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CFPB Changes Approach to Guidance

On May 12, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a sweeping withdrawal of 67 guidance documents issued since the CFPB’s inception, signaling a marked shift in its regulatory approach. This move...more

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CMS’s 2026 Final Medicare Advantage Rule Focuses on Implementing the IRA and Deregulation

In April, CMS finalized its Contract Year (CY) 2026 Medicare Advantage and Part D Final Rule (Final Rule). With CMS releasing the 2026 Medicare Advantage and Part D Proposed Rule in December under the Biden Administration,...more

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Updates in Consumer Finance Law: Dramatic Changes to the CFPB Under the Second Trump Administration

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) – the federal agency tasked with enforcing, implementing, regulating and supervising consumer financial products and services across the country – is expected to see dramatic...more

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CFPB, industry groups ask Federal Judge to kill bureau medical debt rule

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The CFPB says it wants to scrap a Biden Administration rule that prohibits credit reporting agencies from including medical debts on credit reports, one of many Biden era rules that the Trump Administration has sought to...more

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DOL reinstates Trump’s standard on independent contractors under FLSA

In recent years, the U.S. Department of Labor has regulated who is an independent contractor and who is an employee for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The substance of the regulations has whipsawed based on who was...more

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CMS Issues CY 2026 MA & Part D Rate Announcement, Final Rule on CY 2026 Policy and Technical Changes to Programs, While Seeking...

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Several April releases seem to signal some basis for optimism for stakeholders in Medicare Advantage and Part D, though with sufficient undertones to recommend caution....more

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How Financial Regulation Is Shifting Under Trump

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Hi, thanks so much for joining us. I’m Samantha Kirby, chair of financial services here at Goodwin, and today, we’re going to talk to you about what we’re watching with respect to the bank regulatory agencies and the Consumer...more

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SEC’s Climate Rule Litigation Update: Is it Actually Over?

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s March 27, 2025 decision (the Decision) to withdraw the defense of its landmark climate-related disclosure rules adopted in March of 2024 (the Rules) did not formally pause or...more

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President Trump Directs Federal Agencies on How to Repeal ‘Unconstitutional’ Rules

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On April 11, 2025, a new rule went into effect in which the United States government will start to strictly enforce the requirement that foreign nationals register their presence with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...more

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Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 6, Issue 3, April 2025

Welcome to our third issue of 2025 of Decoded - our technology law insights e-newsletter. We hope you enjoy this issue and thank you for reading. SEC may Reverse Proposed Cryptocurrency Custody Rule and Ohio House...more

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DOT Seeks to Identify Regulatory Obligations for Repeal or Modification [Alert]

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On April 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of Transportation (the Department or DOT) issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking public comment to assist DOT in identifying existing regulatory obligations “that can be modified...more

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Republicans ask federal banking agencies to withdraw rules, guidance

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Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have sent letters to financial regulators asking them to rescind a variety of measures the regulators issued during the Biden Administration....more

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CFPB Signals Significant Changes to Small Business Lending Rule: New Section 1071 Rulemaking Forthcoming

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) recently announced that it plans to revisit – and potentially revise – its controversial small business data collection rule implementing Section 1071 of the...more

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Employers Still Need to Abide 2024 Independent Contractor Rule Despite DOL Hints of Dropping It

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In recent court filings in several ongoing lawsuits, the Department of Labor (DOL) has indicated that it will reconsider its 2024 independent contractor rule issued by the Biden Administration and may issue a new rule. The...more

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Flying Through the Whirlwind: Health Care Industry Continues To Be Buffeted as Administration Rolls Out New Initiatives

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Health care providers and payers have been subject to a flurry of developments at the federal level in recent weeks. Considering that health care represents almost 18% of the U.S. gross domestic product, this was perhaps...more

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FinReg Currents - Week 11

On April 1, 2025, the House Financial Services Committee issued a press release regarding a number of Committee requests to various federal agencies for rescission, modification, or re-proposal of specific Biden...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

No Rest for the Weary: The Trump DOL Indicates Yet Another Change to Its Independent Contractor Classification Rule Is on the...

Exactly a year ago, we wrote about the final rule issued by the Biden-era U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) regarding the test for determining whether a worker is an employee covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), or an...more

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Game On! 2026 Medicare Fee-for-Service Rulemaking Is About to Tip Off

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Game On! 2026 Medicare Fee-for-Service Rulemaking Is About to Tip Off - It’s March, which means one thing for sports fans: the madness of the NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tournaments. However, to folks in the...more

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2026 Medicare Advantage and Part D Final Rate Notice: What to Expect

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Key Takeaways - - CMS is expected to issue the 2026 final rate notice for Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D plans by April 7, 2025. - The January 2025 advance notice proposed policies that would increase payments to MA...more

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EPA Announces Reevaluation of the TSCA Risk Evaluation Framework Rule

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Last year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Biden administration finalized amendments to the procedural framework rule for conducting risk evaluations under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) that...more

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2024 CFTC Year in Review: An Overview of a Transitional Year

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Coming off a busy 2024, we expect that 2025 will be a landmark year for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission). Rostin Behnam’s resignation as Chairman on January 20 marked the end of the Biden...more

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Trump Administration Moves to Dismantle NEPA

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Late last week, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released a pre-publication version of a new rule, which would remove the implementing regulations for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in line with the...more

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Four Things to Know: Upcoming Changes to NEPA Regulations and Environmental Reviews

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On February 19, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) released a pre-publication version of an interim final rule (the “Interim Rule”) to rescind all of CEQ’s previous and current regulations implementing the...more

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Regs and De-Regs: What to Watch Out for Next

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It is relatively quiet on the healthcare regulatory front. The Trump administration is currently filling out its leadership team within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), with the confirmation process of...more

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Trump Administration’s ‘Regulatory Freeze Pending Review’ Pauses OSHA’s Rulemaking on Heat Illness and Emergency Response

The second term of President Donald J. Trump started with a flurry of executive orders, presidential memoranda, and directives, some of which were signed on January 20, 2025, shortly after he took the oath of office....more

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