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A California state legislator recently introduced a bill designed to ensure employees are permitted to ignore emails, text messages and phone calls from their employers during non-work hours.

On Jan. 20, 2015, the U.S. Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review, Office of Chief Administrative Hearing Officer in U.S. v. Employer Solutions Staffing Group II, LLC, upheld ICE’s finding.

Effective April 22, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice, acting through the Drug Enforcement Administration, issued a final order reclassifying certain marijuana-related substances from Schedule I to Schedule III...

On Aug. 16, 2010, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) filed a request for clarification or rehearing of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) July 15, 2010 Declaratory Order that rejected feed-in tariffs which the CPUC had developed pursuant to California’s AB 1613 legislation.

On Dec. 1, 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published final Construction and Development Effluent Limitations Guidelines and New Source Performance Standards (C&D ELG) imposing nationally-applicable numeric effluent limits on stormwater discharges from construction sites impacting 10 or more acres of land at any one time. 74 Fed. Reg. 62,996 (Dec. 1, 2009).

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a new community-based initiative Nov. 1 "to help communities across the nation navigate EPA's Inflation Reduction Act investments ...

EPA proposed to remove reference to the 2005 ASTM Phase I environmental site assessment standard from EPA’s "All Appropriate Inquiry" rule under CERCLA.

The FDA Safety and Innovation Act, enacted in July 2012, amended the Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act to allow FDA to reclassify medical devices by administrative order instead of the cumbersome rulemaking process.

Following USPTO Director John Squires' de-designation of SharkNinja Operating LLC v. iRobot Corp. as precedential, the latest round of de-designated decisions on real parties in interest (RPI) is worth consideration. Last fall, Squires returned the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to the controlling standard from Corning Optical Communications RF, LLC 1 v. PPC Broadband Inc., which requires the true RPIs to be identified in the petition as a threshold matter in order for the petition to be considered.

This episode covers three important decisions that the Seventh Circuit issued in November 2025: Chicago Teachers Union v. Educators for Excellence...

On Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013, the Sixth Circuit upheld the NLRB's controversial 2011 <em>Specialty Healthcare</em> decision which many have argued will promote "micro-unions" in the workplace and make it easier for unions to dictate the group of employees they wish to organize.

On March 26, 2013, a coalition of environmental groups petitioned the Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to initiate rulemaking to address pipeline safety and spill response risks related to the transportation of diluted bitumen.

On Feb, 1, 2025, the White House published new executive orders imposing tariffs on goods imported from Canada, Mexico and China...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice (collectively, the Agencies) issued, on Oct. 20, 2011, the final Statement of Antitrust Enforcement Policy Regarding Accountable Care Organizations Participating in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (the Policy Statement).

Startups and other private companies offering securities to investors in multiple states may be able to lower costs and reduce paperwork required to notify state securities regulators.

Governor Jerry Brown signed into law AB 1522, which will require nearly all California employers to provide employees with at least three paid sick days a year.

A practice that millions of California workers encounter every pay period — having their clock-in and clock-out times rounded to the nearest few minutes — may soon be declared unlawful.

Business ventures in the U.S. are reaching new heights. According to data published by The White House, entrepreneurs have filed over 20 million new business applications in the last four years.