On February 20, 2025, the ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) announced that its legal counsel submitted a letter to the U.S. Departments of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS) and Treasury, requesting a stay of enforcement…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, Insurance
On March 10, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that U.S. Secretary of HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to explore closing the GRAS…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Health
On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” which directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to enforce a long-dormant noncitizen…
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/ Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
A memo issued by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, titled “Guidance for Visa Adjudicators on Executive Order 14201: ‘Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,’” introduces new U.S. visa policies that affect transgender individuals…
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/ Administrative Law, Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Immigration Law
The Georgia Assembly passed sweeping tort reform on Friday, March 21, 2025. Governor Brian Kemp had announced his tort reform package on January 30, 2025. The Georgia Senate subsequently passed two bills, Senate Bill 68 on…
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/ Civil Procedure, Finance & Banking, Personal Injury
On March 24, 2025, President Trump, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (“IEEPA”), the National Emergencies Act ((50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United…
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/ Administrative Law, Energy & Utilities, International Law & Trade
In a move designed to “facilitate domestic mineral production to the maximum possible extent,” on March 20, 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order—titled “Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral…
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/ Energy & Utilities, Government Contracting
On March 13, 2025, the State Department published a notice in the Federal Register designating all agency action with respect to international trade a “foreign affairs function” of the United States under the Administrative…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, International Law & Trade
Keypoint: Last week, Kentucky’s governor signed a bill amending the state’s data privacy law while bills advanced in Connecticut, Illinois, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and West Virginia…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Host Nick Healey welcomes to the show Husch Blackwell’s partner Ellee Cochran and Melanie Durfee, who serves as the Director of Medical Staff Services for a 205-bed acute care hospital in Idaho, for a two-part discussion…
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/ Health
On March 20, 2025, American Fiberglass Door Coalition (“Petitioner”), filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping and countervailing duties on U.S. imports of fiberglass door panels from the People’s Republic of China…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Government Contracting, International Law & Trade
Husch Blackwell’s Tracy Wolf and Rufino Gaytán continue their engaging discussion with Labor Law Insider host Tom Godar regarding changes being initiated at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) under the Trump…
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/ Labor & Employment Law
This post is the fifth in our five-part series, Navigating Life Sciences Transactions, where our team of attorneys provides essential strategies and insights for successful life sciences transactions. Throughout this series,…
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/ Business Organizations, Health, Intellectual Property, Mergers & Acquisitions, Science, Computers, & Technology
Nevada law requires taxpayers to meet certain prerequisites before seeking judicial review of a Nevada Tax Commission decision. Taxpayers must either pay the amount at dispute or enter into a written agreement with the Nevada…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts, Taxation
Like many others, we were caught up in filing a slew of Minnesota adult use cannabis applications for our clients by March 14 (which, if you were paying attention, that deadline was extended to March 15 by midnight because of a…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Taxation
