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After months of closed-door discussions, Congress is near final passage of the negotiated National Defense Reauthorization Act ("NDAA") for appropriating defense funds in fiscal year 2017.

One might not suspect that a thing as simple as travel would change remarkably when presidential administrations do, but, the reality is that the scrutiny placed...

Recent cases make clear that immigration status does not preclude illegal workers from pursuing claims against their employers. As such, U.S. employers are just as susceptible to being sued by illegal aliens as they are by workers here legally.

The Supreme Court has issued a landmark ruling on birthright citizenship, striking down an executive order that sought to deny citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to undocumented or temporarily present parents. The 6-3 decision affirms that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to every child born in the United States, regardless of parental immigration status. This ruling resolves over a year of uncertainty for nonimmigrant visa holders, undocumented individuals, and employers sponsoring foreign

In late September, the District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that two closely related cases filed against Exxon Mobil Corporation could proceed.

The U.S. Supreme Court has recently held that the presumption against extraterritoriality applies to claims under the Alien Tort Statute, and as such, there is no federal court jurisdiction under the ATS for torts in violation of the law of nations that occur in a foreign country.

The Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, known as "C-T PAT," isn't the first time Uncle Sam has buddied up with the international trade industry toward a common goal. The erstwhile U.S. Customs Service of the Department of the Treasury, on a couple occasions sought to incentivize, or at least entice, the private sector into streamlining entry by dangling certain goodies before players' noses. But C-T PAT is by far the most important initiative, in terms both of purposes served an

The past several years have seen a slew of high-profile excessive force cases, often highlighted by cell phone or dash-cam video.

Employees' personal social media accounts are often open for all to see. Employers may discipline or even terminate an employee whose viewpoints or statements are construed as offensive, harassing, or discriminatory.

Like many cities across the country, Fort Wayne, Indiana raises money through advertisements that it sells on the inside and outside of the buses it operates.

Since it was enacted in March 2018, the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (CLOUD Act) has been controversial with privacy advocates in the United States and the subject of sustained criticism

Section 230 gives providers of technology companies two important liability protections.

The US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued a general license to be published at 31 C.F.R. § 550.575 removing nearly all of the prohibitions on trade with Libya by US persons under the Libyan Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 550 (LSR).

On April 22, 2015, two human rights non-governmental organizations, Amnesty International and Global Witness, published a report analyzing compliance by US reporting companies with the US Securities...

This month, the American Bar Association (the "ABA") published a Report on its suggested Model Contract Clauses to Protect Workers in International Supply Chains (the "MCCs").

Lawyers John P. Frank and John J. Flynn of the Phoenix law firm Lewis and Roca (now Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie) and others represented Ernesto Miranda on a pro bono basis.

Today, on Jan. 11, we observe National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. It was so designated in 2007, when the U.S. Senate affirmed the nation's commitment to eliminating human trafficking globally.