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Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

EEOC’s Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Faces Legal Challenges: Key Takeaways for Employers

Within the last two weeks of June 2024, courts across the country reached opposite conclusions about the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s authority to implement legislation that requires employers to provide...more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act Passed and Immediate Legal Challenges Followed

On May 25, 2023, Governor McMaster signed Senate Bill 474, effectuating the General Assembly’s second attempt at the Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act (the “Act”), which generally prohibits abortion at any...more

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Bounty Laws and Citizen Suits

In a jurisprudential pile-up, the Fifth Circuit has become the arena for two simultaneous legal battles that may shape the law of standing and realign federal environmental law. While all eyes are on the U.S. Supreme Court...more

Jenner & Block

Lawsuit Challenges Unconstitutional Law Limiting Abortion Services

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Working in partnership with abortion service providers and civil liberties groups, a Jenner & Block team filed a lawsuit in Florida to block the implementation of a new state law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks of...more

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Religious Institutions Update: July 2020

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Several recent cases concern challenges to executive orders relating to COVID-19 limiting the ability of churches to assemble and imposing other limitations. Beginning with appellate decisions, these cases are summarized in...more

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A Nationwide Standstill: Extending the Definition of Sex Discrimination to Include Gender Identity

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On December 31, 2016, the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction blocking the implementation or enforcement of Section 1557’s provision extending the definition of sex...more

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Fate Uncertain for HHS’s Extension of ACA Discrimination Protections to Abortion & Gender Transition

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In May 2016 HHS issued a final rule implementing the Affordable Care Act’s Section 1557 nondiscrimination provision, which applies to recipients of funding from HHS. The rule prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender...more

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