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The ‘Lost Year’ at the NLRB: How a Lack of Quorum Stalled Change in 2025

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As 2025 draws to a close, employers hoping for change in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) precedent have confronted a frustrating reality: the absence of an operational quorum has effectively frozen the agency’s...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Texas Settles Constitutional Challenge to the Texas Mini-TCPA: What This Means

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Are you sending marketing text messages or placing telemarketing calls to individuals in Texas? If so, then you’ve probably been tracking the amendments to the Texas mini-TCPA, which took effect on September 1, 2025. Below we...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Federal Court Enjoins DEI and Gender Executive Orders

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The City of Seattle recently succeeded in securing a partial injunction against the Trump Administration’s enforcement of two executive orders (EOs) under which the Administration threatened to withhold millions in federal...more

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Halted: Federal Judge Stops Enforcement of New York’s ‘NLRB Trigger Bill’

On November 26, 2025, a New York federal judge granted Amazon’s bid for a preliminary injunction barring the enforcement of recent amendments to the Empire State’s State Employment Relations Act (“SERA”) that would have...more

Snell & Wilmer

Supreme Court to Decide Whether Federal “Election Day” Statutes Preempt State Mail‑In Ballot Deadlines

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The United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has granted review of Watson v. Republican National Committee, No. 24-1260, a case stemming from Mississippi that examines the interaction between federal election-day statutes and...more

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New Jersey Bans “Captive Audience” Meetings

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On September 3, 2025, New Jersey enacted New Jersey Bill No. 4429, which took effect on December 2, 2025. The bill amends state law by expanding prohibitions on employers’ requiring employees to attend or listen to...more

Ladas & Parry LLP

Nationwide Injunctions: A Substantive View Considering Recent Headline Buzz Words

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Introduction - Nationwide injunctions - Comparing the June 27, 2025 Supreme Court Trump v. CASA decision to a Seventh Circuit decision in Spring, 2025, Republic v. BBK underscores the distinction between the...more

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Guideposts for Municipal Conservation Commissions: Lessons from Recent Cases

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Wetlands permitting disputes resolved in the last year provide stark reminders and cautionary tales about Conservation Commission authority.  The Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act (the “Act”) authorizes Conservation...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

Lawsuit Challenges Racial + Ethnic ‘Social Disadvantage’ Presumption in SBA and Other Federal Supplier Diversity Programs

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On Nov. 17, 2025, Revier Technologies, Inc. and Young America’s Foundation (YAF) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana seeking to invalidate the Small Business Administration (SBA)...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Federal Appeals Court Rules Discharge of Teacher by Public University for Far-right Views Violates the First Amendment

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Jason Jorjani v. New Jersey Institute of Technology, et al., 151 F.4th 135, 2025 WL 2586673 (3d. Cir. 2025)(The U.S Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which includes Pennsylvania, overruled a district court decision that...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Virginia’s Vapor Product Directory Challenged in Federal Court

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Earlier this fall, a small manufacturer and retailer (the Plaintiffs) sued Virginia Attorney General (AG) Jason Miyares and Tax Commissioner James Alex (the Defendants) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of...more

Phelps Dunbar

FinCEN’s Real Estate Reporting Rule: Prepare for Compliance Changes in 2026

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) finalized a landmark rule that will reshape compliance obligations for professionals involved in residential real estate transactions. This new regulation is designed to...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

New York State's Effort to Replace the NLRB Is Enjoined

On Nov. 26, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York issued a preliminary injunction barring New York State from enforcing the recent legislative amendment that gave the New York Public Employment...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

No Reset, No Relief: NY Court of Appeals Confirms FAPA’s Reach

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On November 25, the New York Court of Appeals issued a pair of decisions — Art. 13 LLC and Van Dyke — that provide definitive guidance on the hotly contested and heavily litigated issue of the Foreclosure Abuse Prevention...more

Vedder Price

Beware Plaintiffs Threatening the First Amendment – Colorado PTFA Listing Provision Litigation Seeks to Muzzle Freedom of Speech

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What was intended as a safeguard against abusive telemarketing is being twisted into a potentially far more sweeping restriction, raising serious First Amendment concerns for corporate communicators of people’s contact...more

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N.C. Court of Appeals Vacates Conviction for Disrupting an Official Meeting

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In State v. Barthel, the N.C. Court of Appeals vacated William Barthel’s convictions of disrupting an official meeting and resisting a public officer. At a special meeting of the Avery County Board of Commissioners,...more

Nossaman LLP

Compliance Notes - Vol. 6, Issue 24

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RECENT LOBBYING, ETHICS & CAMPAIGN FINANCE UPDATES - Campaign Finance & Lobbying Compliance Fugees rapper Pras Michel was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for running a years-long, multimillion-dollar foreign...more

Morgan Lewis

Campbell’s Stipulated Order Reinforces Trademark Protection in Political Speech

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The Campbell’s Company and CSC Brands LP recently resolved a trademark infringement lawsuit against Michigan congressional candidate Shelby Nicole Campbell and her “Campbell for Congress” campaign, which used imagery closely...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Analysis and Implications of New York High Court Recent Rulings Concerning Constitutionality of the Foreclosure Abuse Prevention...

In two long-awaited rulings yesterday, Article 13 LLC v. Ponce De Leon Fed. Bank and Van Dyke v. U.S. Bank, Nat’l Ass’n, the New York Court of Appeals addressed the constitutionality of the retroactive application of certain...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

State-Level Foreign Land Ownership Bans Survive (For Now) as Circuit Courts Focus on Procedural Issues

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Last month saw notable developments in the Eleventh and Fifth Circuits regarding challenges to laws in Florida and Texas, respectively, that prohibit certain foreign nationals and companies from acquiring real property within...more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - December 2025 - Taxing Imports: Tracing the Role of Tariffs in U.S. Economic Policy

In the Chinese zodiac calendar, 2025 is the year of the snake. The snake is said to represent wisdom and strategy. As it occasionally sheds its skin, it is also said to represent a change or an inflection point. Whether...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

District Court Denies Motion to Dismiss Challenge to Maryland’s Kids Code

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Key point: The court held that NetChoice’s complaint adequately states constitutional claims against Maryland’s age-appropriate design code act and allowed NetChoice’s lawsuit to continue but did not rule on the merits of the...more

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Challenge to Mandatory Retirement Age for New York Judges Rejected

On November 24, 2025, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank denied a request by state court judges to invalidate New York State’s mandatory retirement age for judges.  The plaintiffs are all sitting Justices of the New...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Binance v. OSC: Court of Appeal Addresses Scope of Charter Review in Securities Investigations

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In its recent decision in Binance Holdings Limited v. Ontario Securities Commission, 2025 ONCA 751, the Ontario Court of Appeal has clarified the limits of the Ontario Securities Commission’s (the OSC) powers under the...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Bringing Sexy Back? Italy Says No, for Now - Published by Kattison Avenue | Issue 15

Italian parliament debates free expression and the protection of civil rights in advertising - Is banning a sexually suggestive ad considered viewpoint discrimination, or a defense of women's civil rights? In October,...more

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