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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

Troutman Pepper Locke

Eighteen State AGs and DeFi Education Fund Sue SEC for Approach to Digital Asset Regulation

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On November 14, a coalition of 18 states, led by Utah Attorney General (AG) Sean Reyes, the outgoing chairman of the Republican AGs Association, filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and...more

Mayer Brown

Federal Appeals Court Tosses OFAC Sanctions on Tornado Cash and Limits Federal Government’s Ability to Police Crypto Transactions

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On November 26, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a landmark decision holding that the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) exceeded its statutory authority by...more

Epstein Becker & Green

The Loper and Jarksey Era: Agency Power to Award Civil Penalties in SEC and FINRA Under Increased Scrutiny

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Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Loper decision, which overturned the longstanding precedent of the Chevron doctrine for agency deference, it was anticipated that lower courts, as well as the Supreme Court, would begin...more

DLA Piper

DC Circuit rules White House CEQ lacks statutory authority to issue binding regulations under NEPA

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A split panel for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) ruled on November 12, 2024, in Marin Audubon Society, et al. v. Federal Aviation Administration, et al. (Marin Audubon Society)...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

UPDATE: District Court Win Lets “Flash Boy” Traders Avoid SEC Registration – For Now

On November 21, 2024, a Northern District of Texas court ruled that the Securities and Exchange Commission had overstepped its authority when the agency had implemented a rule (the “Dealer Rule”) requiring a broader group to...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Adding Fuel to the Fires Calling for Permitting Reform

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In a surprise decision likely to add further fuel to the fires calling for permitting reform and uncertainty to the environmental review process for federal funding and approval, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...more

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DC Circuit Questions Validity of Longstanding Council for Environmental Quality Regulations Implementing NEPA

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In a departure from past jurisprudence, a recent DC Circuit decision questioned whether the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) had the legal authority to issue key regulations under the National Environmental...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

D.C. Circuit Issues Ruling that Could Affect NEPA Compliance

Clients regulated by, or who have contracts with government agencies regulated by, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) should be aware of a major, recent court decision. On November 12, 2024, the D.C. Circuit Court...more

Allen Matkins

Unexpected Court Ruling Raises Substantial Questions About National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Regulations

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In a surprise monumental decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has no authority to issue regulations implementing NEPA and that CEQ’s NEPA...more

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Stay Tuned… FTC Seeks to Breathe Life Back Into Non-Compete Ban

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This past week, the FTC appealed a Texas federal court’s August ruling that blocked nationwide enforcement of the non-compete ban. The non-compete ban will remain blocked during the pendency of the appeal process. However,...more

DLA Piper

REIT Tax News - October 2024

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Welcome to the October 2024 issue of REIT Tax News. Below, we take a look at five developments to read about in less than five minutes. 1. Loper Bright standard takes hold in Varian Medical case - In the landmark case of...more

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A "Tsunami of Lawsuits Against Agencies"? Taking Stock of the Post-Chevron Government Contracting World

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The U.S. Supreme Court's blockbuster decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo overruled a 40-year-old case (Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.) that required courts to defer to agencies'...more

K&L Gates LLP

Loper Bright's Potential Effect on Federal Labor and Employment Law: Possible Consequences for Agencies and Practitioners

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On 28 June 2024, the US Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (Loper Bright) overturned the 40-year-old Chevron doctrine, which required courts to defer to federal agencies’ reasonable interpretations of...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Supreme Court Decisions Curtail Regulatory Agencies’ Powers, Making It Easier To Challenge Rules

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 term is another chapter in the Roberts Court’s trend of shifting power away from administrative agencies and into the hands of courts....more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

FTC’s Rule Banning Non-Compete Agreements Is “Set Aside” Nationwide in District Court Ruling, But Two District Courts Find FTC...

The Federal Trade Commission’s (the FTC) rule prohibiting the entering into or enforcement of non-compete clauses between employers and employees (the Non-Compete Rule) made final in April 2024 and originally scheduled to go...more

Clark Hill PLC

The FTC Rule Banning Noncompetes Has Been Struck Down – For Now

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On Aug. 20, a new federal court decision from the Northern District of Texas in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade Commission halted enactment of the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Rule banning noncompete agreements throughout the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

District Court Ruling Bars Federal Trade Commission Non-Compete Rule for the Near Term

With further proceedings anticipated, and in light of the numerous state law restrictions on non-competes, employers should continue to act with caution when presenting employees with non-compete agreements. On August 20,...more

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Ramifications of Ryan: The Future of the FTC’s Final Rule Banning Non-Competes

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The Federal Trade Commission’s Final Rule banning non-competes will not take effect on September 4, 2024. On August 20, 2024, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown for the Northern District of Texas ruled on the merits of the...more

Flaster Greenberg PC

Texas Court Puts a Stop to FTC's Non-Compete Ban

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On August 20, 2024, a Texas Federal Court issued a nationwide bar on the enforcement of the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) rule banning nearly all non-compete agreements (the “Final Rule”), which, as we have previously...more

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FTC’s Ban on Noncompete Agreements Is Blocked

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The Federal Trade Commission’s efforts to ban noncompete agreements suffered a serious blow when a federal judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction blocking the ban’s enforcement. Implementation of the ban could disrupt...more

Perkins Coie

August Tip of the Month: Court Blocks FTC Rule Banning Employment-Related Noncompete Agreements

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On August 20, 2024, a Texas district court issued a decision blocking a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Rule, which would have banned employment-related noncompete agreements....more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Federal Judge Blocks FTC Non-Compete Ban

The wait is over. On August 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) proposed ban on non-compete agreements...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

Update: FTC’s Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Set Aside

On May 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Final Rule that renders invalid non-compete clauses in standard employment agreements. 16 C.F.R. § 910. On August 20, 2024, the United States District Court for the...more

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United States District Court Blocks FTC's Final Rule Banning Non-Compete Agreements

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced the “Final Non-Compete Clause Rule” banning most post-employment non-compete clauses between employers and employees. The final rule was set to take effect on...more

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