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Executive Order
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Wyatt Employment Law Report
Kentucky Supreme Court Unanimously Upholds Executive COVID Response Orders
By WyattLLP
Written by: Marianna Michael Overruling a lower court, the Supreme Court of Kentucky unanimously upheld Governor Andy Beshear’s authority to issue executive orders in an emergency on November 12, 2020.…
Workers’ Compensation Law Prof Blog
Kentucky Supreme Court Upholds Governor’s Emergency Covid Executive Actions Including Creation of Workers’ Compensation Presumptions
WorkCompCentral has a good story here. (behind a paywall).The “brisk” 92-page opinion is reducible for my purposes to two propositions. First, the executive generically has broad emergency powers. Second, under…
Marijuana Law, Policy & Reform
"Potus and Pot: Why the President May Not (and Should Not) Legalize Marijuana Through Executive Action"
The title of this post is the title of this essay authored by Robert Mikos. The essay was written and posted to SSRN months before the November election, but it…
California Public Agency Labor & Employment Blog
Governor Newsom’s Extension of the Public Safety Officer Bill of Rights Act One Year Statute of Limitations in Jeopardy Following Sutter County Superior Court Decision
Since Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in response to the COVID-19 pandemic on March 4, 2020, he has issued more than 50 executive orders. Some of those…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Can Biden Make Impactful Immigration Reform?
Guest blogger: Nick Wagener, law student, University of San FranciscoOn January 20th, 2021, at 12 PM Eastern Standard Time, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of…
Government Contractor Compliance & Regulatory Update
LGBT Advocacy Groups File Lawsuit Challenging President Trump’s Executive Order on Diversity Trainings
By Abigail Rosenblum, Guy Brenner
Quick Hit: On November 2, 2020, LGBT advocacy groups filed the second challenge to President Trump’s recent Executive Order on “Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping” (the “Order”). Like the first lawsuit, this…
Government Contractor Compliance & Regulatory Update
Civil Rights Groups File Challenge to President Trump’s Executive Order on Diversity Trainings
By Abigail Rosenblum, Guy Brenner
Quick Hit: On October 29, 2020, civil rights groups filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s recent Executive Order on “Combatting Race and Sex Stereotyping” (the “Order”). The Complaint alleges that the…
Simple Justice
Litigating Ideology
An action was commenced by the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to enjoin implementation of Trump’s Executive Order prohibiting the federal government, its contractors and grant recipients, from engaging in “diversity…
OSHA Law Blog
MIOSHA Issues Temporary Emergency Rules for Managing COVID-19 in the Workplace
By Juliana C. Gaige, John D. Surma
Following the October 2, 2020 Michigan Supreme Court decision invalidating Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s pandemic executive orders, the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) issued temporary emergency rules to help…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Trump aide Stephen Miller preparing second-term immigration blitz
Amanda Holpuch for the Guardian reports that the architect of Donald Trump’s immigration policy, senior adviser Stephen Miller, has a series of executive orders ready to be signed if Trump…