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California Dreaming Is Becoming a Reality: Solar Canals May Mean Having More Water As Well As More Solar Energy

(ACOEL) | American College of Environmental... on 4/28/2025

On March 25, 2025, the University of Southern California’s (USC’s) Public Exchange and independent advisor Solar Aquagrid announced the California Solar Canal Initiative, a seven-university project to assess the...more

Weekly Blockchain Blog - April 2025 #4

BakerHostetler on 4/28/2025

Companies Announce Digital Asset Payment Networks - The issuer of the USDC stablecoin recently published a white paper outlining its plans to launch “CPN,” a new payments network that aims to “bring[] financial institutions...more

Health Care Week in Review | Senate HELP Committee Chair Cassidy Calls for 340B Reforms; House Republicans Launch American-Made...

Alston & Bird on 4/28/2025

Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

How to Shift Data Privacy Left

Osano on 4/28/2025

The 1:10:100 rule—coined in 1992 by George Labovitz and Yu Sang Chang, the rule describes how much bad data costs. Preventing the creation of bad data at its source costs $1. Remediating bad data costs $10. Doing nothing...more

The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill

Hogan Lovells on 4/28/2025

On 1 April 2025, the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology issued a policy statement setting out its key proposals for the new Cyber Security and Resilience Bill. The Bill is intended to respond to an...more

Global Capability Centers: The Next Gen of Delivery Models

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing on 4/28/2025

2025 has seen a notable push by companies to establish dedicated capability centers—or global capability centers (GCCs)—in countries with lower-cost resources and access to a strong talent pool. According to S&S Insider, the...more

The Payments Newsletter including Digital Assets & Blockchain, April 2025

Hogan Lovells on 4/28/2025

Key developments of interest over the last month include: the Central Bank of Somalia announcing the launch of the Somalia Instant Payment System (SIPS), the country’s first nationwide instant payments infrastructure; the...more

Trump Administration Modifies Tariff Actions under National Security Powers

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 4/28/2025

Not long after announcing new global “reciprocal” tariffs on imports from around the world at the beginning of April 2025, which we previously reported in a recent eUpdate, President Trump began modifying that tariff action....more

Key Takeaways From President Trump's Executive Order on HBCUs

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 4/28/2025

On April 23, President Donald Trump issued an executive order revamping federal engagement with historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). ...more

Immunity for Deed of Trust Foreclosure Trustees — Absolute or Qualified?

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP on 4/28/2025

Under California Civil Code section 2924(d), a trustee’s communications and actions that are necessary to conduct a nonjudicial foreclosure sale pursuant to a deed of trust are privileged under Civil Code section 47. The...more

An Important Win for Employers in California: Meal Period Waivers

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 4/28/2025

For over a decade, many California employers have issued written meal period waivers that permit employees to voluntarily agree to prospectively waive 30-minute meal periods throughout their employment and under certain...more

Canadian Government Financing for Large Enterprises Impacted by US Tariffs and Canadian Countermeasures

Bennett Jones LLP on 4/28/2025

Canada Development Investment Corp. (CDEV) has announced the launch of the Large Enterprise Tariff Loan (LETL) facility, a new government-backed loan facility to support large Canadian enterprises affected by actual and...more

Is Change Around the Corner? One Proposal to Forge Sweeping Changes to Defense Contracting

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Government... on 4/25/2025

At the end of 2024, Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) published a plan (“Restoring Freedom’s Forge: American Innovation Unleashed”) and introduced a bill (the Fostering Reform and Government Efficiency in Defense Act or FoRGED...more

SEC Staff Clarifies That Certain Dollar-Backed Stablecoins Do Not Implicate the Securities Laws

Latham & Watkins LLP on 4/25/2025

The Staff noted that a stablecoin generally is not subject to SEC jurisdiction if it is not an investment and used solely for commercial activity....more

Reservation or Limitation on Warranty? Navigating the Fine Line — Lessons from Valence Operating Co. v. Davidson

Oliva Gibbs LLP on 4/25/2025

In Valence Operating Co. v. Davidson1, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Appellate District of Texas at Texarkana addressed whether the provision, “all Oil, Gas and other Minerals have been excepted and reserved by former...more

AI in Healthcare: Navigating Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Frontiers

Gardner Law on 4/25/2025

On March 22, 2025, Gardner Law, PLLC proudly co-hosted a thought-provoking continuing legal education (CLE) event with the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Health Law Institute, titled “AI in Healthcare: Adapting to...more

Big Tech’s Decade of A.I. Shopping

Mogin Law LLP on 4/25/2025

Does anybody remember Napster? Launched in June 1999, the revolutionary peer-to-peer music sharing platform peaked at 80 million music lovers worldwide. It famously fell from greatness into bankruptcy three years later after...more

U.S. Sanctions Enforcement: 2024 Lessons Learned and 2025 Expectations

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 4/25/2025

As the third month of the second Trump administration comes to a close, the lack of any public enforcement action by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctions watchers...more

Generative AI Risks: Legal and Compliance Insights - Part 2

Ankura on 4/25/2025

The Bottomline: Five Practical Steps for Generative AI Risk Management - As the first line of defense, employees within business operations must own and manage risks related to the business, including risks resulting from...more

House Select Committee Publishes Report on DeepSeek, as Commerce Imposes New AI Chip Export Restrictions — AI: The Washington...

Mintz - Antitrust Viewpoints on 4/25/2025

On April 16, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published a report on the Chinese company DeepSeek’s AI model with findings from the committee’s investigation into DeepSeek. The report...more

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