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Product Liability & Mass Torts Digest
|August 22, 2025
|5 Min Read
In what appears to be the first case to consider the issue, an Eastern District of Missouri court recently rejected the argument that the Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overruling Chevron deference undermines the basis for express preemption in medical device cases.
Direct Sellers Update: Regulation, Law & Policy
|August 11, 2025
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Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement in the Direct-Selling Industry: A Clearer Look
With renewed enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act against illegal price discrimination looming, direct-selling companies should reassess their pricing models. The FTC has made clear that tiered wholesale pricing, which gives higher-ranked distributors more favorable terms than their lower-ranked counterparts, can create significant legal risks under antitrust laws.
Client Alert
|July 25, 2025
|8 Min Read
From Oversight to Omission: The OCC’s New Stance on Disparate Impact Liability
In this alert, Winston’s Financial Services Industry Group takes a closer look at the OCC’s new stance on disparate impact liability and its implications for the financial services industry.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced on July 14, 2025, that it will cease supervising banks for disparate impact liability, instructing its examiners to “no longer examine for disparate impact.”[1] Accordingly, OCC examiners will not request, review, conclude on, or follow up on matters related to a bank’s disparate impact related risk, risk analysis, or assessment processes or procedures.[2] The OCC also removed references to disparate impact liability from its fair lending examination manual.
This policy shift follows President Trump’s April 2025 executive order mandating the elimination of disparate impact liability across federal agencies and claiming that disparate impact liability forces companies to “engage in racial balancing to avoid potentially crippling legal liability.”[3] Given the Trump administration’s approach, the OCC’s policy shift is unsurprising. But the change means financial services companies should reconsider how they evaluate and address disparate impact risk, not only from the perspective of this revised federal regulatory lens, but also with the understanding that state attorneys general and private litigants will continue to pursue disparate impact claims as long as such claims remain legally viable.
What does this mean to you and your clients?
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