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Ohio is currently at the center of one of the most significant shifts in name, image, and likeness (“NIL”) rights for high school student-athletes. After years of focusing on NIL in college athletics, the most consequential...more
The Product Liability & Mass Tort Monitor is a monthly newsletter delivering critical updates, data insights and actionable strategies for navigating the complexities of product liability and mass tort litigation. This...more
On April 3, the Illinois attorney general filed a combined principal and response brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, urging the court to affirm the district court’s ruling that the Illinois Interchange...more
Temporary restrictions on data center development are gaining traction nationwide, but many moratoria may be vulnerable to statutory, procedural, and constitutional challenges....more
On February 20, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, Inc., holding that certain tariffs imposed pursuant to the International Emergency Economic...more
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's (FINRA) enforcement framework is again under scrutiny, as Boustead Securities, Sutter Securities, and former CEO Keith Moore filed a constitutional challenge in the U.S. District...more
On April 7, an Arizona-based Money Services Business (MSB) filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona challenging FinCEN’s March 2026 geographic targeting order (GTO) imposing additional...more
Washington State recently enacted an income tax, effective January 1, 2028, on earners with income in excess of $1 million, which has left critics speculating that this tax will rapidly expand to other taxpayers in future...more
The Supreme Court confirmed that the new mining concessions regime through public bidding and with limited extension is constitutional and does not affect vested rights. For the industry, this implies that there is no...more
The White House’s March 24, 2026 legislative recommendations on artificial intelligence (the National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence) mark a notable shift in U.S. AI policy. Building on Executive Order 14365,...more
Find the week’s updates on 340B litigation to help you stay in the know on how 340B cases are developing across the country. Each week we comb through the dockets of more than 50 340B cases to provide you with a quick summary...more
On March 19, 2026, in Jones Bluff, LLC v. Commissioner, 166 T.C. No. 6 (2026), the Tax Court held that a partnership could not assert due process claims to invalidate an IRS adjustment on behalf of its partners under the...more
We are closely tracking the newly released Senate Bill 254 (Becker, 2025) Study Report, prepared by the California Earthquake Authority (CEA) as Administrator of the Wildfire Fund. While the report outlines several pathways...more
While California’s wiretapping statute, the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), tends to dominate the conversation about the recent rise in wiretapping litigation, plaintiffs are also turning to other states’...more
Classic equity doctrine. By the 1940s, it was settled law that a funded revocable inter vivos trust with multiple beneficiaries was a true trust. See Nat’l Shawmut Bnk v. Joy, 53 N.E.2nd 113 (1944). It was not merely a failed...more
Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives announced in March 2026 their intention to bring a bill to the floor to extend, for 18 months, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's (FISA) Section 702...more
ironSource Ltd. v. Digital Turbine, Inc., Appeal No. 2024-1831 (Fed. Cir. April 7, 2026) - In its only precedential patent opinion last week, the Federal Circuit dismissed an appeal from a post-grant review in which...more
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The Town of Carrboro is a small place with big legal ambitions about combatting climate change. It’s been hard at work seeking to reduce its own carbon emissions, and reports adoption of policies it hoped would encourage...more
The White House proposed significant budget cuts to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), reducing its funding by nearly 17% for fiscal year 2027 to the lowest level since 2007....more
The qui tam provision of the False Claims Act has turned whistleblowing into a $6.8 billion-a-year industry. But now, the FCA's constitutionality is under question. Host Matt Adams is joined by his Fox Rothschild...more
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The Securities and Exchange Commission quietly changed the name of the compliance and disclosure interpretations to corporation finance interpretations (CFIs)....more
Below is this week’s congressional update by BakerHostetler’s Federal Policy team. We’ll continue to post in weeks when both chambers of Congress are in session....more