Sarah Isgur - Last Branch Standing: Inside the Court That Everyone Gets Wrong
5 Key Takeaways | ITC's Proposed New Rule on Funding and Ownership Disclosures
PODCAST: Financial Wellness and What Really Works
Financial Wellness and What Really Works
Joint Employment, Misclassification, I-9s, and Web Accessibility: New Rules and Rulings Reshape Employer Risk - Employment Law This Week®
NLRB Could Soon Have a Three-Person Republican Majority - Employment Law This Week®
The Administration’s Focus on DEI Moves from Words to Action - Employment Law This Week®
False Claims Act Insights - Healthcare Compensation and Referrals: Avoiding Compliance Pitfalls in Physician Deals
401(k) Alternative Assets, NLRB Removal Protections, and Military Leave Requests - Employment Law This Week®
AI State Regulatory Frontiers: Predictive, Generative, and Agentic Risk — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 82 - Is Qui Tam Unconstitutional? The False Claims Act's Constitutional Reckoning
Episode 400: Reopening 9/11 -- A UK Supreme Court Battle Over Truth, Power, and Accountability
Is Cemex Still Valid? Sixth Circuit Creates Uncertainty - Employment Law This Week®
The Lobby Bar Podcast | Government Conflict of Interest Rules: The Underdiscussed Threat
False Claims Act Insights - $1.6 Billion FCA Judgment on Appeal: What it Means for FCA Enforcement
Early Returns Podcast with Jan Baran - Charlie Cook: Reading the Midterm Elections
Important CRA Lesson from OCC proposal for all Intermediate-Small and Large Banks
Non-Competes in 2026: FTC Signals Major Policy Shift - Employment Law This Week® - Spilling Secrets Podcast
False Claims Act Insights - Qui Tam Dismissals Are Spiking: What That Means for FCA Enforcement
NLRB and DOL Take Action on Joint Employer and Independent Contractor Rules - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
As noted in our earlier post, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) released two rulemaking proposals aimed at overhauling how public companies access the capital markets and address their ongoing reporting...more
On May 1, 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Australian Signals Directorate's Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD's ACSC), together with...more
Our Drug Pricing and Market Access team tracks recent developments in healthcare reform, the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, the 340B Program, Medicare, and state law....more
A contractor wins two awards from the Army. The solicitations arrive on the government’s commercial-items form and say nothing about performance or payment bonds. The contractor agrees to design a laundry facility and build a...more
On May 13, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced six-month nationwide moratoria on new Medicare enrollments for hospices and home health agencies. CMS stated that the moratoria were needed due to...more
In its first opportunity to revisit its approach to Section 10(j) injunctions following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2024 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected the circuit’s prior use of a less...more
Environmental inspections are a routine part of operating a regulated facility, but they can still create operational and legal risk—particularly where there have been prior violations, citizen complaints, or ongoing...more
On April 20, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) (collectively, the “Commissions”) jointly proposed amendments to Form PF that would substantially reduce...more
This is the first article in a two-part series regarding Senate Enrolled Act (“SEA”) 282 (2026) - One of two major substantive components enacted in SEA 282 is a new framework for regulating medical spas. States across...more
On May 13, 2026, the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that could substantially revise its rulemaking procedures, with a focus on modernizing and streamlining how the public can engage...more
On May 4, residents of Bristow gathered to tell Dominion Energy no. Their target was a single substation, expanded to push more electricity toward the data centers spreading across Northern Virginia. They called the rally...more
Parties do not usually surrender after they win. On May 18, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission did. For fifty-four years, the SEC conditioned nearly every enforcement settlement on one promise: the defendant...more
Contaminants Compass provides updates, legal observations and actionable tips to navigate the evolving legal challenges of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and similar chemicals and products. This edition...more
Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 189 (“SB 189”), a bill that repeals and replaces the 2024 Colorado AI Act with a narrower, more business-friendly framework focused on automated decision-making technology...more
A coalition of twenty-five states plus the District of Columbia filed suit yesterday against the Department of Education (“ED”), challenging portions of ED’s final “RISE” rule (“Final Rule”) that dramatically narrow which...more
On May 7, 2026, a divided three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT), in Oregon v. United States and Burlap and Barrel, Inc. v. United States, invalidated the Trump administration’s 10% tariff imposed...more
A federal court decision finding that sugar content does not make a beverage less "nutritional," a bill that would allow FDA to destroy imported food products that pose a significant risk to public health, a complaint...more
If you’re familiar with operators in the marijuana industry in the United States, you understand that they can be a paranoid bunch — and often with very good reasons. After all, they operated in the grayest areas of the law...more
Dr. Marty Makary resigned as FDA commissioner last week, barely a year after his Senate confirmation. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed the departure and indicated the agency is searching for a replacement....more
Healthcare providers, healthcare professionals, hospitals, investors, and private equity-backed healthcare platforms should prepare for increasing operational, transactional, reimbursement, compliance, and enforcement risks...more
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced plans to advance a proposal to eliminate its annual EEO-1 data collection for large private employers. On May 14, 2026, the agency submitted a...more
With the decline of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings and the significant increase in ex parte reexamination (EPR) proceedings, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is allowing EPR patent owners to submit a new...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has directed the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) to revisit a central feature of the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure...more
Mexico published a legislative initiative on its Regulatory Governance Platform on May 14, 2026, proposing the enactment of the new General Law on Ecological Balance and Environmental Protection (Ley General del Equilibrio...more
The PFAS & Plastics Legal Review is BakerHostetler’s weekly newsletter providing updates to industry stakeholders on all issues relating to emerging contaminants, chemicals issues, and supply chain readiness....more
