Federal Controlled Substance Act regulations require that prescriptions for controlled substances be issued only for legitimate medical purposes by individual practitioners acting in their usual course of professional...more
On May 6, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a plan to expand its use of unannounced inspections of foreign manufacturing facilities that produce foods, essential medicines and other medical products...more
On April 25, 2025, the Department of Justice announced in federal court that many students studying in the United States on F-1 visas whose status was recently changed to “Terminated” for “criminal records” reasons will have...more
On April 14, 2025, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani issued an order staying the notice published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that would have terminated, as of April 24, 2025, the humanitarian parole...more
On March 25, 2025, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a notice in the Federal Register that it will terminate the humanitarian parole processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that gave...more
On Feb. 19, 2025, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that it would be “protecting American workers from anti-American national origin discrimination” in part by “increasing enforcement of...more
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In a Jan. 13, 2025, alert, McGuireWoods urged employers to prepare for a drastic shift in federal immigration policy following the inauguration of President Donald Trump. The Trump administration has since moved swiftly to...more
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Immigration reform played a key role during the presidential campaign cycle. Given the starkly different philosophies between the current and incoming administrations, changes to federal immigration policy are imminent....more
Revisions to the Health Over Wealth Act, a bill aimed at increasing transparency for private equity (PE) firms, introduced July 25, 2024, have removed assisted living facilities from its list of covered entities. However, the...more