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Will State AGs Fill the Gap in FCPA Enforcement?

Since the start of President Trump’s second administration, some State Attorneys General (AGs) have actively responded to executive orders and policy directives, including by initiating legal challenges in federal courts. Now...more

Morgan Lewis

Executive Order Seeks to Limit State Role in Energy Regulation

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The US administration issued the executive order “Protecting American Energy from State Overreach” on April 8, 2025, directing the US Attorney General to identify and challenge state- and local-level energy and climate...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

CFPB inaction harming state consumer protection efforts, Democratic AGs allege in amicus brief

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The Trump Administration’s efforts to “effectively shutter the CFPB” amounts to a “total dereliction of all mandatory statutory duties,” that will harm state consumer protection efforts, Democratic state attorneys general...more

Whiteford

Client Alert: Administration’s Attempt to Freeze all Federal Financial Assistance is Stalled by Court Ruling

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On January 27, 2025, the new Administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a Memorandum ordering a total freeze on “all federal financial assistance” that could be targeted under his previous executive orders...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

District court reverses OMB mandate to stop nearly all federal funding

On January 31, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the executive branch’s directive to pause federal financial assistance. The TRO was motioned by 22...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Responding to Stop Work Orders Implementing Recent Executive Orders

Since the inauguration of US President Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, many companies that hold or support Federal contracts, grants, and other awards have received so-called “stop work orders” or other directives to cease...more

Cozen O'Connor

Democratic AGs Give Chilly Reception to Federal Funding Freeze

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A coalition of 23 Democratic AGs, led by New York AG Letitia James, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island to block a directive from the Trump administration’s Office of Management and...more

Kilpatrick

Frozen Federal Aid: How Office of Management and Budget’s Directive to Pause Federal Financial Assistance Will Impact You and...

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Minutes before the federal funding freeze was poised to go into effect, a federal judge issued an order temporarily blocking the funding freeze. The District Court for the District of Columbia issued the order in response to...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Florida Governor Signs Anti-Mandate Legislation

Last Thursday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed sweeping legislation designed to protect private and public sector employees from losing their jobs due to COVID-19 vaccination mandates, as well as to protect the rights of...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Shumaker Statement on South Carolina Attorney General Opinion

Friday, March 27th, the South Carolina Attorney General issued an opinion expressing the view that the Governor’s emergency powers pre-empt emergency orders issued by local governments during a pandemic emergency. The opinion...more

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