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McDermott Will & Schulte

Trending in Telehealth March 2025

Trending in Telehealth highlights monthly state legislative and regulatory developments that impact the healthcare providers, telehealth and digital health companies, pharmacists, and technology companies that deliver and...more

Perkins Coie

California Voters Reject Minimum Wage Increase

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This election cycle, California voters rejected the minimum wage initiative Proposition 32 (Prop 32). The initiative would have provided a stair-step increase in statewide minimum wage from $16 an hour to $18 an hour by 2026....more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Healthcare Trends & Transactions Q3 2024

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In the healthcare mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market, while deal volumes varied across different sectors, by and large the sure and steady pace of deal volume in Q2 continued into Q3. Moreover, several positive...more

Nossaman LLP

State Water Board Updates the “Make Conservation a California Way of Life” Framework, but are the Changes Enough?

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On March 12, 2024, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) announced updates to the “Make Conservation a California Way of Life” framework that is based on SB 606 and AB 1668 from 2018. The changes seek to...more

Gibney Anthony & Flaherty, LLP

New York Governor Vetoes Proposed Noncompete Ban

On December 22, 2023, New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed S3100, a bill which would have prohibited virtually all contractual noncompete agreements restricting workers’ ability to leave their job for a role with a rival...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Breaking News: Washington Delays Building Code Updates in Light of Ninth ‎Circuit Decision

On May 24, 2023, the Washington State Building Code Council (the “Council”) delayed ‎implementation of Washington State’s updated building code from July 1, 2023, until October ‎‎29, 2023. This delay was in direct response to...more

Brooks Pierce

Brooks Pierce Capital Dispatch: Legislators Consider Bills Before Crossover and Pass New Abortion Bill

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It was a very busy week at the General Assembly. Legislators considered dozens of bills to meet the May 4 crossover deadline (the date by which policy bills must pass one chamber to remain eligible). The week of May 8...more

Perkins Coie

Proposed Bans on Five Food Additives Pending in California and New York

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Legislators in California and New York have proposed bills to ban five food additives that have purportedly been linked to health concerns such as cancer, neurodevelopmental issues, and hormone dysfunction. The five...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Diversifying the Boardroom: What Silicon Valley-Based and Other Large Public Companies Disclosed in 2022

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The intense focus on board diversity from a variety of stakeholders over the last several years has spurred many companies to examine the composition of their boards and to take action to diversify their boardrooms. While the...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

McDermott Health 2023 Annual Report - Digital Health: 2022 Year in Review

Digital health is one of the fast-growing segments of the healthcare market, with patients, clinicians and regulators increasingly aligned behind the opportunities that digitization presents. Over the last three years,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California Office of Health Care Affordability: Another Regulatory Hurdle for California Healthcare M&A Transactions?

California has a new regulatory review process that could have implications for healthcare mergers and acquisitions and similar transactions in the state. By way of background, after nearly two years of negotiations with...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

If at First You Don’t Succeed: Updated Medical Cannabis Bill Filed in South Carolina

Ah, South Carolina. Its siren song has tempted cannabis advocates for years with its diversity – political, geographic, geologic, and otherwise. But to date, nada. That may change soon, as the South Carolina Compassionate...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

NYC Delays Enforcement of Automated Employment Decision Tools Law to April 15, 2023

On December 12, 2022, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (“DCWP”) announced that it would delay the date of its enforcement of the New York City Automated Employment Decision Tools Law (“AEDTL”)...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Cannabis and the Law

Senators Schumer, Booker, and Wyden File Long-Awaited Federal Cannabis Bill

On July 21, 2022, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) formally filed the much-anticipated Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

California Approves Commercial Financing Disclosure Regulations

On June 9, the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s (DFPI) proposed commercial financing disclosure regulations issued pursuant to SB 1235...more

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Where Is the SAFE Banking Act?

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As Congress continues to debate the SAFE Banking Act, cannabis business and financial institutions should pay close attention to the bill’s potential to transform the accessibility of banking and payment processing solutions...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Cannabis and the Law

Massachusetts Legislature Plans Big Changes for Cannabis Policy in the Commonwealth

Last week, the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy (the “Committee”) released a new cannabis bill (H 174/S 72, the “Bill”) through the Committee without any opposition. The bill proposes major changes to host...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

The proposed Massachusetts Information Privacy and Security Act: Will This Be the Year Massachusetts Finally Updates Its Consumer...

Since Massachusetts becoming a trailblazer among states with the passage of privacy legislation in 2007 and subsequent regulations, Massachusetts’ own privacy laws have been passed by those of other states, most notably...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Cannabis and the Law

No More Stalling: Governor Hochul to Announce Nominees to Head New York’s Cannabis Program

Exactly five months after the passage of the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA), on Tuesday, August 31st, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she is convening an Extraordinary Session of the Legislature to...more

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Europe Seeks to Tame Artificial Intelligence with the World’s First Comprehensive Regulation

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In what could be a harbinger of the future regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in the United States, the European Commission published its recent proposal for regulation of AI systems. The proposal is part of the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Update on Medical Marijuana in Mississippi: Proposed Rules on Advertising, Marketing, Tracking & Labeling

Earlier this week, the Mississippi Department of Health (MSDH) published a second set of proposed rules and regulations, which include Subpart 3 (Advertising and Marketing) and Subpart 4 (Tracking and Labeling). The MSDH...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Update on Medical Marijuana in Mississippi: All Appears a Go (Most Likely)

Over the last month, the Mississippi Department of Health (MSDH) has been working to meet the July 1, 2021, deadline that Initiative 65 imposed on the MSDH to publish its final rules and regulations governing Mississippi’s...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Environmental Law

States Really, Really, Must Act on Water Quality Certification Applications Within One Year

The saga of judicial efforts to enforce the one-year limit on state review of applications for water quality certifications under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act shows no sign of reaching a conclusion. First, in Hoopa...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New Year, New Rules: New York Employees May Begin Taking Paid Sick Leave January 1, 2021

The New York State Paid Sick Leave law (“NYSPSL”) and the amendments to the New York City Paid Safe and Sick Leave law (“ESSTA”) expanding employees’ paid sick leave entitlements will go into full effect on January 1, 2021....more

Knobbe Martens

CCPA Webinar: Amendments, Proposed Regulations, New Ballot Initiative, and Related Nevada Law (Presentation)

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Arsen Kourinian hosted a webinar presenting, "CCPA Webinar- Amendments, Proposed Regulations, New Ballot Initiative, and Related Nevada Law," going over the latest news and updates within the CCPA. ...more

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