Quick Guide to Administrative Hearings
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Prominent Journalist, David Dayen, Describes his Reporting on the Efforts of Trump 2.0 to Curb CFPB
The Loper Bright Decision - What Really Happened to Chevron and What's Next
Podcast - Legislative Implications of Loper Bright and Corner Post Decisions
#WorkforceWednesday®: After the Block - What’s Next for Employers and Non-Competes? - Spilling Secrets Podcast - Employment Law This Week®
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The Demise of the Chevron Doctrine – Part I
The End of Chevron Deference: Implications of the Supreme Court's Loper Bright Decision — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Down Goes Chevron: A 40-Year Precedent Overturned by the Supreme Court – Diagnosing Health Care
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Supreme Court Hears Two Cases in Which the Plaintiffs Seek to Overturn the Chevron Judicial Deference Framework: Who Will Win and What Does It Mean? Part II
The Future of Chevron Deference - The Consumer Finance Podcast
Hooper, Kearney and Macklin on Cutting Edge Topics in the False Claims Act
Part Two: The MFN Drug Pricing Rule and the Rebate Rule: Where Do We Go From Here?
Part One: Two new Medicare Drug Pricing Rules in One Day: What are the MFN and the Rebate Drug Pricing Rules?
Employment Law Now IV-78- BREAKING: US DOL Issues New Regulations After Federal Court Invalidated Old Regulations
Podcast - Developments in FDA & DOJ Regulation and Enforcement of Manufacturer Communications
Podcast - Chamber of Commerce v. Internal Revenue Service
A reconstituted Federal Trade Commission (Commission) has asked the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to grant it a 60-day continuance to consider whether to drop the defense of its rule banning noncompetes. As previously...more
On July 15, the FDIC Board withdrew a proposed rule concerning the oversight of parent companies of industrial banks and industrial loan companies. The withdrawal means the FDIC no longer intends to issue a final rule on...more
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
On July 8, 2025, less than a week before the “click-to-cancel” rule would have gone into effect, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit struck down the proposed rule (Custom Communications, Inc. v. Federal...more
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
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s Rule Concerning Subscriptions and Other Negative Option Plans (often referred to as the “Click-to-Cancel” rule) on July 8, just days...more
On June 24, 2025, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the authority of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) to compel the cleanup of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances under...more
In Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court significantly narrowed federal courts’ power to issue “universal” or “nationwide” injunctions—broad orders that bar the government from enforcing a policy against anyone, not just the...more
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 18, 2025, decided Nuclear Regulatory Commission v. Texas, 605 U.S. ___ (2025), which involved challenges to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC or Commission) decision to grant a...more
On Wednesday, June 18, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion in NRC v. Texas to resolve a circuit split over the storage of spent nuclear fuel between the Tenth Circuit, D.C. Circuit, and Fifth...more
The Supreme Court’s decision in NRC v. Texas gives nuclear energy generators and storage facilities, as well as NRC, the latest win in the decades-long struggle over used-fuel storage....more
On May 29, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, clarifying the standards for judicial review of challenges to agency action under the National Environmental Policy Act...more
A group of 16 Democratic AGs filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the decision by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to redistribute thousands of Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs) throughout the...more
In a landmark ruling issued May 29, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously reversed the D.C. Circuit in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, sharply limiting the scope of environmental review...more
In its motion for a summary judgment in a lawsuit challenging the regulation, the CFPB stated it has concluded that the Section 1033 Rule (Rule) exceeds the agency’s statutory authority to create an open banking system...more
The Supreme Court of the United States’ opinion, issued May 29, 2025, in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, reaffirms the Court’s earlier, seminal decisions expounding judicial review under the...more
The decision emphasizes the importance of judicial deference to agencies on NEPA and narrows the scope of environmental analyses....more
On May 2, 2025, the National Science Foundation (“NSF”) issued a “Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate” (NSF 25-034) (hereinafter “Policy Notice”) adopting a uniform 15% Indirect Cost Rate (“IDC”)...more
In October 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized significant updates to the Negative Option Rule, which are slated to take effect on May 14, 2025. A negative option is a contract term under which a buyer agrees...more
The CFPB on April 30, 2025, filed a joint stipulation to dismiss its appeal pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit regarding an agency policy that expands the scope of antidiscrimination oversight....more
On April 28, a complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, challenging the removal of two Senate-confirmed members of the NCUA Board by President Trump. The plaintiffs allege that their...more
A group of 19 Democratic AGs filed a lawsuit to block the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) from enforcing a directive conditioning federal education funding on certification that state and local education agencies will not...more
On May 10, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published its Final Rule to implement minimum staffing standards for long-term care (LTC) facilities in the United States. However, as discussed in our...more
On March 31, 2025, a judge in the Eastern District of Texas struck down a 2024 Final Rule (the "Final Rule") by the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") that exerted jurisdiction over the regulation of laboratory-developed...more
It’s no secret that President Trump, his Cabinet, and other executive branch leaders are prioritizing deregulatory activities over more historical federal governance approaches. Indeed, one of President Trump’s earliest...more