On May 1, 2025, the latest development unfolded in the ongoing battle between the Trump administration and certain trade groups challenging the validity of the president’s executive orders on diversity, equity, and inclusion...more
On March 14, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s motion to stay the United States District Court for the District of Maryland’s preliminary injunction on the...more
In this episode, AGG Employment partners Ashley Kelly and Theresa Kananen and AGG Government Contracts partner Tenley Carp discuss the significant changes to DEI programs under the Trump administration. Together, they explore...more
On Friday, February 21, 2025, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland entered a preliminary injunction halting provisions of two of President Trump’s executive orders that sought to effectively eliminate...more
2/27/2025
/ Constitutional Challenges ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Educational Institutions ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Executive Orders ,
False Claims Act (FCA) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Fifth Amendment ,
First Amendment ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Separation of Powers ,
Trump Administration
On January 21, 2025, amid a flurry of executive orders, President Trump issued an executive order titled, “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit Based Opportunity,” representing a critical change in federal policy...more
2/6/2025
/ Affirmative Action ,
Civil Rights Act ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Diversity ,
Diversity and Inclusion Standards (D&I) ,
Employment Discrimination ,
Executive Orders ,
Federal Contractors ,
OFCCP ,
Title VII ,
Trump Administration
On January 17, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied a petition to administratively stay the effective date of the Federal Trade Commission’s controversial “Click-to-Cancel” Rule. A divided...more
Minnesota is the latest state to join the roster of those that have recently adopted pricing transparency laws. As background, on February 11, 2024, New York amended General Business Law 518 to provide that consumers could...more
On May 29, 2024, Illinois rocked the payments world by passing the Interchange Fee Prohibition Act (“IFPA”) into law. With an effective date of July 1, 2025, the law would upend the way in which interchange is calculated in...more
April 2024 saw a whirlwind of activity on the employment front as executive federal agencies issued a wave of new rules. On April 15, 2024, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) announced its final rule...more
6/19/2024
/ Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employer Responsibilities ,
Employment Litigation ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Final Rules ,
Government Agencies ,
Minimum Salary ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Over-Time ,
Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Regulatory Authority ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Salaried Employees ,
Unfair Competition ,
Wage and Hour
On April 17, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Muldrow v. St. Louis that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discriminatory job transfers, even if the harm is not “significant.”...more
On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a final rule effectively banning non-compete agreements in the employment context. This final rule follows a proposed rule published by the FTC on January 5,...more
The fourth quarter of 2023 has seen significant proposed rulemaking from regulators. Just over a week after the Federal Trade Commission issued its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on its “junk fees” rule, the Consumer Financial...more
On October 11, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for a new “Rule on Unfair and Deceptive Fees” — popularly referred to as the “junk fee” rule. The new rule, which will be...more
On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its unanimous decision in Groff v. DeJoy, which heightened the burden that employers bear in proving that an employee’s request for a religious...more
7/21/2023
/ Civil Rights Act ,
De Minimus Doctrine ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Groff v DeJoy ,
Reasonable Accommodation ,
Religious Accommodation ,
Religious Discrimination ,
SCOTUS ,
Title VII ,
Undue Hardship
This coming term, the Supreme Court of the United States will hear arguments over the validity of a federal regulation that has stymied payment processors in recent years. In 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...more
On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a decision focusing on confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions in employment severance agreements. In McLaren Macomb v. Local RN Staff Council,...more
It’s happened to all of us. You’re browsing online and a pop-up appears, blocking the entire screen and urging you to enter your email in exchange for 10% off. You look for the “X” to close the window, but there isn’t one....more
On February 22, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a decision in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, holding that a manager who supervised a dozen employees and made over $200,000 annually was not...more
On Friday, January 7, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States heard an oral argument on the consolidated multi-state challenge to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS)....more
AGG’s Government Investigations Team Insights provides periodic updates covering legal and regulatory topics.
In this edition, we discuss recent criticism of the Justice Department’s use of “taint teams” to review...more
The first full year of the Biden Administration has seen an overhaul of the leadership of executive agencies, coupled with an intense focus on how big business affects the United States economy. ...more
On November 16, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (“Sixth Circuit”) was selected to hear the many legal disputes relating to OSHA’s recent Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) that proliferated in...more
With the reopening of large segments of the workplace and the emergence of the Delta variant, employers have grappled with difficult and often polarizing issues regarding how to implement COVID-19 vaccination protocols in the...more
Our podcast series, "AGG Talks: Solving Employers’ Problems," features AGG attorneys discussing challenges they have encountered when assisting clients on business and legal issues related to the employment relationship. HR...more
On Friday, July 9, 2021, Colorado’s governor signed a new law changing Colorado’s status from one of the few states that bans surcharging to one that expressly permits it. Colorado Revised Statute § 5-2-212—which takes effect...more