On May 9, 2025, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed a large budget bill with “major components of legislation necessary to implement the state transportation, economic development, and environmental conservation budget for…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection
On Thursday, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Financial Institutions held a hearing entitled, “Framework for the Future: Reviewing Data Privacy in Today’s Financial System.” Hearing testimony…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Privacy
Late this afternoon, President Trump signed a proclamation increasing the Section 232 tariff rate on steel and aluminum articles and their respective derivative products from 25% to 50%. The text of today’s proclamation can be…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade
Join Kelley Drye for a fast-paced, practical webinar, “Navigating the Maze of Influencer Marketing.” This 30-minute session will cover what companies need to know to stay compliant with evolving FTC guidance, class action risk,…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection
Since 1986, WLF’s Legal Studies Division has served as the preeminent publisher of persuasive, expertly researched, and highly respected legal publications that explore cutting-edge and timely legal issues. These articles do…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection
Over the past few months, two firms have filed a series of class action lawsuits against a number of companies – including Celsius, Shein, and Revolve – over their influencer campaigns. Leveraging the same template, the firms…
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/ Business Torts, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection
On May 28, 2025, in a major development, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of International Trade (“CIT”) held that President Trump’s recent imposition of tariffs pursuant to the International Emergency Economic…
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/ Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, International Law & Trade
The American Arbitration Association (AAA) announced new rules that went into effect May 1, 2025. The new rules revise both their consumer arbitration and employment arbitration sets. The purpose of the rule change was to…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
The United States has intervened and filed a superseding complaint in a False Claims Act case originally filed by a whistleblower in the Eastern District of California. The Government’s complaint alleges that an importer and…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, International Law & Trade
Employers are already familiar with the age-related requirements of federal law applicable to an employee’s release of claims if the employee is 40 or older: they have up to 21 days to consider the release, and seven…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
Acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas issued a public statement regarding the 2024 EEO-1 Component 1 data-collection portal. The statement serves as a reminder for employers to complete their reporting obligations by June 24, 2025, but…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
This week, a bipartisan group of 42 attorneys general filed an amicus brief asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to uphold Daniel’s Law, a New Jersey statute enacted to protect public servants from “doxing” —…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Constitutional Law, Privacy
The Trump Administration has continued to target diversity, equity and inclusion (“DEI”) initiatives as an affront to civil rights legislation. In a previous post, we discussed President Trump’s Executive Order 14173 – titled…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Education Law, Government Contracting, Labor & Employment Law
If you’ve been keeping tabs on the AI legal landscape lately, one thing is clear: states aren’t waiting. Over the past year, lawmakers across the country have introduced—and in some cases passed—a flurry of bills aimed at…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Utilizing regulatory powers under its UDAP law, the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act (the “MMPA”), Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced a new rule, codified as 15 C.S.R § 60-19, that would prohibit social media…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection
