In a rapidly evolving digital age, it is essential for contractors to understand the potential risks when managing voluminous amounts of project data and rolling out new communication platforms to employees. Certain policies and…
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/ Construction Law, Electronic Discovery, Science, Computers, & Technology
The United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, on May 19, 2025, clarifying that the scope of judicial review of federal agency environmental…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Transportation
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) issued a memorandum on July 15, 2025, announcing the end of what DOI refers to as "preferential treatment" for "unreliable, subsidy-dependent"1 wind and solar energy projects involving…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Taxation
Vibe coding is revolutionizing software development. The integration of generative AI tools into software development, such as ChatGPT's Agen, GitHub Copilot, Coursiv, and similar platforms, is revolutionizing how code is…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued Advisory Opinion 25-08, an unfavorable opinion discussing a proposed arrangement in which a medical device company would…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health
On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed into law the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act of 2025 – better known as the GENIUS Act. The GENIUS Act establishes the most comprehensive federal…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology
Microsoft has just disclosed a serious vulnerability in SharePoint (CVE-2025-53770) that allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute code in a SharePoint server hosted on-prem – no user interaction required. Exploiting…
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/ Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 18, 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced enough petitions have been received and the congressionally mandated 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced degree…
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/ Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Maryland Supreme Court recently certified in Martinez v. Amazon.com Services LLC that the de minimis doctrine applies to wage and hour law claims under the Maryland Wage and Hour Law and the Maryland Wage Payment and…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
The Department of Commerce (Commerce) has launched two additional Section 232 investigations covering unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), their parts and components, and of polysilicon and its derivatives. President Trump is…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, International Law & Trade, Transportation
Litigation against banks and other financial services firms is always evolving. This mid-year 2025 update discusses trends from recent case filings and decisions and highlights the importance of awareness of new legal theories,…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Privacy
In a record-setting enforcement action under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Attorney General (AG) announced a $1.55 million settlement with Healthline Media, a popular online publisher of health and…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
On July 3, 2025, Congress passed the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (the Act), which makes permanent certain provisions of 2017's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the 2017 TCJA) that would have expired this year and introduces significant…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Taxation
Recent Supreme Court decisions underscore how viewpoint-based refusals of trademark applications are unconstitutional. But can these viewpoint-based refusals survive under the "failure-to-function" doctrine instead?…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Intellectual Property
The Florida Supreme Court amended Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.280(f) (Timing and Sequence of Discovery) to resolve an ambiguity in the Rule that practitioners had been unreasonably using to thwart or delay the commencement…
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/ Civil Procedure
