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OFCCP Poised to Produce Contractors’ EEO-1 Data Following Losses in Litigation

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Starting in 2018, the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and a CIR reporter have been fighting to force OFCCP to disclose EEO-1 reports that have been filed by federal contractors. These contractors have operated with...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Treasury Clearing Update

In recent remarks, Commissioner Uyeda provided an update on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s progress toward implementation of the Treasury clearing rule.  The Commissioner emphasized the benefits associated with...more

Alston & Bird

The Opportunity of TEMPO and ACCESS for Digital Health Device Manufacturers

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are offering digital health device manufacturers a combination of a new pathway to market and a payment system. Our FDA: Drug & Device...more

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Digging into recent Medicaid provider tax changes

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Over the past few years, scrutiny of Medicaid “provider taxes” has increased, largely because of concerns that they may inflate federal spending in the Medicaid program....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

FDIC extends comment period on proposed requirements for banks seeking to issue stablecoins under GENIUS Act

On February 6, the FDIC announced a 90-day extension of the comment period for an NPRM, which would establish application procedures under the GENIUS Act for FDIC-supervised state nonmember banks and state savings...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

The Coalition for Chemical Innovations Offers Four Principles to Guide Congress’s Efforts to Modernize TSCA

As reported in our January 27, 2026, memorandum, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment held a legislative hearing on January 22, 2026, focused on a draft bill entitled Discussion Draft of Legislation to...more

Offit Kurman

The HUD Administration One Year Review: Withdrawal of Fair Housing Guidance, Administrative Cutbacks, and the Implications for...

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Approximately one year into the second Trump Administration, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has taken notable steps to reshape the federal fair housing compliance landscape by withdrawing numerous...more

Cooley LLP

CFPB Adds Disclosures to Consumer Complaint Portal

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently added two new disclosures and an attestation requirement to the CFPB portal through which consumers may submit complaints about a financial product or service....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

What Importers Need to Know as the Supreme Court Decides the Fate of IEEPA Tariffs

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering consolidated cases that will determine whether President Trump has authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to unilaterally impose tariffs....more

Hogan Lovells

EPA’s “Year One” PFAS actions: Where things stand and what to watch

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On February 6, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a press release highlighting “major year one PFAS actions” under the Trump Administration. The press release assembles a wide-ranging list of Agency...more

Kilpatrick

Proposed Fee Transparency Rules and New Legislation for Group Health Plan PBMs

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President Trump’s April 15, 2025, Executive Order on lowering the cost of prescription drug pricing, among other things, directed the Department of Labor (DOL) to propose regulations to improve the transparency of fees and...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Group of U.S. Senators Sound Alarm About State of Federal Tax Enforcement

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In the midst of Congressional consideration of the administration’s FY2026 budget request for the Internal Revenue Service (which was ultimately approved on February 3, 2026), a group of U.S. Senators is raising questions...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Court reinstates TPS terminations for Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua

USCIS confirms no valid TPS-based work authorization. On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stayed a lower court decision from a federal court in California that had vacated the termination of...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Parties Seek Vacatur and Remand of 340B Rebate Pilot, Confirming Program Will Not Proceed on Existing Record

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In our January 14 blog, we explained that Chief Judge Lance Walker of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine had entered a nationwide preliminary injunction in American Hospital Association v. Kennedy, blocking the...more

Cooley LLP

FHFA Repeals Fair Housing and Fair Lending Rule

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On February 6, 2026, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) published a final rule repealing its Fair Lending, Fair Housing, and Equitable Housing Finance Plans regulation (part 1293)....more

McAfee & Taft

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

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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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