Browse By Tags

Judge Dismisses Challenge to UT Porn Website Age-Check Law A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging a law enacted earlier this year in Utah ( SB 287 ) requiring porn websites to verify the age of their users. U.S. District Court Judge Ted Stewart...

PA Launches Infrastructure Workforce Development Program Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) issued an executive order directing up to $400 million in federal funding to a new infrastructure workforce development program. The Commonwealth Workforce Transformation...

Rise in Vaping-Related Nicotine Exposure Could Trigger More Regulation In spite of a 2016 federal law requiring child-resistant packaging on bottles of liquid nicotine used in e-cigarettes, or vapes, reported cases of vaping-related nicotine exposure...

The weather, of course, is notoriously difficult to predict. But if early projections are to be believed, the cities of Austin and Dallas in Texas are in for some hot days come September. Both cities are expected to see temperatures in the low 90s and...

Feds Propose Higher Capital Requirements for Big Banks Federal regulators formally proposed significant changes to the rules governing how much capital larger banks must hold to cushion them from financial losses. The changes, which could increase the...

Court Battle Over Children’s Online Privacy Law Begins in CA Hearings began last week in a legal challenge to California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code law , which is aimed at protecting children’s online privacy. The lawsuit, brought...

WA Healthcare Facility Geofence Ban Takes Effect A new law ( HB 1155 ) took effect last week in Washington that, among other things, makes it illegal to set up a geofence around a healthcare facility. Supporters of the Washington My Health My Data Act...

Halfway through 2023, data privacy regulation remains a high priority for state lawmakers and business leaders alike. Here’s an update on the rapidly shifting, balkanized landscape of data privacy policies. Online Businesses Sue to Stop Arkansas...

States Focus on Drone Use As drones are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and sophisticated, state governments are coming up with new ways to use them. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced in May that the state would be adding 10 drones—including...

U.S. Maternal Death Rates More Than Doubled in Recent Decades The maternal death rate in the United States more than doubled between 1999 and 2019—from 12.7 per 100,000 births to 32.2 per 100,000 births—according to a new study in the Journal...

It’s not hyperbole to say that the United States may very well be on the brink of a homeowners insurance crisis, at least in its coastal areas. Consider what’s happened just this year: State Farm and Allstate , two of the nation's...

Biden Administration Mulling AI Chip Export Restrictions The Biden administration is considering restrictions on the export of advanced chips used for artificial intelligence to China. Administration officials have expressed concerns that China could...

Abortion-Related Medical Malpractice Suits Ahead? Doctors in states with new abortion restrictions who refuse to end the pregnancies of women whose health is at risk, out of fear of criminal prosecution, could soon be facing a different legal risk:...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, paid leave emerged as a critical policy issue in state legislatures all over the country. Now, with the pandemic retreating in the rearview mirror, the paid leave landscape is changing, but the issue remains just as popular...

Stricter Rules Could be Coming for Banks with Over $100B in Assets The heads of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve said last week that bank regulators are considering applying a set of tougher capital rules to banks that...

Stricter Rules Could be Coming for Banks with Over $100B in Assets The heads of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Reserve said last week that bank regulators are considering applying a set of tougher capital rules to banks that...

FTC Sues Amazon over ‘Dark’ Prime Practices The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging the online retailer tricked millions of consumers into signing up for its Prime subscription program and made it difficult...

Pay Transparency Laws Followed More Loosely in Some Industries Thanks to pay transparency laws enacted in states like California, Colorado, Illinois and Washington, as well as in a handful of cities like New York, many job advertisements now include...

CA Gov Wants $5B More for Mental Healthcare California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced his support for two bills that would add treatment beds for homeless people suffering from mental illness or substance abuse ( SB 326 ) and pay for that additional...

For more than half a century, we’ve been talking about equal pay for women. Sixty years ago, the U.S. Congress passed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 , which required employers to pay men and women equally for equal work. (For more on this see Equal...

Nationwide Follows Other Insurers in Looking to Reduce Risk Nationwide announced last week that it would begin taking actions “to mitigate risk and manage the personal and commercial lines portfolios in the current environment.” “Strong...

EU Lawmakers Advance Landmark AI Rules The European Union’s Parliament approved the AI Act, which could become the first comprehensive regulations for the artificial intelligence industry in the West. Among other things, the act would require...

CT, NV Legislatures Pass Health Data Privacy Measures This month the legislatures of Connecticut ( SB 3 ) and Nevada ( SB 370 ) have both passed and sent to their respective governors measures aimed at protecting the privacy of consumer health data...

Healthcare, generally, is considered a growing industry in the United States. Yet headlines constantly scream about a healthcare workforce crisis—not enough nurses, doctors or home-health workers to meet the nation’s demands. How can that...

TX Legislature Passes Comprehensive Consumer Data Privacy Law Texas was poised last week to become the sixth state to enact a comprehensive consumer data privacy bill, after state lawmakers approved the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act ( HB 4 )....