28 Mar, 2024 Don't Crowdsource a Canning By Jennifer B. Rubin This week's controversy regarding the termination of former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel from her broadcasting...
26 Mar, 2024 Recent Bankruptcy Court Decision Leaves the Door Open to Bankruptcy Relief for Those in the Cannabis Industry By Jane Haviland Kathryn Droumbakis A Massachusetts Bankruptcy Court’s recent appellate decision in Blumsack v. Harrington (In re Blumsack) leaves the door open for those...
25 Mar, 2024 EPA's Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention Rule will almost certainly be challenged and EPA is the underdog in the legal fight to come By Jeff Porter EPA picked another Clean Water Act fight with the United States Supreme Court last week and I don't understand why EPA thinks it is a...
21 Mar, 2024 Texas Court Rules ESG Lawsuit Against Employer's 401(k) Plan Can Proceed By Jacob H. Hupart Recently, a Texas federal court denied the defendants' motion to dismiss in a lawsuit featuring allegations that an employer's 401(k)...
21 Mar, 2024 Eighth Circuit Will Decide SEC Climate Disclosure Rule By Jacob H. Hupart The array of challenges to the SEC's climate disclosure rule--filed by conservative plaintiffs in the Fifth Circuit, Sixth Circuit,...
20 Mar, 2024 Governor Abbott says Texas isn't bound by the oldest Federal environmental law. He's about to learn what he should have learned in middle school. By Jeff Porter Law 360 is reporting on yesterday's hearing in the United States' litigation against the State of Texas to cause the removal of an...
16 Mar, 2024 That Didn't Take Long . . . Fifth Circuit Temporarily Blocks New SEC Climate Disclosure Rule By Jacob H. Hupart Today, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an administrative stay of the SEC's recent climate disclosure rule, which was issued...
15 Mar, 2024 The Sacketts' lawyers have a new client and it seems like a visit to the Supreme Court is in their future! By Jeff Porter Last August, when EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers published their tenth attempt to determine the jurisdictional reach of the Clean...
11 Mar, 2024 Clueless in the Cubicle By Jennifer B. Rubin The Journal's recent piece about managing employees with misperceptions about their employment self-worth reminds us once again why...
07 Mar, 2024 Ten States Sue to Block SEC Climate Disclosure Rule Before the Ink is Dry By Jacob H. Hupart On the same day that the SEC issued its long-awaited rule on climate disclosures, ten states (West Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Alaska,...
06 Mar, 2024 SEC Issues Long-Awaited Climate Disclosure Rule By Jacob H. Hupart Today, after nearly two years of anticipation, the SEC finally enacted a climate disclosure rule on a 3-2 party-line vote by the SEC...
06 Mar, 2024 SEC Targets Crypto and DeFi Platforms with New Rules and an Enforcement Action By David Adams The US Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") recently published an enforcement action against the crypto platform ShapeShift AG and...
05 Mar, 2024 My Mom would say that, when it comes to PFAS, the Judicial Panel on Multi District Litigation's eyes were bigger than its stomach! By Jeff Porter A little over five years ago, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation gave Federal Judge Richard Gergel of South Carolina the...
01 Mar, 2024 The DoD has played a card that only it has in the AFFF litigation but it won't get it out of PFAS purgatory By Jeff Porter Lara Beaven, of Inside PFAS Policy, has an excellent report on the Defense Department's motion to dismiss claims for injunctive relief...