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
In a previous alert, we discussed the constitutional principles governing legislative responses to COVID-19 under the Takings, Contracts, Due Process, and Equal Protection Clauses of the U.S. Constitution. Here, Gibson Dunn applies those principles to proposals currently being debated in state legislatures that would provide broad residential and commercial rent and mortgage relief.
Client Alert March 27, 2020
Constitutional Implications of Government Regulations and Actions in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Gibson Dunn lawyers discuss the constitutionality of proposed and actual legislative and executive action during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Publications March 20, 2020
Arguments shed light on justices’ thinking in Seila v. CFPB
Orange County partner Blaine Evanson and Washington, D.C. associates Lochlan Shelfer and Jeremy Christiansen are the authors of “Arguments shed …