On May 22, 2025, the House passed H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the Bill), its budget reconciliation legislation that upheld most of the Medicaid-related provisions originally approved by the House Energy and Commerce…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Insurance, Taxation
In response to a record year of personal data breaches in 2024, affecting millions of individuals, the French data protection authority (CNIL) has published a set of security directives for operators of large databases. While…
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/ Administrative Law, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The development of innovative pharmaceuticals targeting refractory mental health conditions has stagnated for decades. In recent years, however, psychedelics have garnered scientific and public attention for their potential use…
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/ Administrative Law, Elections & Politics, Health
On May 21, 2025, CMS announced that it plans to increase its auditing efforts for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Effective immediately, CMS will audit all eligible MA contracts for each payment year in all newly initiated…
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/ Administrative Law, Government Contracting, Health, Insurance
CDRH and CBER Release Final Guidance for the Q-Submission Program and Draft Guidance for PreSTAR -
On May 29, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) and Center…
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All Wrapped Up: Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging, April 2025 -
All Wrapped Up is a newsletter that tracks and analyzes key developments in extended producer responsibility laws for packaging. It is a…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection, Environmental Law
Last week, CMS published new guidance and issued a Request for Information on the Hospital Price Transparency Rule in response to President Trump’s February 25, 2025 Executive Order titled, “Making America Healthy Again by…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Health
INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYEES – WHEN DO THEY HAVE UK EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS?
The question of jurisdiction and application of UK employment rights is a growing problem for employers, as employees increasingly work in multiple locations…
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/ Conflict of Laws, International Law & Trade, Labor & Employment Law
Last week, the House Energy & Commerce Committee marked up legislation that would significantly affect the Medicaid program, including changes to state Medicaid financing mechanisms, state directed payment programs that…
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/ Elections & Politics, Finance & Banking, Health, Taxation
On April 29, 2025, United States District Judge John H. Chun of the Western District of Washington issued an order denying defendant Amazon’s request to claw back privileged documents it argued had inadvertently produced in…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Procedure, Electronic Discovery
On May 28, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) provided updated guidance on two employee benefit plan-related investment areas: (1) cryptocurrency and (2) environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) investing…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law
Trump's EOs Intend to Spur U.S. Nuclear Revival -
On May 23, 2025, President Trump signed four Executive Orders (“the EOs”) intended to spur a nuclear industry revival in the U.S. through a revamped and streamlined regulatory…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Energy & Utilities
On May 29, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County that promises to significantly alter the scope of judicial review of environmental reviews performed under the…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Transportation
On February 13, 2025, a New York intermediate appellate court affirmed the grant of summary judgment against energy companies that defaulted on their loan obligations. In 2020 and 2021, an engineering firm specializing in…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, Energy & Utilities
On March 17, 2025, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan denied a borrower’s motion for summary judgment, finding that a secured loan did not violate Michigan’s usury laws. In so holding, the court…
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/ Bankruptcy, Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Conflict of Laws
