Early Returns Podcast with Jan Baran - Josh Gerstein: SCOTUS, the Presidential Immunity Case Fallout, and the Dobbs Case Leak Investigation
Podcast: Post-Dobbs - One Year Later - Diagnosing Health Care
Early Returns Podcast with Jan Baran: The Honorable Thomas Griffith – Judiciously Ruling in the Face of Politics
Reproductive Rights in the Post-Dobbs Era
Podcast: Post-Dobbs - Considerations for Clinical Trials and Research - Diagnosing Health Care
Podcast: Post-Dobbs Access to Reproductive Health Care and Abortion-Inducing Drugs - Diagnosing Health Care
#WorkforceWednesday: EEOC Targets Abortion Travel, Midterm Results, and SCOTUS Declines COVID-19 WARN Act Case - Employment Law This Week®
In the Boardroom With Resnick and Fuller - Episode 2
Podcast: Post-Dobbs - Navigating the Fast-Changing and Uncertain Legal Landscape - Diagnosing Health Care
Let's Talk About the Constitutional Aspects of the Dobbs Decision
What Can The Handmaid’s Tale Teach Us About Corporate Abortion Policies? - Hiring to Firing Podcast
#WorkforceWednesday: Enforcement Risk Post-Roe, 11th State Passes Paid Family and Medical Leave, FTC/NLRB Join Forces - Employment Law This Week®
Dobbs on Demand: Navigating the Dobbs Decision: The Employment Law Perspective in the Workplace
Dobbs on Demand: Approaching Benefits in the New Legal Environment
Dobbs on Demand: Navigating the Line Between Healthcare and Crime in the Post-Dobbs Landscape
Employee Benefits Post-Dobbs: What Kinds of Assistance Can Employers Now Offer in Reproductive Healthcare?
State AG Pulse | Winner Takes All in Kansas
#WorkforceWednesday: Employers Respond to Dobbs, Implications of the Supreme Court's EPA Ruling, and Pay Increases for CA Health Care Workers - Employment Law This Week®
How the Dobbs Supreme Court Decision Affects Employee Benefits
Employment Law Now VI-118 - Overturning Roe v. Wade and the Impact on Employers and Employees
A federal district court has vacated a federal regulation under HIPAA that provided special restrictions on the disclosure of reproductive health information....more
The U.S. Senate will likely release additional sections of the reconciliation package this week. It is unlikely the Senate Committee on Finance, which has jurisdiction over Medicaid, will hold a markup on its portion of the...more
On June 3, 2025, the Trump administration announced (the Announcement) that it would no longer follow Biden-era guidance (the Guidance) that directed hospitals to provide emergency abortions to pregnant women in emergency...more
On June 3, 2025, the Trump Administration announced that it rescinded the Biden Administration’s guidance issued on July 11, 2022. The Biden Administration’s guidance advises hospital providers that, under the federal...more
Here are the top items you should tackle in June, based on the latest workplace law developments and upcoming critical compliance dates...more
Since President Trump's inauguration, the Trump administration has issued a number of executive orders and policy actions with potential impacts for the life sciences industry. Notable actions include rescinding Biden-era...more
Over the past two months, the second Trump administration has shifted federal policies and priorities regarding abortion, in vitro fertilization (IVF), contraception, and other reproductive-health-related matters – and it is...more
Last week, the US District Court for the District of Idaho entered another preliminary injunction prohibiting enforcement of Idaho’s Total Abortion Ban (IC § 18-622) if the abortion is necessary to stabilize a pregnant woman...more
This is part two of a series of executive orders related to health care. Abortion and Reproductive Healthcare - Enforcing the Hyde Amendment...more
As 2025 begins under President Donald Trump’s administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is experiencing significant changes. President Trump has issued executive orders addressing policies related to...more
The Trump Administration has issued swift changes in policy, and the effects are now reaching the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). While the EEOC is still awaiting quorum to vote on major actions, it is...more
In the first few days of his second presidential term, newly inaugurated President Trump signed a number of executive orders that will have an impact on the health care industry, some issuing new policies and some rescinding...more
Senate Finance, HELP Committees Hold RFK Jr. Nomination Hearings. RFK Jr., nominated for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), testified before the Senate Finance Committee on January 29 and before the Senate Health,...more
RFK Nomination Hearing Week - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK), nominated for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), has a busy week with two Senate nomination hearings. He will testify in front of the Senate Finance...more
Summary This Memorandum revokes the Presidential Memorandum of January 28, 2021, “Protecting Women’s Health at Home and Abroad,” and reinstates the Presidential Memorandum of January 23, 2017, “The Mexico City Policy.” It...more
Summary - This Order makes it the policy of the United States to enforce the Hyde Amendment, preventing the use of Federal money to fund or promote elective abortion. The EO further revokes two Executive Orders from the Biden...more
Looking toward a second administration under President-elect Trump, we anticipate a shift toward more employer-friendly labor policies and away from interpretations of law that afforded more expansive protections to...more
In recent months, several changes to healthcare rules regulations focusing on reproductive health care have been introduced. These include (1) privacy protections for reproductive health data under HIPAA, (2) expanding access...more
In this episode, recorded on Sept. 14, Akin Gump Supreme Court and appellate practice co-head Pratik Shah returns to review the 2019 Supreme Court Term and preview the big cases and topics in the October 2020 Term. Among...more
Below is the Federal Policy team’s weekly preview, posted when Congress is in session. HEADLINES - • Returning from a one-week recess, the House plans to take up legislation to address vaping, and the Senate will focus...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued two decisions today: Trump v. Hawaii, No 17-965: President Trump, citing national security, issued a series of executive orders in 2017 restricting the entry of foreign...more
Healthcare employers take note: the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has issued a proposed rule that, if passed, will allow healthcare workers who object to performing certain medical procedures like abortions...more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced the formation of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division of the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The new division will review complaints from...more
Caveat: As of the date of this writing, there are indications that revisions to the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 (“BCRA”) are in the works and may be issued as soon as Friday, June 30, 2017. If a revised BCRA is...more
On June 22, 2017, Republican Senators released a “discussion draft” of the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA). The draft is the first public glimpse at the Senate version of the American Health Care Act bill, which...more