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Federal AI Executive Order Addresses State–Federal Regulatory Tensions

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On December 11, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (the “Order”) addressing the relationship between federal artificial intelligence policy and state-level AI regulation. The Order does not invalidate existing...more

Fenwick & West LLP

White House Executive Order Creates National AI Policy, Overriding States

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President Donald Trump issued an EO on Thursday, December 11, 2025, intended to ease the road for AI startups and solidify the United States’ dominance by nationalizing AI policy in place of the current patchwork of state...more

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White House executive order moves to restrict state AI legislation

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On December 11, 2025, the White House issued an executive order (EO) attempting to restrict state-level artificial intelligence (AI) laws. This EO follows bipartisan legislative decisions to exclude preemption of state-level...more

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White House Issues Executive Order on National AI Policy Framework and Preemption Of State AI Laws

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On December 11, 2025, the White House issued an executive order (“Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence”), calling for a single federal AI policy to ensure “national and economic security and...more

Potomac Law Group, PLLC

A Major Shift in U.S. AI Governance Is Underway

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On December 11, 2025, the White House released a presidential Executive Order (EO) aimed at establishing a uniform national framework for AI intelligence governance — a major development in AI policy and federal–state...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

What Businesses Should Know as Trump Signs Executive Order Calling for National AI Regulation Standard

The White House issued a new executive order on December 11, 2025, calling for a unified federal policy framework for artificial intelligence (AI) and directing multiple agencies to challenge state-level AI laws viewed as...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

White House Launches National Framework Seeking To Preempt State AI Regulation

On December 11, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO), “Establishing a National Framework for Artificial Intelligence,” meant to create a “minimally burdensome” unified regulatory approach to sustain and...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

Trump Attempts to Preempt State AI Regulation Through Executive Order

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Following several unsuccessful attempts to secure federal preemption of state artificial intelligence (“AI”) regulations through Congress, first, through the “Big Beautiful Bill,” and then as part of the National Defense...more

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Memento Michigan Compiled Law § 600.2946(5): An Homage to Michigan’s Former Drug Immunity Law

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In 1995, the Michigan Legislature enacted its Drug Immunity Law, which provided an absolute defense for pharmaceutical companies in product liability suits stemming from the safety and efficacy of their drug products, the...more

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President Trump Signs Executive Order 'Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence'

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On December 11, President Trump signed an Executive Order on “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence” (the “Order”). The stated policy of the Order is to “sustain and enhance the United States’...more

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Showdown: New Executive Order Puts Federal Government and States on a Collision Course Over AI Regulation

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On December 11, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) seeking to limit states’ regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) and to establish instead “a minimally burdensome national policy framework for...more

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From the Courtroom to Capitol Hill: State Legislative Action on Failure-to-Warn Claims

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When a company brings a new product to market, who has the authority to approve the product’s label and associated warnings? In most instances involving pharmaceutical drugs or medical devices, it’s the federal Food and Drug...more

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Opting Out of the Opt Out: SDNY Rejects Opt-Out Releases in Chapter 11 Plan

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Before the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Purdue Pharma, it had become common practice for Chapter 11 debtors to include a consensual or nonconsensual non-debtor third-party release in their plans of reorganization. ...more

Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

Continue to Monitor Evolving AI Regulations and Requirements

On December 11, 2025, a new Executive Order titled “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence” was issued, signaling renewed federal interest in AI regulation....more

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Federal Courts Consider Constitutionality of Restrictions on Foreign Land Ownership

Foreign land ownership in the United States has long been a contentious issue, with approximately 28 states as of the 2025 legislative session enacting laws to restrict such ownership. Today, laws restricting such ownership...more

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Executive Order Seeks to Preempt Certain State AI Laws and Establish a National AI Framework

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On December 11, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Ensuring A National Policy Framework For Artificial Intelligence.” The Order seeks to limit State regulation of AI that would interfere with Section 2,...more

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Limitation of use of PRC Enforceable Notarisation in Hong Kong

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Under Article 235 of the PRC Civil Procedure Law (2023 revision), an obligation under a qualifying instrument (such as a guarantee contract) may be made enforceable via notarisation instead of proceeding through litigation...more

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Privacy Litigation Report: October and November 2025 Takeaways

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In this post: (1) Selection of law in a choice-of-law forum can defeat privacy claims; (2) The Arizona Court of Appeals shuts down “spy pixel” litigation; (3) Multiple decisions provide guidelines as to when claims are likely...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Out-of-State Attorneys Have Room to Argue their Work for North Carolina Residents Does Not Create “Minimum Contacts”

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Drue Moore was co-founder of a company at the center of today’s high-finance college coaching carousel. Defendant Winthrop Intelligence, LLC used public records to aggregate university data, including coaching salaries, and...more

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German Regional Labor Issues Ruling on the Domestic Application of General Protection Against Dismissal

Technological progress offers employees and employers increasing opportunities for flexible employment arrangements. For example, employees can live in Germany and work from home for foreign companies without having to...more

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Exercising caution in relying on the ‘Obligors’ Agent’ construct

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Almost all credit agreements which are based on Loan Markets Association templates contain an ‘Obligors’ Agent’ provision, which is designed to help borrowers and finance parties to minimise the administrative burden of...more

Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

Food and Beverage Litigation and Regulatory Update - December 2025

A Call Your Mother trademark complaint, passage of a bill on whole milk in school lunches, a scientific research series on ultra-processed foods, and more....more

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Massachusetts Wage Act May Extend to Global Employees: What Employers Must Know

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Massachusetts Federal District Judge Indira Talwani recently issued a decision in the case of Serebrennikov v. Proxet Group LLC, holding that an internationally based employee has standing to bring a claim under the...more

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Recent Massachusetts Wage Act Decisions: Key Compliance Insights for Employers

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Massachusetts employers know the importance of complying with the state’s Wage Act, G.L. c. 149, § 148. Two recent court decisions offer fresh guidance to help employers achieve compliance, including around paying PTO upon...more

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New York Bankruptcy Court Rejects Challenge to Barnet Rule Permitting Foreign Debtors to Obtain Chapter 15 Recognition With Only...

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As chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code reaches its 20th anniversary, the volume of chapter 15 cases has increased significantly, and chapter 15 jurisprudence has rapidly matured. Even so, certain important issues are still...more

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