On July 28, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York entered a judgment against Papaya Gaming Ltd. in Skillz Platform Inc. v. Papaya Gaming Ltd., No. 1:24-cv-01646. The ruling followed an April jury verdict of
In this crossover episode of Regulatory Oversight and The Consumer Finance Podcast, Mike Yaghi and Lane Page join Taylor Gess from Troutman Pepper Locke’s Consumer Financial Services practice group to discuss the hottest areas of state regulatory activity in
Ashley L. Taylor Jr., co-leader of Troutman Pepper Locke’s State Attorneys General Practice Group, appeared in the September–October 2026 issue of The Journal of Federal Agency Action for his article, “State Attorneys General Will Dominate Post-Chevron Litigation.” The article was co-authored with
On July 15, 2026, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued a decision overturning lower court rulings that had shielded “semi-professionals” — including insurance brokers, agents, and producers, among others — from regulation and litigation under the New Jersey Consumer Fraud
In June, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida made public an order that stayed a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) refuse to file (RTF) determination, finding that the FDA likely violated the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)
Clayton Friedman, Ashley L. Taylor, Jr., Namrata Kang, and Kyara Rivera Rivera, of the firm’s State Attorneys General practice, were published in the July 22, 2026, Bloomberg Law for their article, “States Are Cracking Down on Algorithmic
Key Point: A multistate coalition of 42 state AGs reached a landmark $150 million settlement with 23andMe over a 2023 data breach affecting 6.9 million customers, marking the largest AG multistate settlement involving consumer genetic data to date. This resolution
Key points: Troutman Pepper Locke’s Regulatory Investigations, Strategy + Enforcement (RISE) and Privacy + Cyber + AI practice groups worked with the firm’s innovation team using AI to collect and curate five years of data concerning state AG activities and
On July 7, a bipartisan coalition of 49 state attorneys general (AGs) sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging the adoption of stronger measures to combat illegal robocalls. The letter represents another action by the state AGs’
