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Oregon Update: Two Significant Developments in the Project Labor Agreement and Community Work Agreement Saga

We've previously addressed Oregon Gov. Kotek's Executive Order No. 24-31 requiring the use of Project Labor Agreements on certain state construction projects. On March 24, 2025, Marion County Circuit Judge Thomas M. Hart...more

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State AGs Take the Lead in First Month of Trump Opposition

The first month of the second Trump Administration has been marked by a deluge of executive orders and federal agency directives aimed at implementing the new administration’s policy priorities. State Attorneys General have...more

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What is “Illegal DEI”: Vagueness Partially Sinks President Trump’s Executive Orders on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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On February 21, 2025, a federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction that partially prevents the Trump administration from enforcing its executive orders on diversity, equity and inclusion (“DEI”). At issue were...more

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New Administration Outlook: Court Grants Partial Temporary Restraining Order on Executive Order Halting Foreign Aid

On Thursday, February 13, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a partial temporary restraining order in response to lawsuits challenging Executive Order 14169, which paused all congressionally...more

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Federal OMB Funding Freeze and Litigation Primer

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Amid a surge of presidential executive orders since the change in administrations, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has published a series of documents that have spawned much confusion and litigation. Via...more

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Uncertainty for Federal Contractors: Circuits Split as Fifth Circuit Upholds Minimum Wage Mandate

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a Texas federal court’s decision that invalidated President Joe Biden’s executive order increasing the hourly minimum wage for employees of federal contractors. The...more

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Federal Freeze Rescinded: Implications for Tribal Governments and ANCs

On January 27th, the Trump administration ordered a freeze on all disbursements of federal funds through a memorandum signed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The OMB memo stated that the freeze does not apply to...more

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Trump Administration (Sort Of) Abandons Funding Freeze

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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued memorandum M-25-13, “Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs,” (OMB Memo) on Tuesday, January 27, 2025. Two days later on January 29,...more

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Democratic AGs Give Chilly Reception to Federal Funding Freeze

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A coalition of 23 Democratic AGs, led by New York AG Letitia James, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island to block a directive from the Trump administration’s Office of Management and...more

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Title IX Litigation Tracker: 2024 Title IX Regulations Vacated by District Court

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The legal saga surrounding the 2024 Title IX Regulations reached a new peak earlier this month. On January 9, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky granted summary judgment in favor of the...more

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Court Issues Nationwide Injunction Halting Federal Landlord Vaccine Mandate

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U.S. District Court Judge R. Stan Baker of the Southern District of Georgia on Dec. 7, 2021, issued a preliminary injunction, halting the government's enforcement of the vaccine mandate on all federal landlords and their...more

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November Ends With Flurry of Litigation Regarding Various COVID Vaccine Mandates

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As November came to an end, federal courts across the country continue to examine and issue preliminary rulings on challenges to various COVID vaccine mandates put in place by the Biden Administration. At the beginning of...more

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Preliminary Injunction Issued Preventing Ban on New Federal Oil and Gas Leases

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As reported in the last edition of The Climate Report, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia (collectively, "Plaintiff States") filed...more

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D.C. District Court Blocks Xiaomi Designation as “Communist Chinese Military Company”

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On March 12, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction in favor of Xiaomi Corporation (Xiaomi) against implementation of Executive Order (EO) 13959, a November 2020 order...more

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Immigration Showdown: Defeat for the Obama Administration’s Deferred Action Policies

On Thursday, June 23, 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States reached a 4 – 4 tie on issues related to the validity of the Obama administration’s contested immigration programs, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans...more

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A Blow to the President's Effort to Enact Deferred Action and Authorize Employment for Parents of US Citizens

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On November 9, 2015, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, by a 2 to 1 margin, blocked much of President Obama’s executive action, specifically the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, known as DAPA. DAPA would have...more

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