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The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 79 - Tactical Playbook: Surviving the Tariff Enforcement Blitz
False Claims Act Insights - DOJ Announces Record Number of Qui Tams and Qui Tam Dismissals
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Point-of-Sale Finance Series: The New Regulatory Reality for Small Business Financing and Trade Credit — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Payments Year in Review 2025: Federal and State Developments – Part 2 – Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
The Compliance 911 Show
False Claims Act Insights - Rogue Employees: Vicarious Liability Under the False Claims Act
PODCAST: Williams Mullen’s Benefits Companion - Why NAPA Matters for Plan Sponsors and Benefits Professionals
“Stay or Pay” Agreements, Developing Immigration News, EEOC Power Shift - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
5 Key Takeaways | Equity and State Taxes: Equitable Doctrines and Their State Tax Application
New Jersey's Big Bet on Disparate Impact: What the AG's New Rules Mean for Lenders and AI — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Inside the Federal Election Commission: Keeping the Mission Alive with Just Two Commissioners
False Claims Act Insights - The Rise of State False Claims Act Enforcement
From Vegas to Venezuela: High-Stakes Predictive Markets — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
AI, Algorithms, and Accountability: Unpacking the Colorado AI Act with Senator Rodriguez — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 12 – The SEC Reset — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
12 Days of Regulatory Insights: Day 11 – FTC Enforcement Trends in a New Age — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
As wind and solar development faced political and regulatory headwinds over the past year, the Trump Administration signaled renewed momentum for geothermal energy development. Despite imposing barriers to many clean energy...more
On March 12, 2026, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) released two documents regarding “event contract” derivatives traded on prediction markets. The CFTC issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...more
This alert highlights recent relief measures available to certain directors and officers of foreign private issuers (FPIs) subject to Section 16(a) reporting obligations under the Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable Act...more
Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more
Executive Summary - Artificial intelligence has moved from research laboratories into deployed defense systems: autonomous ISR platforms, battlefield decision-support engines, predictive logistics tools, electronic-warfare...more
On March 13, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (the “SEC”) Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) stated in a no-action letter to an Israeli company that it would not recommend enforcement action to the...more
Maryland's Time to Care Act of 2022 (TTCA) created a statewide Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) program, intended to provide employees with paid, job‑protected leave for qualifying family and medical events....more
On March 12, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance (the “Division”) published two new FAQs on the application of the Holding Foreign Insiders Accountable Act to officers and directors...more
During and after the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provided certain flexibilities and exercised enforcement discretion with respect to regulations affecting...more
Following the release of the Trump Administration’s new National Cyber Strategy, National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross noted in a virtual interview that the administration is considering changes to the existing cyber...more
On March 10, 2026, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) released its first Department-wide Corporate Enforcement Policy (CEP) applicable to all corporate criminal matters across the Department, with the exception of...more
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) issued updated guidance late Friday afternoon, March 13, 2026, revising Form I-9 instructions for Haitian TPS beneficiaries. ...more
On March 5, the Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection Christopher Mufarrige delivered remarks outlining several enforcement priorities for the agency’s consumer protection work, including enforcement of the...more
The Department of Justice ("DOJ") has announced its first-ever Department-wide corporate enforcement policy that applies to all federal corporate criminal cases across the country, except those related to antitrust. The new...more
The course of the proceedings involving the attempts to remove Judge Pauline Newman from the Federal Circuit is long and in many senses tragic (see links below). Last week the latest, and likely last, Act of this sad drama...more
Amends prior presidential delegations under the Defense Production Act to allow the Secretary of Energy, alongside the Secretary of Commerce, to independently exercise certain authorities related to national defense resource...more
Prediction markets are online platforms where people can trade “event contacts” that settle based on the outcome of future events with a “yes” or “no” answer, including contracts based on economic indicators, financial...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has signaled the lowering of a major regulatory barrier for the institutional adoption of stablecoins. On February 19, SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce released a Statement...more
Seventeen states — California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin and Washington — filed a joint...more
On March 11, 2026, the FTC issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking public comment on whether the agency should amend its Rule Concerning the Use of Prenotification Negative Option Plans under Section 5 of the...more
On March 11, 2026, USPTO Director John Squires issued a memorandum establishing new discretionary factors for the institution of inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR) proceedings before the Patent Trial and...more
In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA), the Supreme Court held that the use of race-conscious decision-making in admissions violated federal law. The complex and often opaque nature of the admissions process,...more
Ogletree Deakins’ Traditional Labor Relations Practice Group is pleased to announce the publication of the Winter 2026 issue of the Practical NLRB Advisor. This issue discusses the host of problems the National Labor...more
The day after the release of a new Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) on Negative Option Offers, the FTC released another ANPR soliciting information and comments on a prospective Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Rental...more
In 2025, class-action filings against the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry continued apace, with more than 200 lawsuits filed. Plaintiffs pressed familiar theories with new intensity, regulators advanced several...more