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U.S. Supreme Court Defers to Agency Decision-Making in FDA’s Denial of Premarket Approval of Flavored E-Cigarette Products

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We previously reported a decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), denying the premarketing authorization of several flavored e-cigarette product. On April 2, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States...more

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Understanding the Enforceability and Admissibility of Electronic Signatures in Saudi Arabia’s Evolving Legal System

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Saudi’s evolving legal system now allows companies and individuals to use electronic signatures in commercial transactions, reducing reliance on traditional wet ink signatures. Electronic signatures have been legally...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

White House Issues Memorandum Directing Federal Agencies to Repeal Regulations Deemed to be Unlawful Pursuant to Recent U.S....

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On April 9, the White House issued a memorandum directing federal executive departments and agencies to repeal regulations deemed unlawful pursuant to certain U.S. Supreme Court decisions. This directive aims to address...more

Epstein Becker & Green

#WorkforceWednesday®: Can the President Fire NLRB Members Without Cause? SCOTUS May Decide - Employment Law This Week®

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This week, we’re examining the potential shake-up in presidential power over independent federal agencies and what a review of a 90-year-old precedent by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) could mean for...more

Proskauer - Health Care Law Brief

Post‑Chevron Spotlight: Federal Court Nixes FDA Rule Reclassifying Laboratory Services as Medical Devices

In another rebuke to federal regulatory overreach, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (“District Court”) has vacated the Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) 2024 final rule that sought to bring...more

Woods Rogers

Repeal, Not Replace: President Trump’s Directive To Deregulate

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On April 9, 2025, President Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum titled “Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations,” marking a significant step in the Administration’s push to deregulate under the broader DOGE...more

McCarter & English, LLP

New Executive Order Seeks to Sunset Key Energy Regulations

President Trump signed on April 9, 2025 an executive order titled Zero-Based Regulatory Budgeting to Unleash American Energy that seeks to deregulate the energy industry by directing various governmental agencies–the...more

Snell & Wilmer

Arizona Court of Appeals “Updates the Handbook” on Judicial Review of Agency Action

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When operating a business, it is nearly impossible not to have to interact with state or other local government agencies. Decisions regarding permits, licenses, government contracts, workforce compliance, environmental...more

Mayer Brown

Ports & Maritime News | March 31 – April 6, 2025

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The Ports & Maritime team has compiled the sector’s important news items for the week of March 31–April 6, to keep you in the loop. On April 3, ANTAQ approved a review of the contributions received as part of Public...more

Fisher Phillips

SCOTUS Will Soon Decide the Fate of E-Rate Program: Could Schools Lose Their Tech Funding?

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The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard argument on an important case that has the potential to upend a significant source of technology funding for school systems throughout the country. The FCC v. Consumers’ Research case,...more

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Texas District Court Rules FWS Must Consider the Cost of Protecting Threatened Species

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On March 29, 2025, a Texas District Court ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) should have considered economic costs when crafting protections for the lesser-prairie chicken, a threatened species, under Section...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Republicans ask federal banking agencies to withdraw rules, guidance

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Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have sent letters to financial regulators asking them to rescind a variety of measures the regulators issued during the Biden Administration....more

Cranfill Sumner LLP

Fifth and Eleventh Circuits Grant FTC’s Motion to Stay Appeals Challenging Non-Compete Ban

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On March 15, 2025, the Fifth Circuit granted the FTC’s motion for a 120-day stay of the agency’s appeal of the district court decision to block its proposed ban on non-competes. The Eleventh Circuit followed suit on March 20,...more

Bricker Graydon LLP

CMS Final Rule on Minimum Staffing Standards for Long-Term Care Facilities Struck Down

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On April 7, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated staffing requirements published in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) May 2024 Minimum Staffing Rule (the “Final...more

Hanson Bridgett

Peer Review by Licentiates Only: Beware Health Care Service Plans!

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On February 19, 2025, the California Court of Appeal published a decision, Lin v. Board of Directors of PrimeCare Medical Network, Inc., 108 Cal.App.5th 1163, emphasizing California Business and Professions Code’s requirement...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Trump Directs Agencies to Quickly Repeal Unlawful Regulations, Without Notice-and-Comment

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On April 9, 2025, President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum (Memorandum) entitled Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations. The Memorandum – part of a broader “Department of Government Efficiency” Deregulatory...more

Marshall Dennehey

Legal Update for Special Education Law – Updates from the U.S. Department of Education

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The Uncertain Future of Special Education: Presidential Authority and the Proposed Shift to HHS - With the United States Department of Education in a state of flux at the national level, one question that looms large is the...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Massachusetts Codifies ‘Shield Law' Protections for Physicians

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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...more

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Federal District Court Vacates FDA’s LDT Final Rule

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On March 31, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas vacated the FDA’s Final Rule on laboratory-developed tests (LDTs), holding that the agency lacks authority to regulate LDTs as medical devices...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Twin Killings: Executive Orders Put Existing Energy Regulations in the Crosshairs

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On the evening of April 9, 2025, the Trump administration released a pair of deregulatory executive actions that could have major implications for any industry subject to federal rules — and are also likely to be a magnet for...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

A Texas Federal Court Sides with Laboratories, But There May Be Unintended Consequences for FDA

The obvious result of the legal shootout between the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and clinical laboratory trade associations, the American Clinical Laboratory Association and the Association for Molecular Pathology,...more

Ius Laboris

New Data Protection Law Comes Into Effect in Mexico

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On 21 March 2025, the New Federal Law for the Protection of Personal Data in Possession of Private Parties came into effect, superseding and repealing the prior data protection law....more

Troutman Pepper Locke

D.C. Circuit Denies Healthy Gulf’s and Sierra Club’s Petition for Review of FERC Order Authorizing Construction and Operation of...

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On March 28, 2025, the D.C. Circuit denied a joint petition for review brought by Healthy Gulf and Sierra Club (together, “Petitioners”) challenging FERC’s grant of a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) to...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Like A Good Neighbor…Not So Fast, Says 5th Circuit

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The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals gave a big win to the EPA when it upheld a Biden-era ozone ruling affecting Louisiana and Texas, but there was also a set-back for the EPA when the Court both upheld the ability of such...more

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FERC Grants and Denies in Part Basin Electric’s Transmission Incentive Petition

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On March 31, 2025, FERC granted in part and denied in part Basin Electric Power Cooperative’s (Basin Electric) petition for declaratory order seeking transmission incentives for the Roundup-Kummer Ridge Project, the...more

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