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The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 55 - The Power of the Presidential Pardon: Traditions and Turning Points
False Claims Act Insights - Are the FCA’s Qui Tam Provisions Unconstitutional? One Federal Judge Says “Yes"
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#WorkforceWednesday® - SpaceX Victory: Court Questions NLRB's Constitutional Authority - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday: Can FTC’s Non-Compete Ban Survive Without Chevron Deference? - Spilling Secrets Podcast
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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Did the Supreme Court Hand the CFPB a Pyrrhic Victory?
Early Returns Law and Politics with Jan Baran: A Supreme Path: From Latin to Campaign Finance Law, to 38 Oral Arguments – Kannon Shanmugam
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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Use of Unfairness to Regulate Discriminatory Conduct: A Discussion of the Consumer and Industry Perspectives
John Neiman on the Corporate Transparency Act
The Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently proposed a policy that would require all new vaccines to undergo placebo-controlled clinical trials prior to FDA approval. The proposal, while controversial, is...more
On April 7, 2025, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas vacated two provisions of a major 2024 CMS nurse staffing regulation requiring nursing homes to have an RN on site 24 hours a day, 7 days per week...more
As long anticipated, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr has launched a new proceeding to eliminate policies and rules that may no longer be necessary or that impose undue regulatory burdens. The...more
Treasury / FinCEN - Interim Final Rule and Proposed Rulemaking - On March 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a press release stating that it will not enforce any penalties or fines against U.S. citizens or...more
On March 2, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it would not enforce penalties or fines associated with beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)...more
The State of Washington is proposing a new workplace safety rule that allows employees to designate a non-employee third-party representative—including unrelated union activists—during workplace safety inspections conducted...more
On July 25, 2024, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) notified the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that at least part of the basis for the currently pending legal attack on the Nasdaq’s proposed...more
On April 23, 2024, the FTC announced its Final Non-Compete Clause Rule (“Final Rule”), which bans post-employment non-compete clauses between employers and their workers. The Final Rule becomes effective 120 days after being...more
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling last week in CFSA v. CFPB that the CFPB’s funding mechanism does not violate the Appropriations Clause of the U.S. Constitution removes what many observers consider to be the last remaining...more
The FTC’s Final Rule banning non-competes in worker agreements contains a noteworthy exception that its provisions “do not apply where a cause of action related to a non-compete clause accrued prior to the effective date.” ...more
Welcome to the Market Overview chapter of our annual report Consumer Financial Services 2023 Year in Review. For the consumer finance industry, 2023 was all about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau)....more
Republican attorneys general (AGs) from 19 states, led by Utah AG Sean D. Reyes, filed an amicus brief urging the Fifth Circuit to rehear a case after a panel of judges declined to entertain a lawsuit challenging diversity...more
Welcome to the latest issue of Bracewell’s FINRA Facts and Trends, a monthly newsletter devoted to condensing and digesting recent FINRA developments in the areas of enforcement, regulation and dispute resolution. This month,...more
A federal court has issued an order granting an injunction that delays the compliance dates for the CFPB’s final rule governing the collection of small business lending data required by Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Wall...more
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or the Commission) is exploring whether to impose a new far-reaching duty of candor requirement. The proposed rule would prohibit the submission of inaccurate information to FERC...more
On Jan. 5, the United States Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) proposed a new rule which acts as a complete ban—both prospectively and retroactively—on all non-competition agreements (“non-compete(s)”) (the “Proposed...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING - According to a Bloomberg Government article, more than 30,000 federal contracting opportunities at twenty-eight (28) agencies are coming up for competition in the coming fiscal years. In a webinar,...more