Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.
Monday, October 4, 2021
Consumer Protection
This report provides a snapshot of the US Executive Branch priorities via daily schedules and the prior day’s press releases.
POTUS’ Schedule*
9:30 a.m. EDT – THE PRESIDENT receives the President’s Daily Brief
3:05 p.m. EDT – THE PRESIDENT departs
Continue Reading US Executive Branch Update – October 20, 2021
Each week, Crowell & Moring’s State Attorneys General team highlights significant actions that State AGs have taken. Here are this week’s updates.
Monday, September 27, 2021
Energy
Continue Reading State AG Updates: September 27-October 1, 2021
As previously reported, a Maine federal district court rejected claims by health care employees that Maine violated their free exercise rights when it eliminated religious exemptions from its COVID vaccine mandate for health care workers. The 1st Circuit refused to issue
Continue Reading Justice Breyer Refuses To Enjoin Maine Vaccine Mandate Pending Appeal
Suit was filed this week in a North Dakota federal district court by a Christian membership ministry that serves for-profit and non-profit employers challenging two federal rules on health care coverage for gender transition surgery. At issue are (1) an
Continue Reading Christian Employers Group Challenges HHS And EEOC Protection for Transgender Health Care
Aaron J. Walayat, Esq., awalayat@tuckerlaw.com, (412) 594-3935
Tucker attorney, Aaron Walayat, wrote an article on the FTC’s requirements for “Made in America” Labeling. Aaron wrote the article for the Legal Perspectives section of the October 2021 edition of
Continue Reading Aaron Walayat Authors Article in Iron & Steel Technology Magazine
Recently, an Appellate Court issued an opinion in a case testing the limits of home-rule authority under the Illinois Constitution. In Fazekas v. City of DeKalb, the court upheld the dismissal of a case brought by a City Clerk
Continue Reading Court Upholds City’s Partial Delegation of Clerk’s Duties
In Tenth Presbyterian Church v. Snyder, (PA Super, Oct. 18, 2021), a Pennsylvania state appellate court held that the trial court was justified in issuing a preliminary injunction against Phillip Snyder, an excommunicated member of the church, who picketed
Continue Reading Appellate Court Says Injunction Against Church Picketer Was Too Broad
In Green Haven Prison Preparative Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends v. New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, (2d Cir., Oct. 18, 2021), the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s denial
Continue Reading 2nd Circuit Upholds Prison’s Change In Schedule For Quaker Meetings
This is a weekly post spotlighting labor topics in focus by the US legislative and executive branches during the previous week.
In this issue, we cover:
Continue Reading US Federal Labor Viewpoints – Week of October 11, 2021
