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In a joint statement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced a notable shift in their position on coronavirus relief legislation negotiations.

The lifting of COVID-19–related travel restrictions will apply to land border entries as well as for air travel to the United States.

It did not take long. On April 3, 2020, the Small Business Administration began accepting applications for companies to participate in the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP"). By early May...

Under the Biden Administration, we expect the Department of Justice to reinvigorate the policies aimed at increasing coordination between the criminal and civil divisions.

When the COVID-19 crisis hit in early 2020, there was a general consensus that enhanced unemployment benefits were necessary to address the crippling impact on the economy and workers.

Alabama joined other states in pushing back against federal workplace vaccine mandates. On November 5, 2021, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law Senate Bill 9 that ...

The newly released OSHA rule will not be applied to workplaces subject to the federal contractor requirement or the CMS rule.

On April 9, 2020, the Massachusetts' Department of Criminal Justice Information Systems (DCJIS) passed an Emergency Regulation to address the social distancing limitations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As we previously reported, two federal courts, one in Kentucky and the other in Georgia, collectively have enjoined the government from enforcing the vaccine mandate for federal contractors...

The CARES Act created the Paycheck Protection Program ("PPP"), which amended the Small Business Act ("SBA") to provide short term loans to companies with fewer than 500 employees and other companies...

This is very good news for federal contractors that have been struggling to meet the original December 8 deadline to have covered employees fully vaccinated.

On March 30, 2020, CMS announced its "Hospitals Without Walls" initiative, which, among other things, invokes the HHS EMTALA waiver effective immediately.

On May 1, CMS issued guidance regarding the May 11 expiration of the COVID-19 public health emergency ("PHE"). Key takeaways include...

Early on Saturday morning (March 14, 2020), the House of Representatives passed a coronavirus relief bill, H.R. 6201, which includes...

On July 19, 2021, Secretary Becerra of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services extended the existing public health emergency for 90 days, until October 20, 2021.

During a press conference on Monday, March 29, 2021, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 72, which grants civil immunity to corporations...

We authored an article published in the June 2023 issue of the American Bar Association's (ABA) Health Lawyer addressing government scrutiny of COVID-19 relief funds.