Peptides are the product du jour and most recently top of mind at the Food & Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”). Long relegated to the corners of biohacker and body building chatrooms, peptides have rapidly entered the…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
On June 9, 2026, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) issued a formal opinion concluding that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) longstanding guidelines on disparate-impact liability…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
Over more than three decades of defending claims, litigating False Claims Act cases, and helping clients avoid suspensions and debarments, my law firm colleagues and I have learned a fair amount about risk and what makes…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting
On 8 June 2026, the Council of the EU gave its final approval to a new Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Screening Regulation, completing the legislative overhaul of the EU’s 2019 framework (the European Parliament had already…
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/ International Law & Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions
On June 10, the CFTC (by the vote of its sole Commissioner) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would establish a framework for determining when event contracts involving gaming, war, terrorism, assassination, or…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking
On June 8, the DFPI announced that it had entered into a consent order with a commercial equipment lender, requiring the company to pay $4 million penalty and provide borrower refunds. According to the DFPI, the lender allegedly…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
On May 19, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster signed S. 163, establishing a regulatory framework for digital assets and cryptocurrency activities in the state. The law creates protections for the custody of digital assets,…
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/ Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology, Securities Law
On June 10, the White House announced that President Trump nominated Brian Johnson to serve as Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for a five-year term. The nomination was sent to the Senate for confirmation…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
Insurance and insurance-adjacent transactions—particularly those involving managing general agents (MGAs), program administrators, third-party administrators (TPAs), brokers, and insurtech platforms—do not typically fail because…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Insurance, Mergers & Acquisitions
On June 4, 2026, the New York legislature passed the One Fair Price Act, which, if signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul, would prohibit businesses from using surveillance pricing: a growing practice in which companies use…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection, Privacy
On Wednesday, May 27, 2026, the California State Assembly passed Assembly Bill 1776 (AB 1776), sending the bill to be voted on by the California State Senate. The bill would substantially expand the scope and enforcement…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA” or the “Agency”) issued a new draft guidance on drug and device manufacturer communications with payors, formulary committees, and similar entities (the “Draft Guidance”)…
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/ Administrative Law, Health
Welcome to Health-e Law, Sheppard’s podcast exploring the fascinating health tech topics and trends of the day. In the second part of this two-part episode, Cora Han, Chief Health Data Officer for University of California…
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/ Health
The 2026 changes to the Equal Pay Act double available damages and expand the scope of compensation at issue in such a claim, as detailed in our prior update. Now that employers are no longer busy with annual evaluations, bonus…
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/ Civil Remedies, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
The Trump Administration has filed its FY2027 budget request for the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), and it reads less like a government spending document and more like a declaration of war on export violations. The…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
