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The three Democratic commissioners of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) who President Trump fired two weeks ago will not go down without a fight. Earlier this week they sued the president, arguing his unilateral...more
Last week, a sensitive internal government document was leaked to the public: the White House Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) passback to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) laying out proposed...more
Since President Trump took office on January 20, 2025, he has issued an unprecedented number of presidential actions, including 62 executive orders and numerous declarations, proclamations, announcements, memoranda, grants of...more
As we recently outlined, on January 31, 2025, U.S. District Judge John J. McConnell issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) that blocks the federal funding freeze outlined in the now-rescinded January 27, 2025, Office of...more
The US District Court for the District of Rhode Island and the US District Court for the District of Columbia both have issued Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs) enjoining the Government from enforcing the Office of...more
A memo issued yesterday by the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget directed federal agencies to pause financial assistance payments or reimbursements, effective at 5 p.m. today. However, this afternoon, a...more
USPTO News - On July 11, the USPTO Office of the Chief Economist released the 2022 updates to its Trademark Case Files Dataset and Trademark Assignment Dataset....more
Today, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed for lack of standing claims by a number of states challenging the Biden Administration’s Interim Estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon. The Court had telegraphed this...more
Although not receiving much media attention, in October 2022, the nationwide injunction on Executive Order 14042, Ensuring Adequate COVID-19 Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors (the “EO”) was lifted. The injunction,...more
On October 18, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals entered as its judgment its August 26, 2022 opinion limiting the scope of a nationwide injunction of the Biden Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal...more
In an “update” that reads more like a teaser to a B Movie, the OMB on Friday advised that it will have more guidance on EO 14042 for us soon. What precipitated this official warning that more guidance would be forthcoming?...more
On July 26, 2022, LifeNet was granted summary judgment in its challenge to portions of the second set of implementing regulations for the Independent Dispute Resolution (IDR) process for air ambulance providers under the No...more
Shifting standards and deadlines place additional burdens on contractors seeking to remain in compliance. What to Know - On November 30, 2021, a federal judge granted an injunction barring the government from enforcing the...more
The case is now moot, says the D.C. Circuit. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has dismissed as moot the appeal of the government in the case of National Women's Law Center v. Office of...more
It has been five years since Save Jobs USA, a group of technology workers who claim to have been displaced by foreign nationals with H-4 EADs challenged the Obama Administration’s authority to enact the H-4 EAD Rule. In the...more
On February 10, 2020, in National Women’s Law Center v. Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC’s) collection of gender...more
This edition of Employment Flash looks at developments in labor and employment law, including regarding a DOJ appeal of the EEOC's heightened pay reporting requirements, the NLRB's decision narrowing the circumstances under...more
The Situation: The United States District Court for the District of Columbia has set September 30, 2019, as the deadline for certain employers to submit EEO-1 Component 2 pay data for 2017 and 2018. Between now and then, the...more
As employers consider pay equity issues and disclosures, they are closely watching a recent federal district ruling that reinstated an Obama-era rule requiring large employers to collect and annually report wage data by...more
Quick Hit: A federal judge has issued an order lifting the stay issued by the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) that halted implementation of the EEOC’s revised EEO-1 form that would have added compensation data to the...more
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING - According to Bloomberg Government, contract spending has grown by almost 6% per year over the past five years as federal agencies increasingly rely on government-wide contract vehicles and...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) officially sent its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to revise the Part 541 regulations to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) of the...more
Gary Fowler and John Jansonius presented "2018 Employment and Labor Law Update: The Year of #MeToo" at the 20th annual Labor & Employment Law Symposium on Oct. 11, 2018 at the Westin Galleria Hotel....more
Following a truncated August recess, the House and the Senate returned to Washington after Labor Day with a full plate of legislative items to address prior to the end of the fiscal year on September 30. That list includes...more
On June 27, 2017, the U.S. Department of Labor sent a Request for Information related to the now-enjoined overtime rule to the Office of Management and Budget for review. After OMB completes its review, the RFI will be...more