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New York City lawmakers are considering a measure that would make the city the latest jurisdiction to ban noncompete agreements between employers and their employees, after Governor Kathy Hochul in December 2023 vetoed a...more
On July 12, 2023, U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) proposed a revised version of their previously introduced crypto regulation bill to create better safeguards for the crypto industry...more
Earlier this month members of Congress jointly introduced the “Energy Consumer Protection Act of 2023,” with the intention of expanding the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (“FERC”) ability to address energy market...more
The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (“ADPPA”) has been working its way through Congress with notable bipartisan support. After a July 20th markup session in the House Committee on Energy & Commerce amending the bill,...more
The latest bipartisan crypto bill would give the CFTC new tools and authorities to regulate digital commodities, with a focus on market integrity and consumer protection. On August 3, 2022, a bipartisan group of US...more
Up for consideration before the 117th Congress this year is Senate Bill 2992 (S. 2992); known as the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (the eCommerce Antitrust Act). The purpose of the eCommerce Antitrust Act is to...more
On March 1, 2022, the UK Government put forward the Economic Crime (Enforcement and Transparency) Bill. The stated aim of the legislation is to “crack down on dirty money in the UK and corrupt elites”, and it is designed to...more
With 2022 in full swing, it is time for employers to re-group and plan for the many uncertainties the future may hold. 2021 was a whirlwind year. From the turbulent landscape of vaccine mandates to the Biden Administration’s...more
In July 2021, a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill, S. 2428, entitled the False Claims Amendments Act of 2021 ("S. 2428"), which proposed substantive and procedural amendments to the False Claims Act ("FCA")....more
An ambitious proposal could bring digital assets into the mainstream regulatory fold. During an eventful summer for the digital assets industry, it may have been easy to miss US Representative Don Beyer’s introduction of the...more
The Central Committee of China’s Communist Party and the State Council on August 11 jointly published the Five-Year Outline for Implementation of the Buildout of a Government under the Rule of Law (2021-2025) (the “Outline”),...more
Legislation was introduced this week that, if passed, would create the Ohio Personal Privacy Act. HB 376, initiated by Lt. Governor Jon Husted, was introduced this week by Representative Rick Carfagna (R- Westerville) and...more
2021 has been a busy year for antitrust legislation. On February 4, 2021, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and four other senators introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Act of 2021 (“Klobuchar Bill”)....more
On June 12, 2020, Québec’s then minister of justice, Sonia LeBel, tabled in the National Assembly Bill 64, An Act to modernize legislative provisions as regards the protection of personal information. Bill 64’s purpose is...more
Do we need a new government agency tasked with protecting the data of American citizens? Senator Kirsten Gillibrand believes that we do. On February 12, 2020, Senator Gillibrand announced her proposed legislation titled “The...more
Continuing our annual tradition, we have compiled our top developments and headlines for 2019 & 2020 in trade secret, non-compete, and computer fraud law. Here’s what you need to know to keep abreast of the ever-changing law...more
On January 21, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo released his Fiscal Year 2021 executive budget proposal for the State of New York. The budget includes proposed legislative that would increase the authority of the Superintendent...more
In May of 2018, the European Union enacted the General Data Protection Rules, or GDPR, a legal framework that outlines not only how companies may collect and process personal information of EU residents, but how that data is...more
Non-compete agreements have a long, conflicted history under the law. In the first known case on the topic—John Dyer’s Case from 1414!—an English judge found that a non-compete agreement was an unenforceable restraint on...more
On October 24, 2019, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Protecting American Jobs Act. The bill, cosponsored by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), Rand Paul (R-KY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Marco Rubio...more
• On October 17, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced legislation to establish baseline privacy and cybersecurity protections and issue fines to companies and criminal penalties to senior executives. • The New Democrat...more
This past week, the House Financial Services Committee considered and passed a few bills that would, if passed by the House, result in changes to the securities laws. ...more
On May 23, 2019, the U.S. Senate approved the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (“TRACED”) Act by an overwhelming 97-1 vote. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was the only senator to vote against the bill....more
Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein announced that she and three other Democratic Senators have introduced a bill, the “Accountability for Wall Street Executives Act of 2017,” that would allow state attorneys general to issue...more
A bill currently being considered by the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations could significantly alter the way trade associations may solicit contributions for their political action committees (PACs) in fiscal year 2018....more