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Still in the Dark After Loper Bright: SCOTUS Declines to Shine a Light on NLRB Deference Post-Chevron

Last year, the United States Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision put an end to “Chevron deference,” a judicial practice of deferring to federal agency interpretations of ambiguous statutory language. While the legal...more

Proskauer - Labor Relations Update

Supreme Court Declines to Revisit NLRB Deference Post-Loper Bright

On March 24, 2025, the Supreme Court declined to review a Ninth Circuit decision that provided an opportunity to clarify how its landmark decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S. Ct. 2244 (2024) affects the...more

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The Tornado Cash Delisting And Sanctions Compliance Implications For Crypto

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On 21 March 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) removed Tornado Cash, a virtual currency mixer, from its list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List),...more

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Sick of ALJs? The New Right to Federal Court During Agency Prosecutions

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Practitioners and scholars all agree that last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court overhauled the administrative state. And no, not simply by overturning Chevron, which was undoubtably the most significant decision of the Supreme...more

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2024 Year in Review: Major US Supreme Court and Appellate Cases

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Welcome to the “Major US Supreme Court and Appellate Cases” chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2024 Year in Review. The Supreme Court continues to take a close look at major administrative law...more

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Texas court upholds Biden administration’s rule on ESG Investing for ERISA fiduciaries

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In a recent decision by the U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas, Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk ruled that the U.S. Department of Labor’s 2022 Rule (the 2022 Rule) on environmental, social, and governance (ESG)...more

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FedEx Defeats Government’s Loper Bright Gambit

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On February 13, 2025, a Tennessee federal district court handed FedEx Corporation its second win in a refund action involving the application of foreign tax credits to what are known as “offset earnings.”[1] Offset earnings...more

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Sixth Circuit Gives Insight on a Post-Chevron World: What the Set Aside of Net Neutrality Tells Us About Scope of Agency Power

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We have previously written about two consolidated cases (Loper Bright and Relentless), in which the Supreme Court reversed a decades-old rule known as the Chevron doctrine. Broadly, the Chevron doctrine required courts to...more

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A Divided SCOTUS Invalidates Common Provisions of Clean Water Act Permits

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In the US Supreme Court’s first post-Chevron decision involving the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the Supreme Court found against EPA, invalidating ‘end result’ NPDES permit requirements....more

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Old Days – Memories of Equity Split Dollar in the Post-Loper Bright Era

This article focuses on the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 603 U.S. (2024) and how it might apply to Split Dollar life insurance and possibly resurrect one of my favorite life...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

Deregulation: Uncertainty and Opportunity

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The Trump administration has recently issued a series of Executive Orders on “deregulation,” directing federal agencies to review, rescind, and modify existing federal regulations. This regulatory overhaul presents both...more

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Report From Day 1 of The 2025 ABA OSHA/MSHA Law Conference

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This week we are attending the ABA Occupational Safety and Health Law Meeting in Rancho Mirage, California. The meeting includes representatives from management, labor, and safety professionals, some who previously worked in...more

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Textualism Again Comes to the Fore, Albeit with Contradictory Views on the Court - SCOTUS Today

Only a few readers of SCOTUS Today are lawyers who are professionally occupied with environmental matters. However, almost all of my readers are constantly occupied with administrative law matters, governed in the...more

ArentFox Schiff

ESG Update: Texas Federal Court Cites Loper Bright in Upholding Biden-Era ESG 401(k) Investing Rule

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A Biden-era US Department of Labor (DOL) Rule permitting consideration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors when choosing investments as a “tiebreaker” was recently upheld by Texas federal Judge Matthew...more

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Regulated Entities: It’s Time to Play Love It or Leave It with Federal Regulations

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Amidst the flurry of Executive Orders (“EOs”) that tends to accompany any new administration, one EO may have flown under the radar. But for the regulated community—which, these days, includes most businesses in some form or...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: Recent Executive Actions on Agency Independence—Not-Quite-Hot Takes for FERC

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In a spate of executive orders and other actions over the last several weeks, the new administration has moved to exert unprecedented control over independent regulatory agencies, including the Federal Energy Regulatory...more

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New Challenges Loom for OSHA and OSHRC Amid Quorum Issues, Potential ALJ Removals, and Recent Supreme Court Jurisprudence

“The Times They Are a-Changin’” isn’t just a Bob Dylan song title—it is also a fairly accurate description of what has been happening in the arena of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the...more

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President Trump Issues Executive Order Addressing Second Amendment Rights

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On February 7, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order directing the Attorney General to review and propose actions to address the right to keep and bear arms, which he called “an indispensable safeguard of security...more

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Mintz IRA Update — A Circuit Win and the End of Chevron Deference Could Shift Tides in Drug Price Negotiation Program Challenges

As detailed in our previous updates, the IRA’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program (the Negotiation Program or Program), which enables the federal government to negotiate prices for some of the costliest Medicare Part D...more

Perkins Coie

FCC’s One-to-One Consent Rule Vacated: What’s Next for TCPA Compliance?

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Businesses can breathe a sigh of relief: In Insurance Marketing Coalition v. FCC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) controversial one-to-one consent rule,...more

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Insights From the 2025 American Health Law Association’s Long Term and Post-Acute Care Law and Compliance Conference

This year, health lawyers, providers, consultants, and government experts from across the country convened in Orlando, Florida, for the American Health Law Association’s Long Term and Post-Acute Care Law and Compliance...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Health Care & Life Sciences

Private equity investors in health care and life sciences must navigate a complex and shifting landscape influenced by regulatory and policy changes and technological advancements. As private equity investments in the health...more

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What We're Watching: State Attorneys General Offices in 2025

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As the Oval Office and Congress flip to Republican control, we expect more state AG-led efforts to impact public policy. Shortly after the New Year, we gathered together attorneys from our State Attorneys General team to...more

McGlinchey Stafford

Litigation Byte (January 2025 Edition)

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Delivered in digestible, insightful bites, McGlinchey’s Litigation Byte is a monthly roundup of financial services decisions and cases nationwide that impact your business....more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

How Congress Can Stem Consumer Finance Law Uncertainty

With the 2024 election behind us and the 119th Congress now in session, the political climate has created an opportunity for meaningful statutory reforms of the federal consumer financial laws to become reality. The 119th...more

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