On June 23, significant amendments (Amendments) to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule (COPPA Rule) became effective, which increase obligations on many operators of websites and online services. The…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
In June 2025, Terren Scott Peizer, the former chief executive officer, executive chairman and chairman of the board of directors of Ontrak, Inc. (Ontrak), was sentenced to 42 months imprisonment, ordered to pay a $5.25 million…
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/ Criminal Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
The federal government’s commitment to supporting small businesses through procurement remains strong, but the shape and scale of that support may soon look very different. In accordance with recent executive orders, sweeping…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting
The healthcare mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market remained active in Q2 2025, with several sectors including physician practice management (PPM), clinical research, and digital health experiencing continued investment and…
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/ Mergers & Acquisitions, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 16, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed rule for the Ambulatory Specialty Model (ASM), a mandatory, five-year alternative payment model for select specialists who regularly treat heart…
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/ Health
As we noted in a blog post in February, the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was enacted in December 2024 included a provision at Section 885 raising the protest threshold for Department of Defense (DoD), Coast…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting
On June 30, President Trump signed Executive Order 14312, “Providing for the Revocation of Syria Sanctions” (EO), which formally terminates many U.S. sanctions on Syria. Public reports indicate that the European Union has also…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
On July 11, the Trump administration issued an order blocking and requiring the unwinding of a 2020 acquisition by which Jupiter Systems, LLC (Jupiter), a U.S.-based audiovisual equipment supplier, was acquired by Suirui…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions
On July 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued a unanimous opinion in Custom Communications Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission that vacates the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Rule Concerning Recurring…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection
During the 2025 legislative session, Louisiana, Utah, and Texas all enacted statutes imposing new regulatory obligations on app store providers and software developers with respect to minors and, in the case of Utah, include a…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 7, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) overturned an over 70-year-old interpretation of the Internal Revenue Code via a federal court filing in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, which now…
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/ Constitutional Law, Elections & Politics, Nonprofit Law
In June 2025, the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that Unicat Catalyst Technologies, LLC (Unicat), a Texas-based petrochemical company, had agreed to settle its potential civil liability…
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/ Business Organizations, International Law & Trade, Mergers & Acquisitions
On June 20, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published Advisory Opinion 25-04, in which it declined to approve a proposal by a medical device company (Requestor) to pay the costs…
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/ Health
On June 4, Colorado became the second state to adopt the Uniform Antitrust Premerger Notification Act (Act) when Governor Jared Polis signed SB25-126 into law. Like Washington’s version of the Act, Colorado’s new law imposes…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions
The annual filing (and fee payment) for applicable self-insured health plans and specified health insurance policies used to fund the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI fee) is due by Thursday, July 31, 2025…
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/ Health, Insurance, Taxation
