On January 8, 2026, the White House announced the establishment of a new division of the Department of Justice: The Division for National Fraud Enforcement. In a White House Fact Sheet, the Trump Administration stated that...more
1/13/2026
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The federal E-Verify system operated by the Department of Homeland Security became unavailable midday Oct. 1, 2025, following the government shutdown. While E-Verify appears to be back up and running as of 11 a.m. ET on Oct....more
10/6/2025
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On Sept. 19, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced the launch of “Project Firewall,” a first-of-its-kind interagency enforcement initiative designed to ensure strict compliance with the H-1B visa program. In...more
Federal Controlled Substance Act regulations require that prescriptions for controlled substances be issued only for legitimate medical purposes by individual practitioners acting in their usual course of professional...more
On June 16, the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) National Security Division (NSD) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas (USAO-SDTX) announced their decision to decline prosecution of White Deer...more
6/18/2025
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National Security ,
Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) ,
Private Equity ,
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On May 9, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order titled “Fighting Overcriminalization in Federal Regulations.”...more
6/16/2025
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Regulatory Reform ,
Strict Liability ,
Trump Administration ,
White Collar Crimes
On June 10, Matthew Galeotti, the Head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Criminal Division, delivered remarks at an event hosted by the American Conference Institute, in which he discussed recent updates to the...more
6/11/2025
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Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) ,
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Regulatory Agenda ,
Self-Disclosure Requirements ,
White Collar Crimes
On May 6, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a plan to expand its use of unannounced inspections of foreign manufacturing facilities that produce foods, essential medicines and other medical products...more
On April 25, 2025, the Department of Justice announced in federal court that many students studying in the United States on F-1 visas whose status was recently changed to “Terminated” for “criminal records” reasons will have...more
On April 14, 2025, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued an order staying the notice published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that would have terminated, as of April 24, 2025, the humanitarian parole...more
On March 25, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a notice in the Federal Register that it will terminate the humanitarian parole processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that gave...more
On Feb. 19, 2025, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it would be “protecting American workers from anti-American national origin discrimination” in part by “increasing enforcement of...more
2/24/2025
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Foreign Workers ,
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Immigration Procedures ,
Title VII ,
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In a Jan. 13, 2025, alert, McGuireWoods urged employers to prepare for a drastic shift in federal immigration policy following the inauguration of President Donald Trump. The Trump administration has since moved swiftly to...more
1/29/2025
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Immigration reform played a key role during the presidential campaign cycle. Given the starkly different philosophies between the current and incoming administrations, changes to federal immigration policy are imminent....more
Revisions to the Health Over Wealth Act, a bill aimed at increasing transparency for private equity (PE) firms, introduced July 25, 2024, have removed assisted living facilities from its list of covered entities. However, the...more