On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law H.R. 1, "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (the “Act” or “OBBBA”) a comprehensive bill that combines many of the President’s major policy initiatives he had promised during his election…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Health, Science, Computers, & Technology, Taxation
On July 11, 2025, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision clarifying the scope of Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act (EKRA). In affirming a Northern California-based medical testing laboratory’s convictions under EKRA, the Ninth…
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/ Criminal Law, Health
On 9 July 2025, the Capital Market Authority (the “CMA”) has announced a series of significant regulatory enhancements aimed at furthering the development of the Kingdom’s investment fund industry. These amendments, effective on…
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/ Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Commercial, Securities Law
On July 16, 2025, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the state’s charity care requirement—which mandates that hospitals must treat patients regardless of their ability to pay—does not amount to unconstitutional…
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/ Constitutional Law, Health
On June 27, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a qui tam complaint alleging violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and the federal False Claims Act…
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/ Civil Procedure, Government Contracting, Health
On July 14, 2025, CMS issued a proposed rule that identifies and seeks public comment on a variety of proposed changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), Medicare Shared Savings Program Requirements, and Medicare…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Insurance
On Wednesday, July 23, the White House released a formal initiative titled “Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan” (the “Action Plan”), a three-pillared agenda that the U.S. aims to employ in pursuing global AI dominance…
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/ Energy & Utilities, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 15, 2025, CMS issued a proposed rule with updates to the Medicare payment rates for the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Medicare Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) payment system for calendar…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Insurance
Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs) and Exempt Reporting Advisers (ERAs) were less than six months away from the requirement to implement an anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) program and…
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/ Finance & Banking, Securities Law
On July 18, 2025, President Trump signed into law the first major piece of cryptocurrency legislation, the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (“GENIUS Act”). The legislation, which creates a…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
To offset the cost of other provisions in the bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) includes significant reforms to Medicaid, Medicare, and Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits that are expected to result in…
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/ Health, Insurance, Taxation
Over the last few months, organisations have accelerated efforts to engage with the requirements of the EU AI Act as we fast approach the date for when rules relating to general purpose AI models (“GPAI models”) come into…
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/ International Law & Trade, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
In this midsummer edition of All Wrapped Up, we discuss a blockbuster ending to this year’s state legislative sessions, culminating in the official launch of the first packaging EPR program in U.S. history; the passage of…
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/ Environmental Law
The European Commission received the final version of the General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice on July 10, 2025. The GPAI is a voluntary framework intended to guide how providers of large AI models comply with the…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
On July 4, President Trump signed into law H.R. 1, (the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (“OBBBA”)), a sweeping legislation package featuring significant changes to U.S. tax law. The OBBBA was passed via a budget reconciliation…
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/ Taxation
