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Last year, the FCC adopted new rules under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) designed to expand consumers’ rights to revoke consent to receive robocalls and text messages. As we noted in a prior post, these changes...more
On April 7, 2025, with just four days to spare, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) delayed the effective date of part of its impending rule regarding how companies respond to opt-out requests from individuals to a...more
The Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC” or the “Commission”) recently adopted a new Opt-Out Rule under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), which will take effect on April 11, 2025. Currently, the TCPA...more
If you are a state or local government that sponsors a “self-funded” employee group health plan instead of using an insurance provider, you had previously been allowed to “opt out” of compliance with the following four...more
The final regulations are effective on May 10, 2024. Last week, the Department of the Treasury issued final regulations that address the Elective Pay program (also called direct pay), predominantly under Internal Revenue...more
On March 5, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it has adopted new rules and codified previously adopted protections that make it simpler for consumers to revoke consent to unwanted robocalls and...more
The US Copyright Office issued two final rules for how companies can designate agents to receive claims and how libraries can preemptively opt out of claims before the Copyright Claims Board (CCB). The agency has been...more
With a little time to consider the finalized California Consumer Privacy Act regulations released by the California Attorney General on August 14, 2020, it is clear that some last-minute negotiations (or perhaps just some...more
After what seemed like a set of fits and starts for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which went into effect on January 1, 2020, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the approval of the final...more
Keypoint: Some additional changes to the CCPA regulations were made before they were filed with the Secretary of State and became effective. As discussed in our prior post, on Friday, August 14, 2020, the California Office...more
On September 10, 2019, the US Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule (Final Rule) expanding Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program...more
In an Order on Rehearing and Clarification issued at its May open meeting, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or “Commission”) generally affirmed Order No. 841, its 2018 Final Rule on electric storage. Electric...more
The City of Chicago has issued final rules for its Paid Sick Leave Ordinance. The Chicago Paid Sick Leave Ordinance was passed on June 22, 2016 and will take effect on July 1, 2017. ...more
Under a common strategy for controlling group health care plan costs, employers sometimes adopt arrangements under which an employee is offered cash as an incentive to waive coverage. These arrangements are colloquially...more