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Decoded - Technology Law Insights, V 5, Issue 10, December 2024

Happy Holidays and welcome to our year-end issue of Decoded. We hope you enjoyed reading our technology law insights e-newsletter this year. We are already planning for 2025. ...more

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Court Calls into Question Securities Trading Restrictions on Entities Designated as Communist Chinese Military Companies

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The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia last week ruled that certain securities trading restrictions will be prevented from going into effect with respect to Xiaomi Corporation (“Xiaomi”) under Section 1237 of...more

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Xiaomi wins preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of Trump-era securities trading ban

Xiaomi Corporation (Xiaomi), one of the world’s largest smartphone manufacturers, won a preliminary injunction from the DC District Court on March 12, 2021 that enjoined the US government from enforcing a Trump-era rule that...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

U.S. Court Blocks Trump-Era Designation Of Xiaomi As A Chinese Military Company And Permits Continued Trading In Its Securities

On March 12, 2021, a U.S. district court granted a temporary injunction requested by the Hong Kong-listed, Chinese electronics giant, Xiaomi Corporation (“Xiaomi”). The injunction blocks the U.S. Department of Defense (“DoD”)...more

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Federal Judge Bars Enforcement Of EO Related To Diversity Training - UPDATED

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As we anticipated, President Biden revoked Executive Order 13950 (EO 13950), Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping, effective immediately. Within 60 days of 1/20/21, federal agencies covered by EO 13950 are directed to...more

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Federal Judge Bars Enforcement Of EO Related To Diversity Training

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Key Points: • The Court imposed a nationwide preliminary injunction on federal government agencies barring the federal government from taking any action intended to effectuate or enforce the provisions of §§ 4 and 5 of...more

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Federal Court Blocks Trump’s Controversial Workplace Diversity Training Order Nationwide

In response to 2020’s continued accounts of brutality and discrimination against Black people, and the corresponding wave of demands for accountability and racial justice, organizations across the country began implementing...more

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California Judge Halts President Trump’s Workplace Diversity Training Order

You may recall from my earlier blog that a group of organizations and individuals who specialize in the delivery of high-quality health care and other critical services to members of the LGBT community filed suit in...more

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Court Enjoins Trump Executive Order On ‘Divisive Concepts’ In Workplace Trainings

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A federal judge issued a nationwide injunction on Dec. 22 to block enforcement of an executive order that would have effectively prohibited workplace trainings on implicit bias by federal contractors, federal agencies and the...more

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Race and Sex Stereotyping Executive Order Subject to Preliminary Injunction

Some anticipate that President-elect Joseph Biden will revoke the Trump administration’s Executive Order (EO) 13950 that restricts the content of certain diversity-related workplace trainings. On December 22, 2020, the United...more

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Court Overturns President Trump’s Ban On Federal Contractor Diversity Training

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A federal judge just issued a preliminary injunction to stop government enforcement of a controversial presidential executive order that severely curtailed the ability of federal contractors to offer diversity training on...more

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Federal Court Issues Nationwide Order Enjoining Enforcement of Trump Executive Order on Diversity Training

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As previously reported, on September 22, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order 13950 on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping (Order), which barred federal agencies, federal contractors, and recipients of federal grants...more

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Executive Order Prohibiting “Divisive” Training Is Put On Hold

Preliminary injunction stalls bias training order. A federal judge in California has imposed a nationwide injunction prohibiting enforcement of portions of Executive Order 13950. The court’s Order grants a preliminary...more

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Federal Court Issues Nationwide Injunction of Executive Order on Diversity and Inclusion Training

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On December 22, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a nationwide preliminary injunction banning the enforcement of Executive Order 13950, which seeks to prohibit purported...more

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Another Court Loss for President’s TikTok Ban, Questions Loom About the Future

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On December 7, 2020, Judge Carl Nichols of the D.C. District Court issued a preliminary injunction barring the federal government from enforcing a ban on the social media site TikTok. The opinion from the D.C. District Court...more

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Judge Rules Against Another Attempt by Trump to Restrict Legal Immigration

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The courts dealt another blow to the Trump administration's continued efforts to restrict immigration this week, providing relief for companies looking to fill and retain critical positions with foreign talent. On Tuesday,...more

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Federal Court Blocks Trump Administration's H-1B Visa Rules

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Judge Jeffrey S. White of the District Court for the Northern District of California on December 1, 2020, set aside two new rules promulgated by the Trump Administration aimed at significantly curtailing the H-1B visa program...more

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Trump Administration Introduces Major Changes to H-1B Visas and Employment-Based Green Cards

- DHS and DOL publish Interim Final Rules on H-1B visas and prevailing wage levels. - DHS tightens “specialty occupation” definition and restricts third-party placement of H-1B employees. - DOL significantly raises...more

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USCIS to Expand Premium Processing Program, Increase Fee Rates

On October 1, 2020, President Donald Trump signed into law a stopgap spending measure to fund the U.S. government through December 11, 2020. The spending measure includes a provision titled “Emergency Stopgap USCIS...more

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DHS Partially Enjoined From Enforcing Proclamation Suspending Entry of Certain Foreign Nationals

On October 1, 2020, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued a limited preliminary injunction enjoining the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from “implementing, enforcing, or...more

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Seyfarth Policy Matters Newsletter - October 2020

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A Tribute To The Late, Incomparably Great, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  Exactly two weeks to the day, the Country began collective mourning over the loss of one of the greatest jurisprudential minds in a century. Justice...more

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Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 7, September 2020

U.S. Judge Halts Trump's TikTok Ban, Hours Before It was Set to Start - "John Hall, an attorney for TikTok, said that the app, with some 100 million American users, is a 'modern day version of the town square' and shutting...more

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The Courts Step In To Protect TikTok From The Trump Administration

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In a dramatic Sunday morning hearing (conducted remotely via telephone), lawyers for TikTok and the Trump Administration battled over whether the government’s order banning TikTok from the Apple and Google app stores would...more

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TikTok and WeChat—New Developments Delay Prohibitions

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Sunday, September 20, 2020, was intended to be the day on which prohibitions would go into effect on ByteDance Ltd. (ByteDance) and Tencent Holdings Ltd. (Tencent) and their subsidiaries—makers of the TikTok and WeChat apps,...more

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Executive Orders on Pause: WeChat and TikTok Bans Temporarily Suspended

On Saturday, two actions put a stop, at least temporarily, to the U.S. shutdown of the popular social media apps WeChat and TikTok. WeChat - On September 19, 2020, a California Federal Magistrate Judge issued a...more

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