During the 2025 legislative session, Louisiana, Utah, and Texas all enacted statutes imposing new regulatory obligations on app store providers and software developers with respect to minors and, in the case of Utah, include a…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 7, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) overturned an over 70-year-old interpretation of the Internal Revenue Code via a federal court filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, which now…
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/ Constitutional Law, Elections & Politics, Nonprofit Law
In June 2025, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that Unicat Catalyst Technologies, LLC (Unicat), a Texas-based petrochemical company, had agreed to settle its potential civil liability…
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/ Business Organizations, International Law & Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions
On June 20, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion 25-04, in which it declined to approve a proposal by a medical device company (Requestor) to pay the costs…
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/ Health
On June 4, Colorado became the second state to adopt the Uniform Antitrust Premerger Notification Act (Act) when Governor Jared Polis signed SB25-126 into law. Like Washington’s version of the Act, Colorado’s new law imposes…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions
The annual filing (and fee payment) for applicable self-insured health plans and specified health insurance policies used to fund the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI fee) is due by Thursday, July 31, 2025…
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/ Health, Insurance, Taxation
The vast body of restrictive covenant law continues to develop across the country as states navigate refining their approach to non-compete and non-solicitation agreements with some expansions along with the general trend of…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
On June 2, the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Office of Hearing and Appeals (OHA) denied a size appeal filed by Veteran Elevator Solutions, LLC (VES) challenging the size of Bass, Berry & Sims’ client GD Resources, LLC…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting
The vast body of restrictive covenant law continues to develop across the country as states navigate refining their approach to non-compete and non-solicitation agreements with some expansions along with the general trend of…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
On June 20, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 1318 (Amendment) into law, amending Texas Business & Commerce Code Section 15.50(b), which is commonly thought of as the “Texas physician non-compete buyout statute.”…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Health, Labor & Employment Law
The Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Mentor-Protégé Program allows a large company to joint venture with a smaller firm without the two entities being treated as one for size purposes – so long as a joint venture agreement…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting
On June 11, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion 25-03, approving a proposal by a management services organization (MSO) and its friendly PC (Requestors)…
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/ Health
Effective wound care is critical for patients recovering from surgery or managing chronic or non-healing wounds. Advances in treatment have led to the development of skin substitutes—bioengineered or natural materials designed…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
On June 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an opinion that vacates the 2024 final rule that enhanced privacy protections for protected health information (PHI) related to reproductive…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Health, Privacy
On June 5, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision, overruling the Sixth Circuit’s “background circumstances” rule in employment discrimination cases. The background circumstances rule required members of a majority…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
