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Florida Medical Cannabis Business Licensing Process: What Happens Next for MMTC Applicants?
Bringing Your Cannabis Brand to New York
Employment Law Now VIII-154 - Court Invalidates DOL's 2024 Overtime Salary Threshold Increases
Environmental and Sustainability Regulations & the New Administration
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False Claims Act Insights - Powerful, But Not All-Powerful: CIDs in FCA Litigation
Cannabis & Psychedelics On the 2024 Ballot
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A Look Ahead to the 2024 State AG Elections From DAGA President Sean Rankin — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
On December 10, 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) released its long-anticipated listing proposal for the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), along with a proposed critical habitat designation and...more
On December 7, 2024, the US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) confirmed that reporting companies—i.e., companies that would be required to report their beneficial ownership information to FinCEN under the...more
On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, a Texas federal judge granted a preliminary injunction halting the continuing implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting...more
On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al., blocking enforcement of the Corporate...more
New ESG regulations are expected to have a significant impact on disclosure and governance obligations for EU and non-EU companies alike, including extensive sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements on...more
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has extended from January 1, 2025 until July 1, 2025, the compliance date for certain provisions of the department’s rule entitled “Modernization of Engagement with...more
To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal and state events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week...more
Until recently, Massachusetts was the only state that did not maintain a licensing regime for nonresident pharmacies (i.e., out-of-state pharmacies shipping drugs into the state). On December 6, 2024, the Massachusetts Board...more
The European Commission rejected the European Supervisory Authorities' draft ITS in September on the basis that financial entities should have the choice of using either EU unique identifiers or legal entity identifiers. The...more
On November 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) exceeded its authority by adding an entity that pools and anonymizes crypto transactions to OFAC’s...more
With power changing hands in Washington, D.C., what can marijuana industry members expect from the 119th Congress? Two GOP proposals from the 118th Congress may foreshadow the likely path for federal marijuana legalization....more
On November 22, 2024, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals enjoined the Financial Institution Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) from expelling a member firm without Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) review. Alpine...more
The Puerto Rico Department of Consumer Affairs (DACO, per its acronym in Spanish) reactivated its Office Against Discrimination in Commerce (OADC) in September 2024 to ensure Puerto Rican consumers receive fair and equal...more
Trademark law protects businesses’ brand identities and helps prevent consumer confusion. The U.S. trademark system operates at both federal and state levels. Federal registration through the United States Patent and...more
On December 3, 2024, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published its long anticipated proposed rule aimed at regulating data brokers under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Although the CFPB’s future is...more
The Bank of England has published a consultation paper on the proposed revocation of the U.K. technical standards on simplified obligations. The U.K. retained the EU framework for determining the level of information required...more
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against enforcement of the beneficial ownership information reporting requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)...more
On December 5, 2024, the Staff of every market-facing division of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a joint “Staff Advisory” on the use of artificial intelligence in CFTC-regulated markets and...more
Maine - On November 5, 2024, Maine residents voted in favor of passing a ballot measure that limits contributions from individuals, PACs and business entities to PACs “for the purpose of making independent expenditures” to...more
Companies deploying high-risk artificial intelligence (AI) systems must prepare to conduct Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment (FRIA) by 2 August 2026. In this edition of our “Zooming in on AI” series we explain what this...more
On December 5, 2024, the Colorado Department of Law (Department) adopted an amended draft of its latest proposed Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) regulations. This set of amended regulations follows a public comment period that...more
For the past week, millions of companies have been eagerly awaiting the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) statement in response to the December 3, 2024 preliminary injunction that has halted enforcement of the...more
The reporting requirement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was preliminarily enjoined on December 3, 2024, by an Order of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The Court issued a nationwide...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Dec. 3 issued Part 2 of a final risk determination providing an overview of the hazards of asbestos “to workers in certain conditions.” The agency will soon begin the risk...more
Seven County Infrastructure Coalition, et al. v. Eagle County, Colorado et al. On Tuesday, December 10, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could redefine what constitutes a “reasonably foreseeable”...more