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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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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