California Proposition 40, the 2026 Billionaire Tax Act, would impose a one-time excise tax of up to 5 percent on the net worth of certain California-resident individuals and applicable trusts. The ...

A federal court has held that the state of New York's Climate Change Superfund Act (the Act) is preempted, blocking a statutory program that would authorize recovery from covered fossil fuel companies ...

Oregon's Plastic Pollution and Recycling Modernization Act (RMA), enacted in 2021, is an extended producer responsibility (EPR) law designed to shift end-of-life costs for packaging and covered ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on August 28, 2026, handed down a significant appellate decision involving Kalshi, affirming in substantial part the district court's order dissolving ...

The U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) recently published a temporary final rule and request for public comments that effectively prohibits the export of black mass ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Pharmacy Compounding Advisory Committee (PCAC) voted at its July 23-24, 2026, meeting to recommend adding certain peptides to the 503A compounding bulk ...

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) recently finalized and imposed tariffs under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 on imports from 60 countries following its investigation into those ...

President Donald Trump on July 20, 2026, signed three proclamations under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1338), imposing an additional 50 percent ad valorem tariff on specified ...

Holland & Knight continues its SECond Opinions Blog Summer Series featuring posts written and researched by the associates from our Securities Enforcement Defense Team. This blog comes from Tysons ...

Officials from Mexico, the United States and Canada, on July 1, 2026, held a trilateral joint review meeting of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), as provided for under the agreement ...

The rapid adoption of large language model (LLM) systems across the federal government has prompted the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to develop standardized contract protections ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that it was submitting four waivers issued to California under the Clean Air Act to the U.S. Congress for review under the ...