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California’s Climate Risk Disclosure Law Paused: What SB 261’s Injunction Means for Businesses

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California’s ambitious climate disclosure regime has hit a significant roadblock. On November 18, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted an injunction halting enforcement of SB 261, the Climate-Related Financial...more

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New York’s Highest Court Says FAPA Applies Retroactively

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Almost three years after New York’s “Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act” (FAPA) changed how the six-year time clock applicable to mortgage actions starts and stops, the state’s highest court resolved a heavily litigated...more

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Turning the Tide on the NLRB Trigger Bill: Preemption Prevails (for Now) Over New York

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The tide may be turning against any state law attempting to supplant the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board)....more

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U.S. Supreme Court to Review the Administration’s Birthright Citizenship Order

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On Dec. 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the legality of the Administration’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order, issued on January 20, 2025. Birthright Citizenship is currently guaranteed under the...more

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Removable At Will: D.C. Circuit Strips NLRB Members Of Job-Removal Protections

On December 5, 2025, a divided D.C. Circuit panel held that for-cause job-removal protections for members of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) and Merit Systems Protection Board are unconstitutional...more

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State Cannot Immunize Parties from Federal Civil Liability - SCOTUS Today

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While we U.S. Supreme Court practitioners and observers await decisions in several already-argued cases of great significance regarding the separation of powers and executive authority, the Court this morning issued a per...more

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Quick Guide: Independent Regulatory Agencies

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The US Supreme Court will soon decide the fate of Humphrey’s Executor v. United States and with it the president’s power to remove the heads of independent agencies. As the legal community awaits this ruling, there has been...more

International Lawyers Network

Diss-cussing Defamation: Creative Expression, Feuds, & Cross Words Across Borders

The legal intersection of music, poetry, and defamation presents a fascinating landscape where creativity collides with reputational interests. The recent decision in Graham v. UMG Recordings, Inc.—filed by Canadian rapper...more

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Wave of New CIT Lawsuits Filed to Preserve Rights to IEEPA Tariff Refunds

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In recent weeks, dozens of importers have filed protective lawsuits in the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) to preserve potential refund rights related to the tariffs at issue in Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, Inc. and...more

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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

Troutman Pepper Locke

Prepare for More Consent-Based Jurisdiction Laws After Illinois SB 328

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The new consent to jurisdiction statute for toxic torts, SB 328, is raising the stakes for life sciences, chemical, and other companies. SB 328 loosens the jurisdictional requirements in Illinois and paves the way for other...more

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What Every Multinational Should Know About … Preserving the Right to IEEPA Tariff Refunds

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Any company that has imported goods subject to the Trump administration’s fentanyl-based tariffs or reciprocal tariffs — i.e., the tariffs levied pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (the IEEPA tariffs)...more

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Just When You Thought It Could Not Get More Unanimous, The Court of Appeals Determines that FAPA’s Retroactive Application Does...

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Last Week in our BLOG article: “It’s Unanimous – The Fourth Department Joins the Other Departments and Confirms the Retroactive Application of FAPA,” we again discussed FAPA and noted that on November 25, 2025, the New York...more

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Arizona Supreme Court Upholds Constitutionality of Arizona's Judicial Retention Elections

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The Arizona Supreme Court unanimously upheld, in Knight v. Fontes, the constitutionality of Arizona’s judicial retention election scheme for the Arizona Court of Appeals, rejecting challenges under the Arizona Constitution’s...more

Foley Hoag LLP - State AG Insights

SCOTUS Considers Pre-Enforcement Challenges to State AG Subpoena: Oral Arguments in First Choice Women's Resource Centers, Inc. v....

Key Takeaways: The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin, Docket No. 24-781, on December 2, 2025, concerning the administrative subpoena sent by the New Jersey Attorney...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

Maine PUC Delays Enforcement of Net Energy Billing Statute While U.S. District Court Weighs Preliminary Injunction

As we previously reported, Maine recently enacted changes to its Net Energy Billing (“NEB”) program. Those changes, in part, reduce compensation for existing commercial and industrial NEB program participants and implement a...more

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Reduction of Working Hours and Its Implementation in Mexico

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The Government of Mexico on Dec. 3, 2025, announced the Amendment Project for the Implementation of the Reduction of the Working Hours, aimed at reducing the weekly work schedule in Mexico from 48 to 40 hours through a...more

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Reporting in Limbo: California’s Climate Disclosure Law on Pause

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We continue to closely follow the litigation brought by the U.S. and California Chambers of Commerce, the American Farm Bureau Federation, the Los Angeles County Business Federation, the Central Valley Business Federation,...more

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Disability Rights Advocates Challenge a New Florida Law Allowing Pregnant Women to Park in Accessible Parking Spaces

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A plaintiff with a mobility disability sued the Florida government claiming that pregnancy parking permits violate ADA Title II and the Rehabilitation Act. In July 2025, the Florida legislature passed a law allowing...more

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Food Litigation Watch: State Ingredient Warnings, Color-Additive Bans, and “Ultra-Processed” Claims

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Food companies face a rapidly shifting litigation landscape on three fronts: (1) state laws requiring on-package warnings for certain food ingredients (e.g., Louisiana S.B. 14; Texas S.B. 25), (2) state bans targeting...more

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Federal Court’s Decision Overturning Labor Board on Employee Political Speech Creates More Questions than Answers

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In a northeast suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Home Depot employees alleged that the company permitted racially intolerant behavior by co-workers in the wake of George Floyd’s murder in 2020, which occurred less than 7...more

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Bipartisan AGs Urge Congress to Shut Down Federal AI Preemption

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A bipartisan coalition of 36 AGs sent a letter to congressional leaders urging them to reject any effort to include a ban on state artificial intelligence (AI) laws in upcoming federal legislation, including reported attempts...more

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Democratic AGs Win Fight to Halt Dismantling of Four Federal Agencies

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A group of 21 Democratic AGs, co-led by New York AG Letitia James, Rhode Island AG Peter Neronha, and Hawaii AG Anne Lopez, won summary judgment in their lawsuit to stop the implementation of an Executive Order that would...more

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Zafirov One Year Later: Constitutional Challenges to the False Claims Act’s Qui Tam Provision

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Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle’s ground-breaking decision in Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates LLC and Justice Clarence Thomas’ solo dissent in US ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources Inc. have revived what many...more

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Prop 65 Roundup - November 2025

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California Proposition 65 Titanium Dioxide Warning Ruled Not-Scientifically Justified by a US District Court - A US district court issued a permanent injunction preventing California from enforcing Proposition 65 warning...more

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