Discrimination, Biden Administration, Executive Orders

Section 1557: Deadlines Approach, But Long-Term Prognosis Unclear Under Executive Orders

Ballard Spahr LLP on 4/18/2025

Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act mandates nondiscrimination in health care programs managed or funded by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), with upcoming deadlines for compliance set for May and July...more

OP-ED: Executive Orders Cannot Eliminate USDOT’s DBE Program

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 2/19/2025

Within hours of taking office, President Trump executed two executive orders aimed at rescinding former President Biden’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)-focused orders. Trump’s orders reached beyond actions by the...more

Trump Fires EEOC Commissioners, General Counsel, Depriving Agency of Quorum

Littler on 1/30/2025

Following on the heels of the January 27, 2025 dismissal of National Labor Relations Board Member Gwynne Wilcox and NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo, President Trump fired two of the three Democratic Commissioners on the...more

OFCCP publishes AI guidance for contractors

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 5/6/2024

Traditional rules apply to AI, too! In response to President Biden’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs...more

Recap: 2023 ANA Annual Advertising and Marketing Law Conference

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 11/21/2023

If artificial intelligence is so great, why can’t it reliably predict the weather? The weekend has just closed on another very rainy Floridian ANA Masters of Advertising Law Conference (Last year we had a hurricane, so...more

Biden Administration Issues Sweeping Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

The Volkov Law Group on 11/6/2023

The Biden Administration issued a sweeping Executive Order directing a broad set of government actions addressing consumer harms, discrimination, privacy protections and other issues stemming from the widespread use of...more

Financial Services and the Biden Artificial Intelligence Executive Order

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 11/6/2023

On October 30, 2023, the White House announced that President Biden had issued an Executive Order regarding artificial intelligence (“AI”). The Executive Order was accompanied by a Fact Sheet summarizing the eight policy...more

White House Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence: Implications for the Health Care and Life Sciences Industries

Epstein Becker & Green on 11/2/2023

On October 30, 2023, President Joe Biden signed the first ever Executive Order (EO) that specifically directs federal agencies on the use and regulation of Artificial Intelligence (AI). A Fact Sheet for this EO is also...more

Biden Issues First Executive Order Directing Federal Agencies to Establish New Standards to Promote Safe and Secure Use of AI

Troutman Pepper Locke on 11/2/2023

On October 30, President Biden issued a sweeping Executive Order calling on Congress to enact privacy laws and directing federal agencies to review existing rules and potentially explore new rulemakings governing the use of...more

White House Issues First Artificial Intelligence Executive Order: AI Guidance for Federal Contractors Forthcoming

Proskauer - Government Contractor Compliance... on 11/1/2023

On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued an “Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” (the “EO”), the first executive order directly addressing artificial...more

Proposed Rule Leverages Section 1557 for Healthcare Equity

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 8/23/2022

On July 25, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued a proposed new rule that significantly expands the scope of protection available to vulnerable populations under Section 1557 of the Affordable...more

2023 Payment Rule’s Nondiscrimination Provisions and Anticipation of New Section 1557 Rules

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/18/2022

On January 5, 2022, we discussed the Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2023 proposed rule released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). On April 28, 2022, CMS issued the NBPP 2023 Final Rule. CMS...more

Biden Administration Executive Orders Impacting Employment Law Issues

Foster Swift Collins & Smith on 5/5/2021

Since inauguration day, President Biden has issued a flurry of executive orders (EO), which do not create new laws but do direct executive branch actions within existing laws. Among the executive orders signed by the...more

Weekly Update for Government Contractors and Commercial Businesses – April 2021

PilieroMazza PLLC on 4/5/2021

PilieroMazza Reacts to the Rise in Violence Against the Asian-American Community - In the past year, 3,800 acts of violence were perpetrated against the Asian-American community, with a disproportionate number of these...more

Coronavirus: The Hill and the Headlines, January 2021 # 15

Hogan Lovells on 1/27/2021

In Washington: House Democrats are altering the House calendar to speed up passing a COVID-19 relief through a reconciliation package by mid-March. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) announced that the House will not...more

Biden Administration Issues Order on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

Morgan Lewis on 1/25/2021

As one of his first actions in office, President Joe Biden has issued an executive order ensuring that last year’s US Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County is applied immediately and efficiently by all federal...more

Biden Launches Several Employment Focused Executive Orders

Wiley Rein LLP on 1/22/2021

Within 24-hours of taking office, President Biden issued several Executive Orders (E.O.) impacting employers and rolling back his predecessor’s policies, including a sweeping order implementing the U.S. Supreme Court’s...more

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