11/26/2024 7:04:05 PM Best Practices for AI IP Strategies By Stephen Chrisos With intangible assets representing over 90% of an AI company’s value, an effective intellectual property strategy is essential to...
5/2/2025 4:51:54 PM Trump Administration Files Preemptive Lawsuits Against Hawaii and Michigan to Block Climate Change Litigation By Jacob H. Hupart Recently, both the State of Hawaii and the State of Michigan had announced that they would be pursuing litigation against fossil fuel...
4/28/2025 2:22:17 PM Trump Issues Executive Order Targeting State Action on Climate Change By Jacob H. Hupart Earlier this month, President Trump issued an executive order that sought to target actions undertaken by individual U.S. states to...
4/28/2025 2:19:55 PM Eighth Circuit Holds SEC Climate Rule Litigation in Abeyance By Jacob H. Hupart On April 24, 2025, the Eighth Circuit ordered that the litigation over the validity of the SEC's climate disclosure rule be “held in...
3/27/2025 9:03:15 PM SEC Abandons Climate Disclosure Rule By Jacob H. Hupart As expected, the SEC under the Trump Administration has abandoned the climate disclosure rule promulgated by the Biden Administration. ...
2/24/2025 5:20:56 PM Red State AGs Sue New York State in Challenge to Climate Change Superfund Act By Jacob H. Hupart In December 2024, the State of New York enacted the “Climate Change Superfund Act,” which would impose retroactive fines on fossil fuel...
2/24/2025 5:19:19 PM Greenwashing Lawsuit Against Lululemon Dismissed by Federal Court By Jacob H. Hupart On February 18, 2025, Judge Bloom (S.D. Fla.) dismissed a lawsuit against Lululemon, the athleisure company, that centered upon...
2/20/2025 2:55:16 PM Biden Administration's DOL Rule Permitting ESG Investments Survives Legal Challenge By Jacob H. Hupart Last week, a federal district judge in the Northern District of Texas upheld a rule promulgated by the Biden Administration's Department...
2/14/2025 2:38:43 PM Increasing Divergence Between US and EU Banks in Approach to Climate Change By Jacob H. Hupart Over the past several weeks, each of the major US banks have announced their withdrawal from the Net Zero Banking Alliance (presumably in...
2/13/2025 3:08:26 PM SEC Begins Process of Eliminating Climate Disclosure Rule By Jacob H. Hupart In a development that could hardly be termed unexpected, the Trump Administration SEC has begun the process of unraveling the climate...
2/6/2025 7:26:51 PM Calling the Right DEI Play for the NFL By Jennifer B. Rubin Today's Wall Street Journal story about Roger Goodell's decision to maintain the NFL's DEI programs reported that Mr. Goodell stood by...
2/6/2025 2:36:33 PM California Climate Disclosure Laws Survive Significant Challenge By Jacob H. Hupart Judge Wright (C.D. Cal.) has significantly narrowed the Chamber of Commerce's lawsuit challenging California's climate disclosure laws. ...
1/29/2025 2:21:24 PM 5 Key Takeaways | SI's Downtown 'Cats Discuss Artificial Intelligence (AI) By Stephen M. Osborn Recently, we brought together over 100 alumni and parents of the St. Ignatius College Preparatory community, aka the Downtown (Wild)Cats,...
1/24/2025 6:50:23 PM Trump EO on Recission of Birthright Citizenship Temporarily Blocked by Fed Court By John Quill As reported by AP and many other news outlets, on January 23, a Federal District Court in Washington state issued a temporary restraining...
1/11/2025 2:37:32 PM Federal Court Rules ESG-Guided Investing of 401(k) Plan Is a Breach of Fiduciary Duty By Jacob H. Hupart Following a bench trial, Judge O'Connor (N.D. Tex.) held that “that Defendants breached their fiduciary duty by failing to loyally act...
12/20/2024 2:52:04 PM Montana Supreme Court Upholds Climate Ruling Enshrining Right to a "Stable Climate" By Jacob H. Hupart On December 18, 2024, the Montana Supreme Court issued a ruling upholding a lower state court's decision that, under Montana's...
12/19/2024 4:52:37 PM EU Seeks to Improve ESG Ratings By Jacob H. Hupart On November 19, 2024, the EU Council adopted a new regulation on ESG ratings, which “aim[s] at making rating activities in the EU more...