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SCOTUS Limits Courts’ Power to Issue Broad Injunctions, Raising More Questions than Answers for Employers Nationwide

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In a decision sure to have reverberations for employment law for years to come, the Supreme Court just significantly limited the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationwide injunctions – now coined...more

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Federal Contractors in Flux: Ninth Circuit Finds President Biden Can’t Mandate Minimum Wage Under EO 14026

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has vacated an Arizona federal court’s decision denying a request by several western states to enjoin President Joe Biden’s executive order increasing the minimum hourly wage...more

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Preliminary Injunction Partially Blocks FTC Noncompete Ban

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Last Wednesday, a federal court in Texas made a preliminary ruling that partially blocks the FTC’s rule that rendered most noncompetes in this country unenforceable (the “FTC Ban”). The FTC’s Ban was set to go into effect on...more

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Illinois Court Temporarily Blocks Mandated COVID-19 Mitigation Measures at Nearly 170 School Districts

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In the midst of declining infection rates and increasing debate over mask and vaccine mandates, on February 7, 2022, Sangamon County Circuit Court Judge Raylene DeWitte Grischow temporarily enjoined COVID-19 mitigation...more

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Federal Contractor Vaccine Mandate Blocked Nationwide

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On Tuesday, December 7, 2021, a federal district court in Georgia halted enforcement of the Biden Administration’s federal contractor vaccine mandate in every state. As part of his plan to combat the COVID-19 pandemic,...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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“Now What?”: Supreme Court’s COVID-19 Executive Order Decision

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The Supreme Court’s decision does not mean that businesses and individuals in Michigan may return to pre-COVID-19 behavior or ignore Executive Order standards which have an independent legal basis. Employers, businesses, and...more

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COVID-19 Litigation Trends, Issue 14

This 14th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, showcases new and evolving trends. Employers are facing claims for both doing too much and too little in response to the COVID-19 pandemic....more

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The “Preventing Essential Medical Device Shortages Act of 2020”: COVID-19 Side Effect that Could Permanently Harm Medical Device...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic crisis—infecting more than 2.7 million people worldwide, with almost 870,000 cases in the United States alone as of the writing of this article—has thrown nearly every industry into chaos as the...more

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Currents - Energy Industry Insights - April 2019 #3

Trump Signs Orders to Speed Up Oil and Gas Pipeline Construction - "President Trump signed two executive orders that he says will speed up construction of pipelines and other projects to enhance the production and...more

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Different Path, Same Result: 9th Circuit Becomes Latest Appeals Court To Reject Trump’s Travel Ban

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Several weeks ago, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction that blocks President Trump’s second executive order attempting to institute a travel ban against those arriving from several specific Muslim countries...more

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