With less than one month until the presidential election, health care policy issues are at the forefront of voters’ minds, including issues around drug pricing, federal research funding and reproductive rights…
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/ Elections & Politics, Health
As part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law in August 2022, Congress passed a three-year extension of enhanced subsidies for individuals purchasing their own health coverage on the Affordable Care Act (ACA)…
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/ Elections & Politics, Health, Insurance
Beyond their immediate purpose of resolving procurement disputes, bid protest decisions of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims are valuable in two other ways. First, these rulings…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting
On Oct. 1, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) participated in the first and only vice-presidential debate. The event took place in New York City and was hosted by CBS without an in-person audience. The candidates…
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/ Elections & Politics, Government Contracting, Law Practice Products & Services
Since 2012, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has provided patent applicants and examiners an opportunity to continue collaborative prosecution after a final rejection has been received through the After…
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/ Administrative Law, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
On Aug. 28–29, 2024, approximately 50 people gathered at the University of California San Diego Extension to learn about the California State Water Resources Control Board’s (State Water Board) reissuance of the Construction…
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/ Administrative Law, Construction Law, Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
On Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, the House and Senate passed the Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (H.R. 9747), or the three-month continuing resolution (CR) until Dec. 20, 2024. The CR was adopted by a vote of…
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/ Constitutional Law, Elections & Politics
As we near the end of the 118th Congress and head into a lame duck session postelection, policymakers are eyeing opportunities to reauthorize health programs that expire in December and also pass larger health reforms before the…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Health
On Sept. 17, 2024, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Board met to finalize an updated approach to increase scrutiny of bank mergers, particularly those that would result in a bank with over $100 billion in assets…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Finance & Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions
On Thursday, Sept. 19, Gov. Newsom signed a package of housing bills designed to address the housing crisis affecting California. Below is a brief summary of key bills…
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/ Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
Recent money laundering-related enforcement actions targeting casinos by both the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and state regulators suggest increasing scrutiny of anti-money laundering (“AML”) compliance efforts within the…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking
The Office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released a request for comments on several proposed actions included in the final modifications of the Section 301 tariffs. On Sept. 13, USTR finalized several tariff increases on…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
As this fall’s election approaches, headwinds have been brewing in DC and state legislatures for private equity health care dealmaking, many of them with bipartisan support. While a key Senate committee scrutinized patient care…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health, Mergers & Acquisitions
On Sept. 17, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published guidance for federal and state consumer protection enforcement officials to use to prevent banks and credit unions from charging overdraft fees in certain…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Consumer Protection
Last week, the House held its long-awaited “China Week” to vote on a series of legislation targeting various aspects of the U.S.-China relationship. The bills targeted national security, economic relations, technology, the…
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/ International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
