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Partner Hillary Stemple was quoted by Pink Sheet on how the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could expand access to medication abortion, in line with President Biden’s July executive order.
Consent decrees play a major role in environmental litigation. This week, Maine People’s Alliance v. Holtrachem Manufacturing Company, one of the nation’s longest-running cases under the RCRA citizen suit provisions, has essentially ended with a Maine district court's entry of a consent decree.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, under a reconstituted Commission, is signaling a new era of aggressive enforcement of the Commodity Exchange Act.
The ongoing worldwide semiconductor shortage will cause more than 100,000 vehicles to be cut from North American production schedules this week, Automotive News reported Sunday. Over 180,000 vehicles are expected to be dropped globally.
Clean car drivers who love to keep their car garaged or covered need not apply.
As use of cryptocurrency investment has increased throughout the world, regulators have faced a bevy of novel questions, especially related to applying different strains of law to regulate novel digital assets.
- The efforts to legalize cannabis have gained traction in some states and run into serious roadblocks in others.
- Nineteen states allow adults to possess and use cannabis for non-medical uses (adult use).
- Thirty-seven states allow for medical cannabis use through state run programs.
- Nineteen states allow adults to possess and use cannabis for non-medical uses (adult use).
- Thirty-seven states allow for medical cannabis use through state run programs.
Five new state omnibus privacy laws have been passed and will go into effect in 2023.
Organizations should review their privacy practices and prepare for compliance with these new privacy laws.
Organizations should review their privacy practices and prepare for compliance with these new privacy laws.
Most of California’s Industrial Welfare Commission (IWC) wage orders mandate that employees “shall be provided with suitable seats when the nature of the work reasonably permits the use of seats.
In a newly filed lawsuit against the State of Idaho, the federal government argues that Idaho’s “near-total ban on abortion,” scheduled to take effect on August 25, 2022, overreaches by prohibiting abortion even where federal law may require physicians to perform an emergency abortion.
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Regulators at all levels – federal, state, and local – seek to address climate concerns. On July 27, Washington, DC, joined localities banning natural-gas hookups when Mayor Muriel Bowser signed an ordinance limiting use of fossil fuels like natural gas in newly constructed buildings.
August 4, 2022
Brian Janowsky will speak at the Hawaii Estate Planning Council on August 4, 2022.
The use of cryptocurrencies for online purchases has been steadily gaining popularity. However, using crypto to pay for goods in stores has been slow due to the lack of infrastructure that can support crypto transactions.
A series of new developments combine to make the broad topic of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing, disclosure, and regulation more relevant to the not-for-profit healthcare sector (Sector).
August 3, 2022
ArentFox Schiff Partners Darrell Gay and Mamta Shah recently partnered with Capalino's Travis Terry and Jeanne Mullgrav for an important conversation about recent US Supreme Court decisions and strategies businesses should be considering for addressing these crucial issues now and in the future.
The Metaverse offers broad opportunities for trade associations to expand their reach and enhance member experiences like never before. These new and exciting possibilities, however, come with unique challenges. This alert gives a brief overview of the Metaverse and highlights a few key benefits.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its annual proposed rule related to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems for 2023 (the HOPPS Proposed Rule) on July 26, 2022.
On July 26, 2022, Massachusetts joined seventeen other states which prohibit race discrimination based on natural hairstyles when Governor Charlie Baker signed the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair (“Crown”) Act, which bans discrimination based on hairstyles at work and school.
ArentFox Schiff secured a complete victory in an appeal before the Third Circuit, which found our client responsible for $0 of actual or intended loss in a case that the federal government claimed was “one of the largest, if not the largest, theft of trade secrets in U.S. history.”
We are pleased to announce that two ArentFox Schiff attorneys will assume leadership roles on the Estate & Gift Taxation Committee of the New York City Bar Association.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted a new standard called Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI)[1] that shifts the focus on protecting customers first and foremost. Although the regulation possibly puts certain customers first, it leaves some important areas vulnerable.
On July 12, 2022, the Council of the District of Columbia voted to amend the District of Columbia’s Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2020 (the “Act”). Implementation of the Act has been delayed on several occasions and is currently set to occur on October 1, 2022.
On July 20, 2022, the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a Special Fraud Alert cautioning physicians and other health care practitioners to use “heightened scrutiny” when entering into telemedicine arrangements that have “suspect characteristics” of a fraud scheme.
The Metaverse is widely regarded as the next frontier in digital commerce, with organizations spending millions of dollars securing a presence by buying digital real estate and investing in platforms to be market leaders.