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Below is this week's tracker of the latest legal and regulatory developments in the United States and in the EU.

Cash method taxpayers that stake cryptocurrency native to a proof-of-stake blockchain and receive additional units of cryptocurrency as rewards when validation occurs...

The Department of Transportation (DOT) has announced that it will amend its "Full Fare" advertising rule.

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Health Canada has launched a public consultation on a proposed regulatory overhaul that would fundamentally transform how food packaging materials are evaluated and approved for use in Canada. The agency is considering implementing a mandatory notification system and potentially creating a binding positive list of approved substances, marking a significant departure from the current voluntary Letter of No Objection framework.

Effective January 23, 2012, the European Union (EU) implemented significantly expanded sanctions against Iran. Adopted by Council Decision 2012/35/CFSP, Council Regulation (EU) No. 56/2012, and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 54/2012, the new measures: (1) ban imports of Iranian petroleum resource-related products; (2) take additional actions against energy, financial, and transport sectors dealing with and providing assistance to Iran’s petroleum resource-related sector; (3) prohibit c

On May 4, 2023, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) approved new audit procedures for political committees that do not receive public funds. The new procedures take effect June 1, 2024...

Last week a court temporarily enjoined the Federal Trade Commission's rule prohibiting non-compete terms in employee contracts, though the preliminary injunction does not have nationwide effect.

On September 5, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it would no longer pursue its appeals in Ryan, LLC v. FTC, No. 24-10951 (5th Cir.)...

On April 23, a year after the investigations were opened, which had occurred very soon after the prohibitions and obligations of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) became legally binding on designated gatekeepers, the European Commission rendered its first noncompliance decisions, imposing fines of €500 million on Apple and €200 million on Meta.

On October 31, 2022, Nathan Nephi Zito pleaded guilty in the US District Court for the District of Montana for his attempt to monopolize the markets for highway crack-sealing services in Montana and Wyoming.

On February 15, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order stating that federal discretionary funds "should not be used" to "directly or indirectly support or subsidize" educational institutions or agencies – including colleges and universities – that require "students to have received a COVID-19 vaccination to attend any in-person education program."

The escalation of hostilities between the US, Israel, and Iran into open military conflict has delivered a profound shock to the global energy system.

Years of political instability and shifting geopolitical alignments in the African continent – especially in the so-called "coup belt" – have created multiple and complex challenges for governments and businesses engaging there.

Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered plc, a British bank, faces the possible loss of its New York banking license following accusations by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) that the bank hid 60,000 transactions involving Iran over the course of almost a decade.

In December, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) announced a first-of-its-kind enforcement action against Rite Aid Corporation and Rite Aid Headquarters Corporation (collectively, Rite Aid)...