Last week, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law Senate Bill No. 3235—a bill temporarily banning the unlicensed sale of hemp products in New Jersey and proposing a new regulatory framework for future sales. The law, which is…
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/ Agriculture, Business Organizations, Consumer Protection
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently issued an important decision regarding the ability of federal candidates to coordinate with committees such as the National Republican Senatorial Committee…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Elections & Politics
Sequels are rarely better than the films that precede them, and yet, sometimes a story is just too compelling to be limited to just one film. At the tail end of a summer full of Hollywood sequels, the Department of Defense (DoD)…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting, Military Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
Some might say there’s little difference between dealing with the devil and being a federal contractor. And for the unwary or unprepared, that may not be far off. Federal contracting comes with a litany of “fine print” that…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Science, Computers, & Technology
On August 1, 2024, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division introduced its Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (Program), which, like a modern-day Western posse, aims to bring justice to the wild frontier of…
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/ Business Torts, Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, Government Contracting
On April 29, 2024, the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released guidance to federal contractors regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in their employment practices. See…
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/ Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), and thr Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published 89 FR 51238 (the Final Rule),…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Health, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has adopted an age-friendly quality hospital measure in its most recent final rule addressing prospective payment systems, policy changes, and quality program requirements for…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Health
Two New Jersey healthcare facilities that violated the New Jersey Patient Safety Act, N.J.S.A. §§ 26:2H-12.23 to -12.25, (PSA), must provide plaintiff patients with internal reports and documents relating to adverse events,…
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/ Civil Procedure, Health
After a series of preliminary, narrowly decided, and conflicting court decisions concerning requests for preliminary injunctions (see August 20, 2024 Alert), a federal district court in Texas has now entirely set aside the…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
The Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) proposed new rules this week (56 N.J.R. 1684(a) and 56 N.J.R. 1699(a)), finally implementing the legislature’s creation of reporting requirements for independent expenditure (IE)…
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/ Elections & Politics, Finance & Banking
As federal agencies and states grapple with regulating artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance its safety profile, and as businesses race to adopt AI for myriad purposes, it is important to recognize a general safety framework…
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/ Business Torts, Products Liability, Science, Computers, & Technology
As the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seeks to ban nearly all employee non-compete agreements in the United States (see April 25, 2024 Alert), the question of whether the agency has the power to do that is dividing federal…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Labor & Employment Law
On August 7, 2024 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a new Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) proposing regulations that prohibit the use of AI in automated dialing or artificial or pre-recorded voice calls…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Science, Computers, & Technology
As summer begins to all but fade into the background, it is a good time to revisit legal compliance with state and federal requirements in the employment context. Massachusetts recently joined the growing wave of states to pass…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
