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On July 2, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a set of reforms to California’s Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”), AB 2288 and SB 92, into law.  In the face of threats of a ballot measure seeking to...

On Sunday, September 29, 2024, Governor Newsom (D-CA) vetoed SB 1047, rejecting a framework designed to increase the safety and transparency of AI development.  The bill, first introduced by State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San...

The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) recently collected a groundbreaking $263 million in a settlement that ended an offshore tax evasion scheme that had gone on for over a decade.  This settlement concludes one of the...

There have been several recent lawsuits challenging the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC)’s regulation implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) and its inclusion of abortions in its definition...

In another indication of the U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) ongoing commitment to safeguarding data privacy, the DOJ announced last week that it was joining a qui tam whistleblower suit against the Georgia...

The Ninth Circuit recently reaffirmed the broad scope of the judicially-created ministerial exemption by upholding a lower court’s decision in Behrend v. San Francisco Zen Center, Inc. dismissing a former employee’s...

The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced yesterday the formal launch of its Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program (“the Program”), which provides whistleblowers who submit information regarding corporate...

Noncompetes are a widespread and often exploitative practice with which employers limit workers’ ability to ‘compete’ with their former employer during or after employment.  Studies have shown that noncompetes suppress...

On May 16, 2024, in a 7-2 opinion authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court held that Congress’s funding mechanism for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or “the Bureau”) does not violate...

A recent lawsuit filed this week against Sean “Diddy” Combs in New York federal court sheds light on an important law that allows survivors of sexual assault to file previously time-barred claims. Specifically, survivors...