Texas has become a focal point for large-load growth, driven in meaningful part by hyperscale data centers, artificial intelligence infrastructure, and other electricity-intensive digital infrastructure projects. That growth is…
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/ Energy & Utilities
On April 14, 2026, Nebraska’s Governor approved Legislative Bill 921, enacting the Nebraska Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (“Nebraska WARN”). While the new law borrows concepts from federal WARN, Nebraska WARN…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
Updates at a Glance:
TPS El Salvador EAD Extension On April 28, USCIS updated its TPS website. It now notes that individuals with TPS-related EADs showing a facial expiration date of March 9, 2025 are authorized to work…
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/ Labor & Employment Law, Immigration Law
On February 25, 2026, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued proposed regulations implementing Section 338 of SECURE 2.0, which generally requires defined contribution plan administrators to furnish at least one benefit statement…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
When the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CalPrivacy”) announced a $1.35 million settlement in September 2025 – the largest CCPA penalty to date – one of the itemized grievances stood out for any practitioner who has…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The lesson from the PocketOS database deletion is not that agentic AI is dangerous. It’s about governance and controls.
You have probably seen some version of the headline by now: “AI Agent Deletes Company’s Entire Database…
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/ Science, Computers, & Technology
Tips from Seyfarth is a blog series for employers, and their in-house lawyers and HR, payroll, and compensation professionals, in the food, beverage, and hospitality sector. We curate wage and hour compliance “tips” to keep this…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection
Accommodation is not a free pass from discipline or termination. In Lewis v. Indiana Department of Transportation, No. 25-1776 (7th Cir. April 22, 2026), the Seventh Circuit reaffirmed that employers do not violate federal…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, the DEA has set up a website for medical marijuana applications. The IRS plans to offer tax guidance for…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Taxation
As Virginia’s legislative season nears its close, we look at the final versions of the employment laws that have recently been or are expected to be signed by the Governor. We previously previewed significant employment…
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/ Civil Rights, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
The group discussed recent transactional considerations under New York’s 421 a(16) property tax abatement program, with particular focus on construction completion deadlines. Projects relying on 421 a(16) benefits must generally…
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/ Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential
As fearsome as Godzilla has proven to be over the decades, the indomitable kaiju may have found its foil in Japanese copyright law. A Tokyo court recently found several individuals guilty of violating Japanese law for…
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/ Criminal Law, Intellectual Property
The Second District reversed an order denying a motion to compel arbitration, holding that multiple onboarding documents reflected a valid and enforceable agreement to arbitrate individual employment and PAGA claims, and that a…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
On 4/20/2026, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council issued guidance and Revolutionary Federal Acquisition Regulation (“FAR”) Overhaul revisions to implement Executive Order 14398, dated March 26, 2026…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Contracting
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Obviously, the big news this week is federal rescheduling. But that’s not all! We have an update on the situation in…
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/ Administrative Law, Agriculture, Commercial Law & Contracts, Elections & Politics
