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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
Project Catalyst: An Economic Development Podcast | Episode 13: Economic Development in Rural Alabama with Valerie Gray and Lori Huguley of VaLor Strategies
Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in Wisconsin and Minnesota
4 Key Takeaways | New York Tax Developments
On April 16, 2025, Arkansas enacted Act 624 (the Act), an unprecedented law prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) from owning or operating pharmacies in the state. As we discussed in our May 2025 blog post, the law’s...more
The Environmental Integrity Project and Public Citizen Litigation Group (collectively, “EIP”) filed a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) in the United States District Court for the Middle District...more
A Massachusetts federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order preventing the implementation and enforcement of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) research funding cut (NOT-OD-25-086) (the Rate Change Notice)....more
A coalition of 23 Democratic AGs, led by New York AG Letitia James, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island to block a directive from the Trump administration’s Office of Management and...more
United States Attorney General Merrick Garland, giving remarks about the lawsuit, highlighted public criticism over Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s “exorbitant fees and technological failures” and stated that this lawsuit is “what...more
On February 21, 2024, Los Angeles County filed a complaint for injunctive relief and damages against Grubhub alleging that the company engaged in false and deceptive advertising and unfair business practices that harm...more
Vermont Attorney General (AG) Charity Clark recently announced the resolution of an investigation into the withholding of security deposits across five motels that were participating in the state’s Transitional Housing...more
As we predicted back in April, disputes between medical cannabis businesses and counties or municipalities over local zoning ordinances and permits are starting to arise. Participants in Mississippi’s medical cannabis program...more
On Tuesday, March 22, 2022, a three-judge panel of the Circuit Court for Benton County, Tennessee, issued an order declaring that Tennessee Code Annotated § 70-1-305(1) is unconstitutional, unlawful, and unenforceable, and...more
On March 7, a Chicago-based FinTech company filed a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief in Los Angeles County Superior Court against the Commissioner of the California Department of Financial Protection and...more
In yet another round of legislation and administrative decision-making, New York State recently expanded its paid vaccination leave requirements, whistleblower protection laws, and paid family leave requirements. New York...more
At the end of October 2021, four complaints were filed by almost 20 states challenging the government contractor vaccine mandate. While some have suggested that these states, led by Republican governors, filed the suits for...more
Under a New York City law, hotels with at least 100 rooms that either (1) experienced a mass layoff of 75% or more of their workforce or (2) were closed to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic, but have not reopened to the...more
Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, SB19-085 (the Equal Pay Act), went into effect on January 1, 2021. Colorado’s new law follows a string of laws in other states seeking to expand the protections related to equal pay,...more
On February 1, 2021, DC Mayor Bowser signed emergency legislation passed by the DC Council, requiring DC employers to “adopt and implement social distancing and worker protection policies to prevent transmission of COVID-19...more
The next state in our series exploring non-compete agreements is Texas’ neighbor to the east, Louisiana. As I like to say, when you travel east and cross the Sabine River from Texas to Louisiana all the words change but the...more
The Tennessee legislature recently passed the Construction Industry Payment Protection Act (“CIPPA”), SB2681/HB2706, which offers significant changes to the Tennessee construction industry. Not only does the act amend...more
The Tennessee Construction Industry Payment Protection Act was signed into law on June 22. The Act addresses or reallocates certain risks associated with non-payment on construction projects under Tennessee’s Prompt Pay Act...more
Typically, an employees’ exclusive remedy for work-related injuries is through their state’s workers’ compensation system. As an example, suppose an employee suffers a work-related injury as a result of her employer’s...more
Happy 4th! While we continue to track policy that matters, we would be remiss if we did not wish all of our readers, and of course the Nation itself, a Happy Independence Day. The tradition of Independence Day celebrations...more
On May 6, 2020, a federal court granted ACA International's request for a temporary restraining order of the Massachusetts Attorney General's emergency regulations prohibiting debt collection calls and enforcement actions...more
This edition of Employment Flash looks at recent NLRB activity, including its decision (overruling an Obama-era decision) regarding confidentiality rules for employees during ongoing workplace investigations. We also discuss...more
On February 6, 2020, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Philadelphia’s salary history ordinance and reversed the decision of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania which had held that...more
In Town of Brookhaven v Golemi, 2019 NY Slip Op 51477(U) [Sup Ct, Suffolk County 2019], the Town of Brookhaven (“Brookhaven”) successfully sought and obtained injunctive relief to remove a structure that violated Brookhaven’s...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Effective January 1, 2020, AB 5 implements the mandatory “ABC” test for determining whether a person is an independent contractor or employee under California law. Specific to motor carriers, AB 5 presumes...more