AVERY RYAN—On August 31, 2026, the Florida Department of Transportation gave local police thirty days to pull their automated license-plate readers off state roads, citing an exponential rise in deployments and “concerning reports of misuse, data privacy concerns, and surveillance schemes.” Days earlier, Governor Ron DeSantis called the technology “out of control” and warned he […]

ISABELLA CABRELLI RUSCONI––On August 26, 2026, Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion and add stronger child safety measures to Facebook and Instagram, settling claims brought by a coalition of state attorneys general under state consumer protection laws and the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The states argued that Meta intentionally designed […]

DIVYA NAVANI—On March 20, 2026, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) announced that it had reached a tentative deal on what it called a “historic” collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the Women’s National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA). Standout provisions from the seven-year agreement include the first comprehensive revenue-sharing model in women’s professional sports history, over […]

MICHAEL R. DOMINGUEZ—While insurance may seem mundane to the layperson, it serves as a critical mechanism through which businesses operate, allocate risk, and manage liability. During my first summer internship at an international insurance defense firm, I was tasked with answering a deceptively simple question: if an apartment building suffers a covered loss to one […]

MARCUS LECKY—Top Wall Street hedge funds are contesting Silver Lake’s buyout of Endeavor Group Holdings Inc. (Endeavor) with one of the largest appraisal demands in the history of Delaware, bringing back a trade strategy that lay dormant for years. Appraisal arbitrage consists of buying a company’s shares after a deal is announced and then suing […]