On May 9, 2025, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed Senate Bill S3006C into law which concerns New York State’s education, labor, housing, and family assistance budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. This budget, among many…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
On May 12, 2025, Matthew Galeotti, Head of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), published a memorandum outlining the DOJ’s current investigation and enforcement priorities for prosecuting corporate and…
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/ Business Organizations, Criminal Law, Finance & Banking
On May 12, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order titled “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients.” This executive order aims to lower the cost of prescription drugs for…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Health
On May 1, 2025, new legislation came into force in India called The Protection of Interests in Aircraft Objects Act 2025 (the “Act”). The new legislation arises out of the insolvency of Indian airline Go First, where lessors…
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/ Bankruptcy, International Law & Trade, Transportation
As previously summarized here, since SEC Commissioner Mark T. Uyeda was named Acting Chairman on January 21, 2025, the SEC has significantly shifted its approach to cryptocurrency regulation and enforcement actions, including…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
On April 9, 2025, President Trump issued a presidential memorandum (the order) directing the heads of all Federal agencies to identify unlawful or potentially unlawful regulations that clearly exceed the agency’s statutory…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law
On April 21, 2025, Paul S. Atkins was sworn in as the new Chairman of the SEC. Mr. Atkins was nominated by President Trump on January 20, 2025, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 9, 2025 in a 52 to 44 vote. He replaces…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
On April 23, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14281, Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy (the “EO”), which aims to eliminate disparate impact as a theory of liability for unlawful…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case of first impression, on April 1, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued an important decision in Nawara v. Cook County Municipality (Case Nos. 22-1393, 22-1430, 22-2395 & 22-2451), holding that…
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/ Civil Remedies, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
On May 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published FAB No. 2025-1, providing guidance to its field staff on the analysis to apply when determining whether a worker is an independent contractor or employee for purposes…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
Since assuming office on January 20, 2025, President Trump’s Administration, together with various federal agencies and Congress, have initiated several actions that have the potential to reshape the digital asset industry…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
Recent actions by the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) highlight a sharp escalation in agency antitrust enforcement, particularly for dominant technology platforms. The DOJ has brought two…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Science, Computers, & Technology
On April 21, 2025, a Ninth Circuit en banc panel revived (by a 10-1 decision) a putative class action against Shopify, Inc. alleging violations of privacy and data rights via use of cookies. In reversing both the district court…
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/ Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Privacy
On April 17, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion on the requirements for plaintiffs to survive a motion to dismiss regarding an allegation that plan fiduciaries engaged in a prohibited transaction under the…
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/ Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
TCPA litigation, like spring flowers, is in full bloom this season. Over the past several months, major decisions have come down related to the FCC’s one-to-one consent rule (which we covered in our last update) as well as other…
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/ Civil Procedure, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection
