Our podcast show being released today is part 2 of a repurposed interactive webinar that we presented on March 24 featuring two of the leading journalists who cover the CFPB - Jon Hill from Law360 and Evan Weinberger from…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
At the request of both sides of the lawsuit, a federal judge has voided the CFPB’s credit card late fee rule…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
The 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act, also known as the Dole Act, was signed into law by President Biden on January 2, 2025. This legislation expands employment protections for veterans under the…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
In a significant policy shift, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a memorandum titled “Ending Regulation By Prosecution,” on April 7, 2025, signaling a change in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) approach to digital…
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/ Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
On March 27, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted a nationwide temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing the Department of Labor (DOL) from requiring federal contractors and…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
Legislation to prohibit so-called “trigger leads” in the homebuying process once again has been reintroduced in the House and Senate…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Elections & Politics, Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Residential
This episode is part of our “Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation” series, where we discuss trends in higher education consolidation and closures, and outline common characteristics of at-risk…
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/ Education Law, Finance & Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions, Taxation
A three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently issued a decision in Kuklenski v. Medtronic USA, Inc., No. 24-1310 (8th Cir. Apr. 9, 2025), finding that the definition of “employee” in the…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Republicans on the House Financial Services Financial Institutions Subcommittee have sent Acting CFPB Director Russell Vought a letter calling for the CFPB to withdraw a wide variety of final and proposed rules…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Elections & Politics, Finance & Banking
On Friday, April 11, a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals modified Judge Jackson’s preliminary injunction order of March 28 pending appeal, as follows..…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection, Elections & Politics, Finance & Banking
Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have sent letters to financial regulators asking them to rescind a variety of measures the regulators issued during the Biden Administration…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Elections & Politics, Finance & Banking
Chief Justice John Roberts has issued a temporary stay of a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that barred the Trump Administration from firing members of two independent agency boards…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Elections & Politics
The resolution to nullify the CFPB’s overdraft rule now is in President Trump’s hands…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Elections & Politics, Finance & Banking, Consumer Protection
Our podcast show being released today is Part 1 of a repurposed interactive webinar that we presented on March 24, featuring two of the leading journalists who cover the CFPB - Jon Hill from Law360 and Evan Weinberger from…
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/ Finance & Banking, Consumer Protection
On March 20, 2025, the IRS updated its guidance to employers that claimed the employee retention credit (ERC). The updated guidance materially differs from prior IRS guidance of how and when employers should report the income…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Taxation
