The incoming Presidential administration and its agenda raise valid questions about the future roles, responsibilities, scopes of authority, and priorities of the Department of Labor, the EEOC, the NLRB, and the Federal...more
With his recent re-election, former President Donald Trump will once again become President Trump. Given his significant shaping of the federal courts during his first term, it is worth considering what additional impact he...more
In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S. Ct. 2244 (2024), the Supreme Court did away with the “Chevron Doctrine” essentially eliminating the Judiciary’s mandated deference to agency interpretations of ambiguous...more
We often look to the federal judiciary as the gold standard of American jurisprudence. State courts frequently find federal opinions persuasive. Confirmation hearings for federal judges are televised. Indeed, the federal...more
On the heels of an unflattering report by the Wall Street Journal reporting that 131 federal judges or their family members had some kind of financial ties to cases over which they presided, and President Biden’s efforts to...more
Arbitration provisions are common features of commercial agreements. Arbitration is often touted as a cost-effective alternative to litigation that provides contract parties the freedom to decide everything from what law the...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears poised to begin testing the scope of its rulemaking authority, including new substantive competition rules for the first time in decades. On March 25, 2021, FTC Acting Chairwoman...more
On May 5, 2021, Federal District Judge Dabney Friedrich vacated the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) nationwide moratorium on residential evictions (the “Order”), which the CDC had recently extended beyond its...more
Cyber security breaches have been widespread recently, prompting business and government agencies alike to implement new rules, regulations and protocols to protect confidential personal information. Most recently, the...more
Article II of the Constitution provides that the President “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and...more
On July 28th of this year, the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (“SCJN”) and the Council of the Federal Judiciary issued a statement on the suspension of time limits and the resumption of activities after the period...more
Following the previous client alert, published on April 22nd, 2020, listed below are the new measures issued by the Council of the Federal Judiciary and the Supreme Court of Justice for the mitigation and control of the...more
El Consejo Superior de la Judicatura (“CSJ”) por medio del Acuerdo PCSJA20 11532 del 11 de abril de 2020 mantuvo las excepciones a la suspensión de términos judiciales ya decretadas en los acuerdos anteriores, es decir, las...more
Despite the U.S. Supreme Court case now pending on the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in a string of decisions issued by the Bureau’s Director from December 26, 2019, to February 10, 2020, the...more
On February 12, 2020, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador brought forward to the Senate of the Republic the package of reforms to the Federal Judiciary (the "PJF") prepared by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (the...more
With the partial shutdown of the federal government entering its nineteenth day (as of today), and with reports indicating there are no signs of an imminent resolution, employers should be aware of the status of federal...more
The government shutdown began on December 22, 2018 and continues. Recent media covering the shutdown have begun to focus on how this is impacting the federal judiciary — including the federal district & United States...more
What's New - JUDICIAL ELECTIONS - Legislators officially elected Judge George “Buck” James as the next South Carolina Supreme Court justice on Wednesday during a joint session of the General Assembly on Wednesday....more
In the second periodic installment of the Employment Law Lookout Blog Team’s analysis of employment law (and related) case being heard by the United States Supreme Court this term, read on for our take on Spokeo Inv. v....more