On Thursday, January 9 at CES 2025, two sitting FTC Commissioners – Rebecca Slaughter (D) and Melissa Holyoak (R) – sat down for a revealing discussion moderated by two former FTC Commissioners now in the private sector –…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection, Science, Computers, & Technology
WHAT: The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) announced this week that it is withdrawing two proposed rules. First, it withdrew a January 2024 proposed rule that sought to prohibit government contractors from…
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/ Environmental Law, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
Radio and television station employment units (SEUs) located in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, New Jersey, and New York with five or more full-time employees must prepare by Monday, February 3,…
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/ Administrative Law, Communications & Media Law, Labor & Employment Law
Remote worker fraud is expected to continue to proliferate in 2025. Fully remote hiring and work, particularly in the technology sector, continues to pose unique business and legal risks for companies. Just in December 2024, a…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Labor & Employment Law, Privacy, Business Torts, Science, Computers, & Technology
As we enter the New Year, Wiley is looking ahead to the top privacy developments and trends to watch in 2025. On the state side, 2025 kicked off with several new privacy laws going into effect in January, and states continue…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently issued a Notice announcing the availability of an updated final guidance for the industry entitled “Registration and Listing of Cosmetic Product Facilities and Products.” The…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Health
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has published a Notice and Request for Comment (RFC) on the potential impact of the increasing deployment of satellite-enabled direct-to-device (D2D) services…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Science, Computers, & Technology, Transportation
Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments and what’s next in consumer protection at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In this newsletter, we analyze recent regulatory…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
Last year we made some predictions about 2024’s cyber landscape and major issues. Several proved prescient, with incident reporting, CISO scrutiny, SEC aggression, and new regulation of various sectors taking shape as the…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Privacy, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology, Government Contracting
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, applying California law, has held that without physical injury, emotional distress damages alone are insufficient to establish standing for a direct claim…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Insurance, Labor & Employment Law
WHAT: On January 3, 2025, the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Council published its final rule to amend the FAR to improve consistency between the procurement and nonprocurement rules on suspension and debarment. The FAR…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting
FCC Seeks Comment on Proposed Requirements for Covered Text Providers Under the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: In this Third Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) requests…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Science, Computers, & Technology, Government Contracting
Just three days after reinstating the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) reporting requirements, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed course and vacated its own decision, thereby blocking all enforcement of the…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking
Last week, Congress passed both the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and the American Relief Act, a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the federal government through March 14, 2025. Both bills faced a bumpy path to the…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Government Contracting, Science, Computers, & Technology
On December 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stayed a nationwide injunction blocking all enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). The Fifth Circuit’s decision effectively reinstates all CTA…
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/ Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Finance & Banking
