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Cissy Jackson, Daniel Sjostedt*

Below is a table of currently pending PBM (Pharmacy Benefit Manager)-reform legislation, featuring brief descriptions, links to the texts, and additional information about each bill.

Douglas A. Grimm

No personal services are more important than health care. The use of artificial intelligence (AI), involving machines to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence, is leading to an expansion of the term “personal.”

Robert D. Boley, Paula M. Ketcham, Adam L. Littman

In the closely-watched first case to go to trial under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), a federal judge has now vacated a $228 million award of statutory liquidated damages. The judge concluded that damages under BIPA are discretionary and ordered a new trial on damages.

Anna Mandel, Richard G. Liskov, Elliott M. Kroll

The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has set forth a revised proposed second amendment to 11 NYCRR Part 500, the regulation regarding cybersecurity requirements for financial services companies (the Second Amendment).

J. Michael Showalter, Alex Garel-Frantzen, Samuel A. Rasche

Last week, the US Supreme Court ruled that the Biden Administration’s efforts to cancel $430 billion in student loan balances was legally unsupportable.

Birgit Matthiesen, Daniel J. Deeb, David R. Hamill, Antonio J. Rivera, James Kim*

The AFS team traveled to Sacramento June 13th to participate at EVS 36, hosted this year by the Electric Drive Transportation Association.

Hunter T. Carter, Brian Farkas

In a 5-4 decision, the US Supreme Court sided with defendants seeking to compel arbitration of claims filed against them in federal court.

J. Michael Showalter, Robert A.H. Middleton

In the United States, environmental and public health measures often correlate to variables like education, income, and a community’s racial makeup.

Pamela M. Deese, Emily B. Lewis

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) continues to evidence a strong commitment to bringing enforcement actions against false or deceptive US-origin marketing claims.

Gayland O. Hethcoat II

As more states adopt consumer data privacy laws, Nevada and Washington stand out for their recent passage of legislation aimed specifically at protecting “consumer health data.”

Robert R. Pluth, Jeffrey B. Tate , Evgeny Magidenko

On June 26, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal of Moore v. United States, a development that reverberated throughout the world of tax.

Henry Morris, Jr., Lauren C. Schaefer

Title VII requires employers to accommodate their employees’ religious practices unless it would impose an “undue hardship on the conduct of the employer’s business.”

Jeffrey E. Rummel, Karen Ellis Carr

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced the next public meeting of its Precision Agriculture Connectivity Task Force, scheduled for July 11, 2023.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Nadia Patel, Michael F. Dearington

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries

Jeffrey A. Mitchell, Emily B. Lewis

Earlier this month, the DC Office of Tax and Revenue and the County Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, announced that on October 1, 2023, dramatic changes will be made with respect to transfer and recordation taxes on transfers of commercial properties.

Henry Morris, Jr.

Enacted last year, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) went into effect on June 27, 2023. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) began accepting PWFA charges on that date.

D. Reed Freeman Jr.

Companies around the world are rushing to integrate generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) into their user interfaces to automate and deliver tailored website and application interfaces, customer service interactions, and advertising content to individual users in more personalized ways than eve

Jin Yan

In PML Development, LLC v. Village of Hawthorn Woods, 2023 IL 128770 (Ill. 2023), the Illinois Supreme Court expressly adopted the partial breach doctrine.

J. Michael Showalter

A DC Circuit decision related to the US Environmental Protection Agency’ (EPA) hydroflurocarbons (HFC) phase out illustrates that federal regulations face significant scrutiny when reviewed in court even where the regulations have a textual hook and are largely consistent with prior agency practice.

Cissy Jackson, Daniel Sjostedt*

In November of 2022, we predicted a fertile post-election congressional landscape for Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) practice reform.

James D. Cromley, Michael K. Molzberger, Matthew F. Prewitt, Brian Farkas

New York, a state with a GDP larger than most sovereign nations, is on the brink of a significant change to its employment landscape. It may soon join the four other states that have banned employee noncompete agreements.

Byron Dorgan*, Philip S. English*, Amy Antoniolli

Energy Podcast

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington, Nadia Patel, Shoshana Golden

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater

On June 16, 2023, in United States, ex rel. Polansky v. Executive Health Resources, Inc., the US Supreme Court addressed the government’s authority to dismiss a qui tam False Claims Act (FCA) suit over a relator’s objection when the government initially declines to intervene in the litigation.

D. Jacques Smith, Randall A. Brater, Michael F. Dearington, Nadia Patel, Apeksha Vora, Shoshana Golden

Headlines that Matter for Companies and Executives in Regulated Industries