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Supreme Court Limits Nationwide Injunctions, Impacting Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

On June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court issued a ruling to limit the ability of federal district judges to issue broad nationwide injunctions. This decision was issued in connection with several legal challenges to prevent the...more

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Update: FTC’s Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Set Aside

On May 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Final Rule that renders invalid non-compete clauses in standard employment agreements. 16 C.F.R. § 910. On August 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the...more

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FTC Non-Compete Ban: What You Need to Know (UPDATED)

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On April 23, 2024, the FTC announced its Final Non-Compete Clause Rule (“Final Rule”), which bans post-employment non-compete clauses between employers and their workers. The Final Rule becomes effective 120 days after being...more

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FTC’s Final Rule on Non-Competes May Not be the Final Word

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In a controversial move, on April 24, 2024 the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced that beginning September 4, 2024, it will enforce its Final Rule banning most non-compete agreements that seek to limit a worker’s...more

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Analysis of FTC Non-Compete Ban Legal Challenges: Does the Ban Pass Constitutional Muster? (And Other Issues)

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On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted in a 3 to 2 decision along party lines to adopt its Final Non-Compete Clause Rule (“Noncompete Rule”) banning post-employment non-compete clauses between employers...more

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COVID-19 Policies and US Employers: Charting a Path Forward

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The legal landscape around COVID-19 policies and vaccine mandates in the workplace continues to shift under the feet of US employers. With the January 13 US Supreme Court ruling on the OSHA and CMS vaccine rules, and...more

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Supreme Court Blocks Biden Vaccine Mandate for Large Businesses – Allows It for Certain Healthcare Workers

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On Thursday, January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decisions on the Biden vaccine mandates.  Specifically, two mandates were at issue: (1) the mandate that all employers with over 100 employees...more

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Supreme Court Blocks OSHA's COVID-19 Vaccine-or-Test Standard for Private Employers

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In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday afternoon blocked the Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”) promulgated by the Occupational and Safety Health Administration (“OSHA”), portions of which had gone into effect...more

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Supreme Court Blocks OSHA’s Vaccine-or-Test Mandate but Allows CMS Vaccination Mandate for Most Health Care Workers

Today, the Supreme Court blocked the Biden Administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers, known as the Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”), which we wrote about here.  The Court held that the federal agency...more

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SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments on Vaccine Mandate Challenges

While President Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate officially took effect today, Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) heard two rounds of arguments concerning two of the three hotly contested...more

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The Legal Challenges to the OSHA ETS and CMS Vaccine Mandate move to the Supreme Court

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On December 22, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States issued orders granting review of legal challenges to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary...more

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Executive Order 14042’s Vaccine Mandate for Federal Government Contractors Enjoined in Tennessee, Ohio, and Kentucky

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On November 30, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky threw a wrench into the federal government’s efforts to enforce Executive Order 14042’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate against federal...more

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Additional Pushback from Certain States on Governmental and Private Employer Vaccine Mandates

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Certain states are continuing to prohibit or severely curb the ability of private employers to mandate that employees be vaccinated against COVID-19. In just 10 days since our most recent update, several additional states...more

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A Few Clarifications About the CMS Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Rule

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As we described in our recent client alert, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently mandated that (almost) all health care workers in federally regulated facilities are vaccinated, pursuant to a...more

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COVID-19 and Unprecedented: Litigation Insights - Issue 30, November 2020

In this 30th issue of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, we continue to see cases challenging shutdown orders and capacity limits from restaurant and other business owners, including a possible...more

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COVID-19 and Unprecedented Litigation Insights, Issue 26, October 2020

This 26th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, sees us returning to now-familiar topics involving liability protection for businesses, wrongful death lawsuits (particularly those...more

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Hazard Pay During COVID-19: New Laws For Essential Workers

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This article follows an earlier article on hazard pay.... Hazard pay legislation is expanding nationwide at all levels of government.  The growth in calls for hazard pay is the result of a shift in perception of the types of...more

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Unprecedented: COVID-19 Litigation Trends - Issue 17, 2020

This 17th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, discusses everything from insurance coverage disputes to statewide shutdown orders. Despite an uphill climb towards liability, businesses...more

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Key California Employment Law Cases: August 2018

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This month’s key employment law cases address pre-employment physicals, appeals from California Labor Commissioner awards, and background checks.   EEOC v. BNSF Ry. Co., 902 F.3d 916 (9th Cir. 2018)...more

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