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Coming Soon: “Doing Business” in California Will Require Companies to Disclose Climate Risk and Emissions Reports

            By: Madison Olson On October 7, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom…

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Scripting the Future: The Writers Guild Strike Against A.I.

By: Miguel E. Serrano On October 9, 2023, the Writers Guild of America announced that 99% of…

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Texas’s Online-Age Check and What It Could Mean for Businesses

By: Sophie Ossip On August 31, 2023, U.S. District Judge David Ezra declared a Texas online-age requirement…

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The Monopoly Man Runs Free: How the Financial Industry Could Lose One of Its Biggest Regulators

  By: Rafael Andino The Supreme Court recently heard arguments that could threaten the existence of the…

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Taming the Wild West of Data Brokering in the Banking Industry: CFPB Announces Plans to Extend the Fair Credit Reporting Act

By: Elizabeth Carroll The Expansion of the FCRA On September 15, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau…

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Grappling with the Implementation of the SEC’s New Cybersecurity Disclosure Requirements

By: Olivia Woodmansee In July 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) voted to adopt a final…

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Prime Target: FTC Takes Aim at Amazon in Antitrust Claims

By: Caitlyn Lindstrom On September 26, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission. (“FTC”), along with seventeen states, filed…

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Slow Times for Solar in the Golden State: California Court of Appeal Will Hear Challenge to the State’s Slash in Subsidies

By: Gustav Gulmert The California Public Utility Commission (“CPUC”) previously incentivized Californians to use rooftop solar panels…

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Bed Bath & Beyond Unreasonable: Two Ways the Law Stops Ocean Carriers from Sinking U.S. Businesses and One Way It Falls Short

By: Patrick Rogers Bed Bath & Beyond, one of the United States’ most prominent retail brands, filed…

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President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act: How Big Pharma is Fighting Back

By: Julie Chung On Tuesday, August 29, 2023, the United States Department of Health and Human Services…

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