Late Breaking News - Jan. 22, 2025: Shortly after we sent this alert out, it was announced that acting U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman has issued a directive that rescinds the Biden…
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/ Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
On January 9, 2025, a federal district court in Kentucky ruled that the 2024 Title IX Regulations “are invalid and must be set aside.” Despite some ambiguity in the text of the decision, we concluded that the ruling likely…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Education Law
Last year was a turbulent one for Title IX, and although we are just a few days into 2025, this turbulence has persisted into the new year. Yesterday, January 9, 2025, a federal district court in Kentucky issued a ruling that…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Education Law
As Connecticut embarks on a transformative year for policy and industry, Shipman & Goodwin Manufacturing Practice leader Alfredo Fernández sat down with CBIA’s Pete Myers to discuss the legislative landscape and its implications…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Government Contracting
As we head into another Trump presidency later this month, many U.S. employers are wondering how the new administration’s strong stance on immigration might impact their organization, including its ability to hire and retain…
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/ Business Organizations, Labor & Employment Law, Immigration Law
Not content to have an expedited hearing in March on the merits of the case at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the constitutionality of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the Government filed an application with…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking
Bob Bombast, veteran member of the Nutmeg Board of Education, has been frustrated by the perennial need to reduce the Board’s budget request before submitting it to the Nutmeg Board of Finance and its parsimonious Chair, Seymour…
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/ Education Law, Taxation
The Appellate Court’s recent decision in Robinson v. V.D. has a little something for any practitioner who deals with questions of constitutional law or civil procedure. Among other things, the decision held that statements made…
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/ Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear South Carolina’s challenge to the Fourth Circuit’s decision blocking South Carolina’s Medicaid program from ending its provider agreement with Planned Parenthood. The dispute arises from an…
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/ Civil Procedure, Health
Okay, let’s follow the bouncing the ball. On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas/Sherman Division entered an order enjoining the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Civil Remedies, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking
As a follow-up to our alert on December 23, 2024 that the nationwide injunction related to the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act has been lifted and filings of beneficial ownership information reports by reporting…
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/ Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Finance & Banking
As we previously reported, on December 3, 2024, in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Merrick Garland, Attorney General of the United States, et al., Judge Amos Mazzant of the United States District Court (Eastern District of…
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/ Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Finance & Banking
On January 1, 2025, an updated version of Connecticut’s paid sick leave law will become effective. This new law will pose unique compliance challenges for independent schools, who should proactively consider how they will…
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/ Education Law, Labor & Employment Law
Effective January 18, 2025, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is changing direct filing options for trademark applications, as well as increasing and adding new fees for a number of filings. Here are some of…
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/ Intellectual Property
On Tuesday, December 10, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”) limited an employer’s right to make unilateral changes in the workplace, restoring one of “the oldest and most familiar doctrines” in labor law: the…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
