Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, the Supreme Court will considering hearing a case involving guns and cannabis…
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/ Administrative Law, Agriculture, Commercial Law & Contracts, Constitutional Law, Elections & Politics
On 1 January 2024, Foreign State Immunity Law of The People’s Republic of China (“FSIL”) came into effect, changing and clarifying the position of sovereign immunity under the laws of Hong Kong and mainland China…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, International Law & Trade
The U.S. Department of Labor has officially revived its Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program. Designed to help employers proactively resolve FLSA issues—and now, for the first time, certain FMLA violations—the…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
On July 24, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) unanimously voted to adopt a package of Proposed Regulations for the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), marking a significant development in California…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy, Insurance, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 23, 2025, the White House released “America’s AI Action Plan” and President Trump signed three Executive Orders addressing AI development, federal procurement, and infrastructure. The 25-page AI Action Plan focuses on…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Science, Computers, & Technology, Government Contracting
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, the Senate confirmed a new head of the Drug Enforcement Administration. The Senate Appropriations Committee…
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/ Administrative Law, Agriculture, Commercial Law & Contracts, Elections & Politics, Indigenous Peoples
Starting January 1, 2026, California’s AI Transparency Act (SB 942) goes into effect, marking the first law in the U.S. to require built-in disclosures and detection tools for generative AI content. Do not panic (yet). This law…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Communications & Media Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
In light of recent disputes, international construction firms are rethinking how they draft force majeure and price escalation provisions to better address tariff-induced cost increases. While traditional force majeure clauses…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Construction Law, International Law & Trade
In recent months, we have seen a rise in charges filed with the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Immigrant and Employee Rights Section (IER) and announcements from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) depicting a…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law, Immigration Law
Just before its summer recess, the Supreme Court agreed to review whether multiemployer pension funds can impose withdrawal liability based on actuarial assumptions adopted after the relevant plan year. The expected decision may…
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/ Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law
US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) initially deployed the Status Change Report on June 20, 2025, to help certain employers identify whether any E-Verify cases were created using an Employment Authorization Document…
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/ Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a significant development for employers and Haitian nationals under Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has updated its guidance to reflect a court-ordered automatic…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics, Labor & Employment Law, Immigration Law
With the 2025 New York legislative session now completed, several bills that passed both the Senate and Assembly may be headed to the Governor for signature, but two significant bills that passed the Senate did not pass the…
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/ Civil Rights, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
Under the current administration, the Department of Labor has once again changed course on its view of permissible investing strategies for retirement plans, warming to crypto and private equity, and confirming their distrust of…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law, Securities Law
Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. This week, another cannabis legalization measure cropped up in Pennsylvania…
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/ Agriculture, Commercial Law & Contracts, Elections & Politics, Health
