Quick Guide to Administrative Hearings
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Prominent Journalist, David Dayen, Describes his Reporting on the Efforts of Trump 2.0 to Curb CFPB
The Loper Bright Decision - What Really Happened to Chevron and What's Next
Podcast - Legislative Implications of Loper Bright and Corner Post Decisions
#WorkforceWednesday®: After the Block - What’s Next for Employers and Non-Competes? - Spilling Secrets Podcast - Employment Law This Week®
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
On October 29, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from enforcing its Personal Financial Data Rights Rule, also...more
Illinois AG Kwame Raoul co-led a group of 11 Democratic AGs and three state labor departments in submitting a letter opposing a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed rule that would limit the Occupational Safety and Health...more
On October 17, 2025, the USPTO published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that proposes new rules that would significantly limit the circumstances in which the PTAB can institute or maintain an IPR where the patent has...more
The October 21, 2025, memorandum from the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) sets out an aggressive framework to accelerate deregulatory actions across the federal...more
A federal district court has dismissed a lawsuit brought by farmers, environmental groups and local governments against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to the opinion issued by Judge Dabney L. Friedrich...more
The Memorandum is directed to “Regulatory Policy Officers at Departments and Agencies and Managing and Executive Directors of Commissions and Boards” from Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Sr., Acting Administrator of Office of...more
On October 29, the CFPB published a final rule in the Federal Register rescinding most of its amendments made to rules related to adjudication proceedings in February 2022 and March 2023. The amendments had made changes to...more
Like almost every federal agency, things have certainly changed at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in the last 10 months. One of those significant changes has been the departure from investigation of claims...more
Massachusetts is the latest state to attempt to narrow the scope of Federal law P.L. 86-272. On October 10, the Commonwealth issued final regulations targeted at cookies placed on computers or other electronic devices of...more
On October 21, 2025, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) within the Office of Management and Budget issued Memorandum M-25-36, Streamlining the Review of Deregulatory Actions. ...more
On October 3, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted EPA’s unopposed motion to hold the PFAS drinking water standards litigationin abeyance due to the lapse in appropriations as a result of the...more
Two recent scholarly articles, recent administrative law decisions, and the Report of the President's Working Group on Digital Assets ("PWG Report") may provide important clues for the potential future for the regulation of...more
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has proposed a significant overhaul of its rules for instituting inter partes reviews (IPRs) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Framed as a procedural reform aimed at...more
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced two major, interrelated policy shifts: (1) proposed amendments that would limit the institution of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings in cases where validity has...more
On October 16, the USPTO issued a notice of proposed rulemaking, seeking rule changes that impact the availability of inter partes reviews (IPRs). The new rules specify broad categories of situations in which IPRs will not be...more
On September 25, a federal district court vacated the Medicare Advantage risk adjustment and data validation (“RADV”) final rule that would have enabled the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) to extrapolate RADV...more
The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) has, through regulations and practices, used its powers to attempt to challenge the independent contractor model by deeming drivers who own their own trucks...more
On September 16, 2025, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Andrew Ferguson submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a report identifying more than 125 federal regulations deemed anticompetitive by the FTC...more
On October 1, the Democracy Forward Foundation, a nonprofit advocating for government transparency, filed a complaint in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM),...more
US INVENTOR, INC. v. UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE - Before Lourie, Reyna, and Stark. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Appellants who alleged a speculative risk of patent...more
Under President Trump, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has sought to encourage the issuance of more patents and limit the ability to challenge them in post-grant proceedings; since John Squires was sworn in as Director,...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s recently announced intent to revise its personal financial data rights rules has cast a shadow on the future of open banking regulations in the U.S. Despite the overwhelming...more
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed rule changes to 37 C.F.R. § 42.108 that will dramatically narrow access to inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. The new framework would limit IPR availability for...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court decision dismissing a lawsuit against the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for lack of associational standing since no member of the...more
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has proposed changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that could significantly affect grocers and food retailers nationwide. Our Food & Beverage Team discusses...more