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Will Trump v. CASA Lead to Increased State AG Multistate Investigations and Litigation?

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On June 27, 2025, in its long-anticipated decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court significantly narrowed the ability of a single federal court to issue “universal” or “nationwide” injunctions—through which...more

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Mid-Year 2025

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The last six months have been a tumultuous time for employers. The pace and degree of change is creating new challenges — and ongoing uncertainty. Our Mid-Year 2025 report sifts through the volume of federal-level executive...more

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FDA Proposes Revoking Standards of Identity for 52 Food Products

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On July 16, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced plans to revoke the standards of identity for 52 food products the agency characterizes as obsolete. To do this, FDA has issued three proposed rules and...more

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Supreme Court restricts universal injunctions, but plaintiffs find a “workaround”

At the end of its 2024-25 term, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Trump v. CASA, Inc. that federal district courts do not have equity power to issue so-called “universal” (also known as “nationwide”) injunctions. At issue in...more

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Supreme Court Greenlights Trump Administration’s Federal Workforce Restructuring Plan

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On July 8, the US Supreme Court allowed President Trump’s executive order (EO) permitting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)-related planning efforts for the Trump Administration’s restructuring of the federal...more

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Supreme Court Decision on Nationwide Injunctions Will Have Long-Term Impacts on Employers

At the end of its latest term last month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a major decision regarding the ability of federal district courts to issue nationwide injunctions blocking executive branch regulations and executive...more

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Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to Continue Plans to Reduce Federal Workforce

On July 8, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States granted the Trump administration’s request to stay a lower-court judge’s order blocking President Donald Trump’s plan to reduce and restructure the federal workforce,...more

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Supreme Court Halts Nationwide Injunctions with Major Implications for Ongoing Litigation

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On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in a 6-3 decision in Trump v. Casa, that federal courts lack the authority to issue nationwide injunctions under the Judiciary Act of 1789 (Judiciary Act). In doing so, the Court...more

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Supreme Court Ends Use of Universal Injunctions

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On June 27, 2025, in a 6-3 opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Trump v. CASA, Inc., No. 24A884, 606 U.S. ___ (2025), that federal courts lack the power to issue “universal injunctions,” a...more

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SCOTUS Curbs Universal Injunctions? So What Does That Mean for You?

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The United States Supreme Court issued a decision that curtailed the practice of “universal” or “nationwide” injunctions and may have a significant impact for individuals and organizations that seek redress from the courts,...more

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Supreme Court Limits Universal Injunctions

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On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court held in a 6-3 decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc. that federal courts lack the authority to issue universal injunctions under the Judiciary Act of 1789. In so ruling, the Court granted the...more

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Federal Judge Blocks NIH Grant Cuts, Rejecting DOJ’s Claims of Unlawful Discrimination

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WHAT: A Massachusetts federal judge blocked the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from cutting hundreds of programs that provide grants to universities, hospitals, and other organizations. The judge found that NIH offered...more

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Supreme Court Rules DOGE Can Access Social Security Data and Avoid FOIA - for Now

On June 6, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States released two decisions on its emergency docket with serious implications for federal agencies, companies that do business with the government, and the data of millions...more

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Project Opponents of Empire Wind Strike Back

As recently reported, on May 19, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Interior reversed the stop work order it issued on April 16, 2025, thereby allowing the $5 billion, 2 GW, Empire Wind project to proceed. On June 3, 2025, a...more

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When ‘Independent Judgment’ Meets Presidential Fiat: The ALJ Dilemma

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On February 18, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14215 “Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies,” Section 7 of which provides that: “[t]he President and the Attorney General’s opinions on questions of law are...more

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Understanding President Trump’s Executive Orders on promoting nuclear energy and removing regulatory barriers to licensing

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On May 23, 2025, President Trump signed four Executive Orders intended to expedite the development and deployment of American nuclear technology. The orders would affect the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (“NRC”), the...more

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Executive Orders, Lawsuits Seek To Jumpstart Permitting of Nuclear Reactors

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President Donald Trump signed four executive orders (EOs) on May 23, 2025, related to nuclear energy—three of which seek to expedite approval processes for permitting new nuclear reactors. The EOs collectively aim to harness...more

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Supreme Court to Decide the Fate of Universal Injunctions

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The Supreme Court is prepared to determine the legality of a powerful but controversial judicial remedy — the universal injunction. The case, Trump v. CASA, Inc., reached the Justices after a lower court barred the Trump...more

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President Trump Signs 4 Executive Orders to Deploy New Nuclear Reactors, Strengthen Supply Chain

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President Donald Trump signed four separate executive orders (EOs) on May 23, 2025, intended to result in a quadrupling of U.S. nuclear energy capacity to 400 gigawatts (GW) by 2050, all while strengthening domestic fuel...more

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District court issues temporary restraining order to halt federal layoffs

On May 9, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted a temporary restraining order to halt the implementation of Executive Order 14210 (“Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government...more

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Four Trump Administration Steps to ‘Deregulate’ With a Reduced Workforce

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For decades, businesses have focused on “doing more with less,” maximizing efficiency by optimizing resources and streamlining processes to achieve greater output with fewer inputs. This effort often involves leveraging...more

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Two Courts Found the Department of Education’s Anti-DEI DCL Unlawful: Where Are We Now?

On April 24, 2025, two U.S. District Courts issued Orders finding the U.S. Department of Education (DOE)’s Feb. 14, 2025 “Dear Colleague” Letter (DCL) to be unlawful and narrowly restricting the DOE’s enforcement of the DCL....more

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Limits of IEEPA’s Designation Authority

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Over the first 100 days and beyond, the Trump Administration has deployed national security authorities in novel ways. Perhaps most notably, President Trump has asserted authority under the International Emergency Economic...more

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Executive Order on Accreditation and Injunctions of Dear Colleague Letter Impact DEI in Higher Education

A recent executive order attacks DEI accreditation standards as courts block enforcement of the Department of Education’s Dear Colleague Letter on race. On April 23, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14279 (EO)...more

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Unleashing American Energy: Deregulatory Executive Orders

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Among other energy-related actions within the first two weeks of April 2025, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on April 8 and 9 that have the potential to result in significant changes to US federal, state,...more

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