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On February 19, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) submitted to the Federal Register an interim final rule rescinding its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations, which have been the foundation for environmental impact assessment in the United States since their promulgation in 1978. Concurrently, CEQ posted general ...

Below are presentations and audio recordings for the 2025 Professional Practice II / Architecture 544 Lectures.Lecture No.DateSubject MatterDownloads1January 17, 2025Introduction, Legal Foundations, Dispute ResolutionAudio FilePresentation Slides2January 24, 2025Contract Law and Contract FormationAudio File Presentation Slides3January 31, 2025...

Below are presentations and audio recordings for the 2024 Professional Practice II / Architecture 544 Lectures.Lecture No.Presentation TitleDownloads1Introduction, Legal Foundations, Dispute ResolutionAudio File - Part 1Audio File - Part 2Presentation Slides2Contract Law and Contract Formation, Interpretation of ContractsAudio File Presentatio...

Below are brief summaries of the agenda items for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC or the Commission) open meeting to be held on February 20, at 10:00 a.m. ET.The summaries below are based on publicly available information in the dockets listed on the FERC agenda at the time of publication. For ease of reference, a link to each lead...

On February 13, 2025, immediately following Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation and swearing in as secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), President Donald Trump signed an executive order (EO) to establish the Make America Healthy Again Commission (Commission).This EO explains that the Commission’s initial object...

The Biden-era effort to raise the minimum wage for employees of federal contractors will not, for now, get a final say by the Supreme Court of the United States. Rather, legal challenges will continue to muddy the issue of whether long-standing procurement law supplies the authority for Biden’s executive action and regulatory activity. On...

In this episode, Alex and Adrienne discuss Perkins Coie’s newly published sixth edition of Labor Law Today—Year in Review, which summarizes the past year’s most noteworthy and influential developments in traditional labor law.They delve into key topics such as the overturning of the captive audience ban, constitutional challenges to the NLRB's...

Businesses can breathe a sigh of relief: In Insurance Marketing Coalition v. FCC, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit vacated the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) controversial one-to-one consent rule, adopted in 2023 and set to go into effect late last month, before it ever got off the ground. As we previously summ...

The Washington State Legislature passed the Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act (TFCA) in 2023, which restricts the sale of cosmetic products containing certain chemicals, including lead and lead compounds. Effective January 1, 2025, cosmetic products must not include:Any lead that has been intentionally added to the product. Lead impurities over 1 ...

In IUOE, Local 39 v. National Labor Relations Board, No. 23-124, No. 23-150, 23-188, a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit panel issued a 2-1 ruling on January 21, 2025, enforcing a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) order requiring Macy’s to pay heightened remedies to workers it did not reinstate following a 2020 strike. T...