Host Jonathan Porter welcomes Boston-based litigator Bob Peabody to the show to discuss the Department of Justice’s use of the False Claims Act to pursue civil actions in connection with CARES Act fraud. Programs established by…
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/ Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Government Contracting
Dina Rollman is a cannabis industry veteran who has worn countless hats, making her way from cannabis attorney to cannabis business executive. She helped take Green Thumb Industries (GTI), a national cannabis company, from an…
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/ Agriculture
Keypoint: In this post: (1) California considers a “commercial exception” to wiretapping and pen registry laws; (2) a rise in federal wiretapping claims against websites; (3) more courts impose “knowledge or intent” requirement…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
On April 14, 2025, the Trump Administration issued two federal register notices scheduled to be published on April 16, 2025. The notices seek public comments following the April 1, 2025 initiation of investigations targeting…
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/ Administrative Law, Health, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
On April 9, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled “Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance,” launching a Maritime Action Plan (MAP) to bolster the U.S. maritime industry and workforce. The executive order…
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/ International Law & Trade, Maritime Law, Transportation
On April 8, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order raising the reciprocal tariff rate on Chinese imports from 34% to 84%. This move followed his earlier warning that the U.S. would impose a 50% increase unless China…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade
It has been a little over two months since President Donald Trump returned to office, and since then, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been in flux—to put it mildly. As of this writing, it is unclear whether…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
On April 12, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (“EO”) Clarification of Exceptions Under Executive Order 14257 of April 2, 2025, as Amended, which expanded the list of Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade, Science, Computers, & Technology
Keypoint: Last week, Montana’s legislature inched closer to significantly revising its consumer data privacy law, Oregon’s consumer data privacy amendment bills advanced, and there were numerous developments with Arkansas’ bills…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
On April 2, 2025 we reported that imports from China valued at $800 or less would no longer qualify for de minimis treatment starting May 2, 2025. On April 9, 2025 we reported the increase in tariffs and fees for imports of…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade
On April 9, 2025, emergency amendments filed by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine (BORIM) became final, enshrining protections for Massachusetts’ providers for the delivery of reproductive healthcare services…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Rights, Health
On April 9, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Modifying Reciprocal Tariff Rates to Reflect Trading Partner Retaliation and Alignment”, increasing the reciprocal tariff rates for China to 125%. Importantly,…
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/ Administrative Law, International Law & Trade
On April 10, 2025 The Manitowoc Company, Inc. (“Manitowoc” or “Petitioner”), filed a petition for the imposition of antidumping duties on U.S. imports of lattice-boom crawler cranes from Japan…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, International Law & Trade
In recent years, numerous businesses have successfully enforced broad arbitration clauses, particularly those embedded in terms and conditions of online service agreements. We previously discussed a noteworthy example from a…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts
As required by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization Act of 2024, codified at 49 U.S.C. § 44114(b), the FAA implemented Section 803 Data Privacy (and issued a notice describing such implementation) on March…
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/ Administrative Law, Privacy, Transportation
