29 Jun, 2021 Are you reading this? SCOTUS to decide whether City of Austin's Billboard Rule is an unconstitutional content-based restriction under First Amendment By Michael Best If you are reading the words in this post, then you understand the driving issue at the heart of the Supreme Court's next First Amendment...
28 Jun, 2021 Department of Education Announces Title IX Applies to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity By Michael Chropowicz As national Pride Month comes to a close this week, it's important to consider all the changes that have taken place over the past year....
28 Jun, 2021 Necessary step or unfair criticism: Nestle updates its nutrition and health strategy. By Paul Benson The world's largest food and beverage company has come under fire recently when an internal document came to light that acknowledged...
25 Jun, 2021 Why Higher Education Institutions Should Pay Attention To The Supreme Court's Latest First Amendment Student Free Speech Case By Michael Best This week, in an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court held that a Pennsylvania school district violated a student’s First Amendment free...
24 Jun, 2021 FDA Updates Standard of Identity for Yogurt, Revokes Standard for Lowfat and Nonfat Yogurt By Taylor Fritsch More than 20 years after a petition was filed by the National Yogurt Association, and more than a decade after a proposed rule, the FDA...
23 Jun, 2021 Wisconsin NRB Green-Lights Additional Rulemaking to Establish PFAS Groundwater and Drinking Water Standards By Taylor Fritsch The Wisconsin Natural Resources Board (NRB) has approved two Statements of Scope authorizing the Wisconsin Department of Natural...
18 Jun, 2021 SCOTUS Finds Philadelphia Violated Catholic Foster Care Agency’s First Amendment Rights, While Preserving Limits on Challenges to Free Exercise Clause By Michael Best Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously held that the City of Philadelphia’s refusal to contract with a Catholic foster care agency that...
15 Jun, 2021 EPA Revises Nonattainment Areas under 2015 Ozone NAAQS By Taylor Fritsch Colleagues Todd Palmer and Nancy Cruz prepared an excellent alert summarizing EPA's expanded ozone nonattainment areas under the 2015...
15 Jun, 2021 Biden Administration Announces Plan to Revise or Replace WOTUS Definition By Taylor Fritsch Upon taking office, President Biden issued an Executive Order (EO 13990) directing federal agencies to review certain regulatory actions...
15 Jun, 2021 Congress' FY 2022 funding fight starts this month By Lucia Alonzo On June 15, the House Appropriations Committee announced their markup schedule for fiscal year (FY) 2022 funding bills, setting up new...
15 Jun, 2021 Sed Heads Wake Up! Wisconsin Issues Draft Sediment Remediation Guidance for Comment By David Crass If you are involved in a sediment project in Wisconsin, whether it be state- or GLPO-lead, you are well aware that the process is often...
14 Jun, 2021 Something for Everyone? Biden Administration's Regulatory Agenda Announced By David Crass On Friday, June 11, 2021, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the first of the twice annual update of the Administration's...