All the headlines from our Legislation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 23 2022 // European lawmakers have agreed to force roughly 28,000 foreign subsidiaries to comply with the bloc’s ESG rules, marking a blow to representatives for U.S. corporations who had lobbied for the opposite outcome.In a...
Mar 23 2022 // The Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill aimed at the California Department of Insurance that its author says will “restore ethics and transparency to a state agency he said has been...
Mar 23 2022 // A federal judge in Texas has nixed the Biden Department of Labor’s withdrawal of a Trump administration rule governing whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor.U.S. District Court Judge Marcia A....
Mar 22 2022 // Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has not called a special session of the Legislature to tackle festering property insurance problems, but he said he welcomes the idea of legislative leaders convening lawmakers on their...
Mar 21 2022 // The judge overseeing Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy has approved a $6 billion opioid settlement funded by its Sackler family owners, overruling objections from the Department of Justice and 20 states that opposed the...
Mar 18 2022 // A request to depose Mark Zuckerberg as part of Washington, D.C.’s data-privacy lawsuit against Facebook drew a blistering denial from the judge overseeing the case, who called the attempt “frankly...
Mar 17 2022 // A federal judge ruled that minor leaguers are year-round employees who work during training time and found Major League Baseball violated Arizona state minimum wage law and is liable for triple damages.Chief Magistrate...
Mar 17 2022 // The Michigan Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit against a railroad, 10 years after a teen listening to music was struck by a train and severely injured in suburban Detroit.The court said a judge misinterpreted a case...
Mar 16 2022 // Last year, Virginia lawmakers passed one of the most restrictive bans in the country on the use of facial recognition technology, barring local police departments and campus police from purchasing or using the technology...
Mar 16 2022 // The state cannot be held liable for injuries sustained in a parking lot that is regularly used by people accessing a public building, the Maine Supreme Court has ruled.On March 15, in Klein v. University of Maine System,...
Mar 14 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) settled with Allied BioScience, Inc. (Allied BioScience) over alleged violations of federal pesticide regulations with the company’s SurfaceWise2 product, a residual...
Mar 14 2022 // Maine is looking to enact tougher regulations about corporate collection of biometric data.The proposal before the Maine Legislature would require companies to get consent before they collect biometric information such as...
Mar 14 2022 // The death knell sounded for the 2022 Florida Legislative session Friday with no major property insurance reform bills passed. But the ghosts of rising premiums and failing insurers will continue to haunt the state, and...
Mar 14 2022 // A federal judge has again ruled against a northern Virginia school system that he found guilty of discriminating against Asian American students when it overhauled its admissions policies at a highly selective high...
Mar 11 2022 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon, Senate Insurance Committee Chair Kirk Talbot, and House Insurance Committee Chair Mike Huval introduced six bills on March 10 that form a catastrophe reform legislative package...
Mar 11 2022 // Republicans in the Oklahoma House on March 7 unveiled a package of new restrictions on the state’s booming medical marijuana industry, designed to crack down on illegal growers who sell cannabis on the black...
Mar 10 2022 // The judge overseeing Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy on Wednesday approved a $6 billion opioid settlement funded by its Sackler family owners, overruling objections from the Department of Justice and 20 states that...
Mar 10 2022 // A federal appeals court ruled that a Las Vegas police detective can be sued for arresting protesters who chalked anti-police slogans on the sidewalk in front of the police station.Three activists arrested in 2013 broke an...
Mar 9 2022 // Tesla Inc. defended the safety benefits of its advanced driver assistance system Autopilot and its Full Self-Driving (FSD) capability but acknowledged they require “constant monitoring and attention of the...
Mar 9 2022 // An archaic Rhode Island law that says prison inmates serving life sentences are considered civilly dead in terms of their civil rights is unconstitutional, the state Supreme Court ruled in a landmark decision released...