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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The Demise of the Chevron Doctrine – Part I
The End of Chevron Deference: Implications of the Supreme Court's Loper Bright Decision — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Down Goes Chevron: A 40-Year Precedent Overturned by the Supreme Court – Diagnosing Health Care
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Supreme Court Hears Two Cases in Which the Plaintiffs Seek to Overturn the Chevron Judicial Deference Framework: Who Will Win and What Does It Mean? Part II
The Future of Chevron Deference - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Hooper, Kearney and Macklin on Cutting Edge Topics in the False Claims Act
Part Two: The MFN Drug Pricing Rule and the Rebate Rule: Where Do We Go From Here?
Part One: Two new Medicare Drug Pricing Rules in One Day: What are the MFN and the Rebate Drug Pricing Rules?
Employment Law Now IV-78- BREAKING: US DOL Issues New Regulations After Federal Court Invalidated Old Regulations
Podcast - Developments in FDA & DOJ Regulation and Enforcement of Manufacturer Communications
Podcast - Chamber of Commerce v. Internal Revenue Service
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently found, in what it described as a “question of first impression,” that Section 5(b)(3) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), a provision requiring public...more
On August 6, the SEC filed its much-anticipated legal brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals supporting its controversial Climate Rules and responding to the arguments laid out in petitioners’ consolidated petitions for...more
On July 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued proposed regulations that would classify “basket contract transactions”, which are derivatives (i) with a term...more
Holtzman Vogel attorneys wrote on the Supreme Court's landmark Loper Bright decision earlier this month. The Court overruled its 1984 decision in Chevron v. NRDC that introduced the so-called "Chevron deference" principle...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will likely weigh in soon on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approval of Nasdaq’s board diversity rule that will require listed companies to disclose...more
With increasing frequency, petitioners representing the securities industry are asking courts to decide that rules adopted by the SEC exceed the agency’s authority, even when the rules have barely left the starting blocks....more
On March 6, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or the Commission) finalized its long-awaited climate disclosure rules on a party-line 3-2 vote. We previously provided a summary of the content of that final...more
The Eighth Circuit is poised to determine the fate of the SEC’s final climate regulation, potentially by the end of the year. On March 21, 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit was selected as the court that...more
The SEC paused implementation of the climate-related disclosure rules in the face of significant legal challenges. The rules would impose substantial disclosure mandates on companies, including concerning the costs of...more
Policy debates normally focus on substance. Is climate change real? How can business entities weigh environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into their decision-making? ...more
On March 6, 2024, almost two years after the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed amendments “to enhance and standardize climate-related disclosures for investors,” the SEC adopted a final rule on...more
The court’s decision is the latest development in the litigation over the SEC’s final rules, which have faced numerous legal challenges since their adoption. On March 15, 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit...more
On November 22, 2023, the SEC postponed its new share repurchase disclosure rules in response to an adverse decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in a case challenging those rules under the Administrative Procedure...more
We had previously reported that beginning with the next annual report on Form 10-K, most US-listed issuers would be required to make more extensive disclosures on their share repurchase programs and insider transactions...more
On December 19, 2023, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) share repurchase disclosure rules, which were adopted in May 2023 and became effective on July 31,...more
On December 19, 2023, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the SEC’s share repurchase disclosure rule, which required issuers to: (i) report daily aggregate share repurchase data on a quarterly basis, (ii) indicate if...more
On December 19, 2023, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion and judgment vacating (the “Judgment”) the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization rule (the...more
On November 22, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order postponing the Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization Rule (the Repurchase Rule). The SEC’s announcement followed the U.S. Court of Appeals for...more
As a result of a recent decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the SEC’s previously adopted Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization Rule has been put on hold. While the SEC may appeal the final decision (if and...more
On November 22, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order postponing the Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization Rule (the Repurchase Rule). The SEC’s announcement follows the U.S. Court of Appeals for...more
As readers may recall, on October 31, 2023 the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Chamber of Commerce v. SEC ruled that the SEC acted arbitrarily and capriciously, in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, when it...more
On November 22, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stayed the recently enacted Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization Rule (Repurchase Disclosure Rule) pursuant to section 705 of the Administrative Procedure Act...more
You might recall that, on Halloween, the Fifth Circuit issued an opinion in Chamber of Commerce of the USA v. SEC, granting the Chamber’s petition for review of the Share Repurchase Disclosure Modernization rule. The Court...more
On November 22, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it issued an order postponing the effective date of the share repurchase disclosure rule (Repurchase Rule).[1] The Repurchase Rule was...more
Evaluating a broad spectrum of challenges raised by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently held that the SEC failed to provide a sufficient...more