Daily Compliance News: August 18, 2025, The All Corruption Edition
State AG Pulse | An Early Peek At the 2026 State AG Elections
Quick Guide to Administrative Hearings
Solicitors General Insights: The Tale of Two Washingtons — Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Cannabis Law Now Podcast - Cannabis in the Show Me State: An Interview with BeLeaf Medical's Mitch Meyers
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in Maryland and Pennsylvania
State AG Pulse | A FAIR Go For NY Consumers
Navigating Renewable Energy: Insights from the ACP Siting and Permitting Conference - Energy Law Insights
New Executive Order Targets Disparate Impact Claims Nationwide - #WorkforceWednesday® - Employment Law This Week®
Project Catalyst: An Economic Development Podcast | Episode 14: Shaping North Carolina’s Economic Future with Secretary of Commerce Lee Lilley
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in Virginia and West Virginia
ESG Essentials: What You Need To Know Now - Episode 19 - Power Struggles: Federal vs. State Authority in Energy Law
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez – Innovative Approach to Safety
Business Better Podcast Episode - Manufacturing Moment: How State Associations Navigate the Policy Landscape
CHPS Podcast Episode 2: Bitcoin in the Halls of Power
AGG Talks: Development Podcast Series - Episode 1: Powering Georgia: Energy Resilience, Data Centers, and Clean Innovation
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 229: Public Health in South Carolina with Dr. Edward Simmer of SC Dept of Public Health
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in South Dakota and North Dakota
Bridging the Gap: How CivicReach is Revolutionizing Government Customer Service
As part of the proposed $115.6 billion state budget for fiscal year 2025-26, Governor DeSantis has outlined a plan to eliminate Florida's longstanding commercial rent sales tax. This proposal continues Florida's tax reduction...more
The Michigan Uniform Assignment of Rents Act (MUARA) will take effect on September 22, 2022, and has important implications for a tenant's rights. If a tenant's landlord defaults on its loan, to whom must the tenant pay rent,...more
When an Industrial Development Authority, sometimes called an Economic Development Authority (IDA/EDA), purchases or sells real property, the transactions look much like any transaction with any other entity landowner....more
Nearly five years ago, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed into law Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Act (Act 16). Since that time, the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH), the agency responsible for issuing licenses...more
On December 1, 2020, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a commercial eviction moratorium ordinance (the Board Ordinance), which Board Ordinance came into effect on January 11, 2021. When the Board...more
On April 19, 2021, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law Senate Bill 50 (SB 50), which amends portions of Chapter 212, Florida Statutes. SB 50 is slated to significantly reduce Florida’s commercial leasing sales tax...more
A recent Florida Supreme Court decision found that the Hillsborough County 1% transportation sales surtax is unconstitutional. As a result, the decision reduced the sales tax rate on commercial lease payments in Hillsborough...more
Executive Order Extends Authorization - Many local governments took a collective sigh of relief when California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-03-21, extending local authorization to impose commercial eviction...more
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020 the New Jersey Courts postponed all commercial landlord/tenant trials and barred the issuance of Writs of Possession arising out of Final Judgments in Foreclosure in...more
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administers the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The NFIP offers insurance coverage for physical losses to buildings and/or contents caused by a flood. Over the years,...more
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, many jurisdictions took emergency actions imposing moratoria on residential and commercial evictions affecting properties in Washington State. On March 27, Stoel Rives prepared a guide...more
The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York recently found that three laws enacted by the City of New York in response to the COVID-19 pandemic were constitutional, and dismissed a challenge to the...more
On October 20, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued Executive Order 202.70, which continued through January 1, 2021 the moratorium on initiating a proceeding or enforcement of (a) an eviction of any commercial tenant...more
Like the majority of the country, Alabama essentially shuttered its economy in March in an effort to curb the rapid spread of COVID-19. As of July 2020, the State of Alabama began rapidly reopening for business, and retail...more
On May 22, 2020, the California Senate Judiciary Committee passed Senate Bill 939 (SB 939), a bill intended to provide relief to certain commercial tenants (as more particularly discussed later in this alert) from economic...more
Under the newly enacted law Int. No. 1932-A, the New York City Administrative Code was amended to render unenforceable, in certain instances, the personal liability of guarantors of payment obligations contained in commercial...more
As previously reported on the Unfamiliar Terrain blog, San Francisco Mayor London Breed declared a moratorium on evictions of small and medium-sized businesses (those having worldwide receipts of $25 million or less) impacted...more
As income streams are interrupted due to loss of rents in the midst of business closures during the continuing pandemic, many borrowers are reaching out to their lenders to discuss debt service and other relief under their...more
As discussed in prior updates, lawmakers in New York previously introduced bills that would, if enacted, temporarily suspend rent payments for certain residential and small business commercial tenants unable to pay rent due...more
On April 6, 2020, Governor Doug Ducey issued Executive Order 2020-21, “Prohibiting Small Business Evictions,” which delays commercial eviction actions against certain small businesses and nonprofit organizations until May 31,...more
On April 1, 2020, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed Executive Order 2020-08D to provide relief to small business tenants and commercial real estate borrowers suffering from the economic impact of Ohio’s Stay-at-Home Order and...more