Florida’s newly enacted Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth (CHOICE) Act brings sweeping changes to the enforceability of noncompete and garden leave agreements across the state. The…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law a bill entitled “An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14,” generally referred to as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the OBBBA). The OBBBA will…
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/ Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law, Taxation
Coldplay frontman Chris Martin unexpectedly found himself in the spotlight for reasons other than his music. During a recent concert, Martin called the audience’s attention to a couple featured on a jumbotron “kiss cam.” The…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
Real World Impact: Governor Ron DeSantis has allowed Florida’s expansive noncompete bill to become law without his signature.
As discussed in our May 19, 2025 Alert, the Florida Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment,…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
The Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) has published proposed changes to regulations under the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Section 503 of the…
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/ Civil Rights, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
On June 20, 2025, Texas Senate Bill 1318 was signed into law, introducing new restrictions on noncompete agreements entered with physicians licensed by the Texas Medical Board and other healthcare practitioners in Texas…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Health, Labor & Employment Law
I have said it many times – summer is for movies! Blockbusters, indies, and comedies (or whatever films you enjoy) just make a summer night better. Summer is also halfway to the film industry’s most illustrious awards show, the…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a decision issued on June 27, 2025, Trump v. CASA, Inc. (a 6-3 ruling), the U.S. Supreme Court held that federal District Courts lack authority to grant universal injunctions. In CASA, the United States District Courts for…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
On June 2, 2025, the Department of Labor (DOL) launched its Opinion Letter program. Opinion Letters are official written responses from the DOL that explain how it would apply statutes and regulations under particular facts…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
On June 20, 2025, in Stanley v. City of Sanford, the United States Supreme Court concluded that a retiree who could no longer work because of a disability is not a “qualified individual” entitled to protection under Title I of…
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/ Civil Rights, Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law
Real World Impact: Effective July 2, 2025, New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection will amend its implementing rules to the City’s Earned Safe and Sick Time Act to include the City’s own version of New York…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
The New York State Senate passed the “No Severance Ultimatums Act” (“the Act”), which, if enacted, “prevents employers from giving coercive ultimatums to employees or former employees relating to such employee's severance from…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
This summer, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part Two is expected to raise the bar again with heart-stopping stunts, cliff-hanging escapes, and the relentless pace we’ve come to expect from the Impossible Missions Force…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas recently issued a ruling vacating the “gender-identity related portions” of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) 2024 Guidance interpreting Title VII…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Real World Impact: President Trump’s travel ban on foreign nationals from certain countries could impact employers whose workforces and hiring plans include individuals from those countries…
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/ Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
