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Taxing Intelligence: AI's Role in Modern Tax Administration
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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending, August 2, 2025
Everything Compliance: Episode 158, The No to Corruption in Ukraine Edition
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The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 66 - Tariff Uncertainty and Compliance Risks for Businesses
Legal Implications of the Supreme Court's Ruling on Universal Injunctions
Daily Compliance News: July 9, 2025, The TACO Don Caves Again Edition
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 65 -The Power of Interpretation: Constitutional Meaning in the Modern World
Driving Digital Security: The FTC's Safeguards Rule Explained — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
The Labor Law Insider: NLRB Does a U-Turn on Make-Whole Settlement Remedies, Part II
Daily Compliance News: June 26, 2025, The? Matt Galvin Honored Edition
Upping Your Game: Crowd - Sourcing Risk Management Intelligence with AI
Cruising Through Change: The Auto-Finance Industry’s New Era Under Trump Unveiled — The Consumer Finance Podcast
SBR-Author’s Podcast: Upping Your (Compliance) Game
False Claims Act Insights - Will Recent Leadership Changes Lead to FCA Enforcement Policy Changes?
Compliance into the Weeds: Changes in FCPA Enforcement
Cruising Through Change: The Auto-Finance Industry’s New Era Under Trump Unveiled — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
While shifting political winds don’t literally blow through the trees, their force and impact can cause environmental policy to lurch back and forth. For instance, in 2020, during the final quarter of the first Trump...more
Temporary Protected Status (TPS) allows eligible foreign nationals to enter and remain in the U.S. for a limited period due to extraordinary conditions in their home countries, such as natural disasters or armed conflicts....more
Most observers following the saga of the Federal Trade Commission’s non-compete ban expected a final nail in the coffin last week – voluntary dismissal of the appeal that Biden-era leadership filed to keep the ban alive. That...more
On July 3, 2025, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC” or the “Commission”), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Army Corps”), and the Departments of Energy (“DOE”), Interior (“DOI”), Transportation (“DOT”),...more
As anticipated, a Texas federal district court has vacated the HIPAA Reproductive Health Rule (the “Rule”) nationwide. (Memorandum Opinion and Order, Purl v. HHS, 2:24-CV-228-Z (N. Dist. Tex (Jun. 18, 2025), available here)....more
Tennessee basketball player Zakai Zeigler has appealed the district court’s denial of his bid to secure a preliminary injunction against the NCAA’s “Four-Seasons Rule.” We will be closely following what the Sixth Circuit...more
On May 30, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an order granting the Trump administration’s application to stay a lower court order temporarily halting the rescission of the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and...more
The EPA is continuing to reevaluate whether to change its position regarding the Biden administration’s 2024 listing of PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under CERCLA....more
During the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final regulation (the “2024 Rule”) seeking to increase the salary threshold for overtime eligibility for the “white-collar” exemption (also referred...more
Employers were granted a reprieve last fall when a federal court invalidated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) final rule increasing the minimum salary requirements for the “white collar” or “EAP” exemptions (executive,...more
On April 24, 2025, the Eighth Circuit ordered that the litigation over the validity of the SEC's climate disclosure rule be “held in abeyance.” This order was in response to a submission by a coalition of blue states that...more
Last week, a federal district court in Massachusetts temporarily blocked the mass termination of parole and employment authorization for beneficiaries of the Humanitarian Parole program for Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and...more
In a motion filed on April 14, 2025, the Department of Labor requested that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals grant it an additional 60-day delay to decide its next steps with respect to its appeals of two July 2024 decisions...more
As readers of this blog will recall, last April, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted along party lines to finalize a rule (the Noncompete Ban) that would have banned the vast majority of employee noncompete agreements...more
On March 15, 2025, the Fifth Circuit granted the FTC’s motion for a 120-day stay of the agency’s appeal of the district court decision to block its proposed ban on non-competes. The Eleventh Circuit followed suit on March 20,...more
When the Biden administration issued its final rule related to federally imposed minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities (“Final Rule”) on April 22, 2024, it sought to mandate minimum levels of nursing...more
...the Senate confirmed Mark Meador as the newest Republican commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission with a 50-46 vote along party lines. Meador’s confirmation solidifies a Republican majority on the Commission,...more
The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in a 7-4 decision, has put Gwynne Wilcox (D), the on-again, off-again Member of the National Labor Relations Board, back on the Board. Member Wilcox, a...more
On March 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) officially lifted sanctions on Tornado Cash, the decentralized cryptocurrency mixer it had blacklisted in August 2022....more
As the firing carousel continues, on April 7, 2025, the full United States District Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated the panel’s stay and ordered the reinstatement of National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has ruled that National Labor Relations Board Member Gwynne Wilcox will return to work while she challenges her removal. This latest decision reverses a prior decision by a...more
Our Immigration Team explores a federal court order that halts the Trump Administration’s move to end temporary protected status (TPS) for Venezuelans in the United States....more
On March 28, 2025, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated its previous ruling that permitted a $15 per hour minimum wage for federal contractors, shortly after President Donald Trump revoked the Biden administration rule...more
The termination of NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox is back in place, at least for the time being. Earlier this month, Judge Beryl A. Howell issued an injunction that blocked President Trump and Marvin Kaplan, Chairman of the...more
On Friday, March 28, Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a 112-page opinion and 3-page order in National Treasury Employees Union, et al. v. Russell Vought, in his official capacity as Acting Director of the Consumer Financial...more