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Wait - The EEOC Is Still Knocking? Why an Employment Lawsuit May Not Be the End of the Story

Many employers assume that once an employee or job applicant files a discrimination lawsuit after receiving a notice of right to sue from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency’s involvement in...more

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Court of Appeal Holds that Judges of Compensation Claims Lack Jurisdiction Over Employer/Carrier Paid Costs and Have Limited Role...

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Fox v. Sarasota County School Board, Fla. 1st DCA, No. 1D2023-3093, June 25, 2025 - The First District Court of Appeal issued an opinion that clarifies the extent of a Judge of Compensation Claim’s (JCC’s) discretion, and...more

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Federal Circuit Special Committee Recommends Continued Suspension for Judge Newman

Inexorable, inevitable, and regrettable are three words that come to mind with publication from the Report from Special Committee of the Federal Circuit (composed of Chief Judge Moore and Judges Prost and Taranto)...more

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PTO Defends its Recent Policy Changes Regarding Discretionary Denials

In the past few months, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) Acting Director has made substantial changes to the process for, and factors considered in, exercising discretion to deny institution of an inter partes...more

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Eleventh Circuit Deals Fatal Blow to the TCPA’s One-to-One Consent Rule

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Late in the afternoon on January 24, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) “One-to-One Consent Rule,” which was scheduled to take effect on January 27, 2025, was struck down and vacated by the US Court of...more

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Federal Appeals Court Narrows Labor Board’s Ability to Award Money to Workers

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A federal appeals court just clipped the wings of the National Labor Relations Board by limiting its authority to impose monetary remedies against employers. In a significant decision that could soon reverberate around the...more

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U.S. Supreme Court: No Judicial Review of Revoked Visa Petitions

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The U.S. Supreme Court held in Bouarfa v. Mayorkas, No. 23-583 (Dec. 10, 2024), that one cannot appeal a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) revocation of an approved visa petition in federal court because such...more

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Fifth Circuit Backs Block on Contractor Vaccine Mandate

These days, efforts by the federal government to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for various groups seem like ancient history. Nevertheless, federal courts continue hearing challenges to the mandates filed by state governments,...more

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CDC Eviction Moratorium Not Quite Over: Where Do We Go From Here?

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Last September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ordered a nationwide eviction moratorium on residential properties. 85 Fed. Reg. 55,292 (Sept. 4, 2020). On May 5, 2021, the United States District Court...more

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D.C. Appeals Court Upholds CMS's Authority to Limit Payment for E&M Services at Off-Site Provider-Based Locations

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The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia recently upheld CMS's authority to expand site-neutral payment reductions for evaluation and management (E&M) services provided at longstanding off-campus...more

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Payment Reduction to 340B Hospitals

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On July 31, 2020, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision reversing a lower court decision and upholding Medicare payment cuts to certain hospitals participating in the 340B drug pricing program that have been in...more

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PTAB Strategies and Insights - July 2020: Federal Circuit Confirms PTAB's Ability to Consider Subject Matter Eligibility of...

On July 22, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) issued an opinion in Uniloc 2017 LLC v. Hulu, LLC & Netflix, Inc., No. 2019-1686 (Fed. Cir. 2020) authorizing the U.S. Patent Trial &...more

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United States Supreme Court recognizes employer religious freedoms in two recent decisions

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On July 8, 2020, the United States Supreme Court decided two cases addressing employers’ religious freedoms in very different contexts: one concerning whether religious school teachers could challenge adverse employment...more

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Supreme Court Rules that Employers May Use Religious and Moral Exemptions for Requirement to Provide Health Plan Coverage for...

On July 8, 2020, in the consolidated cases of Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania et al. and Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Pennsylvania et al., the U.S. Supreme...more

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Supreme Court Allows Religious Employer Exemptions from Contraceptive Coverage

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On Wednesday, July 8, 2020, the Supreme Court weighed in on whether religious employers are required to offer their employees health plans that include contraceptive coverage. In its opinion in Little Sisters of the Poor v....more

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Supreme Court Upholds Rules Expanding Exemptions To ACA’s Contraceptive Mandate

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The Supreme Court just upheld two Trump-era rules expanding religious and moral exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraceptive mandate. The July 8 decision in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania is just...more

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Supreme Court Upholds Exemption to ACA’s Contraceptive Mandate

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In Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court this week upheld regulations issued by the U.S. Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (the Departments) that...more

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SCOTUS Gives Religious Exemptions Wide Berth in Two Key Employment Rulings

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On July 8, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two 7-2 decisions involving religious exemptions to federal employment and benefits laws....more

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New Supreme Court Ruling Allows Religious Employers to Exempt Birth Control from Health Care Coverage

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This week, the Supreme Court ruled that employers may exclude coverage for birth control from their health plans based upon moral or religious objections to contraception. ...more

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Religious exemption carries in U.S. Supreme Court decision on preventive reproductive care

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Until this week, federal law required most insurance plans to cover the cost of birth control without a copay. However, the history behind this issue can be traced back much further....more

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Supreme Court Decides Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania and Trump v. Pennsylvania

On July 8, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania and Trump v. Pennsylvania, holding that the Department of Health and Human Services validly created...more

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D.C. Court Supports FDA Regulation of E-Cigs & Vape Products

On 10, December 2019, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in support of actions by the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) on the regulation and classification of electronic nicotine delivery system...more

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency e-Manifest User Fees: Environmental Technology Council Files United States Court of Appeals...

The Environmental Technology Council (“ETC”) filed a Petition for Review (“Petition”) in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia challenging the fee schedule issued by the United States Environmental...more

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Eleventh Circuit Rejects Environmental Groups’ Effort to Challenge Alabama NPDES Permitting Program Authority

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The Alabama Department of Environmental Management can finally breathe a sigh of relief, as the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion today affirming the U.S. EPA’s January 11, 2017 decision not to...more

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California Communities Against Toxics: The "Continuing Project" of Clarifying Administrative Law

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In California Communities Against Toxics v. EPA, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit issued an opinion that may have a lasting impact on administrative agencies’ use of guidance memos and policy statements. For...more

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