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Federal Court Halts Enforcement of Texas SB 2337 Regarding Proxy Advisor Disclosure of ESG or Other “Nonfinancial” Considerations

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Enacted earlier this year and scheduled to take effect September 1, SB 2337 would impose new disclosure obligations on proxy advisory firms issuing recommendations regarding Texas-based public companies, including a...more

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Judge Allows California Climate Disclosure Laws to Proceed... For Now

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On Tuesday, a California judge denied a motion for summary Judgment to strike down, on First Amendment grounds, California’s climate disclosure laws—at least for now....more

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SEC Files Brief in Support of Climate Disclosure Rules

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On August 6, the SEC filed its much-anticipated legal brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals supporting its controversial Climate Rules and responding to the arguments laid out in petitioners’ consolidated petitions for...more

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DEI Under Scrutiny, Part XI: Fifth Circuit Reconsiders Nasdaq’s Board Diversity Rule

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit will likely weigh in soon on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approval of Nasdaq’s board diversity rule that will require listed companies to disclose...more

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Federal Court of Appeals Stays SEC Climate Rule

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On Friday, March 15, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an administrative stay on the application of the SEC’s new rules regarding climate-related disclosures for investors, which we covered...more

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CEOs, Politics and the Law: Guidelines for a New Era in Corporate Social Speech

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In recent weeks, America’s CEOs have spoken out on social issues like never before, placing the business community firmly within the national debate. Likewise, companies are feeling internal and external pressures to...more

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Blog: U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Won’t Challenge Pay-Ratio Rules — At Least For Now — And Will Focus Instead On Conflict Minerals...

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The WSJ is reporting that, contrary to all expectations (including my own), “the U.S. Chamber of Commerce isn’t planning to mount a legal challenge to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s pay ratio rule.”...more

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D.C. Circuit Court Re-Affirms Decision that Portions of SEC’s Conflict Minerals Rules are Unconstitutional

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On August 18, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in likely the first majority opinion citing Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities) and George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty-Four), re-affirmed its...more

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Whose Role is it Anyway? Unanswered Questions About Social, Political, or Environmental Corporate Disclosures

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The D.C. Circuit attracted plenty of attention by ruling that one of the SEC’s conflict mineral disclosure rules – promulgated pursuant to a specific Congressional mandate in the Dodd-Frank Act – violated the First Amendment....more

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