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Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

CFPB receives rulemaking petition to remove Regulation C

On January 12, the CFPB received a petition from a nonprofit law firm urging the Bureau to rescind Regulation C, 12 C.F.R. § 1003, and Appendix B to Part 1003. ...more

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New York Regulates Large Artificial Intelligence Models

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On December 19, 2025, just eight days after President Trump issued an executive order titled “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence” to challenge burdensome state laws that regulate artificial...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

CFPB requests $145M from Fed after court order

On January 9, the CFPB notified the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that, in compliance with the court’s December 30, 2025, order, CFPB Acting Director Vought submitted the Bureau’s required funding request...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Ninth Circuit clarifies that plaintiffs do not need to prove a jury’s favor when demonstrating standing under the FCRA

On January 9, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit reversed a district court’s partial grant of summary judgment and remanded a class action under the FCRA. The appeal addressed whether both named and unnamed class...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Eleventh Circuit upholds Corporate Transparency Act reporting rules

Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit reversed a lower court’s ruling and upheld the constitutionality of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), a federal law requiring certain corporations, limited...more

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SCOTX 2025 Year-End Update

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The Texas Supreme Court recently wrapped up the 2025 part of its 2025-26 term, and based on raw opinion numbers, the Court’s pace slightly lags its most recent prior terms....more

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The Legal Profession Is Choosing Irrelevance

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The legal profession is obsessed with the wrong questions about AI. Every conference, every CLE, every firm retreat features the same hand-wringing: Which AI tool should we buy? How do we bill for AI-assisted work? Will...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

D.C. District Court dismisses challenges to SEC ‘follow-on’ industry ban

On January 8, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the SEC’s motion to dismiss a constitutional challenge to its follow-on administrative proceeding brought by two California-based investment advisers....more

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Beltway Buzz - January 2026 #2

The Beltway Buzz® is a weekly update summarizing labor and employment news from inside the Beltway and clarifying how what’s happening in Washington, D.C., could impact your business....more

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Initial Reactions to the Search of a Journalist’s Residence

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On Wednesday morning, FBI agents searched the home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson as part of a leak investigation — an exceptionally rare and notable occurrence given the potential impact on the activities of the...more

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Ninth Circuit Invalidates California’s Urban Open-Carry Ban in Baird v. Bonta

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On January 2, 2026, the Ninth Circuit held that California’s near-statewide prohibition on open carry — applicable in counties with populations over 200,000 and covering roughly 95% of Californians — violates the Second...more

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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