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In a significant ruling, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has set aside a Department of Labor (DOL or Department) 2024 Rule...

On May 20, 2025, Washington Governor Bob Ferguson signed into law Senate Bill 5408 to amend the state's Equal Pay and Opportunities Act (EPOA).

The U.S. Supreme Court has denied certiorari in Apex Oil Co., Inc. v. United States, No. 09-1023, 2010 WL 752322 (U.S. Oct. 4, 2010).

On June 19, 2012, in Association of Irritated Residents v. California Air Resources Board, the court of appeal in San Francisco upheld the Climate Change Scoping Plan adopted by the Air Board in December 2008.

In Massachusetts v. EPA, 547 U.S. 497 (2007), the Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gases ("GHG") were "pollutants" under the Clean Air Act ("CAA").

A court of appeal has upheld Monterey County's approvals for a desalination plant, rejecting challengers' claims that uncertainty regarding the availability of source water for the plant...

On Wednesday, December 7, 2011, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") issued a Guidebook for Part 20 Reports providing additional guidance and detailed instructions for submitting large swaps trader reports to the Commission.

In a recent decision by the Delaware Court of Chancery, Auriga Capital Corp. v. Gatz Properties, LLC, C.A. 4390-CS (Del. Ch. Jan. 27, 2012), the court strongly reaffirmed that managers of a limited liability company owe traditional fiduciary duties to the limited liability company and its minority members unless such duties are explicitly reduced or eliminated by the terms of the limited liability company's operating agreement.

On Monday, September 19, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") proposed a new rule under the Securities Act of 1933 to implement the prohibition under Section 621 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the "Dodd-Frank Act") on material conflicts of interest in connection with certain securitizations.

This post will address another ambiguity in the "10% buffer" Rule 18f-4 provides for excluding the notional amount of derivative transactions that hedge currency or interest rate risks ("Hedging Derivatives")...

In Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC v. Simmonds, No. 10-1261, ___ U.S. ___, 2012 WL 986812 (Mar. 26, 2012), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rejected the Ninth Circuit's 30-year-old rule

A recent settlement order serves as a reminder of how investment strategies using derivatives can produce unanticipated results. In this case, the results led to undisclosed returns of capital...

On June 30, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published its proposed Human Foods Program (HFP) guidance agenda for 2025. The agenda identifies new topics...

The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington granted Amazon.com's request for declaratory judgment that the North Carolina Department of Revenue’s (the Department) information requests for the production of customer purchase records violated the First Amendment and the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), 18 U.S.C. § 2710. Amazon.com LLC v. Lay, No. C10-664-MJP, 2010 WL 4262266 (W.D. Wash. Oct. 25, 2010).

Faced with mounting public pressure in the wake of recent scandals, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is expected to sign several pieces of “ethics” legislation that the General Assembly adopted in May.

IER also commonly investigates employers' documentary screening practices related to the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have announced that employers will have until August 30, 2023, to physically verify Form I-9...