Enacted in the early days of the pandemic, the law required employers to provide a separate allotment of paid sick leave to employees who were subject to mandatory or precautionary quarantine or isolation orders due to COVID…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
As the 2025 summer heat continues and as state privacy laws continue to mature, enforcement actions are beginning to shape the compliance landscape for businesses nationwide—from the coast of California to the shores of…
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/ Civil Procedure, Health, Privacy
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced in a field assistance bulletin that it will no longer seek liquidated damages in its wage and hour investigations. This change, effective immediately, marks a significant departure…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law
With the close of the 2025 Washington state legislative session, it is time to review the new employment laws and amendments that will affect businesses operating in Washington. Many of these changes take effect on July 27,…
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/ Civil Rights, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
On June 27, 2025, the United States Supreme Court weighed in on the ongoing debate about age verification requirements for websites, holding that it is constitutional for a state to require websites that have a significant…
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/ Civil Procedure, Communications & Media Law, Constitutional Law, Privacy
Below are brief summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC or the Commission) open meeting to be held on July 24, at 10:00 a.m. ET.
The summaries below are based on publicly available…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
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- The European Commission published its Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Models on July 10, 2025, following three draft versions and just weeks before the first AI Act obligations take effect. The…
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/ Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
Roughly six months since Andrew Ferguson became Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, an FTC workshop on children’s privacy and online safety has provided a glimpse into the agency’s approach to these issues…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
The Ninth Circuit held that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) acted arbitrarily and capriciously by failing to explain in its Record of Decision why it selected a project alternative that did not meet the development standard…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
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1. The Act permanently extends the doubled gift, estate, and generation-skipping tax exclusion amount to $15 million per individual and $30 million per married couple, indexed for inflation.
2. The Act broadens…
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/ Administrative Law, Nonprofit Law, Taxation, Wills, Trusts, & Estate Planning
Stock Market Commentary -
U.S. stocks rallied during the second quarter, with the S&P 500 finishing up 10.9% reaching new all-time highs. The beginning of the quarter, however, was marred by a precipitous drop following the…
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/ Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
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Judge Chhabria recently granted summary judgment for Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta) in two key rulings finding that:
- Meta's use of copyrighted books to train LLMs is fair use due to its highly transformative…
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/ Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
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- The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the FCC's Universal Service Fund (USF) scheme, ensuring its continued operation.
- The Court rejected nondelegation doctrine challenges, finding Congress provided sufficient…
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/ Administrative Law, Communications & Media Law, Constitutional Law
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- The Report favors dispatchable resources over intermittent ones to address resource adequacy concerns and advises against retiring fossil-fuel generating resources.
- The Report introduces a methodology that…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities
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- Illinois recently concluded its legislative session, with many employment-related bills being sent to Governor JB Pritzker for possible enactment into law.
- As of this publication, the governor has already…
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/ Administrative Law, Labor & Employment Law, Health
