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Minnesota and Tennessee Consumer Privacy Laws Now in Effect: Key Compliance Considerations

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The comprehensive consumer privacy laws of Minnesota and Tennessee have recently taken effect, with the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act (MCDPA) operative as of July 31, 2025, and the Tennessee Information Protection Act...more

Goldberg Segalla

DuPont Agrees to Record-Breaking Settlement to Resolve PFAS Contamination in New Jersey

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Following a series of bench trials in federal court, DuPont and its affiliates reached a $2.5 billion settlement with the State of New Jersey to address decades of environmental contamination from PFAS....more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Will Trump v. CASA Lead to Increased State AG Multistate Investigations and Litigation?

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On June 27, 2025, in its long-anticipated decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court significantly narrowed the ability of a single federal court to issue “universal” or “nationwide” injunctions—through which...more

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP

State by State, Pre-Merger Notifications Expand

In the wake of the recent major revisions to the federal merger review form, states are also getting into the act, creating broad new transaction notification requirements. Such notification requirements are not completely...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Texas Charts New Path on AI With Landmark Regulation

Texas has become the second state, after Colorado, to enact omnibus legislation regulating artificial intelligence (AI) systems. On June 22, 2025, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law the Texas Responsible Artificial...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Texas Responsible AI Governance Act Enacted

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On June 22, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed the Texas Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act (TRAIGA or the Texas AI Act) into law. The new law goes into effect January 1, 2026. The law places obligations...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Responding to Stop Work Orders Implementing Recent Executive Orders

Since the inauguration of US President Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, many companies that hold or support Federal contracts, grants, and other awards have received so-called “stop work orders” or other directives to cease...more

Morgan Lewis

The Pendulum Swings: Role of State Attorneys General to Increase as Federal Control Changes

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With the election of Donald Trump as president, we anticipate increased activism by Democratic state attorneys general in the form of legal challenges to his administration and the exercise of independent state authority in...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Orrick’s 2022 State Attorney General Election Report - January 2023

It was a busy 2022 election year for state Attorneys General (AGs) with races in 31 of the 43 states with elected AGs, including the District of Columbia. The Orrick State Attorney General Team’s election results report...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

California Announces Increased Scrutiny on CCPA Violations with Latest $1.2 Million Enforcement Action Settlement

California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta has made clear that California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) enforcement is going to be a priority for the AG’s office. On Friday, the California AG’s office announced a $1.2 million...more

Perkins Coie

Rip Van Wrinkle: The Grandfather of Biometric Laws Awakens

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Biometric data is becoming increasingly pervasive in our daily lives—we use it to unlock smartphones, gain entry to entertainment venues, access secured locations, and record time and attendance on the job site....more

Cozen O'Connor

State Attorney General Elections Matter: Preparing for November 2022

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Over the next six months, the Cozen O’Connor State AG team will provide guidance on what corporate America needs to know in planning legal, regulatory and political strategies to anticipate and react to shifts in the AG...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Colorado House Passes Colorado Privacy Act

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Keypoint: The bill will now return to the Senate to accept or reject the House amendments. On the night of June 7, 2021, the Colorado House voted 57-7 to pass the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA). As we previously reported, the...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

The “New” Enforcers: How States and Localities Are Changing the Landscape of Regulatory Authority

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Over the last decade, observers have noted that states have begun to play a greater role as regulatory enforcers – a trend that increased with the federal regulatory roll-back that began with the advent of the Trump...more

Hogan Lovells

CCPA Regulations Still Not Final as Enforcement Deadline Approaches; CPRA Appears to Move Forward

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Businesses spent the latter months of 2019 working hard to prepare for the January 1, 2020 implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). ...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

What We Can Expect from the CCPA Regulations

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While the United States largely hit the brakes as of March in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra made clear his intentions to begin enforcement of the Act on July 1, 2020, as...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

Attorney General Releases Modified CCPA Draft Regulations: Key Changes Your Business Should Know

On Friday, February 7, and Monday, February 10, 2020, the California Attorney General released proposed modified regulations in connection with the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). The modified regulations provide...more

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California’s Data Broker Registration Deadline Looming

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Alongside its flurry of CCPA amendments last term, the California legislature passed Assembly Bill 1202 (AB 1202), the nation’s second “data broker” registration law. AB 1202 requires “data brokers” to register with and pay...more

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