The US Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued proposed regulations under Section 501(c)(3) last week to provide that a private school that discriminates on the basis of race, color, or national or ethnic origin in its educational, admissions, scholarship, athletic, or other policies is not operated exclusively for exempt purposes under Section 501(c)(3) and therefore does not qualify for exemption from federal income tax.
Utilities facing federal emergency orders intended to stall retirements now have a clearer understanding of the durability of such orders.
Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a public statement clarifying that the agency does not issue any documentation to verify compliance with cosmetic product facility registration or cosmetic product listing requirements.
On September 3, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed to rescind Rule 206(4)-5 under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, as amended, commonly known as the “pay-to-play” rule, along with related recordkeeping requirements under Rule 204-2(a)(18).
In Silver Fern Chemical, Inc. v. Lyons et al., No. 2:23-cv-00775-TL (W.D. Wash. Aug. 25, 2026), the US District Court for the Western District of Washington denied the defendants’ renewed motion for judgment as a matter of law and motion for a new trial following a jury verdict awarding $1,916,137 in damages for trade secret misappropriation under both the Washington Uniform Trade Secrets Act (WUTSA) and the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA).
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As Section 338 emerges as a newly active trade enforcement tool, the US International Trade Commission (USITC) is seeking public comment on how it should fulfill its monitoring and advisory responsibilities under Section 338(g).
In January 2025, the Gulf of Mexico became the Gulf of America by executive order. Then, on August 27, a second executive order was signed renaming Lake Ontario as “Lake America.”
On August 19, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a proposed enforcement policy statement putting businesses on notice that using consumers’ personal data to set individualized prices without clear disclosure may violate Section 5 of the FTC Act.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, remote depositions have gone from emergency workaround to everyday practice. Advocates praise remote depositions for their reduced costs, lessened travel, and increased flexibility, while ignoring the credibility concerns that arise when parties are not in person.
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued its much-anticipated decision in United States ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates LLC and reversed the district court’s landmark ruling that the False Claims Act’s (FCA) qui tam provisions are unconstitutional.
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention did not take much of a summer vacation.
“Polluter pays” has intuitive political appeal. But the first federal merits ruling on a state climate-superfund statute shows the harder legal question: not whether climate-adaptation costs are real, but which institution has authority to allocate them.
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How does tax policy go from an idea to enacted law? In this episode of “Tax Stuff You Should Know,” hosts Bob Pluth and Gene Magidenko sit down with former US Congressman and longtime tax policy leader Phil English to explore the process behind tax legislation and what it means for taxpayers, businesses, and policymakers.
On July 31, the California Court of Appeal, Second District, affirmed the dismissal of a Proposition 65 enforcement action in Consumer Protection Group, LLC v. Signal Brands, LLC, holding that a prior consent judgment entered in a separate private enforcement action barred the subsequent suit under res judicata.
Oregon’s win in the first federal trial over a packaging extended producer responsibility (EPR) law is a practical warning to companies facing the spread of EPR programs: courts may not treat complexity, cost, or multi-state compliance burdens as sufficient grounds to invalidate these laws.
In this episode of Five Questions, Five Answers, Birgit Matthiesen, David R. Hamill, James Kim, and Antonio J. Rivera explore the complexities of tariffs, including stacking, United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) implications, and enterprise risk management amidst global trade tensions.
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On August 26, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied all petitions for review challenging the portion of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2024 framework rule for new chemical reviews addressing how persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals (PBTs) are evaluated for exemptions from the premanufacture notice (PMN) process under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
If you use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to draft, edit, or proofread content, those tools may now leave invisible fingerprints in the text they produce. These fingerprints are not metadata or hidden characters but are embedded within the actual words of the textual output.
On July 13, the US Department of Defense/War (DoD) announced the immediate suspension of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Phase 2 requirements, which previously were scheduled to go into effect November 10. Contractors were subsequently invited to comment on the future of the CMMC.
On August 17, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued its decision in Contento Suquilanda v. Skyway Roofing, Inc., affirming summary judgment in favor of a general contractor on both retained-control negligence and negligent hiring claims brought by a subcontractor’s injured employee.
“Whether ‘tis nobler to deviate from the RLD and rely on established data, or take arms against a sea of troubles with a bioequivalent product that conforms to the sameness requirement — that is the question.” That might have been Shakespeare’s opening to Hamlet, had the Bard traded quills for regulatory submissions and Denmark for the District of Delaware or New Jersey.