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Supreme Court Puts Brakes on Interstate Sovereign Immunity for State-Created Corporations

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In Galette v. New Jersey Transit Corporation, 146 S. Ct. 854 (2026), the United States Supreme Court held that New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) is not an arm of the state of New Jersey and is therefore not entitled...more

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OCC and FDIC Issue Reputational Risk Final Rule

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On April 7, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued a final rule to remove “reputation risk” from their supervisory and examination frameworks and...more

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Intuit v. FTC Reshapes Deceptive Advertising Enforcement Authority

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On March 20, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the administrative adjudication of deceptive advertising claims by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) violates the constitutional separation of powers, which grants...more

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Multistate Coalition Defends Law Firms in Trump EO Appeals

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A coalition of 21 AGs led by Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Washington filed an amicus brief in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals backing four law firms challenging what the states describe as retaliatory executive...more

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Compliance Notes - Vol. 7, Issue 7

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RECENT LOBBYING, ETHICS & CAMPAIGN FINANCE UPDATES - Campaign Finance & Lobbying Compliance - Colorado: A federal judge upheld Colorado’s individual campaign contribution limits as constitutional on March 26, 2026, ruling...more

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DEI in Higher Education: Courts Push Back, Enforcement Pushes Forward

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Last year, higher education institutions were met with executive orders, a "Dear Colleague" letter, state and local legislation, and agency guidance that impacted their efforts related to diversity, equity, and inclusion...more

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First Circuit Confirms Mootness Limits Post‑Janus Union Dues Litigation

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In a significant and practical win for public employers, the First Circuit reaffirmed a core constitutional limit on federal courts: once challenged conduct stops, affected employees are made whole, and institutional policies...more

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Georgia Supreme Court Upholds Direct Sales Ban Under State Dealer Law, but Ties Regulatory Authority to Legislative Purpose

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The Georgia Supreme Court recently upheld the constitutionality of Georgia’s direct sales ban under the Georgia’s Motor Vehicle Franchise Practices Act but clarified that the constitutional protection afforded under the Act...more

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Athletes and Political Speech: The Legal Landscape and Considerations for Employers

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In February, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych from the Milan Cortina Olympics for refusing to change his helmet honoring athletes who had died during...more

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FTC sends debanking letters to PayPal, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard

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FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson has sent letters to four major financial services providers warning them that they may not engage in debanking—disqualifying potential and current customers from receiving services based on...more

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Defending Human Agency in the Age of Agentic AI

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Love AI or hate it, people are definitely talking about it and—more importantly—to it. The artificial intelligence governance discussion largely concerns the provenance of its inputs (training data, scraping and...more

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Michigan Federal Court Narrows Roku Privacy Suit to COPPA Claims

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A federal court in Michigan significantly narrowed Michigan Attorney General (AG) Dana Nessel’s privacy and consumer protection case against Roku, Inc. (Roku) dismissing all non-Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act...more

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The Recycling Reckoning: Oregon’s EPR Law Hits a Federal Roadblock—and the Rest of the Country Is Taking Notes

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A federal court in Oregon has done something no U.S. court has done before: paused enforcement of a state extended producer responsibility (EPR) law on constitutional grounds—though notably, the pause applies only to members...more

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Court Refuses to Pause Oregon's EPR Program Against Other Producers; California's EPR Program Moves Forward

Developments in Oregon’s extended producer responsibility (EPR) program, the Plastics Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act (Act), continue to unfold, including an April 6 2026 order clarifying the limited scope of a...more

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Colorado Packaging EPR Program Faces Legal Challenge from Lubricant Trade Association

Colorado’s packaging EPR program is now the subject of a new legal challenge, after the Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association (ILMA) filed suit in the State of Colorado’s District Court for the City and County of...more

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IEEPA Tariff Refunds: Who Really Owns the Money?

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Since the Supreme Court invalidated the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (“IEEPA”) tariffs, refunds are on everyone’s mind.  Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, 607 U.S. ___, No. 24-1287 (2026).  Recent estimates...more

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ICYMI: Developments in Anthropic Challenges to Department of War Supply Chain Risk “Designation”

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Federal contractor Anthropic PBC was recently the subject of social media “directives” issued by the President and the Secretary of War that sought to designate the company a supply chain risk following unsuccessful...more

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Supreme Court Holds that Colorado’s Law Banning Conversion Therapy Infringed on Counselor’s First Amendment Rights

The Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision in Chiles v. Salazar addressed a constitutional challenge to a Colorado law that prohibited licensed mental health counselors from engaging in “conversion therapy” with minors....more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

CFPB submits $75.8M budget request to Fed for third quarter 2026

On March 30, the CFPB notified the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon that its acting director had submitted a $75.8 million funding request to the Fed for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026. The notice states...more

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FinCEN’s Residential Real Estate Rulemaking Vacated

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Recently, a federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas vacated FinCEN’s residential real rule (the “Rule”) finding that the agency exceeded its statutory authority under the Bank Secrecy Act (the “BSA”). Flowers Title...more

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Supreme Court Hears Argument on Birthright Citizenship Executive Order and Discusses Citizenship of Native Americans

The Supreme Court heard oral argument in Trump v. Barbara, a case challenging the Trump Administration’s executive order seeking to narrow birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Citizenship Clause declares...more

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Hot Topics in International Trade - April 2026 - Supreme Court Clarifies Separation of Powers in IEEPA Tariffs Decision

OVERVIEW The Supreme Court’s Feb 20, 2026, decision holding that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) (50 U.S.C. §§ 1701–1707) does not authorize the President to impose tariffs is best understood not as a...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Trump Administration Releases National AI Policy Framework

The Trump administration released its National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence on March 20, 2026, outlining recommendations intended to establish a nationally uniform approach to AI regulation (the “Framework”)....more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

“Not an Arm of New Jersey”: Judge Gardephe Denies Motion for Summary Judgment Based on Eleventh Amendment Immunity

On March 30, 2026, United States District Judge Paul G. Gardephe (S.D.N.Y) denied Defendant New Jersey Transit Corporation’s (“NJ Transit”) motion for summary judgment on all of Plaintiff Bytemark, Inc.’s (“Bytemark”) claims....more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade April 2026 - AI Legislative Framework Proposed by the White House

On March 20, 2026, the Trump Administration announced that it, “is committed to winning the AI race to usher in a new era of human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security for the American people“ (Fact...more

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