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Demystifying Wage and Hour Audits: One-on-One with Courtney McFate
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HHS Policy Changes, Supreme Court Rulings, and the DOJ-HHS False Claims Act Working Group
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Quick Guide to Administrative Hearings
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 65 -The Power of Interpretation: Constitutional Meaning in the Modern World
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Podcast - FTC to Focus on Deceptive AI Claims: Compliance Management Strategies
Episode 374 -- Justice Department Resumes FCPA Enforcement with New, Focused Guidance
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False Claims Act Insights - Will Recent Leadership Changes Lead to FCA Enforcement Policy Changes?
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The Michigan Court of Appeals has resurrected the Michigan Treasurer’s efforts to enforce an unclaimed property examination assessment going back nearly 20 years by holding that the state’s issuance of an exam determination...more
The ongoing federal case of American Alliance for Equal Rights v. Bennett, et al. will significantly affect impacted Illinois nonprofit organizations, as it challenges new legal requirements that could affect how...more
Home care agencies and other third-party employers may soon be able to reclaim the Companionship Services and Live-In Exemptions for caregivers and other domestic service employees, after more than a decade of exclusion, due...more
On September 4, 2025, the US Federal Trade Commission filed an enforcement action and simultaneous proposed settlement against a pet cremation company for abuse of employer-employee post-termination non-competes as an...more
Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions....more
Over the last few weeks, the Public Access Counselor of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office (PAC) issued two binding decisions addressing issues arising from the Illinois Open Meetings Act (OMA). In Public Access Opinion...more
Part three of a three-part series - As previously reported in Part 1 of this series, on June 30, 2025 Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 131 into law (SB 131), amending the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)...more
In a significant move to reshape the landscape of federal grantmaking, the recently issued Executive Order, “Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking,” is poised to transform how federal agencies administer grants. With the...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced through the Trump administration’s unified agenda its intention to rescind its own 2024 final rule, which provided an analysis for determining independent contractor status under...more
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In FDA regulatory matters, companies must carefully choose when to challenge the government, and when to comply. In a recent case, Whoop, the Boston-based wearable maker, has chosen to openly challenge the U.S. Food and Drug...more
The House and Senate are in session this week, with both chambers focusing on their versions of the annual national defense spending bill, including the consideration of hundreds of filed amendments....more
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Host Jonathan Porter welcomes Brett McNeal and David Traskey to the show to discuss challenges associated with interpreting agency guidance—particularly advisory opinions from the Department of Health and Human Services’...more
On July 29, 2025, Chief Administrative Patent Judge Scott R. Boalick circulated a memorandum to Members of the PTAB entitled “Final Written Decision Procedures for AIA Trial Proceedings.” ...more
On August 28, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sent letters to 25 major banks requesting information regarding their overdraft policies and profits following the repeal of...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Spring 2025 rulemaking agenda was released on September 4, 2025, offering insight into the SEC’s rulemaking priorities under Chair Paul Atkins. In a concurrent statement, Atkins...more
Our Drug Pricing and Market Access team tracks recent developments in healthcare reform, the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program, the 340B Program, Medicare, and state law....more
On September 5, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) moved to dismiss its appeals in two pivotal cases— Ryan, LLC v. FTC, No. 24-10951 (5th Cir.) and Properties of the Villages v. FTC, No. 24-13102 (11th Cir.)—effectively...more
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On September 4, 2025, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee convened a hearing to consider the nominations of Laura Swett and David LaCerte to serve as commissioners at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission...more
Dean Stockford and Len Suzio welcome Lori Sommerfield of Troutman Pepper Locke LLP to discuss President Trump’s Executive Order 14281, which limits federal use of the disparate impact theory in fair lending enforcement,...more
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Directs the Secretary of State to designate a foreign country as a State Sponsor of Wrongful Detention for wrongfully detaining American citizens in foreign countries. Directs the Secretary of State to impose sanctions under...more