Seyfarth recently hosted a webinar entitled ‘Managing Cross-Border Sexual Harassment Investigations in Australia and Asia’, addressing the practical considerations that employers should be aware of when investigating allegations…
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/ Civil Rights, Conflict of Laws, International Law & Trade, Labor & Employment Law, Privacy
The California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) has made it abundantly clear: privacy compliance isn’t just about publishing the right disclosures – it’s about whether your systems actually work. On May 6, the agency fined…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The 2025 New York State budget includes a provision that reduces the potential damages available to plaintiffs for violation of the weekly pay requirement of the New York Labor Law…
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/ Civil Remedies, Labor & Employment Law
In the ongoing narrative of the Trump administration’s attempt to repeal the Humanitarian Parole program for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela (CHNV), on Monday, May 5th, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Elections & Politics, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
Upstream oil and gas producers and oilfield service companies are facing new uncertainties from recently imposed federal tariffs. In early 2025, the US expanded tariffs on a broad range of imports, suddenly increasing costs for…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Elections & Politics, Energy & Utilities, International Law & Trade
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, the Pennsylvania legislature takes up an adult-use legalization bill. A new DEA nominee indicates he would…
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/ Administrative Law, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Elections & Politics
“Curiosity killed the cat” is a proverb “used to warn of the dangers of unnecessary investigation or experimentation” (Wikipedia) or is an idiom “said to warn someone not to ask too many questions about something” (Cambridge…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
On May 2, 2025, a federal district court in Washington, DC declined to issue a preliminary injunction blocking provisions of recent Executive Orders (EO 14151, EO 14168, and EO 14173) which are focused on unlawful DEI programs…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
With the FTC Ban on non-competes essentially dead in the Courts of Appeal, various states and agencies have taken up the mantle to further limit or expand the use of restrictive covenants for certain populations in 2025…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In 2018, Washington enacted a Fair Chance Act, requiring covered employers to wait until after considering an applicant to be “otherwise qualified” for the position at issue to inquire about or consider criminal history when…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Privacy
Two recent New York district court decisions underscore how serial website accessibility plaintiffs are encountering greater challenges to demonstrate their standing to pursue ADA claims in federal court…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Communications & Media Law, Constitutional Law
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, the Congressional Cannabis Caucus is hoping to lift the ban on cannabis research. A DC dispensary heard from…
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/ Administrative Law, Agriculture, Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, Elections & Politics
The FTC issued a Decision and Order prohibiting accessibility plug-in/Widget vendor AccessiBe from making misleading claims and to pay $1 million…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Rights, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Science, Computers, & Technology
After weeks of anticipation and brewing legal challenges to the impending Missouri Earned Paid Sick Time Law, which is still scheduled to go into effect Thursday, May 1, 2025, employers received some clarity this week from the…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
Seyfarth’s real estate team provides a bird's-eye view of the current state of commercial real estate throughout the country—highlighting which markets and major asset types are active, slowing down, or experiencing shifts…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
