When a public company confronts a crisis, whether stemming from regulatory scrutiny, operational setbacks, or some other unfortunate development, securities litigation exposure materializes rapidly…
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/ Business Organizations, Securities Law
On June 10, 2025, the Deputy Attorney General issued the highly anticipated Guidelines for Investigations and Enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) (“Guidelines”), complying with the directive in President…
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/ International Law & Trade
In a much-anticipated decision, the U.S. Supreme Court made a major “course correction” to the law governing federal environmental reviews and permitting decisions for infrastructure and other projects under the National…
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/ Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Transportation, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
Labor markets have increasingly drawn the attention of the European Commission (“Commission”) and national competition authorities in the EU. As early as 2021, then-Competition Commissioner Vestager listed “no-poach” agreements…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Business Organizations, International Law & Trade, Labor & Employment Law
As widely expected, the Supreme Court’s June 5, 2025 decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services confirmed that a plaintiff alleging employment discrimination under Title VII cannot be held to a different, heightened…
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/ Civil Rights, Labor & Employment Law
Last week, two federal courts struck down sweeping tariffs that the Trump Administration had recently imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Remedies, International Law & Trade
On May 27, the USPTO announced the completion of a critical upgrade to the agency’s core financial system, Momentum, to streamline maintenance of the fee payment systems as well as several internal functions…
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/ Intellectual Property, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
On June 2, 2025, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) announced the release of its Spring 2025 Semiannual Report to Congress. Covering the period from October 1, 2024, to March 31,…
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/ Criminal Law, Government Contracting, Health
Precedential and Key Federal Circuit Opinions -
ECOFACTOR, INC. v. GOOGLE LLC [OPINION] (2023-1101, 5/21/2025) (Lourie, Dyk, Prost, Reyna, Taranto, Chen, Hughes, Stoll, Stark) -
Moore, C.J. The en banc Court reversed the…
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/ Intellectual Property
On May 28th, the U.S. Tax Court issued a decision in Soroban Capital Partners LP v. Commissioner (T.C. Memo 2025-52) holding that all of the income allocable to the partnership’s limited partners (not just the amount…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, Taxation
After President Trump’s election for a second term, those predicting where federal antitrust enforcement was headed had to contend with internal tensions in the Trump coalition that extend to economic policy more broadly: Will…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Elections & Politics, Mergers & Acquisitions
As the nationwide ski season comes to a close, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has targeted ski area signage rules as part of a broader effort to eliminate outdated business regulations…
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/ Business Organizations
Following the fall of Syria’s Assad regime, the United States and key allies have recently announced sanctions relief with the stated goal of stabilizing Syria under its newly installed leaders…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, International Law & Trade
On May 22, 2025, the Supreme Court unanimously declined to limit federal wire fraud to cases involving economic loss to the victim, upholding convictions of two government contractors who obtained contracts from a state agency…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Criminal Law, Government Contracting
Antitrust scrutiny of healthcare markets is nothing new. The Biden Administration and first Trump Administration focused antitrust enforcement efforts across the healthcare and life sciences industries. The newly installed Trump…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Health
