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7.24.25
Texas Senate Continues to Push Broad Ban on Hemp-Derived THC in Special Session
Takeaways The Texas Legislature kicked off a special session Monday, July 21, 2025, to address more than a dozen matters, including responding to Governor Greg Abbott’s recent veto of a full THC ban…
7.14.25
The Supreme Court held in Drug Administration v. R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. that retailers of e-cigarette products are “persons adversely affected” by an FDA denial order under the Family Smoking…
7.14.25
Decision Alert: Supreme Court Affirms Rule 60(b)’s High Bar to Reopen Final Judgments
In a unanimous and notable decision, the Supreme Court in BLOM Bank SAL v. Honickman reaffirmed the strict threshold imposed by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 60(b)(6), holding that a party may not…
7.14.25
Decision Alert: Supreme Court Clarifies Venue for Environmental Challenges
In a 6-2 decision authored by Justice Thomas, the Supreme Court held in consolidated cases Oklahoma v. EPA and PacifiCorp v. EPA that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s disapprovals of 21…
7.14.25
Decision Alert: Supreme Court Clears the Way for Executive Control
A divided Ninth Circuit panel declined to push the pause button on a San Francisco-based district court’s nationwide injunction blocking the government from carrying out President Trump’s executive…
7.14.25
Decision Alert: Supreme Court Rejects Nondelegation Challenge to FCC’s Universal Service Program
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court held that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)’s Universal Service Program (USP) does not violate the nondelegation doctrine. Justice Kagan wrote the…
7.14.25
Decision Alert: Supreme Court Rules District Courts Lack Power to Issue Universal Injunctions
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v. CASA, Inc. that federal district courts lack authority under the Judiciary Act of 1789 to issue universal (or nationwide) injunctions. Justice Barrett wrote the…
7.14.25
Decision Alert: The Supreme Court Holds That Fuel Producers Have Standing to Sue EPA
The Supreme Court held 7-2 in Diamond Alternative Energy v. Environmental Protection Agency that fuel producers have standing to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s approval of…
7.09.25
The Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act Is the Next Evolution in Consumer Privacy Rights
Key Takeaways: Summary: Starting July 31, Minnesota will join the growing list of U.S. states with its own comprehensive consumer data privacy law, but with a key difference. Signed into law in 2024,…
7.07.25
Key Takeaways: As every reader of this blog should know, on June 21, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott vetoed Senate Bill 3, a measure that would have effectively banned consumable hemp products…
7.01.25
CRA’s July 2025 Updated Disciplinary Guidelines: A Much-Needed Lifeline
Takeaways During last week’s CRA quarterly public hearing, Executive Director Brian Hanna indicated that the agency would be releasing updated disciplinary guidelines that would reflect a change in…
7.01.25
Decision Alert: Retirees Cannot Bring a Claim Under the ADA as a “Qualified Individual”
In Stanley v. City of Sanford, the Court held 7-2 that a retiree is not a “qualified individual” under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), as the statute applies only to…
7.01.25
In Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, the Supreme Court unanimously determined 8-0 that the D.C. Circuit failed to afford the Surface Transportation Board (STB) the…
7.01.25
Decision Alert: Supreme Court Dismisses Labcorp v. Davis as Improvidently Granted
On June 5, 2025, in an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court dismissed Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis as improvidently granted—despite having already granted certiorari and heard oral…
7.01.25
In an 8-1 decision authored by Justice Sotomayor, the Supreme Court in Parrish v. United States held that a litigant who files a notice of appeal after the original appeal deadline—but before a…
7.01.25
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court heldthat the Hobbs Act, which grants federal courts of appeals exclusive jurisdiction to review agency orders, does not prevent district courts from independently…
7.01.25
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court held that the State of Texas and Fasken Land and Minerals Ltd., a private Texas-based company involved in oil and gas extraction and production, lack standing to…
7.01.25
Decision Alert: Supreme Court Unanimously Expands Scope of Wire Fraud
If you get what you paid for, can you still cry fraud? The Supreme Court answered that question in Kousisis v. United States, unanimously holding that the federal wire fraud statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1343,…
7.01.25
The Supreme Court issued a unanimous employment law decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services, holding that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act applies equally to all individuals, regardless…
7.01.25
In EPA v. Calumet Shreveport Refin., L.L.C., the Supreme Court ruled that all challenges to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) denials of small refinery exemption (SRE) petitions under the Clean…
