The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a major shift in regulatory policy—to rescind the agency’s 2009 “Endangerment Finding” and to repeal all resulting emission standards for new motor vehicles and…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law
The Department of Labor (DOL) is taking steps to revise and relaunch its affirmative action requirements for veterans and people with disabilities…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
Now the law in Louisiana, Senate Bill 14 (S.B. 14) not only prohibits certain food ingredients in school-provided meals and beverages, but also requires food manufacturers to disclose the presence of certain food additives and…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Education Law
Under mounting pressure from advocates and stakeholders—most prominently the United States government—the World Bank recently rescinded its longstanding ban on financing nuclear power projects and announced its plan to support…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
The recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) brings sweeping and permanent changes to the federal estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax landscape. Most notably, it significantly increases the…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics, Taxation, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
FinCEN will work through the rulemaking process to formally extend the IA AML Rule effective date and intends to provide the IA sector with regulatory certainty by issuing appropriate exemptive relief delaying the effective…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) response to congressional inquiry regarding GAO’s bid protest function (Section 885 response), while pushing back against some proposed changes that could disincentive meritorious…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Government Contracting
June 2025 saw opinions from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals addressing issues including the authority of a court to dismiss a case that had been stayed pending an arbitration and the sequence of decision-making when a court…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Constitutional Law
Haynes Boone’s Real Estate Practice Group is excited to introduce the summer edition of HB Real Estate Insights. We hope you enjoy this read…
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/ Insurance, International Law & Trade, Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
The False Claims Act continues to be one of the most commonly used weapons in the government’s enforcement arsenal to address various forms of fraud. In addition to our “Year in Review” publication providing an overview of the…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Government Contracting, Health, Insurance
