On September 19, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation restricting the entry of certain H-1B nonimmigrants.

Moore & Van Allen (MVA) Head of International Capital Markets John I. Sanders, White Collar, Regulatory Defense & Investigations Member Frank Schall and Financial Services Associate...

On June 4, 2025, the White House issued a Presidential Proclamation implementing new travel restrictions for nationals of 19 countries.

In October, California Governor Gavin Newson signed into law Senate Bill No. 446 ("SB 446"), amending the state's data breach notification statute, California Civil Code Section 1798.82.

On May 19, 2025, the Supreme Court lifted a lower court injunction blocking the termination of Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans.

On March 12, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an Interim Final Regulation (IFR) designating a new registration form to comply with statutory alien registration requirements.

Recent federal court rulings have struck down the $100,000 H-1B visa fee and vacated USCIS policies that paused immigration benefit adjudications for nationals of travel-ban countries. Meanwhile, the State Department is piloting a new $750 expedited interview service for B-1/B-2 visa applicants, though the fee only accelerates appointment scheduling without guaranteeing faster approval or improved chances of success.

The Department of Justice recently announced, "[i]n the first [criminal] prosecution of its kind," that husband and wife owners of wound graft companies were sentenced...

The legal fight over sports-related prediction-market contracts has moved quickly from regulatory novelty to a full-blown federal-state jurisdictional dispute. On August 28, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held in KalshiEX, LLC v. Assad that Nevada may continue enforcing its gaming laws against Kalshi’s sports-related event contracts because those contracts likely fall outside the category of swaps subject to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) exclusive jurisdiction under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA).

To be competitive in the site selection process, state and local governments know that they must provide enticing incentive packages that catch a company's eye.

Moore & Van Allen (MVA) Head of International Capital Markets John I. Sanders and Corporate Associate Noah Edmondson co-authored the article...

The Department of Homeland Security is fundamentally changing how F-1 students and J-1 exchange visitors maintain lawful status in the United States by replacing Duration of Status admissions with fixed periods starting September 15, 2026. This shift requires employers to implement new tracking procedures for Form I-94 expiration dates and plan for Extension of Stay filings, while foreign nationals face reduced grace periods and stricter compliance requirements.

The U.S. Supreme Court has definitively ruled on the constitutional question of birthright citizenship, upholding the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee that children born on American soil acquire citizenship regardless of their parents' immigration status. This landmark decision strikes down an executive order that attempted to deny citizenship to certain U.S.-born children, reaffirming over a century of settled constitutional law.

Tariffs on imports into the U.S. are on the rise, focusing on many of the U.S.'s largest trading partners like Mexico, Canada and China, as well as major products such as aluminum and steel.

Moore & Van Allen (MVA) Head of International Capital Markets John I. Sanders, Co-heads of Securities & Corporate Governance Ryan Hart and Charles Kemp, Corporate Associate Laura Sunday...

New Mexico also joins a handful of states that protect biometric information as personal information.

An economic development director examines how premature focus on financial incentives can compromise site selection strategy, arguing that aligning incentives with broader project objectives leads to more sustainable business outcomes. The analysis explores the tension between short-term cost savings and long-term operational success in corporate location decisions.

In February 2025, the Virginia legislature passed a bill governing high risk artificial intelligence. On March 24, 2025, Governor Youngkin vetoed the bill.

On July 22, 2025, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) hosted a first-of-its-kind industry conference designed to solicit public input on reform of the U.S. capital framework...

Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that telemarketing robocalls do not require written consent under the Telephone...