Jan 27 2025 Topics Civil Rights • Contracts • Labor & Employment Law Blog Post Bye Bye, DEI: President Trump Issues Executive Order Revoking Biden’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Rules and Axing Affirmative Action Elizabeth K. Dorminey January 20, 2025, will certainly go down in history as a major policy pivot-point, and...
Nov 25 2024 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Federal Courts • Labor & Employment Law Blog Post Another One Bites the Dust: Texas Court Invalidates EAP Salary Regs Elizabeth K. Dorminey On November 15, 2024, in Plano Chamber of Commerce v. U.S. Department of Labor, a...
Aug 29 2024 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Federal Courts • Labor & Employment Law • Litigation Blog Post In Restaurant Law Center v. DOL, the Fifth Circuit Invalidates DOL Tip Credit Rules Under New Loper Bright Standard Elizabeth K. Dorminey Loper Bright strikes again! In Restaurant Law Center v. DOL, decided August 23, 2024, the...
Aug 26 2024 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Labor & Employment Law • Separation of Powers Blog Post Texas District Court Sets Aside FTC's Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Elizabeth K. Dorminey In Ryan LLC v. FTC, decided on August 20, the U.S. District Court for the...
Jul 3 2024 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Labor & Employment Law • Supreme Court • Federalism & Separation of Powers Blog Post The Death of Deference: Supreme Court Overrules the Chevron Doctrine Elizabeth K. Dorminey In a move long anticipated by many court watchers, the Supreme Court on June 28,...
Jun 14 2024 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Federalism • Labor & Employment Law • Supreme Court Blog Post Starbucks v. McKinney: The Supreme Court Taps the Brakes on Injunctive Relief for the NLRB Elizabeth K. Dorminey Federal agencies such as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and...
Apr 20 2024 Topics Jurisprudence • Labor & Employment Law • Supreme Court Blog Post Text Education in Muldrow v. St. Louis: The Supreme Court Just Made Title VII Cases Easier for Plaintiffs to Win Elizabeth K. Dorminey The Supreme Court just lowered the bar for litigants alleging workplace discrimination. But let’s not...
Mar 29 2024 Topics Federal Courts • Labor & Employment Law Blog Post Franchise With That? McDonald’s No-Poach Agreements Receive Antitrust Scrutiny Elizabeth K. Dorminey A case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has brought antitrust...
Jan 9 2024 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Federal Courts • Labor & Employment Law Blog Post Rounding Error: The Eighth Circuit Invalidates a Longstanding Rule on Workplace Timekeeping Elizabeth K. Dorminey, Larry Stine The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is more than 80 years old, a legacy...
Nov 17 2023 Topics Administrative Law & Regulation • Telecommunications & Electronic Media Blog Post News Biden's EO on AI Regulation Could Birth Monopolists Elizabeth K. Dorminey In the wake of President Biden’s October 30, 2023, Executive Order on “Safe, Secure, and...
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Bye Bye, DEI: President Trump Issues Executive Order Revoking Biden’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Rules and Axing Affirmative Action
January 20, 2025, will certainly go down in history as a major policy pivot-point, and...
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Another One Bites the Dust: Texas Court Invalidates EAP Salary Regs
On November 15, 2024, in Plano Chamber of Commerce v. U.S. Department of Labor, a...
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In Restaurant Law Center v. DOL, the Fifth Circuit Invalidates DOL Tip Credit Rules Under New Loper Bright Standard
Loper Bright strikes again! In Restaurant Law Center v. DOL, decided August 23, 2024, the...
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Texas District Court Sets Aside FTC's Ban on Non-Compete Agreements
In Ryan LLC v. FTC, decided on August 20, the U.S. District Court for the...
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The Death of Deference: Supreme Court Overrules the Chevron Doctrine
In a move long anticipated by many court watchers, the Supreme Court on June 28,...
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Starbucks v. McKinney: The Supreme Court Taps the Brakes on Injunctive Relief for the NLRB
Federal agencies such as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and...
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Text Education in Muldrow v. St. Louis: The Supreme Court Just Made Title VII Cases Easier for Plaintiffs to Win
The Supreme Court just lowered the bar for litigants alleging workplace discrimination. But let’s not...
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Franchise With That? McDonald’s No-Poach Agreements Receive Antitrust Scrutiny
A case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has brought antitrust...
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Rounding Error: The Eighth Circuit Invalidates a Longstanding Rule on Workplace Timekeeping
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is more than 80 years old, a legacy...
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Biden's EO on AI Regulation Could Birth Monopolists
In the wake of President Biden’s October 30, 2023, Executive Order on “Safe, Secure, and...