On June 9, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction in San Francisco A.I.D.S. Foundation, et. al. v. Trump, 25-cv-01824-JST (N.D. Cal.), enjoining three of the nine…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Nonprofit Law
On April 24, 2025, the Florida legislature passed the Florida Contracts Honoring Opportunity, Investment, Confidentiality, and Economic Growth, or CHOICE, Act.
The CHOICE Act goes into effect on July 1, 2025. The CHOICE Act…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
In a recent Ohio Ninth District Court of Appeals decision, homeowners who experienced significant property damage from both a fallen tree and inadequate contractor work were left without the protection of Ohio’s Consumer Sales…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Construction Law, Consumer Protection, Real Estate - Residential
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) launched the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative (the “Initiative”), which was announced on May 19, 2025 via Memorandum from Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, and a related press release (the…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
We recently wrote about the preliminary injunction entered by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, blocking the Department of Labor from enforcing certain provisions of Executive Orders 14173 and 14151,…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
On April 23, 2025, the United States Department of Justice announced that it is rescinding the January 31, 2022 Notice of Report on Lawful Uses of Race or Sex in Federal Contracting Programs (the “2022 Report”). The April 23…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Contracting
On April 2, we reported that Judge Matthew Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois had issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Labor from enforcing certain provisions of…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Labor & Employment Law
The year 2025 is shaping up to be quite the challenging year for the construction industry. From the President’s executive order nos. 14151 and 14174 (signed January 20 and 21, 2025, respectively) seeking to end DEI-related…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Construction Law, Government Contracting, International Law & Trade
Successful business owners know one tried-and-true method to grow and scale is through acquisition. In today’s competitive and complex marketplace, the competition is fierce for businesses with a proven track record and the…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Mergers & Acquisitions
On March 27, 2025, Judge Matthew Kennelly of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Labor from enforcing certain provisions of Executive…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law
The Federal Government’s recent imposition of tariffs appears designed largely to bring manufacturing back inside the United States. News reports indicate the Government understands that tariffs may initially cause pain but…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Construction Law, Government Contracting
On March 14, 2025, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted the government’s request to stay a nationwide preliminary injunction that blocked enforcement of elements of President Trump’s Executive Order 14173…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Contracting
On January 21, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14173 titled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity” (the “Order”). As was noted in our February 10, 2025, article, the Order amounted to…
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/ Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government Contracting
The city of Chicago’s recently established Tenant Opportunity to Purchase (“TOP”) program for rental buildings on the city’s northwest side is now being enforced as of March 1, 2025, by the Department of Housing. The program is…
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/ Civil Remedies, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
Artificial Intelligence will impact construction in ways that are both predictable and unexpected. Similar to technologies such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) and GPS, the use of AI hopes to make construction safer,…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Construction Law, Science, Computers, & Technology
