The GC Brief

A weekly read for general counsel and in-house legal teams: what moved in the law, and why it matters. Each item is sourced to the underlying document — the complaint, the rule, the opinion, the filing — with linked citations.

The GC Brief

Issue No. 1 — Week of August 17, 2026

The SEC's proposal to scale back disclosure for most public companies; twelve states sue to block Paramount–Warner Bros. after DOJ cleared it; what Loper Bright is doing to compliance positions built on agency preambles; California's first Delete Act data broker action; new accounting questions from AI spending and data-center financing; and the congressional inquiry into companies using Chinese AI models.

August 17, 2026