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Trump Administration Terminates Humanitarian Parole for Citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela

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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced the termination of humanitarian parole for citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, also known as the CHNV program, in the Federal Register on...more

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Judge grants CFPB 30 days to settle lawsuit over credit card late fee rule

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A federal judge has granted the CFPB 30 days to try to settle the lawsuit challenging the bureau’s s credit card late fee rule that was issued during the Biden Administration....more

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Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Under Fire: What Employers Need to Know About the Latest Legal Challenges

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The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) rules mandating that employers provide abortion-related accommodations are facing intensifying legal challenges now that a federal appeals court allowed a group of states to challenge...more

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Banking and business groups ask district court to vacate CFPB’s Credit Card Late Fees Rule

On February 20, several business groups and trade associations filed a motion for summary judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in their lawsuit seeking to vacate the CFPB’s final rule...more

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Texas Federal Court Orders CFPB to File Status Report Following Leadership Change

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Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an order in Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) in light of recent changes...more

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CFPB Continues “Pausing” Litigation: This Time in Medical Debt Rule Litigation

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) requested and was granted a 90-day stay in the litigation involving trade associations Cornerstone Credit Union League (Cornerstone) and the Consumer Data Industry...more

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FinCEN Commits to Extend CTA Reporting for 30 Days If Court Grants Stay of Injunction

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On February 5, 2025, the United States filed a motion in the case of Samantha Smith, et al., v. United States Department of Treasury, et al., to stay the order of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas,...more

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Waiting Game: Tennessee’s New Hemp-Derived Cannabinoid Rules Delayed Again

At the end of last year, it seemed like Tennessee’s final hemp-derived cannabinoid (“HDC”) rules would (finally) take effect as scheduled on December 26, 2024. As we discussed in an earlier blog post, since 2023 when the...more

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Federal Court Blocks FDA’s Graphic Cigarette Warning Rule: The Limits of Regulatory Authority

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On Monday, a federal judge from the Eastern District of Texas, Judge J. Campbell Barker, ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) exceeded its authority under the Tobacco Control Act by requiring cigarette...more

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Court Vacates 2024 Title IX Regulations Nationwide: What This Means for Covered Institutions

On January 9, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky (“Court”) vacated the 2024 Title IX Final Rule (“Final Rule”) nationwide in State of Tennessee v. Cardona. The U.S. Department of Education...more

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2024 Title IX Regulations Are Likely Vacated

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Last year was a turbulent one for Title IX, and although we are just a few days into 2025, this turbulence has persisted into the new year. Yesterday, January 9, 2025, a federal district court in Kentucky issued a ruling that...more

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Fifth Circuit Reinstates Requirements of Corporate Transparency Act

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Yesterday afternoon, on December 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a per curiam opinion (signed by Judges Stewart, Hayes and Higginson) staying the preliminary injunction previously entered in the...more

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Federal Judge refuses to lift injunction blocking CFPB credit card late fee rule

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A Texas federal judge has refused to lift the preliminary injunction blocking the CFPB’s enforcement of its final rule that would require larger credit card issuers to lower their late fees to $8 and that would also permit...more

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Employers Take Note: Court Vacates Salary Threshold Increases for Exempt Employees

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Last month, a federal district court in Texas invalidated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) April 2024 Final Rule (“Final Rule”), which would have raised salary thresholds for Executive, Administrative, and Professional...more

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The CFPB’s Credit Card Late Fee Rule Appears Doomed

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On December 6, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas denied a motion by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to dissolve a preliminary injunction that had enjoined its Credit...more

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Nationwide Injunction Against Corporate Transparency Act Enforcement: What To Know and What To Expect

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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against enforcement of the beneficial ownership information reporting requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)...more

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Corporate Transparency Act Enjoined: How should your company respond now?

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The reporting requirement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was preliminarily enjoined on December 3, 2024, by an Order of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The Court issued a nationwide...more

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Texas Federal Court Denies CFPB’s Motions and Finds Plaintiffs Likely to Succeed on the Merits in Significant Credit Card Late Fee...

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In a significant development in the ongoing litigation over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB or Bureau) Final Rule on credit card late fees, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas denied...more

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SuperVision - Labor & Employment Law Insights, Issue 4, December 2024

Happy Holidays and welcome to our year-end issue of SuperVision. In this edition, we are pleased to bring you the “Top Five” biggest labor and employment issues that will impact employers for the coming year along with...more

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Corporate Transparency Act (CTA): filing deadline stayed

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On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction enjoining the U.S. Government from enforcing the CTA nationwide, determining that the CTA and the reporting rules...more

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Client Alert Update: How Nationwide CTA Preliminary Injunction Impacts Reporting Obligations

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On December 3, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”). This injunction prevents...more

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Corporate Transparency Act Blocked Nationwide by Texas Court

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On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas entered a nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining the enforcement of the federal Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) (31 U.S.C. § 5336) and the...more

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UPDATE: State of Texas and Business Groups Succeed in Vacating DOL’s Final Rule Increasing Compensation Thresholds for Exempt...

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As we reported earlier this year, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final rule on April 23, 2024 (the “Final Rule”), raising the salary threshold for the so-called “White-Collar” Exemptions and the Highly Compensated...more

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Ninth Circuit Says Federal Contractor Minimum Wage Is Unlawful

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the president lacks authority under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to set a federal contractor minimum wage, creating a split with other...more

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Texas Federal Judge Appears Poised to Strike Down DOL Overtime Rule

A federal judge in Texas seemed skeptical that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) did not overreach with its latest rule that raised the minimum salary thresholds to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) white-collar overtime...more

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