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North Dakota Pore Space Redux

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North Dakota surface owners defeated the carbon-storage lobby’s effort to steal their interstices.*  In Northwest Landowners Association, et al, v. State of North Dakota et al, a district court declared a portion of the CO2...more

Goldberg Segalla

Corporate Speech and Climate Policy Collide: The Appeal at the Center of California’s Disclosure Laws

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In 2023, the California State Assembly approved two bills – SB 253 and SB 261 – as part of the state legislature’s climate accountability package. SB 253 mandates that public and private companies doing business in California...more

White & Case LLP

State AI laws under federal scrutiny: Key takeaways from the executive order establishing federal AI policy framework

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On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order titled “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence,” (“Executive Order 14365”) which establishes a federal policy aimed at addressing the...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

4 employment law shorts for the long weekend

The feds are hopping! I’ll keep this short so you can get to your long weekend. There have been four hot developments in employment law. Here’s the scoop: No. 1: "Are you or a loved one a white male? Call now for a...more

Cozen O'Connor

GOP AGs Support Letting States Chart the Course on Waterways

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A group of 20 Republican AGs, led by West Virginia AG J.B. McCuskey, submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers supporting the agencies’ updated definition of “waters of...more

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The 5th Cir. Will Reconsider Whether the PWFA Was Constitutionally Enacted

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Late yesterday, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the split panel opinion from August allowing enforcement of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) against the state of Texas. The issue is whether the U.S....more

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xAI Challenges California’s Training Data Transparency Act

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On December 29, 2025, xAI, the developer of the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok, filed a lawsuit seeking to invalidate California’s Generative Artificial Intelligence: Training Data Transparency Act (TDTA). ...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

The Supreme Court Update - January 14, 2026

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On January 14, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States issued three decisions: Barrett v. United States, No. 24-5774: This case addresses whether a defendant who commits a single act that violates two subsections of...more

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No Vacancy for Privacy: Five Hours After Checkout, the Fourth Amendment Checks Out in Pittsburgh

In United States v. Mendoza (2026 WL 61591), the Third Circuit held that a hotel guest does not retain a reasonable expectation of privacy in a hotel room five hours after checkout time, affirming the denial of a motion to...more

Mandelbaum Barrett PC

New York Cannabis Enforcement Is Shifting — and the Numbers Tell the Story

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Newly released year-end reports from the New York Office of Cannabis Management (OCM), highlighted by CannabisWire, show a clear shift in the state’s cannabis enforcement landscape....more

Haynes Boone

What’s Happening with Warnings on Texas Food Labels?

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In 2025, Texas became the first state in the U.S. to enact a labeling mandate for foods containing any of 44 specified ingredients as part of Senate Bill 25 (SB 25), the Make Texas Healthy Again Act. To recap, SB 25 requires...more

FBT Gibbons LLP

After Ninth Circuit’s SB 261 Oral Argument: Where First Amendment Line May Land for Climate-Risk Disclosure

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On January 9, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument in Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al. v. Sanchez, No. 25-5327 (9th Cir.), challenging California’s climate...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Blue-State Grantees Vindicated by Federal Court

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently issued a significant ruling in City of Saint Paul, Minnesota, et al. v. Christopher Wright, addressing constitutional constraints on executive agency conduct in...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

The Corporate Transparency Act: What Was Mostly Dead May Be Recovering?

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Near Death Experience - Stick a fork in it. It’s kaput. At least that’s what many of us thought; and, for all intents and purposes, it was. However, like a scene from a bad zombie movie, the corpse-like Corporate...more

DLA Piper

SEC Industry Bars Post-Jarkesy

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United States District Judge Christopher Cooper has rejected a post-Jarkesy challenge to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) authority to impose industry bars through administrative proceedings. In Michael...more

King & Spalding

Ninth Circuit Hears Oral Argument on California’s SB 253 and SB 261 Climate Disclosure Rules

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The Ninth Circuit heard oral argument on January 9, 2026, following its November 18, 2025 order that enjoined enforcement of SB 261 (the “Climate-Related Financial Risk Act”) but allowed SB 253 (the “Climate Corporate Data...more

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Enforcement of West Virginia’s Food Dye Ban Temporarily Halted

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To the relief of food manufacturers rushing to find natural substitutes for synthetic food dyes, a federal court has temporarily halted the enforcement of West Virginia’s House Bill 2354 (HB 2354). HB 2354 banned several...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Federal Shutdowns and Workplace Law: Navigating Legal Uncertainty

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In the wake of this country’s longest federal shutdown, federal courts were facing unprecedented decision-making whether to stay civil proceedings implicating federal employees and agencies. ...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Tariffs on Trial: The IEEPA Challenge and the Future of Executive Trade Authority

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The Supreme Court’s pending review of President Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose broad-based import tariffs is not merely a fight over one tariff schedule. It is a stress test...more

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Ninth Circuit Hears Oral Argument in Challenge to California Climate Disclosure Laws SB 261 and SB 253; No Ruling Yet

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On January 9, 2026, a three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument in a challenge to California Senate Bills (SB) 261 and 253 in Chamber of Commerce v. Sanchez, No. 25-5327 (9th...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

Transportation at SCOTUS: Arguments on NJ Transit Immunity from Lawsuits in NY and PA Will be Heard by the U.S. Supreme Court...

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The U.S. Supreme Court kicks off the latest session with transportation issues early up on the calendar. On January 14, 2026, the High Court will hear oral arguments on whether New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) can...more

Holland & Knight LLP

What to Watch for as Washington State Crafts a Millionaire's Tax

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Entering 2026, Washington joins the growing list of states looking to implement new taxes on the "rich" – those earning more than $1 million per year. In December 2025, Gov. Bob Ferguson signaled his approval for a new 9.9...more

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Rescission

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The annual appropriations process requires Congress to pass, and the President to sign, funding bills into law by the end of each federal fiscal year. While Article I of the Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Update: Federal Court Enjoins Texas App Store Accountability Act

A federal judge in the Western District of Texas granted preliminary injunctions (here and here) blocking enforcement of the state’s App Store Accountability Act (the “Act”), preventing the law from taking effect on January...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Federal Government Attacks State and Local Energy Regulations

In 2024, Washington citizens voted to prohibit the legislature from banning natural gas, by adopting Initiative 2066. The efficacy of that vote was immediately challenged on appeal by a variety of clean energy and...more

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