The REACH Regulation contains several provisions for the transitional registration of phase-in substances, or substances that were already on the EU market when REACH was adopted

The Treasury Department (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released the next round of notices requesting public comments as they continue the work to implement the Inflation Reduction Act's (IRA) energy tax incentives.

On December 12, 2025, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced that it had conditionally approved five national trust bank charter applications.

In an opinion released on November 10, 2025 in National Association of Industrial Bankers v. Weiser, the Tenth Circuit held that Colorado may opt out of national standards...

In a March 5, 2020 update on its evaluation of cannabidiol (CBD) products, Dr. Stephen Hahn, the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Commissioner...

In proceedings IPR2013-00315 and IPR2013-00316, both captioned BioDelivery Sciences Int’l, Inc. v. MonoSol Rx LLC, the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) addressed the question of whether a reexamination certificate reset the one-year deadline for filing a petition for inter partes review (IPR) triggered by the filing of a complaint under 35 U.S.C. § 315(b).

Steptoe's AI, Data, and Digital practice is pleased to announce the launch of its AI Legislative Tracker. Steptoe's AI Legislative Tracker is a resource that monitors the progress of artificial intelligence-related bills...

Yesterday, on October 21, 2025, the European Commission proposed targeted amendments to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).

On July 25, 2025, Chairman Mark Christie announced that the Commission's Office of Enforcement is getting a new name—the Office of Enforcement and Regulatory Accounting (OERA).

As Judge Rakoff explained in a January 21, 2026 opinion in United States v. Rinsch, fraud consists of obtaining a victim's money or property by lying, and if said lying is done intentionally and involves the use of mail or interstate wires, it is a federal crime

CR Progress. Republican leadership has introduced a short-term continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government through November 21.

Two weeks have passed since the Thanksgiving recess, and the remaining fiscal year (FY) 2026 appropriations bills are still unresolved.

We're now another week into the fiscal year (FY) 2027 request process, but our report looks much like last week: appropriations are moving ahead at full speed...

FY27 Moves Forward. Congress continues to march forward in its efforts to work through as many of the twelve appropriations bills as possible before the August recess.

Congress faces mounting challenges as partisan divisions over the Trump Administration's proposed anti-weaponization fund stall FY26 funding negotiations and complicate the FY27 appropriations process.

On May 21, the US District Court for the Western District of Washington extended a May 7 temporary restraining order (TRO) that prohibits the US Department of Housing and Urban Development...

Our appropriations newsletter is usually on hiatus during recess, but fast-moving Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding negotiations and shifting political dynamics prompted this special, shorter edition.

In an opinion published on August 27, Judge Marrero denied a motion to compel discovery regarding communications between the United States Drug Enforcement Administration...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the Act) was signed into law on July 4, 2025. The bill makes permanent both individual and corporate provisions that were enacted...