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DOJ Forms Civil Rights Fraud Initiative: A New Branch of False Claims Act Enforcement

Carlton Fields on 5/27/2025

On May 19, 2025, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the formation of a Civil Rights Fraud Initiative “to investigate and, as appropriate, pursue claims against any recipient of federal funds that knowingly...more

Recent DEI Executive Orders Temporarily Blocked by Federal Judge

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 3/4/2025

On February 21, Judge Adam B. Abelson of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland issued a preliminary injunction that temporarily bars the Trump administration from implementing major portions of two...more

Court Limits Trump Administration's Executive Orders on DEI: Employer Impact

Baker Donelson on 3/3/2025

Summary of Executive Orders - As we have referenced in prior alerts, the Trump administration issued two Executive Orders relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs for federal contractors, with language...more

Trump rescinds Executive Order 11246

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP on 1/23/2025

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Executive Order 11246 in 1965. Since then, organizations doing business with the federal government had to affirmatively recruit women and minorities for employment and ensure employment...more

The highly-anticipated US Executive Order on artificial intelligence: Setting the agenda for responsible AI innovation

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 11/13/2023

On October 30, 2023, the Biden Administration issued the groundbreaking Executive Order 14110 on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (Order), which sets in motion a comprehensive...more

Federal Government Limits Its Contractors From Providing Diversity Training

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 10/2/2020

Last week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that bans federal contractors from providing employees with "training sessions based on race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating." The order is part of an...more

With the Election (Mercifully) Behind Us, What Will a Trump Administration Mean for Employers?

Littler on 11/10/2016

The 2016 Presidential election was arguably the most contentious, unpredictable, and politically polarizing race in this nation's history. The contours of the electoral map changed by the hour in the days leading up to...more

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