Join John Connell and Natalie Phillips as they discuss the recent legal challenges to the PWFA and discuss potential outcomes. They will also revisit the PWFA as it currently stands and provide an overview of what employers…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
As we all know, the recent moves by the administration to increase tariffs on a variety of products, including alcoholic beverages, have raised a number of questions from importers and wholesalers on how to manage and, if…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, International Law & Trade
On April 9, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order, titled “Modernizing Defense Acquisition and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base.” This order outlines a broad and ambitious reform effort…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Government Contracting, Military Law
On February 16, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released the TCPA Consent Order adopting various rules governing consumers’ ability to revoke consent to receive certain communications, including that when…
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/ Administrative Law, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection
Employers across the United States are legally required to ensure their workforce is authorized to work in the country. Form I-9, officially known as the Employment Eligibility Verification form, is a critical part of this…
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/ Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
After 15 years without significant revisions, the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM) is proposing an overhaul of its recycling rules. The proposed regulations, which ADEM released for public notice and…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Environmental Law, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
The Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) has announced plans to terminate a parole program that permitted more than 500,000 foreign nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter the United States and obtain…
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/ Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Alabama Board of Medical Examiners (“Board”) has proposed sweeping changes to the regulations guiding office-based surgeries in Alabama that, if passed, would create more stringent requirements with respect to procedures…
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/ Health
Hulce v. Zipongo, Inc., No. 24-1623, 2025 WL 829603 (7th Cir. March 17, 2025) -
Defendant, a for-profit company that provides nutritional consultation to individuals, contracted with a healthcare plan to provide its services…
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/ Civil Procedure, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection
Join Carlton Hilson and Amy Jordan Wilkes as they discuss the recent proposals that aim to eliminate federal taxes on overtime pay and tips and what this means for employers…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
When it comes to compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and its implementing regulations (“HIPAA”), is your house in order? Has someone recently looked underneath the counter and tidied…
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/ Health, Privacy
On March 6, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order establishing a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile [Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Establishes the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Securities Law
Following the 2019 ballot initiative and Michigan Supreme Court decision in Mothering Justice v. Attorney General, Michigan’s Earned Sick Time Act (“ESTA”) went into effect on February 21, 2025. The ESTA sets out minimum…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
What Happened? On February 18, 2025, the last of the nationwide injunctions enjoining enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, et al., (E.D. Tex.), was stayed,…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
Medical providers, including individuals, physician groups, hospitals, surgery centers, health systems and other health care facilities, may be eligible for a portion of a $2.8 billion settlement reached by the Blue Cross Blue…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Civil Remedies, Health, Insurance
