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The New York State Assembly has passed a bill, which if signed by the Governor, would provide employees with new rights with respect to their personnel files, including notice of, and the opportunity to respond to, certain types of “negative information” placed in their personnel files. S3460, which is modeled in part after Massachusetts’ personnel records law, would add new Section 210-b to the New York Labor Law and take effect sixty (60) days if and after Governor Hochul signs it into law.

Today the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that Initiative Petition 25-21, which would have repealed the statewide ban on rent control and capped annual residential rent increases at 5% or CPI, whichever is lower, is constitutionally barred from the November 2026 ballot. The Mintz team, led by Elissa Flynn-Poppey and Edmund Daley, represented a coalition of Massachusetts voters seeking to block the Petition from the ballot.

On June 15, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition for a writ of certiorari in the case of HMTX Industries LLC v. United States. The petition came in response to the Federal Circuit’s decision to uphold use of tariffs against China under Lists 3 and 4A of Section 301 during the first Trump Administration.