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Nationwide Preliminary Injunction Halts NIH Indirect Cost Rate Change Notice

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Judge Angel Kelley of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on March 12, 2025, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction halting the implementation, application or enforcement of the National Institutes...more

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Democratic AGs Block NIH Grant Cuts

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A coalition of 22 Democratic AGs obtained a preliminary injunction blocking the implementation of the Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates (Rate Change Notice), which would have...more

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Nationwide Preliminary Injunction Issued on Executive Order Limiting Gender-Affirming Care

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On March 4, 2025, a federal judge in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction to an executive order restricting access to gender-affirming care for individuals under the age of nineteen (the Executive Order)....more

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Democratic AGs Secure Order Blocking Cuts to NIH-Funded Research Grants

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A group of 22 Democratic AGs obtained a temporary restraining order blocking Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates (Rate Change Notice), which would reduce to 15 percent all...more

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Massachusetts District Court Temporarily Blocks NIH Research Funding Cut

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A Massachusetts federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order preventing the implementation and enforcement of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) research funding cut (NOT-OD-25-086) (the Rate Change Notice)....more

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New York Court Issues Temporary Restraining Order in Connection with the Single Statewide Fiscal Intermediary Program

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Earlier this week, New York State and Public Partnerships LLC (PPL), the entity selected to become the Statewide Fiscal Intermediary (SFI) as of April 1, 2025, suffered another roadblock in their efforts to transition New...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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Odor/Air Enforcement: Massachusetts Attorney General Files Judicial Action Against Grafton Animal Feed Dehydrator Operation

The Massachusetts Attorney General (“AG”) on behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts filed on October 16th a civil action in the Superior Court alleging that: …Feedback Earth, Inc. (“Feedback Earth”) is generating...more

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Vape Companies Challenge Iowa’s New Vape Directory Law

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On December 17, 2024, Iowans for Alternatives to Smoking & Tobacco, Inc., Global Source Distribution, LLC, and others filed a complaint and motion for a preliminary injunction in federal district court against the Iowa...more

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Will California’s Proposed Acrylamide Warning Amendment Under Proposition 65 Pass Legal Muster?

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California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has proposed additional safe harbor warnings for products containing acrylamide in response to recent litigation questioning the constitutionality of such...more

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Environmental Justice Update: Louisiana Decision Upholds Use of EPA Emergency Powers

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Louisiana has been at the center of the Biden Administration’s prioritization of environmental justice (EJ) issues. In United States v. Denka Performance Elastomer, the Eastern District of Louisiana granted a motion by the...more

Proskauer - California Employment Law

Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards Survives its First Challenge

As we reported here, Cal/OSHA’s revised COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards (“ETS”) took effect on January 14, 2022. The controversial emergency regulations, which have caused employers countless headaches, survived their...more

Stinson - Government Contracting Matters

Louisiana District Court Joins Bandwagon of Courts Issuing Preliminary Injunctions Against Implementation of EO 14042’s Government...

Executive Order 14042 (the “EO”) and the implementing FAR clause and Safer Workforce Task Force (SWTF) Guidance – which mandate that government contractors and their subcontractors be vaccinated absent a legal exception – has...more

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Federal Court Upholds Campus Vaccine Mandate...with Caveats

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In what appears to be the first decision issued by a U.S. court on the constitutionality of a university COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the District Court for Northern Indiana has upheld the policy. While helpful for university...more

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Appeals Court Upholds Expired Outdoor Dining Ban

On March 1, 2021, the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District ruled in favor of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (the “Department”) officials who halted outdoor dining in November 2020 during a spike in...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Pandemic Restriction Challenges Face Uphill Battle in California

On Dec.16, 2020, in Midway Venture LLC v. County of San Diego, the San Diego Superior Court preliminarily enjoined enforcement of two COVID-19-related California public health restrictions as applied to two adult...more

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USCIS Public Charge Rule in Effect Nationwide

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) may resume implementation of its Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds Final Rule (Public Charge Final Rule) nationwide after the Second Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a...more

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#WorkforceWednesday: Component 2 Pay Data Shutdown, CDC Coronavirus Guidance, and California Employers Fight Back - Employment Law...

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It’s #WorkforceWednesday, featuring Employment Law This Week®, blog posts, client alerts, and other helpful resources from Epstein Becker Green’s Employment, Labor & Workforce Management practice. Get the information you need...more

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Food & Beverage Litigation Update l December 2019 #2

LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - Senate Confirms FDA Commissioner - The U.S. Senate has voted to confirm Stephen Hahn as the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Hahn, an expert in...more

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Food & Beverage Litigation Update | August 2018

LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS & STANDARDS - FDA Announces Modernization for Dairy Product Identities - Following his related statements at a conference, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Court Temporarily Tables Controversial NYC Salt Warning Rule

In September 2015, the New York City Board of Health unanimously passed a unique measure that would require chain restaurants to warn consumers about the sodium content of certain menu items. In particular, restaurants with...more

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