State Security Laws Complicate Compliance Efforts: Texas Brief

States’ Confusing National Security Laws

Texas’ lawsuit against TP-Link for allegedly spying on American consumers is one example of states increasingly taking national security policy into their own hands, Paul Weiss’ David Kessler, Ian Richardson, and Samuel Rebo write in a Bloomberg Law Insight.

The state used a deceptive-marketing law to go after the Chinese company—one tool in states’ arsenals as they try to restrict certain technologies or limit foreign land ownership. But this additional layer of regulation isn’t always coordinated with federal authorities, Kessler, Richardson, and Rebo write. And in lawsuits challenging some of ...