THIS WEEK’S DOSE President Releases FY 2025 Budget: The budget requests $130.7 billion in discretionary spending for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for fiscal year (FY) 2025. House Ways... Read more »
Just a few weeks ago, I wrote about two more cases of AI-hallucinated citations in court filings leading to sanctions, and now comes the case of a Florida lawyer suspended from practice... Read more »
A U.S. district court ruled that the NLRB’s 2023 joint employment regulations—which provided that indirect or reserved control, even if never exercised, could be sufficient to establish joint employment—was defined overbroadly. The... Read more »
On February 14, 2024, a judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont dismissed a plaintiff’s Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) discrimination and failure-to-accommodate case, holding that his medical... Read more »
Government Funding: Better Late Than Never? Although a comprehensive spending bill is about six months overdue, this week the U.S. Congress finally made substantive progress toward funding the federal government for the 2024... Read more »
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday that a federal jury in New York convicted former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández on three charges for his involvement in a drug trafficking... Read more »
On March 5, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (“the FTC”) hosted a public workshop titled “Private Capital, Public Impact: An FTC Workshop on Private Equity in Health Care”, which covered the impact of private... Read more »
A group of Palestinian Canadians filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Canadian government in Federal Court, challenging the continued export of military goods and technology to Israel. Led by a coalition of... Read more »
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled Friday that enhancements were improperly applied to the sentencing of a participant in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. The court ordered... Read more »
A Texas federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday suspending enforcement of a Texas state law that criminalized illegal entry to the US from abroad. The law, SB4, criminalized a number... Read more »