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EEOC rescinds transgender workplace guidance: What employers need to know

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In an unsurprising move, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted 2–1 to formally scrap its 2024 guidance on workplace harassment on January 22, 2026. This action officially withdraws the Biden-era framework that...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Senator Warren Presses CFPB Acting Director Over Credit Card Fees and Agency Retrenchment

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Senator Elizabeth Warren has sent a sharply worded letter to CFPB Acting Director Russell Vought that crystallizes an unusual moment in consumer financial services regulation: a populist-sounding call from President Trump to...more

Jackson Walker

A Call for Texas Legislative and Agency Action to Restore Fairness in Public Contract Award Challenges

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Texas is commonly portrayed as business-friendly, offering many tax advantages and other economic benefits to incentivize companies to do business in the Lone Star State. Yet, when it comes to protecting businesses from...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

A New Recipe for GRAS? FDA’s Proposed Mandatory GRAS Notification Rule, BHA RFI and Congressional Reform Bills

It is no exaggeration to say that the past year has seen the most significant push to reform the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) generally recognized as safe (GRAS) process in more than two decades (see our prior...more

Baker Donelson

CMS Releases Fiscal Year 2026 State Performance Standards System (SPSS) Guidance

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) State Performance Standards System (SPSS) Guidance on January 13, 2026. This system evaluates State Survey Agencies (SAs) on their...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Oregon EPR Law Enjoined – Preliminary Injunction Issued Prohibiting Enforcement of Oregon's Plastic Pollution and Recycling...

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Oregon's packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) law is being actively complied with by thousands of manufacturers, importers, distributors, and retailers from around the country. Those substantial compliance efforts...more

Irwin IP LLP

Director of USPTO Reopens the Door to Design Patent IPRs

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Top Glory Trading Group Inc. and DP Dream Pairs Inc. v. Cole Haan LLC, IPR2025-01395 (P.T.A.B January 12, 2026) - A recent decision by United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) Director Squires may signal renewed...more

MoFo Tech

AI Trends for 2026 – Return of the Brussels Effect: AI Transparency Requirements Come to California

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Recently-enacted AI transparency regulations took effect in California on January 1, 2026. To enterprises with a global footprint, these California regulations will bear a striking resemblance to transparency obligations...more

Proskauer - Regulatory & Compliance

Unsheathing its Sword: CFIUS Seeks Judicial Enforcement

District of Columbia to enforce a July 2025 presidential order compelling the divestment of Jupiter Systems – a US company – by the Chinese company Suirui Group. The acquisition was consummated in 2020, and neither Suirui...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

NLRB Relinquishes Jurisdiction Over SpaceX, Abandoning Yearslong Legal Battle

On February 9, 2026, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) dismissed its long-running unfair labor practice complaint against SpaceX that alleged SpaceX unlawfully terminated certain engineers. The...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Garland...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and the City of Garland, Arkansas (“Garland”) entered into a January 9th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more

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Waters of the United States/Clean Water Act: Associated General Contractors of America Comments on U.S. EPA Proposed Rule

The Associated General Contractors of America (“AGC”) submitted January 5th comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (collectively, “Corps”) on the proposed...more

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Brownfield/Transitional Renewable Energy Certificates: New Jersey Appellate Court Addresses Challenge to Application Denial

The Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division (“Court”), considered in a December 29th Opinion an issue under New Jersey’s Transition Incentive Program. See Matter of Kober Solar Auto Parts, Inc., No. A-0424-24, 2025...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Extended Producer Responsibility Laws Are Here: What Manufacturers Must Do Now to Assess Applicability and Compliance Risk

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A cutting‑edge experiment in recycling policy is now unfolding in multiple states across the country: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Laws. EPR laws are designed to shift the cost of recycling and waste management from...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Court Enjoins Oregon’s Extended Producer Responsibility Law for Some Companies, but Others Face Continued Compliance Obligations

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On February 6, 2026, an Oregon district court issued a decision barring the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) from enforcing the nation’s first extended producer responsibility (EPR) law for packaging, food...more

Allen Barron, Inc.

Proven California Sales and Use Tax Audit Representation

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Are you searching for proven California sales and use tax audit representation? Have you received notification of a California sales and use tax audit by the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA)?...more

Estlund Law, P.A.

Lyon, France: INTERPOL’s CCF Annual Activity Report for 2024 (Post 2 of 3)

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Every year, INTERPOL’s Commission for the Control of INTERPOL Files(CCF) releases an Annual Report covering the Commission’s accomplishments. Today’s post will be addressing the report for 2024 and the reported requests for...more

A&O Shearman

UK PRA Seeks Views On Proposed Reforms To Banking Regulatory Data Under FBD Programme

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The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published discussion paper DP1/26, outlining its proposed reforms to banking regulatory data under the Future Banking Data (FBD) programme. The FBD programme aims to deliver...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals Issues New Rules of Procedure for Its Adjudicatory Role in the Administrative False Claims...

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On January 28, 2026, the United States Civilian Board of Contract Appeals (CBCA) issued final rulemaking to address its role in hearing and resolving disputes under the Administrative False Claims Act (AFCA), formerly known...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

TPS Pendulum Swings as the Ninth Circuit Sides with DHS and Restores Certain Terminations

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In our recent post on Through the Immigration Lens, we discussed the uncertainty created after the district court’s December 31, 2025 decision restoring Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for beneficiaries from Honduras, Nepal...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Point-of-Sale Finance Series: The New Regulatory Reality for Small Business Financing and Trade Credit — The Consumer Finance...

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In this crossover episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast and Payments Pros, Taylor Gess, Jason Cover, and Caleb Rosenberg explore the heightened attention from regulators and legislators on small business finance programs...more

Polsinelli

Ninth Circuit Ruling Sets the Stage for the Release of Thousands of EEO-1 Reports

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Over two years ago, the Northern District of California issued an order requiring the OFCCP to disclose EEO-1 Type 2 reports to the Center for Investigative Reporting (“CIR”) over the objections of thousands of employers, as...more

Mayer Brown

Brasília em Pauta - Edição Nº 227

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Prezados e prezadas, O “Brasília em Pauta” é um boletim semanal preparado pela equipe de Contencioso de Brasília, contendo os principais casos a serem julgados pelo Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF), Superior Tribunal de...more

Hinckley Allen

Federal Court Orders Release of Funding for Major New York-New Jersey Infrastructure Project

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On February 6, 2026, Judge Jeannette A. Vargas of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted a temporary restraining order (“TRO”) blocking the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (“DOT”) suspension...more

Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC

Over Thirty Years After Its Passage, Governments Are Still Adjusting to the Effects of Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights

Over Thirty Years after its Passage, Governments are Still Adjusting to the Effects of Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights... Less than a month into the second regular session of the 75th General Assembly, discussion of...more

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