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Federal Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Enjoining Key Portions of Anti-DEI Executive Orders

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Our prior alert on President Trump’s executive order revoking Executive Order 11246 addressed the certification, investigation, and other legal risks posed and related private sector impact on DEI programs. On February 21,...more

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DEI Executive Orders Partially Blocked: What’s In and What’s Out, For Now . . .

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On February 21, 2025, a federal court preliminarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing key provisions of the recent executive orders (EOs) to eliminate “illegal” diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs...more

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Update on Legal Challenges to President Trump's Presidential Actions

Since President Trump took office on January 20, 2025, he has issued an unprecedented number of presidential actions, including 62 executive orders and numerous declarations, proclamations, announcements, memoranda, grants of...more

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Corporate Transparency Act: Preliminary Injunction & FinCen’s Response

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The Corporate Transparency Act (31 U.S.C. § 5336, the CTA), which went into effect on January 1, 2024, requires a broad range of corporations, limited liability companies, and other entities (“reporting companies”) to file...more

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California’s New Climate Disclosure and GHG-Related Claims Laws

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On October 7, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a trio of climate-related bills that will impact what companies doing business in California must (or can) say about their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - December 2020

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CYBERSECURITY - Cyber Exposures Rise During Pandemic - Although it is logical that cyber-attacks have risen during the pandemic, and there is anecdotal evidence that it is occurring, including our own experience, an...more

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Eleventh Cir. Rejects Broad Reading of “Autodialer”

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On January 27, 2020, an Eleventh Circuit panel released a landmark ruling in Glasser v. Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC. The key issue in the case was how to interpret ambiguous language in the Telephone Consumer...more

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The First Amendment Battleground: SCOTUS Asked to Review Two Ninth Circuit Decisions on the Constitutionality of the TCPA

In the span of fifteen days, TCPA defendants in two separate cases asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review two distinct but interwoven Ninth Circuit decisions on the constitutionality of the TCPA. Specifically, Facebook, Inc....more

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Ninth Circuit Finds that the TCPA Debt Collection Exception Violates the First Amendment

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Last month, in Duguid v. Facebook, Inc., 17-15320, 2019 WL 2454853 (9th Cir. June 13, 2019), the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) held that the debt collection exception to the Telephone...more

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First Amendment 2 – Lanham Act 0: Federal Circuit Holds Lanham Act Prohibition on Immoral and Scandalous Marks Is Unconstitutional...

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In the wake of the In re Tam decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, on December 15, 2017, the Federal Circuit held that the Lanham Act Section 2(a) prohibition on the registration of immoral and scandalous marks is a...more

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Siding with The Slants: Ban on Disparaging Marks Held Unconstitutional

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Asian rock band The Slants is no longer "The Band Who Must Not Be Named," as they titled their most recent album. On June 19, 2017, the United States Supreme Court decided Matal v. Tam, striking a provision of the Lanham Act,...more

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