Disclosure Requirements, Reporting Requirements, First Amendment

California’s New Climate Disclosure and GHG-Related Claims Laws

Quarles & Brady LLP on 3/15/2024

On October 7, 2023, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a trio of climate-related bills that will impact what companies doing business in California must (or can) say about their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the...more

Recent Updates to State and Federal Climate Disclosure Laws

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 3/14/2024

Last year, California became the first state to pass laws requiring companies to make disclosures about their greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions as well as the risks that climate change poses for their businesses and their...more

Lawsuit Challenges Recent California Climate Disclosure Laws

Mayer Brown on 2/19/2024

As discussed in our earlier Client Alerts, California recently passed several laws requiring certain climate-related corporate disclosures, including, for example, regarding emissions and climate-related financial risk. As...more

Business Organizations Challenge California's Climate Change Disclosure Requirements as Unconstitutional

Jones Day on 2/7/2024

Business groups in California challenge the constitutionality of new climate reporting laws. ...more

The Future of New Jersey’s “Dark Money” Bill Remains Uncertain Amid Constitutional Challenges

Genova Burns LLC on 10/4/2019

On October 2, 2019 a federal judge issued a stay on the implementation of what has become known as New Jersey’s “Dark Money” Bill. The law was scheduled to take effect on October 15, 2019 and would require 501(c)(4) and 527...more

Blog: Conflict Minerals Benchmarking Study Analyzes Filings For 2016—Was There Any Progress?

Cooley LLP on 8/2/2017

Development International has posted its most recent Conflict Minerals Benchmarking Study, analyzing the results of filings for the 2016 filing period. The study looked at filings submitted by the 1,153 issuers that had filed...more

DOL Persuader Rule Blocked by Federal Judge

Saul Ewing LLP on 11/21/2016

On November 16, 2016, a District Judge in the Northern District of Texas permanently blocked the U.S. Department of Labor from enforcing a new regulation that would have increased disclosure requirements for employers that...more

District Court Preliminarily Enjoins Majority of Department of Labor “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces” Final Rule

Robinson+Cole Construction Law Zone on 11/9/2016

On October 24, 2016, the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas preliminarily enjoined the majority of the Department of Labor’s Final Rule implementing President Barack Obama’s Executive Order 13673 that imposed...more

Controversial Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Rule Partially Blocked

Stinson LLP on 10/28/2016

On October 24, 2016, a federal judge enjoined the U.S. government from enforcing certain provisions of the controversial Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule. The decision was handed down from Judge Marcia Crone in the U.S....more

Preliminary Injunction Halts Enforcement of Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Rule

Ballard Spahr LLP on 10/28/2016

Federal contractors recently scored a significant victory when a preliminary injunction blocked much of the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces rule from taking effect. The rule, based on a 2014 executive order, was issued in August...more

Heart of Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Final Rule Blocked by Federal Judge

Troutman Pepper on 10/27/2016

The injunction prevents the government from enforcing the final rule’s provisions on labor law violation disclosures and the restriction on arbitration agreements. Late in the evening of October 24, mere hours before the...more

“Blacklisting” Executive Order Stayed by District Court Judge

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 10/27/2016

On October 24th, 2016, United States District Judge Marcia A. Crone issued a preliminary injunction that suspends the implementation of certain portions of President Obama’s Executive Order 13673, called the Fair Pay and Safe...more

Breaking: Federal Judge Enjoins Implementation Of Part Of Fair Pay And Safe Workplaces (“Blacklisting”) Executive Order,...

Proskauer - Government Contractor Compliance... on 10/26/2016

On October 24, 2016, just one day prior to effective date of the Regulations and Guidance implementing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order (collectively the “Rule”), Judge Marcia Crone of the U.S. District Court...more

Federal Court Halts Enforcement of DOL’s New “Persuader Rules”

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/29/2016

Seyfarth Synopsis: On June 27, 2016, a federal district court in Lubbock Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction preventing the Department of Labor’s new persuader regulations from taking effect this July 1, 2016. ...more

National Federation of Independent Business et al. v. Perez, et al.

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