Whether and when to notify employees about a hotel sale is often overlooked during hotel acquisitions and is often viewed as solely an HR matter. In practice, however, compliance with mandatory employee notification requirements…
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/ Business Organizations, Labor & Employment Law, Mergers & Acquisitions
On May 5, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed a significant change to the Exchange Act periodic reporting framework that would allow U.S. domestic reporting companies to elect semiannual interim…
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/ Business Organizations, Securities Law
On April 28, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a final order (the “Order”) increasing the dollar amount thresholds to be a “qualified client” under Rule 205-3 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940,…
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/ Finance & Banking, Securities Law
The U.S. Court of International Trade (“CIT”) held on Thursday, May 7, 2026, that the Trump Administration’s imposition of a global 10% “import surcharge” on nearly all U.S. imports is unsupported by Section 122 of the Trade Act…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, International Law & Trade
Welcome to Dorsey’s Energy Law: Month in Review. We provide this update to our clients to identify significant developments in the previous month…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities
Perhaps lost in all of the commentary and handwringing over AI and what to do with the works it creates is how we care for copies of human-authored works…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Intellectual Property
The U.S. Department of Justice’s (the “Department”) Civil Division recently announced a new anti-fraud initiative dubbed the Fraud Oversight through Careful Use of Statistics (FOCUS) initiative. FOCUS is designed to formalize…
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/ Science, Computers, & Technology, Government Contracting
On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States issued two decisions:
Louisiana v. Callais, No. 24-109: This decision involving two consolidated appeals addresses whether the Voting Rights Act can provide a…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Elections & Politics, Nonprofit Law
Michael Jordan is best known for his offensive skills, but his defense was an underrated aspect of his play; he was 1998 Defensive Player of the Year, after all. So it’s fitting that he features prominently in a recent…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Intellectual Property
On April 22, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States issued two decisions:
Hencely v. Fluor Corp., No. 24-924: This case addresses whether the Federal Tort Claims Act’s (“FTCA”) combatant-activities exception, which…
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/ Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Government Contracting, Military Law
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Paul Atkins has been vocal about his desire to make IPOs great again. It would take a serious amount of rulemaking and potentially even statutory changes to reshuffle the mix of…
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/ Business Organizations, Securities Law
On April 17, 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States issued one decision:
Chevron USA Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, No. 24-813: This case addresses the scope of the federal officer removal statute, which…
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/ Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
On March 31, USDA announced that the U.S. Forest Service will relocate its headquarters from Washington, D.C. to Salt Lake City, bringing roughly 260 positions and the agency’s top leadership to the Intermountain West…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law
The concept of a regulatory sandbox is becoming a familiar one. When a recent White House executive order laid out a comprehensive legislative framework for artificial intelligence, it included a call for Congress to…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology
On March 26, the Trump administration issued an Executive Order titled “Addressing DEI Discrimination by Federal Contractors” that represents perhaps the most significant operationalization to date of the administration’s…
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/ Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
