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Executive Order
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GovCon & Trade
Clarification: You Can Recover for Changes Implementing Executive Orders
The National Defense Authorization Act of 2023 includes a short but interesting provision reminding the Department of Defense (DoD) that the unilateral insertion of a new clause in a DoD…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Fifth Circuit Affirms Preliminary Injunction Blocking Federal Contractor COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
By By: Emily M. Halliday, Zachary V. Zagger
On December 19, 2022, a panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 federal contractor vaccine…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Beltway Buzz, December 2, 2022
Congress and POTUS Act to Avert National Freight Rail Shutdown. The national freight rail dispute that the Buzz had been tracking for months has come to the end of the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
BOP reports that all federal inmates have been moved out of private prisons
As this ABC News piece reports, all "federal inmates housed in private prisons have been moved to Bureau of Prisons facilities and the agency has ended all contracts with private…
Religion Clause
President Biden Issues Thanksgiving Proclamation
President Biden yesterday issued a Proclamation (full text) declaring today as a National Day of Thanksgiving. The Proclamation reads in part:We are grateful for our family and friends and for…
A Lawyer's Blog
AMENDING THANKSGIVING
From the National Archives:"On September 28, 1789, just before leaving for recess, the first Federal Congress passed a resolution asking that the President of the United States recommend to the…
Canna Law Blog
Kentucky (Kind of) Decriminalizes Medical Cannabis
On November 15, 2022, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear issued an executive order intended to decriminalizes medical cannabis. This is one of the most interesting executive orders we’ve seen in a…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Oklahoma Gov extends execution stay for Richard Glossip as courts still consider innocence claim
As reported in this AP piece, "Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt granted another temporary reprieve to death row inmate Richard Glossip, pushing his scheduled execution back until February 2023 so that…
Paul W. Mollica Federal Courts Blog
Eighth Circuit Sides with Fifth Circuit that States Lack Article III Standing to Challenge the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Climate Change
In State of Missouri v. Biden, No. 21-3013 (8th Cir. Oct. 19, 2022), the Eighth Circuit rejected a challenge by thirteen states to the president’s executive order reinstating a governmental…
Data Protection Report
Executive Order on Enhancing Safeguards for United States Signals Intelligence Activities: Paving the way toward adequacy
By Shiv Daddar (UK), Marcus Evans, Lara White (UK)
As reported in our previous blogpost, on 7 October 2022, the US White House published an Executive Order on enhancing safeguards for United States signals intelligence activities (EO). In this…