On June 25, 2025, Chief Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued a ruling in the case of U.S. ex rel. Sarah Behnke v. CVS Caremark Corp. et al., ordering CVS Caremark…
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/ Government Contracting, Health, Insurance
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has recently proposed a new rule and the U.S. Congress has recently enacted a new law affecting the global renewable fuel industry…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Taxation
On June 26, 2025, the Supreme Court ruled that Medicaid providers and beneficiaries lack the ability to enforce the Medicaid Act’s “any‑qualified‑provider” clause in federal court. In Medina v. Planned Parenthood, the Court…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Health
Global digital platforms face an increasingly complex and fragmented content regulation landscape. Governments worldwide are imposing overlapping and sometimes conflicting rules for monitoring, managing, or restricting online…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, International Law & Trade
On Friday, June 27, the Supreme Court held that so-called universal injunctions (sometimes called nationwide injunctions) likely exceed federal courts’ equitable authority as granted by the Judiciary Act of 1789. The Court…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Constitutional Law
Last week, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court overturned a Fifth Circuit decision holding that HHS-appointed United States Preventative Task Force (USPTF) members are inferior officers that do not need to be approved by the…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Health
On June 18, 2025, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas vacated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (the Rule). The court…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Privacy
This is our third client briefing in our “Evolving Face of Finance” series which considers private credit’s emergence in the real estate sector in the Middle East and which follows on from our previous client briefing on Private…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Commercial
On April 30, 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that advertising food products containing botanicals with health claims is not permitted until the European Commission has granted the permission…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Health
On June 16, 2025, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee released draft legislative language for its version of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” a comprehensive budget reconciliation proposal that includes significant changes to…
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/ Elections & Politics, Health, Taxation
After multiple attempts by successive governments over the last few years to bring about regulatory changes that would enhance and promote the use of data in the UK, an often heavily debated law has finally arrived in the form…
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/ Intellectual Property, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have long played a role in the GCC’s infrastructure landscape, particularly in the utilities sector. However, the region is now experiencing a third wave of PPP activity—one that is expanding…
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/ Education Law, Finance & Banking, Health, Transportation
On June 18, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in the closely watched case of United States v. Skrmetti. In this 6-3 opinion, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s legislation blocking gender-affirming care, holding…
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/ Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Health
The European Union’s ("EU") NIS2 Directive (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) capitalizes on the success of its predecessor, NIS, the first horizontal minimum harmonization cyber security and resilience frameworks at the EU level. NIS2…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
On June 25, 2025, the European Commission published the long-anticipated draft EU Space Act (“Act”), a potentially landmark regulation that will apply to both EU and non-EU operators providing space services in Europe. The…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law, International Law & Trade
