Government Law

Read about regulations interpreting Gov. Code Section 84308 of the Political Reform Act, known as the Levine Act, adopted by the California Fair Political Practices Commission on June 15, 2023.

Several State Securities Regulators continue to warn investors of investment scams involving COVID-19.

This article discusses a Massachusetts Health Policy Commission report on the impact of Questions 1, the proposed Nurse Staffing Ratio Mandate.

Last week the Massachusetts Legislature adopted significant changes to the Massachusetts Public Records Law. These changes apply to all state agencies and municipalities and in theory are designed to improve the disclosure of public records in the Commonwealth. The Governor signed the bill into law earlier today.

A rule to require federal contactors handling personally identifiable information to train their employees in safeguarding the information is close to release.

The Department of Labor published a final regulation on September 25, 2014 that relieves federal contractors from filing VETS-100 and VETS-100A veterans hiring reports after 2014. The rules that required the VETS-100 Report have been rescinded.

Sponsors of developmental new drugs may want to take additional steps to protect their trade secrets and confidential information in the wake of a recent federal court decision narrowly interpreting certain exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”).

On August 19, 2014, the Department of Labor issued a guidance advising that it will consider cases of discrimination based upon gender identity and transgender status to be violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Executive Order 11246 (which prohibits employment discrimination by federal contractors).

On April 2, 2014, the Supreme Court of the United States rendered the McCutcheon decision, addressing the facial validity of Section 203 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (the “BCRA”).