This morning the United States Supreme Court declined to review a case that would have resolved a circuit split over whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ("Title VII") ...

On October 11, 2022, the Department of Labor ("DOL") published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM") which reverses course from a January 2021 Trump-era final rule...

With the enactment of "Haleigh’s Hope Act" on Thursday, April 16, 2015, Georgia became the 26th jurisdiction to decriminalize medical marijuana use.

The House of Representatives on Monday voted 401-0 to exempt emergency service volunteers from the 50-employee threshold triggering the healthcare law's pay-or-play mandate.

The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently confirmed its plan to pursue cases more selectively.

Indiana GOP lawmaker and Chamber of Commerce join forces to support a bill to require a penalty for workplace fatalities of $100,000 per employee killed.

On August 3, 2015, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) announced the release of a new outreach and education poster, "Opening Doors of Opportunity for All Workers."

On January 13, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued two decisions addressing the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Vaccination and Testing Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS)...

On September 5, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it would end its appeals for two U.S. District Court rulings — Ryan, LLC v. FTC (Texas) and Properties of the Villages v. FTC (Florida).

In the last few weeks, Utah and Idaho have each passed bills changing the landscape of non-compete enforceability in strikingly different ways.

Next term the Supreme Court hopefully will provide an answer to the hotly debated question whether the Dodd-Frank Act's anti-retaliation provision (Section 21F) protects only those whistleblowers who report violations to the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), or if the protections extend to those who report concerns internally.

On October 20, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ("D.C. Circuit") approved a request by FERC to delay finalizing its decision that vacated FERC Order No. 745 regarding demand response compensation for consumers.

12 states have filed a brief (as Amici Curiae) with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Petition of American Electric Power Company, Inc., et al. for a Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and asking that the Supreme Court reverse the 2nd Circuit’s recent holding that:

On October 15, 2016 in Kigali, Rwanda the majority of the world's developed and developing countries executed a binding agreement to reduce emissions of hydrofluorocarbons.

One particularly complex issue arises in a private cost recovery action where some but not all the PRPs have settled with the private party.

The Lower Fox River Superfund site continues to pump out decisions on key CERCLA issues. Most recently, the federal court in Wisconsin in "US v. NCR Corp." took on the issue of divisibility of harm in granting a preliminary injunction requiring one of the PRPs, NCR, to complete the removal of 660,000 cubic yards of PCB-contaminated sediments from a portion of the Lower Fox River.

Against a backdrop of higher-profile rules, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a new Worker Protection Standard (WPS) on September 28 that imposes additional requirements...

California Governor Jerry Brown just signed AB 900, the Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2011.

The Second Circuit recently rejected one of the all-time "Hail Mary" passes for CERCLA contribution.

Responsible parties have long sought clarity on how to draw the line between whether a CERCLA Section 107(a) cost recovery action, a CERCLA Section 113(f) contribution action,...